You know, the thing about the line (and I'm agreeing with you here) is that I look around the league and see teams coping with injury situations on their lines. I see teams from year to year that press multiple rookies into action, start backups who are no threat to unseat the injured guy in front of them on the depth chart, and generally continue to perform at a competent level. I swear I think it happens somewhere in the league almost every year.
Some team gets decimated by injuries and ends up getting quality OL play out of rookies, backups, and sometimes street free agents.
Not us. Our starters are miserable and I don't even want to imagine what our backups are like. Why is finding decent linemen nearly impossible for this franchise?
The oline isn't playing great, but the QB has a lot to do with that. We can blame the oline all we want but if we had Brady, Rodgers, or Manning I bet our oline would look much different.
The defense can pin its ears back because we have a back up as the starter. It's time to try something else. We wont make the playoffs this year so why bother, see what you have.