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Originally Posted by That Guy

how many times was robert hit/sacked last year vs the other two qbs? how many times this preseason? how often did our other qb's get hurt and miss games the last 3-4 years? we gave up 0 sacks vs baltimore. I don't think it's hard to follow

Do any of your rhetorical questions have a point? I can tell you don't even know the full answer to your questions because Griffin and Colt were sacked at about the same rate last year. And again if you want to be accurate playing without Trent Williams and with a back-up LT puts whomever plays QB at a disadvantage. That is fact. I mean you can ignore that fact if it suits your point and you don't care about context. But it is a fact that against the Tampa Bay and the 49ers Griffin played without Trent. None of the other QBs played without Trent at LT.

Even more then regular season preseason evaluation requires close attention to situation/context. But if you want to use preseason sack % as a barometer for anything knock your self out. But it doesn't make much sense to me. Its like using preseason to say that Rashard Ross is going to lead the team in receptions or that Zach Zenner is going to be a top 5 rusher. But the fact about the Lions game that you keep bringing up was the pass protection was no adequate. In that game we started, started Willie Smith at LT our 4th OT. (Willie Smith who is no longer on the team btw). Hmmmnnn Willie Smith or Trent Williams...Trent Williams or Willie Smith...I wonder which one gives the QB better protection from taking sacks?

griffin gets hit too much, and you can see that the OL isn't as big a factor as your claiming when you look over the course of the last two years. robert gets hit a lot and others don't in the same situations, meaning that he's doing something that causes that (it's beyond the margin of error).

First why don't you start off by discussing something you can actually account for like sacks (as opposed to hits aren't recorded by QB). So again a key point you keep repeating is that the sack rate vs Griffin and the other QBs. But, and I'm sure you'll move the goal post here, but Griffin and Colt have about the same sack rate. So you wrong when it comes to Colt right off the bat.

This isn't rocket science, and i don't see why you have such a hard time with having him be accountable for his shortcomings

All this bluster and talk over a false assumption on your part. My post wasn't about Robert talking sacks or not taking sacks. I guess you, in a round about way wanted to talk about Griffin taking sacks and if that was your point. Then I would have agreed. In fact I've posted about Griffin, Colt and Kirk in detail about who takes more sacks, gets rid of the ball faster, etc in much more detail and accuracy then you. But thanks for telling me something I knew a long time ago.