06-16-2017, 01:42 PM
(06-15-2017, 12:04 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Too much is made of losing MLJ and Sanu. That is not why we went 6-9-1 last year.
I'd say it was 80% o-line, 10% lack of pass rush and 10% that the run game sucked. Throw in Eifert's injury somewhere as well.
It's easy (and lazy) to look at the outgoing players and correlate that to the drop off, but all the key players are still here.
It was mostly on coaching, PA was terrible last year, Zampese, Haslett, Burney and Coyle were in their first year here.
PA stuck with Og for way too frickin long at RT, took us till like week 11 to bench him. Zeitler was bad in the run game.
We didn't address the lack of a deep threat till like week 11 when we brought Core in to the games.
MJ and Hunt cannot bend and rush the passer so this is more on the players here.
My hope is the coaches going into their second year here get better, Og and Fisher get better, Andre is better in the run
game than Zeitler, our new deep threats and new RB open up the Offense, Willis and Lawson can bend and rush the passer
better than MJ and Hunt, Billings and Minter are better than Peko and Maualuga etc.
So far? Looking like these things are coming to fruition.
