The real problem - The Trenches

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(10-28-2024, 09:48 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: You hear all kinds of excuses. When Tee is out we're not good, Burton doesn't know the offense, Moss was a set back, Burrow has regressed, We have no true WR #3, of course the play calling, and on and on. And I'm not saying there isn't any truth there, however.

The true problem is we just aren't good enough up front, in the trenches. We have like 3 can maybe push it to 4 decent O and Dlineman out of 9. We suck at run blocking, we regularly see way too much pressure on JB coming up the middle.

We get very little to no pressure on opposing QB's outside of Hendrickson. We get gashed in the run game. The defense can't get off the field and the offense can't stay on it. Why??

We suck in the trenches.

excellent post...when the motor  " the Trenches" is not running well ..everything in the car suffers..........our defensively line is laughingly inept..I have seen  some mid level college teams with a better offensive line specific to the running game