PFF: Offensive Line Ranked 2nd for 2017
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Can't win without competent OL play, can't win without a QB. So neither is better in the end.
I suppose a few teams have won with a great team and mediocre QB, but it's few and far between. Was dilfer even mediocre? Even Hall of Fame QBs can't win without a decent team around them, so I'll take a great OL for my money.
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I'll save Ghoul a post.
Without good offensive skill players, a good OL is like putting a sweet sounding Corvette exhaust system in a Prius.
Having said that...fixing the OL was something that 'could' be done...so, why not do it?
Having a lousy player or two on the OL inhibits the ability of the skill players to produce.
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It's not about what you can put on paper.Paper starts dumpster fires. It's about what performance shows up on the field as a unit.Than what OL depth is behind that. Pound the damn rock with a defense that allows us to hang around on scoreboard. oops (damn it's still june)
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I'll save Ghoul a post.
Without good offensive skill players, a good OL is like putting a sweet sounding Corvette exhaust system in a Prius.
Having said that...fixing the OL was something that 'could' be done...so, why not do it?
Having a lousy player or two on the OL inhibits the ability of the skill players to produce.
conversely, having a crap OL is like having a sweet Corvette with a knocking rod.I'll save Ghoul a post.
Without good offensive skill players, a good OL is like putting a sweet sounding Corvette exhaust system in a Prius.
Having said that...fixing the OL was something that 'could' be done...so, why not do it?
Having a lousy player or two on the OL inhibits the ability of the skill players to produce.
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conversely, having a crap OL is like having a sweet Corvette with a knocking rod.I'll save Ghoul a post.
Without good offensive skill players, a good OL is like putting a sweet sounding Corvette exhaust system in a Prius.
Having said that...fixing the OL was something that 'could' be done...so, why not do it?
Having a lousy player or two on the OL inhibits the ability of the skill players to produce.
conversely, having a crap OL is like having a sweet Corvette with a knocking rod.
I got a knocking rod.
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again, I say the offensive line is the engine of the car. Every other part depends on it to go.
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A good qb can in theory mitigate an awful o line, but we're talking peyton manning pre snap skills. A good o line can make an awful qb serviceable. Any nfl qb given long enough time for routes to develop will do ok
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I dont buy into this whole PFF OL ranking thing, as it is not a true rating of the "line as a unit".....and is instead a math equation of the individual rating for each player.....and it does not account for a massive hole at RT.....which, as we learned last season with the center position, can nullify good line play from others(including HOFers)......also, PFF scores are cumulative and tend to go down as the season progresses....yet, they give Tretter a high rating for playing only 7 games......(which isnt a legitimate score, sorry_
So.....no score for RT and a slanted score at center and still ranked #2?.....ridunkulous
Heres an example.....you could have 5 players, each with a PFF score of 70.....making your line rating 350 pts
or....you could have 2 guys at 90, 2 guys at 50.....and 1 at 60....getting the same 350 pts.....
So, which is better.....the one with 5 equally rated "average players"....or the one with 2 stars and 3 dogs...?
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I got a knocking rod.
LOL!
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So....here is a debate....is it better to have a golden boy QB....ala Andrew Luck....and to have a shit OL in front of him? (Indy ranked #22)....or to have a stolid OL...and have a mediocre QB behind them?
Luck has been on the shelf a lot due to injury....because he gets piss poor protection. The Browns may have a good OL...but who the fuck is going to play QB decently?
So....here is a debate....is it better to have a golden boy QB....ala Andrew Luck....and to have a shit OL in front of him? (Indy ranked #22)....or to have a stolid OL...and have a mediocre QB behind them?
Luck has been on the shelf a lot due to injury....because he gets piss poor protection. The Browns may have a good OL...but who the fuck is going to play QB decently?
Much better to have Andrew Luck and a crappy offensive line, than to have the circus rotation of rejects the Browns have had at QB and an awesome O-Line.
Better to have an average QB and a great line than either of these... And better still to have an awesome QB and and an average line.
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So....here is a debate....is it better to have a golden boy QB....ala Andrew Luck....and to have a shit OL in front of him? (Indy ranked #22)....or to have a stolid OL...and have a mediocre QB behind them?
Luck has been on the shelf a lot due to injury....because he gets piss poor protection. The Browns may have a good OL...but who the fuck is going to play QB decently?
Much better to have Andrew Luck and a crappy offensive line, than to have the circus rotation of rejects the Browns have had at QB and an awesome O-Line.
Better to have an average QB and a great line than either of these... And better still to have an awesome QB and and an average line.
Much better to have Andrew Luck and a crappy offensive line, than to have the circus rotation of rejects the Browns have had at QB and an awesome O-Line.
Better to have an average QB and a great line than either of these... And better still to have an awesome QB and and an average line.
I wonder how muvh our "awful" o lines have ruined what may have been very serviceable qb's. Im not saying we had brady on our team and didnt know it
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Much better to have Andrew Luck and a crappy offensive line, than to have the circus rotation of rejects the Browns have had at QB and an awesome O-Line.
Better to have an average QB and a great line than either of these... And better still to have an awesome QB and and an average line.
I wonder how muvh our "awful" o lines have ruined what may have been very serviceable qb's. Im not saying we had brady on our team and didnt know it
I wonder how muvh our "awful" o lines have ruined what may have been very serviceable qb's. Im not saying we had brady on our team and didnt know it
We had Couch and I'm pretty sure he would've at least been Andy Dalton caliber with some help around him.
The right way to build a team is to not neglect any area. You don't have to be AWESOME EVERYWHERE, but you need at least okay everywhere and awesome in some respects.
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It's not about what you can put on paper.Paper starts dumpster fires. It's about what performance shows up on the field as a unit.Than what OL depth is behind that. Pound the damn rock with a defense that allows us to hang around on scoreboard. oops (damn it's still june)
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I dont buy into this whole PFF OL ranking thing, as it is not a true rating of the "line as a unit".....and is instead a math equation of the individual rating for each player.....and it does not account for a massive hole at RT.....which, as we learned last season with the center position, can nullify good line play from others(including HOFers)......also, PFF scores are cumulative and tend to go down as the season progresses....yet, they give Tretter a high rating for playing only 7 games......(which isnt a legitimate score, sorry_
So.....no score for RT and a slanted score at center and still ranked #2?.....ridunkulous
Heres an example.....you could have 5 players, each with a PFF score of 70.....making your line rating 350 pts
or....you could have 2 guys at 90, 2 guys at 50.....and 1 at 60....getting the same 350 pts.....
So, which is better.....the one with 5 equally rated "average players"....or the one with 2 stars and 3 dogs...?
I dont buy into this whole PFF OL ranking thing, as it is not a true rating of the "line as a unit".....and is instead a math equation of the individual rating for each player.....and it does not account for a massive hole at RT.....which, as we learned last season with the center position, can nullify good line play from others(including HOFers)......also, PFF scores are cumulative and tend to go down as the season progresses....yet, they give Tretter a high rating for playing only 7 games......(which isnt a legitimate score, sorry_
So.....no score for RT and a slanted score at center and still ranked #2?.....ridunkulous
Heres an example.....you could have 5 players, each with a PFF score of 70.....making your line rating 350 pts
or....you could have 2 guys at 90, 2 guys at 50.....and 1 at 60....getting the same 350 pts.....
So, which is better.....the one with 5 equally rated "average players"....or the one with 2 stars and 3 dogs...?
This sums up my thoughts on the matter in a much more coherent way than l am capable of saying. And Tour's comment ahout how they need to gel.
They gotta work well as a unit, and quite frankly some of them are new to each other. They gotta figure out how to block together, how not to step on each others' feet, and how hard they like a pat on the ass.
it's like Voltron. They might individually be badasses in their own lion robots, but when coming together if they don't know if they are the left leg or the right arm, shit gets fucked up.
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I dont buy into this whole PFF OL ranking thing, as it is not a true rating of the "line as a unit".....and is instead a math equation of the individual rating for each player.....and it does not account for a massive hole at RT.....which, as we learned last season with the center position, can nullify good line play from others(including HOFers)......also, PFF scores are cumulative and tend to go down as the season progresses....yet, they give Tretter a high rating for playing only 7 games......(which isnt a legitimate score, sorry_
So.....no score for RT and a slanted score at center and still ranked #2?.....ridunkulous
Heres an example.....you could have 5 players, each with a PFF score of 70.....making your line rating 350 pts
or....you could have 2 guys at 90, 2 guys at 50.....and 1 at 60....getting the same 350 pts.....
So, which is better.....the one with 5 equally rated "average players"....or the one with 2 stars and 3 dogs...?
I dont buy into this whole PFF OL ranking thing, as it is not a true rating of the "line as a unit".....and is instead a math equation of the individual rating for each player.....and it does not account for a massive hole at RT.....which, as we learned last season with the center position, can nullify good line play from others(including HOFers)......also, PFF scores are cumulative and tend to go down as the season progresses....yet, they give Tretter a high rating for playing only 7 games......(which isnt a legitimate score, sorry_
So.....no score for RT and a slanted score at center and still ranked #2?.....ridunkulous
Heres an example.....you could have 5 players, each with a PFF score of 70.....making your line rating 350 pts
or....you could have 2 guys at 90, 2 guys at 50.....and 1 at 60....getting the same 350 pts.....
So, which is better.....the one with 5 equally rated "average players"....or the one with 2 stars and 3 dogs...?
You're right about the PFF methodology on this, but I'd much rather have a hole at RT than C.
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So when you come to see that the offense again is dump and dink and our QBs get killed.............. will you once again moan that the OL is the problem?
I have news for you taint sniffers, this OL will be as shitty as the 2016, 2015, etc. have been. Why?
NO FIVE MEN CAN BLOCK EIGHT MEN.
Without offensive playmakers to keep the oppsing D honest, they will again not bit on play fakes, and play close to the LOS. This OL will fare no better than the others we have had, and those OLs have been fine.
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Ghoolie, our 5 guys couldnt block 4 and sonetimes struggled with 3 man rushes, they were pretty far from "fine". What team ever had to rush 8 men to get to a clev qb? Way overkill to rush that many, borders on cruel and unusual
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But can five men block eight men?
Why will no one address this?
Surely there must be someone available to pound and grind this point into the fucking ground every God damn thread... Preferably in ALL CAPS.
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My wish for this season: the 6th and 7th blockers [Njoku and DeValve] will do better work in both pass&run than we've had the last 3 years.
Those are the spots where our blocking has consistently failed -- the line wasn't great last year but even with Mack/Schwartz it was the non-OL perfecting the Ole blocks which torched our stats.
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