btw, At about the 26 min mark, Vinny sez whitworth (and Havenstein) regressed this year. He dont think the problem is just the young guys.
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He says both OTs regressed (and that Hav may not be 100% and was dealing with an injury). I agree that that is huge. How do you think this OL would have looked if from game 1 on, the 2 OTs were playing at their first-half-of-2018 level? I assume it would have been playing pretty well. I doubt we would be hearing this idea that 2 new young starters made the OL play out of sync.
For all the talk saying the young guys are bad, I kept wanting to say…but the ones who really let the offense down were the 2 experienced vets.
I hope the Rams don’t leap to the wrong conclusions in line-building and like many fans blame everything on the new starters. IMO that’s not a balanced or realistic analysis, and it also flies in the face of how good OLs are actually built throughout the NFL.
For example VB and RH talked about how the Vikings turned their OL around this year, which was absolutely miserable as a unit last year. A lot of it was just young guys developing.
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Well, I dont follow things closely enough, and I dont have enuff intel to know what ‘exactly’ went wrong with the OLine. I assume its a combo of age, injuries, youth, and possibly a bad personnel decision or two. But i really
cant say what the percentages are on those factors. I’m sure it will be hashed and rehashed all year long. Lots of questions.
You ‘seem’ to be saying none of the personnel decisions were blame-worthy. Yes? No? You seem to be saying they picked the right guys, but they were just young and inexperienced, and the older guys started showing some injuries/age.
I have no idea.
I just know, its not fixable this year, and the offense is going to be lame now, and the media is going to mock McVay.
The good thing, is, there are a lot of good-to-great UNITS on this team. WRS-very good. TEs-good. QB-good-enough. Defense-very-good. Special-teams-very-good.
They have a lot to work with.
I still trust them to build a good OLine next year. It can be done in one
year. If they dont do that next year, then I’m gonna start doubting them.
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