09-14-2022, 11:59 AM
An article breaking down the Oline performance and how the coaches saw it.
"When the box score says seven sacks, Zac Taylor and Brian Callahan know what’s coming next. For a team whose offseason — and Super Bowl shortcoming — was defined by overhauling the offensive line and swapping out four new starters, the criticism would sound the same. Seven sacks? Meet the new line, same as the old line."
“You know what? People are going to write the stories about the sacks because we had a lot of them, and until we don’t have them, that should be the story,” Taylor said. “I get it. That’s part of it. But I thought the offensive line did a nice job.”
https://theathletic.com/3589282/2022/09/13/bengals-offensive-line-cordell-volson/
I'd say a lot of what is in here is about what most fans, who take a minute to breath, would say after watching it objectively. Some of it is "excuses"---case in point--how well Cappa and especially Karras played vs the others, but Volson is rookie from an FCS school and it was his first live action with the biggest bullets being fired.
Collins maybe didn't play as well as most had hoped, but i think he did well considering who he was facing. Jonah was pretty concerning. You can't have an entire side of the line being a problem and the back of his card would indicate that he will get it fixed and be better.
The big concern, which everyone already knows, will be LG going forward.
This tweet is (his) personal attempt to combine two different types of metrics and come up with a single numerical grade. Take it how you will but 15th is a decent start, imo.
"When the box score says seven sacks, Zac Taylor and Brian Callahan know what’s coming next. For a team whose offseason — and Super Bowl shortcoming — was defined by overhauling the offensive line and swapping out four new starters, the criticism would sound the same. Seven sacks? Meet the new line, same as the old line."
“You know what? People are going to write the stories about the sacks because we had a lot of them, and until we don’t have them, that should be the story,” Taylor said. “I get it. That’s part of it. But I thought the offensive line did a nice job.”
https://theathletic.com/3589282/2022/09/13/bengals-offensive-line-cordell-volson/
I'd say a lot of what is in here is about what most fans, who take a minute to breath, would say after watching it objectively. Some of it is "excuses"---case in point--how well Cappa and especially Karras played vs the others, but Volson is rookie from an FCS school and it was his first live action with the biggest bullets being fired.
Collins maybe didn't play as well as most had hoped, but i think he did well considering who he was facing. Jonah was pretty concerning. You can't have an entire side of the line being a problem and the back of his card would indicate that he will get it fixed and be better.
The big concern, which everyone already knows, will be LG going forward.
This tweet is (his) personal attempt to combine two different types of metrics and come up with a single numerical grade. Take it how you will but 15th is a decent start, imo.
My one-number attempt at quantified pass protection.
— Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) September 13, 2022
Remember that this is only one week, these are not opponent-adjusted, etc etc pic.twitter.com/UIyxSukG74
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