Thing is when you throw 44 times your going to have breakdowns in protection. It's much easier as a defensive lineman to not worry about defending the run (or as we called it in High School, "the fun"). Thats also part of the reason we had so many sacks as Kyle loved to/had to throw the ball around. If the Skins want to improve this year they absolutely have to improve the red zone offense.
Any QB will put up yards in this offense, both McNabb and Grossman proved that, what we need to find out is how to make those yards turn into Touchdowns.
Of course I don't know how much Kyle is to blame, the defense was plenty bad this year and from what I can tell Kyle didn't usually become pass happy until the second half, mainly because we were giving up so many points. I think he had a similar situation in Houston with their struggling Defense.
Ironically picking Kerrigan and Jenkins might have improved our O-Line as an improved defense means more flexibility in second half playcalling (ie not abandoning the run because you're down by 2 or 3 scores).
I still maintain that the O-Line could use an upgrade but I seriously don't believe they deserve anywhere near the amount of blame they got this past year.
Here look at this as I channel my inner G-Tripp:
2009: 20th in Pass Attempts with 533. 46 Sacks (Tied 4th Worse)
2010: 4th in Pass Attempts with 605. 46 sacks (5th Worse)
Believe it or not the O-Line is improving.
Then again there is a sobering stat.
Houston 2009: 4th in Pass Attempts with 593, 25 Sacks (5th Best)
Nevertheless it's still progress
05-22-2011, 09:29 AM
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