brokeback said:
Green's as good as his pass protection. He can pick a team apart when his line is healthy, but he doesn't have the athletic ability or arm strength to win games when the defense gets penetration.
In the last 4 years, I don't remember a single game in which our healthy O-line hasn't dominated.
I'm a huge believer in the idea that offenses don't need elite skill players. I'd much rather have a dominant O-line and average skill players.
Agreed-the game is won in the trenches. Parcells' Giants team really didn't have any speed at WR, but they had a big, nasty OL. The Iggles' problems this year stemmed from their porous OL-otherwise, their receivers, QB, and RB have so many skilled talents you can poke holes through, but none of them could do anything with this line.
The LT position is still the most important one, nonetheless. That Philly/KC game was televised in my area. Frankly-Philly didn't get a whole lot of pressure. But with Roaf out, Green looked pretty tentative and somehow insecure out there. That INT he threw to Sheldon Brown-he didn't check off the other receivers, and all but looked like he was worried about pressure from that blind side at the same time. Otherwise, without that score, Philly wouldn't have had any kind of momentum for the rest of the game.
BTW-everyone on ESPN are idiots. They went on on on(during Roaf's injury, that is) how Gonzales was underperforming. Now that Roaf's healthy, all of a sudden they're realizing Gonzales is lighting it up.
When Flo was healthy, Jason Witten was able to go out for passes 90% of the time. Now, he's helping Tucker most of the time.
