10-05-2022, 12:31 PM
(10-05-2022, 09:56 AM)Sled21 Wrote: He's a first-year player who was lined up against Cam Heyward in his first game, then face Dallas and NYJ's interior D lines. That will skew anyone's numbers. Heyward is Heyward, and Dallas and NYJ have some of the better interior D lines in the league. I watch him specifically on a lot of plays, and he is getting better and better very quickly.
Heyward had a sack and three QB hits against us and has been shut out of those columns his other three games this year. The Cowboys' DT's have a combined one sack and one QB hit between them this year. His numbers do not appear to be skewed based on what the guys he's faced have done in their other games this year.
Nobody is saying he can't improve. However, the fact is that he's currently one of(if not the) worst starting G's in the league. That's pretty awful. Being a rookie doesn't change that.
Like I said earlier, even bad NFL OL are winning or at least stalemating 90+% of their snaps. You can watch anybody and think they're decent if you discount a handful of bad reps per game, but that handful of bad reps per game is why he's one of the worst starting G's in the league.