Were the injuries too much to overcome this year?

[Joelist]

You can't go by raw number of IR players - you also need to look at who they are.

This years the defense did lose two starting LB but they were horrible before that. They have also had injuries in the secondary preventing them from rolling the same unit out consistently, but same comments.

Offensively it is much worse. The TE position was wiped out by injury, we lost our rookie center for a big block of time which stunted his development, we've had one or the other RB out for half our games and once we lost AJ we were down to Boyd and clowns like Core. Ross not developing very quickly also hurt. Again though the biggest issue turned out to be that the OL is still crap - it gets blown off the LOS by every defense it faces. I sort of understand that losing all the TES and then AJ basically amputated a lot of the playbook but I have to think Lazor could have been more creative in finding ways to move the ball.