by HumanCockroach » Sun Dec 25, 2016 10:10 am
I am not going to pretend this line is great RD, but I will continue to refuse to place all blame on them as most want to do. It simply isn't accurate or true. That said, I DID say they didn't play well, the only disagreement we seem to have is again the evaluation of what denotes their fault, and when the fault lays elsewhere IMO and yours.
This season has been difficult to stomach, for lots of reasons, and the line isn't close to the only one. Wilson's inaccuracy deep has been IMHO a MAJOR component in that, Rawls inability to not only stay healthy, but run the ball remotely effectively when healthy certainly is a major component ( hell dance, dance fumble looked drastically like the better back, behind the same line AGAIN. Joining Micheal, Procise as backs that have done so in the SAME games). Without any semblance of a run game, it leaves Wilson in trouble.
This game in particular, St. Louis brought extra rushers on about 75℅ of Seattle's pass defense, expecting a clean pocket on those, lies at the feet of the QB or Coordinator, not the line. You counteract that with hot routes, short passes, draws, miss direction, and screens, Seattle certainly didn't use that stuff very much, for whatever reason ( either calls that Wilson didn't check out of, or poor reads, or decisions to hold the ball for longer gains) either way, IMHO a blitz is designed for one thing and one thing only, to pressure the QB, and there IS a reason teams do not run them that often regularly, that being that eventually they are going to get torched, because the QB will beat it. That didn't happen ( and hasn't happened this year).
I don't put much stock in the tried and true QB "trust" claim, as IMO great QBs tend to still find a way, this season ( and this season only) Wilson HASN'T done that. It's simply the truth. Every QB has bad years, and this IMHO IS a bad Wilson year.
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HumanCockroach on Sun Dec 25, 2016 10:11 am, edited 1 time in total.