52 SACKS! What Franchise QB Would Come Here...?

Of course Jake Long is perhaps the best in the league. And, of course, that’s the most important to a QB since it’s his blind side. But we gave up 52 sacks even with Long there most of the year. And, yeah, he was hurt most of the year. But he was hurt most of last year too. When is he gonna get healthy. My point is, no matter how good your best linemen are – they still tend to get hurt a lot. And when they do, all hell breaks loose if you don’t have solid backups. And that’s why I’m saying we need some fricken depth on the OL.

…then again – perhaps all of this is solved simply by Columbo not being there. Poor guy. Must suck to be the primary reason your team had a losing season. For his sake, I wish it weren’t true. But it’s hard not to blame him.

Agreed. I wasn’t necessarily saying that we should draft an OL in the 1st round. I was saying we should focus on OL in the early rounds. And that I would understand if we did go OL in the first round.

The more and more I look at it, the more I think we should trade out of our 1st round pick. If we’re not getting Kalil or Reiff, then the only other sensible way to go is with a pass rusher. But I’m not sold on any of the pass rushers in the early round one tier. So unless one of the undeniable guys like Blackmon or Richardson is there, you should probably trade down if we’re not going OL.

A lot of people just look at the raw stats and put the blame on the OL. Columbo was a turnstile and there is no one on this site that will defend him but the QB has to take some of the blame. The QB has to have a timer in his head and get the ball out when the timer expires. I have re-watched some of the games and there were times Moore had at least 5 seconds but ended up taking a sack instead of throwing the ball away. Moore’s inability to set or change pass protection is yet another indicator he isn’t a franchise QB.

as much as i appreciated what he did last season, the man has no awareness and goes through his progressions as slow as i have ever seen. He took wayyyyy too many bad sacks last year and cost us dearly.

one of the worst/the worst tackle in the NFL.

True. But I’m not enough of an expert to know the difference. However, a lot of the time I find myself checking my watch when a guy like Rodgers is back there twiddling his thumbs waiting for someone to get open.

Good OLs can make a bad QB look good. And a good QB (Manning especially) can make a bad OL look good. In 2011 Manning started using a 1-step drop on a regular basis. He was so good that it still worked.

My point, however, is that you want a killer OL regardless. All of our QB options – Manning, Flynn, RG3, Moore, Henne – you don’t want to have to rely on them to keep from taking sacks. Moore and Henne (I know Henne won’t be back) obviously can’t do well without a really good OL. Manning, though he’s good enough to avoid sacks even if the line is crap, will be fragile no matter what. So you don’t even want to risk it. No one knows how Flynn will perform behind a weak line because we’ve never seen him have to deal with that. Even if we get RG3, he’ll be a rookie. Unprotected rookies don’t have a very good track record last I checked. And, though I think RG3 could be a better thrower than Cam Newton, I don’t think he’ll be as durable a runner. I worry that he can’t take the hits.

So whether it’s Manning, Flynn, Moore, or RG3 – I think lining our QB up behind anything less than a stellar OL this year is super risky.

I don’t know how anything about my preference for OL improvement over other areas makes me in anyway negative – or god forbid – a patriots fan!

I do believe our QBs made our line look worse than it is. But 52 sacks!!! Worst pass attempt to sack ratio in the league???!!! I don’t care who you are, that’s not acceptable. We need improvement on the OL – and a BIG improvement.

I don’t think he was sub-par, but not Pro Bowl material either

Maybe that was a bit harsh for me to call him sub-par. But a lot of times it was hard to say whether it was Carey’s fault or Columbo’s why the right side of the line broke down. Fact is, the right side was total BS all year long. Carey was on the right side. It coudn’t have been all Columbo’s fault.

what??? i cant hear ya your breaking up.

You’ll fix a bunch of the sacks by just having a QB that knows what the heck he is doing.

For sure!

ya big jake wont know what to do if he only had to hold his block for 3 seconds instead of the 30 seconds he is use to lol