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Originally Posted by 70Chip
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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
Well, the point is that no team last year started a line as poor as this:
lt-heyer, lg-kendall, c-rabach, rg-thomas, rt-fabini
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I think you give some of these other offensive lines too much credit. However, if you're saying that Cerratto hasn't done his job and should be fired then I agree completely with that. |
Well we can test this. Starting with the assumption that the above Redskins line only had one player who could handle his position (assuming the Thomas injury disqualifies him from that designation).
The Bengals started this:
lt-anthony collins, lg-nate livings, c-eric ghiaciuc, rg-bobbie williams, rt-dennis roland
which is probably just as bad as our line above, but they only had that group for one start (compared to two starts for us).
The Seahaws had this:
lt-ray willis, lg-floyd womack, c-steve vallos, rg-mansfield wrotto, rt-kyle williams
which is also pretty bad, considering it's entirely backups. Wrotto is a Rinehart type, Willis = Heyer, and Kyle Williams was a UDFA. But Womack and Vallos are pretty good as far as backup lineman go.
Finally, when the Bills were at their worst, here's who they had to start:
lt-kirk chambers, lg-derrick dockery, c-melvin fowler, rg-jason whittle, rt-langston walker
I guess all of these lines were destined to fail, but I don't believe that just because a bunch of other bad teams had similar problems doesn't mean that we should pass the blame around.