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Originally Posted by HPF Bob
Usually, this works the other way around. When the blockers cannot block, the QBs cannot pass and the runners cannot run. I'll bet if we had five Hall-of-Famers up front, your wife/gf could have a 100-yd day.
I'm pretty confident that if Rick Smith were a better selector of o-line talent, we wouldn't have needed to use a second-rounder on Su'a-Filo. We would have already had the bodies in place to replace Wade Smith.
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But we essentially had the same guys on the right side in 2012 and they were much better. We had cement shoed Eric Winston at RT and broken legged Mike Brisel at RG in 2011 and it was considered an elite group. The difference is the offense was productive.
The way Case Keenum responded to a blitz last year, we could have had 5 HOFers and they couldn't have blocked. Even the switch between Schaub and Keenum in that late season Thursday Jacksonville game all of a sudden resulted in the ball moving and the OL looking way better. And that was with garbage at RB. Sure Schaub still lost the game with an INT, but the offense was competent enough to be in the game and blow it.
Kubiak stated that Keenum was not confident with the blitz calls. Combine that with Kubiak's refusal to let the QB audible out of a dead play, and all of sudden the very good line of 2012 was terrible in 2013 with the same players.