Will you resent Burrow...?

[Joelist]

(02-01-2023, 10:33 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Could. But will they?

Burrow's cap hit the last 3 years has averaged just ~$8.2m and they haven't put a good offensive line around him yet. Now we're looking at going right back into 2023 with Jonah/Carman at LT, Volson at LG, and maybe a gimpy Collins at RT... and not a single very good player on the line. Karras and Cappa are just okay.

Can we stop already with this? It was just bad injury luck that we had backups playing RT, RG and LT along with a rookie LG in this game. With our starters we win this game outright. 

In 2023 in 19 games they surrendered 51 sacks versus 70 sacks in 20 games in 2021. Pressure percentage also was lower by a third this last year. And once the OL started to gel and get used to being together they averaged about 2 sacks a game. In that period after the line started gelling and before they lost everyone they were upper tier in pass protection. 

Would it be nice if they would consistently run well? Of course - but that also requires a more run centric philosophy and a starting RB who does not dance. But the pass protection monster was much improved for a lot of the season - and if you force ANY team to play backups in three slots with an elite pass rusher on the other side it is not going to be pretty.