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.

You realize Burrow is statistically the LEAST pressured QB in the league?  He's only pressured on 13.6% of his drop backs.

This is the big problem with the ol' eye test.  Our DL gets next to no pressure, so people evaluating our OL think they should look like the opposing OL looks.  At least in pass pro, they've been good.  Everyone gets pressured, but because our DL sucks, things look worse than they are.

And our RB's are trash.  Utter trash.  We're not a great run blocking line, but put a true stud RB back there and they'll look a lot better.