O line

dont want to jinx anything, or get our hopes up. This league is pretty bad this year honestly, I don't know whats going on.


Our o line at least in pass protection is pretty good. We are ranked #3 in allowed right behind Raiders and giants, who haven't played yet.

1. Raiders 11
2. Giants 13
3. Steelers 14
4. Skins 14
5. Dallas 15

Yes our line has two 1st rounders and 1 2nd rounder, but also 2 undrafted players.

Compared to "the best O line in the universe" who has countless 1st rounders. We have played an average of #15 in opponents sacks ratings, while Dallas has played #16 average. Our O line can't run block like Dallas so defenses can tee off on Ben YET we have still allowed fewer.

MVP= Munchak


#grainofsaltbutidontcare

 

allowed what?

 

My bad, sacks allowed

 

Fantasy Pro Forecast magazine rated them #11 in the league before the season

 

No sacks allowed kids read this board.

 

work the body
work the body

bip bam boom


good night irene

 

Now if our o line craps vs Giants I'll just stop posting lol

 

Thats all fine and dandy but the holding calls has cost us, we had a nice drive going and bell picks up a 1st down and decastro gets called for holding, there is no excuse for holding on a running play, so instead of a 1st down it's 3rd and 12, so ben throws a sideline pass to coates who was 5 yards out of position and we punt, these holding calls have to stop, it's hurting the offense....

 

I agree. Team lacks discipline big time

 

Munchak teaches blocking without holding, and a 5 year pro like decastro who should be at the top of his game still has a stupid holding call, AV had one too on a passing down, but he hasnt got the playing time DD has but he needs to work on his blocking technique as well...

 

Still hard to really complain

 

It's funny what playing the Browns and a Luck'less Colts team will do fan opinions. Our O-line has had a some bad games but they do have potential to be pretty good. I think #11 is probably pretty close to accurate. Against good D-lines like the Eagles though , not so good. Not much different then those who were piling on our defense 2 weeks ago and now they think our defense has dramatically improved. Now our O-line is the best in the league. I don't see it.

I see that we played 2 of the worst defenses in the league and we won. I see that we played 2 of the worst QB's in the league and our pass defense looked respectable. I also see that we struggled offensively against the Browns. I see that we let both the Colts and Browns hang around way too long because of inconsistency and stupid penalties. (a common steeler theme all season) I see our defense allowing long drives against horrible offenses.

The colts could have easily had 21 points. Instead they had 7 because their qb sucks and their WR's cant catch. With Luck at QB it would have been a shoot out. Both the Colts and Browns beat them selves as much as we beat them. You can't expect good teams to do that. Penalties and dropped passes cost both teams multiple points. That's what bad teams do...so yes we beat two bad teams. I'm happy about that. Just don't expect that kind of luck against good teams. I still see those red flags flapping in the wind. It's nice to see us beat bad teams. So that is progress. The issues that have been haunting us all season are still there. Our offense relies solely on Ben to Brown, and Bell. You stop Brown and slow down Bell and we are an easily beaten team. We have to improve on pass defense. We have to get more production out of other WR's besides Brown. As coach says.. we are what our record says we are. We've beaten 1 good team this season and we sit at 6-5. We have 2 tough games ahead. I'll hold off my opinion of this O-line and this team after the Bills game. 2 wins against the Giants and Bills could change everything.