Dak, Garrett, and Linehan are catching a ton of flack— and a lot of it is earned. They all have their issues. But underneath all of it is a frustrating truth that is staring us in the face and has undermined this season:
The OL has failed to deliver this year.
Frederick being on IR is just a huge loss, and we have in essence replaced an elite player with an adequate player at the most critical position on OL.
Due to injuries— neither Tyron nor Zack are playing elite football. Their injuries have diminished their effectiveness over the stretch.
Connor lacks the bulk and strength at this point to be effective. Sua Filo is an above average backup that has limitations. Same with Fleming.
The bottom line is we want and expect 2016 offensive production— but we just don’t have the same horses and production from the OL that we had that year.
We are barely scraping by at this point— and Dak's inability to handle pressure well, make quick throws, or improvise and gunsling further hamstring this offense.
Throw in uncreative, predictable playcalling and you get the cluster-cuss we are witnessing at times this year.
It is frustrating but the bottom line is this: what we are trotting out at OL right now is compromising the entire offense. It hurts us the most with inefficiency in the red zone and bad penalties.
Anyway— IMO, had we had a healthy OL this year, a lot of our issues on offense would not be as pronounced as they have been.
LOL comparing Frederick to Rodgers. Classic.So when Aaron Rodgers gets hurt, the really good GB coach yells "GO THROW PERFECT PASSES IN THE 4TH QUARTER" at the backup.
Then they win.
Got it.
Big difference between run blocking and pass perfection, Greggy.We have 2 1st team Pro Bowlers, another 1st round and 2nd round pick on our OL. No excuse because we don’t have an All World OL without Freddy and everyone a 100%. This OL still is one of the best in the league.
Zeke is leading the league in rushing behind it and most QB would lick their chops to have it.
your right its the oline and its expensive and frustratingDak, Garrett, and Linehan are catching a ton of flack— and a lot of it is earned. They all have their issues. But underneath all of it is a frustrating truth that is staring us in the face and has undermined this season:
The OL has failed to deliver this year.
Frederick being on IR is just a huge loss, and we have in essence replaced an elite player with an adequate player at the most critical position on OL.
Due to injuries— neither Tyron nor Zack are playing elite football. Their injuries have diminished their effectiveness over the stretch.
Connor lacks the bulk and strength at this point to be effective. Sua Filo is an above average backup that has limitations. Same with Fleming.
The bottom line is we want and expect 2016 offensive production— but we just don’t have the same horses and production from the OL that we had that year.
We are barely scraping by at this point— and Dak's inability to handle pressure well, make quick throws, or improvise and gunsling further hamstring this offense.
Throw in uncreative, predictable playcalling and you get the cluster-cuss we are witnessing at times this year.
It is frustrating but the bottom line is this: what we are trotting out at OL right now is compromising the entire offense. It hurts us the most with inefficiency in the red zone and bad penalties.
Anyway— IMO, had we had a healthy OL this year, a lot of our issues on offense would not be as pronounced as they have been.
Damn fine admirable post, Friend!You can look at the important 4th and 1 last week on the goal line. Could have picked up the first down with out the TD I think.
Everything you mentioned came into play.
JG - His idea to go for it. It was a good one. After the blocked FG we needed 7 to get going. When we stick it in for a TD you can see the confidence get up and the motor cranks. Almost impossible for teams to stop us when we start rolling.
Linehan - He called a longer developing run play. He should have called a 1,2,3 go right up the gut dive or QB sneak. You have a very good running QB. Use him. They use brady to sneak all the time and he is 40 with a lesser line in front of him. Linehan has called this run play before that got stopped. Looked like it was like a counter tray or something. Elliot waiting on a block. Now has he broken that last block he could see the end zone in front of him.
Dak - Not sure if Dak changes the play at the line or not. He has to read the defense and change if needed. He could have called the sneak if he wanted. I don’t put a lot of blame on Dak for this play.. There was another game Elliot was stopped on a goal line play. Dak reads the defense at the line and changes to the counter tray. IT WAS THE RIGHT CALL, should have been a easy walk in TD BUT!!! That brings me to your point.
O- Line - Looney whiffed on his block and allowed the lineman to crash down the line. In the above mentioned play in the other game Elliot was stopped that Dak changes the play it was a player on the O-Line that whiffed again. It was the TE lines up over the DE. He whiffs and again the DE crashes down the line and makes the easy tackle. On these whiffs all the O-Line has to donis chip these guys and they aren’t. It looks almost like a blown assignment. Correctable problems on the goal line they should be working on.
This also comes from using new TEs and back ups playing. Looney has done far better than I expected this year. But Fred is sorely missed. We didn’t expect at the beginning of the year to not have him or Martin being banged up or Tyron , Connor is a rookie playing his best but having problems also. We have to get this game Sunday and shut Tyron and Martin down till playoffs. Not the rest of the team. Don’t be stupid and rest your starters again. We see what happens there. Play them the first half at least. But by all means take care of business this weekend. Trounce the bucs and go home.
Pass perfection with our #4,,,(?) SHEESE! ,,,Boy howdy! Ain't you one of them there optometry types!Big difference between run blocking and pass perfection, Greggy.
^^^This x a bazillion
A side note: A lot of folks complain about the dink and dunk which, btw, has won the Pats a bunch of Super Bowls. When you can't protect the QB, the OC has to dial up a boatload of short passes. Even those are tough to complete when there's a freakin' mosh pit in your face. I just don't think people appreciate how hard it is to play the QB position in the NFL.
Still...RUN DAK MORE!!!!
Dumb.
What happened to the great Aaron Rodgers not being able to handle pressure this year due to a crumbling Oline and having lesser talent around him? Hmm???
What happened to your "most QB’s are capable of handling the pressure better" mantra in this situation with this particular QB?
Just be quiet with your unintelligible Dak hate.
Oops, thanks for correcting me Melonfeud. Darn phone. Oh, well... pass perfection it is! lolPass perfection with our #4,,,(?) SHEESE! ,,,Boy howdy! Ain't you one of them there optometry types!
You should get informed first before making a complete fool of yourself for all to see.Hmmm...
3974 yards, 23 passing tds, 2 ints, 57.9 qbr, 23.7 team PPG, 264 passing yards/game
Vs
3337 yards, 17 passing tds, 8 ints, 52.4 qbr, 19.7 team PPG, 216.6 passing yards/game
And Rodgers is playing behind a much worse o line.
Do you think that maybe defense could possibly have something to do with the packers lack of success? Or are you too “dumb” to process any information that doesn’t have to do with Dak being great?
Daks a ****** if he needs an All World OL.Big difference between run blocking and pass perfection, Greggy.
You should get informed first before making a complete fool of yourself for all to see.
From 2 different but reputable sources:
https://www.profootballfocus.com/ne...ine-rankings-all-32-teams-units-after-week-15
Pay attention especially to the pass protection section...
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ol
As you were saying..."dumb"?
Rodgers would light it up behind this OL and run game support.1st of all, YOUR exact words were Rodgers is playing behind a “crumbling o-line” in the 1st post directed towards me. So which is it? You don’t even know what you are arguing at this point you are so delusional.
2nd, as myself and many others have pointed out to you, those #’s don’t tell the whole story of the qb having poor pocket awareness and holding the ball too long. Dak is top 10 in the league for time to throw...argument over of blaming the o line.