Will Our crappy O-Line kill cooleys production?

I agree... our line is just fine... it struggled at times due to injuries to Jansen and Thomas. If healthy, it has the potential to be a top five OL.

Someone on the boards was complaining about the line all last year around this time, I forget who it was now though.

Anyway, to suggest the line is crappy is pretty ridiculous. Didn't Samuels make the Pro Bowl last year?? Just checking. And Dock easily had his most solid season. I really don't see any logical reason to fret over the starters on the offensive line.

Samuels is one of the better LT's in the game, and Dock is a solid starter who is still coming into his own. Thomas and Jansen are both gamers who deserve more credit than they receive, and Rabach solidified the middle of the line last year.

lets look at a couple of things : Samuels made the pro-bowl. Thomas was definately on his way to the probowl before breaking his leg and Jansen should have gone to the probowl, playing with two broken thumbs, and only receiving 3 penaltys all year and only 1 of those might have been holding. He was a beast last year and blew up who ever was in front of him. Rabach is a quality center and Dockery is a pretty good run blocker and is only into his 4th year. His pass blocking will improve with Buges teaching him. To say our line is crappy, is way..way..way..way.. out of line.

is way..way..way..way.. out of line.

no pun intended:)

Guys, we have a great O-line. The only problem is that we have only 5 guys that are great. We need to fine probably two more OL guys who can play one or more positions and then we will be truly great. We just saw what happens down the streach when we lose a starter last year. We really saw what happen when we lose other skill guys as well. I really think that if we would have had Patten and Randy Thomas in the Seattle playoff game, the results would have been different. It is tough when you have serious injuries.

thomas and jansen are top 5 at their position, and samuels is in the 5-10 range too. rabach is average and dockery is average or slightly below, but calling this oline crappy is insane.

if its so bad, name at least 15 teams that have better overall offensive lines please.

Ya WTF man our line is fine. I can easily say it is the best line in our division. Everyone elses is going through changes. We get a little better each year and I think you will see a major improvement this year. I mean you Buges coaching the line and Saunders is running the system. Kill this thread

Puff-puff-pass, puff-puff-pass. Dude, you are doing too much puffing and not enough passing. To suggest that the Redskin offensive line is crappy is STUPID. The Skins offensive line is very good. It iss one of the better units in the NFL. The O-line could use a little more depth, but the starting five is as good as any unit in the NFL.

I wouln't call the O line crappy by any means, when they are healthy it is very good line. The problem we have is depth, if we lose 1 or 2 starters it doesn't look good. I have faith though Bugel can coach some backups up before the season starts. I also agree with the fact that defenses are going to have to spread out against us, so that should help cut back on injurys.

Depth is definitely the biggest concern. But before we go getting up in arms over it, maybe we should consider that the players we have signed/drafted recently are capable of performing when called upon. We haven't seen any of these guys play yet, so it's natural for us to worry because we don't have anyone proven. But Gibbs did go get Pucillo and Walter, plus Molinaro has been getting the Buges tutelage for 3 years now, plus our recent undrafted free agents. It's definitely an area we should be concerned about and we should be watching the performance of these guys in the preseason. But I guess all I'm saying is let's give them a chance to show us something. Just because Cory Raymer was a disaster last year when we had to play him at guard, that doen't necessarily mean our depth is a complete disaster this year. Let's wait and see.