No O Line Help Is Bad News

[Joelist]

Some things to think about:

1) This was not a super deep OL draft, and there was a big run on OL in Round 1. Basically what was left after that run was mostly project players and backup types.

2) Fixing LB was a HIGH priority. After we dropped 150 million on the defense we needed to finish the proverbial job. Last season the defense was awful like it has been the last three seasons. In fact the tackling last year was so bad there was 5 games we could have won but poor tackling killed us.

3) Jonah Williams comes back. We got him at 11 and it was widely considered a steal as his grading out of college was sky high. We also signed Filo who is better in the zone scheme we want to run than Miller was. And yes he is a decent Guard, as evidenced by the blocking for Dallas being better when he was in the game.

4) A lot of different factors go into how an OL performs. There is ability of course, but also play selection, scheme, even the score of the game. Scheme wise we were schizoid last year, with a playbook that was gutted by all the injuries (especially AJ). That affects blocking (really the last effective OC we have had was Hue Jackson). The inability of the defense to stop anything caused us to be behind quickly in most games which let defenses tee off. Basically it was a perfect storm scenario.