I think we're going to make at least one more big-ish move on the OL this offseason, and then we're going to put a Ferrari into the hands of a fucking farmer who likes to drive tractors.
Why do we do this shit to ourselves? I watch a lot of teams deal successfully with MAJOR problems along the OL - I'm talking about injuries to their biggest starts - and they still protect their QBs. CABLE can't even keep his QB clean when he has 5 fuckin' pro bowl starters.
Yet here we were with the best Ol on paper and Carr suffering broken bones and SACKED FIFTY-ONE TIMES last year!
Think about that for a second. Fred was bitching all year about how Carr was checking down all the time - and he was. And he STILL got sacked 51 times. Fred will tell you that's because he doesn't know how to move around in the pocket, but I say it's because our OL was either piss-poor or piss-poorly coached, or both.
And on a side note, Derek Carr is SO fuckin' good, he had a career season in a lot of important stats even though he had no blocking. Yeah, I'll take Carr again for 2018.
I absolutely believe we HAD to break up the kneeler gang, which we've done now. So I think the OL we field in 2019 will be a damn good one.
The only questions is the coaching. And not just the OL coach, but the OC as well. Can't overcome shitty position coaching if you have a dog shit OC, and that's exactly the kind of issue I was talking about when everyone was saying that Gruden basically was running the offense.
Yeah, he's running it at the highest level, but he NEEDS an OC who can fucking COACH.
We have GOT to unload Cable. As good as this OL can be, I don't see it succeeding until we do. We have tied one hand behind our back.