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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
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All rankings are from PFF. No one else does that amount of work and compiles it except team analytics departments.
https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-final-2...-line-rankings
"Pro Football Focus attributed 41 of those 60 sacks to the O-line – that total is third-highest in the NFL. And, notably, 14 of those sacks came in the fourth quarter, tied for the most allowed in the NFL."
Once the Colts landed on a consistent Raimann-Nelson-Kelly-Fries-Smith starting five, their offensive line played better. From Weeks 9-18, the Colts earned a 70.4 Pro Football Focus pass block grade, 16th in the NFL and a significant improvement from Weeks 1-8 (55.3, 5th-lowest). The offensive line was not the reason they were losing in the second half. It was lack of effective gameplans and a burnt out defense.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
Secondly here's Ballards OL decisions over the past 2 seasons:
- Pryor at LT, which is one of the worst OL decisions in the history of the league.
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Pryor was a huge mistake, but there was a precedent to play him there. Matt Pryor was impressive in limited playing time, posting a 76.5 overall grade on 438 snaps at mostly right tackle in 2021. Pryor was athletic enough to play LT, but he came into camp heavy, couldn't deal, lost his confidence, so they had to put the rookie out there. He was never the long term plan anyway.
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- Letting Glow walk and backfilling with Pinter. How the fuck do they get 2 years to evaluate someone and not figure out that he's in no way capable of playing a position?
- Admits he royally fucked up with the above 2 decisions.
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Danny Pinter earned a 74.7 overall grade on 226 snaps at mostly center in 2021. Again, there was precedent for the move.
You know what was also a Ballard o-line decision in the past two years. Drafting Raimann.
There were nine rookie tackles who were primary starters in 2022. Here's how they ranked by PFF pass block grade:
- Jamaree Salyer (LAC): 76.4
- Bernhard Raimann (IND): 71.4
- Braxton Jones (CHI): 70.5
- Abraham Lucas (SEA): 69.0
- Ikem Ekwonu (CAR): 67.5
- Tyler Smith (DAL): 65.4
- Charles Cross (SEA): 64.8
- Nicholas Petit-Frere (TEN): 50.0
- Evan Neal (NYG): 42.1
From 2017-2021, there were eight rookie tackles who had a pass block grade of 70 or higher – and on average, their career pass block grades have increased by 3.7 points.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
- Does basically nothing to fix the problems he caused from the above 2 decisions. This is IMO the biggest problem of the bunch, and one you keep failing to respond to when I bring it up. Maybe your head is so far up Ballard's ass that you keep missing it?
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I have responded. You guys just don't like the answer. It's addition by subtraction. They got Pryor out of the lineup, Raimann improves, the line solidifies. The evidence to believe this will work is already above in the improvement they made in the second half of the season. We all witnessed the improvement too.
Here's the problem. You have a lot of money tied up in the offensive line. You have to find cheaper options to put in there when possible so you can spend money in other areas. Hence the LT and RG on rookie contracts. And when you see Raimann's turn to get paid, they will likely bring in a rookie center and maybe RT. You can't just throw FA's at it, you have to draft guys to fill spots to keep costs low.