It's funny how former NFL players will say how vital coaching is to a player's performance, but you a keyboard warrior wants to discredit it. Have you played sports in your life ever? If coaching isn't vital to a players development why did we let our DB coach go when KJo wasn't improving enough? Why did OB can his first OL coach because he thought he was hurting X's development? It is obvious O'Brien himself believes coaching plays a big role in a players development, why do you want to discredit it?
I get we missed on Solder, I am fine with them taking a chance and missing. I understand there weren't many other options out there. A lot of back up level talent which is generally what hits the FA market for OL. But Davenport, and Rankin haven't even been playing on a backup level. We saw last year first hand the dumpster fire that Kendall Lamm was, why couldn't they bring in someone to replace him at the 4th OT spot? Are you suggesting there were no FA better than Lamm? I get bringing in Henderson cheap 1 year deal with upside, but they could have brought in more and should have, at least for competitions sake.
It's a new OL they need time to gel right? Well then why did O'Brien barely play them in the preseason considering it was 5 guys who have really never played together before? How come with a young inexperienced LT, and new RT who hasn't played much in recent years did we not allocate more help to our oline in the first 3 games?(we were bottom 5 in the league in leaving in extra blockers) How come after 2 games(games 4&5) of allocating more help, and showing improvement in pass blocking did O'Brien revert back to doing what he did the first 3 games against Buffalo and not helping the line as much?
Why can't the interior of our line, which has our 3 best most experienced blockers on it not communicate and pick up simple stunts, and blitzes? Why do they have such a hard time working together in unison in the run game? Fulton and Kelemente didn't struggle with it in their previous stops. Yea sure new team, new system, but 6 weeks in and I have seen no improvement in that regard.
Through 6 weeks our QB has been hit 70 times, next closest team is at 49. They will essentially have to play 3 more games to get their QB hit as many times as Watson has, and I get it Watson has caused a lot of those hits on himself, but he has also escaped a lot more. Again the failings of the team will always fall directly on the shoulders of the HC. It is his job to make sure the coaches under him are coaching properly and getting the players to take to the coaching. We are now seeing 5 years of regression with our oline, and he still employs Devlin who has had 1 line in his entire NFL career who finished with an above average grade, and that Jets line had 3 pro bowlers on it. Devlin has never coached a line that didn't finish in the bottom 20 with penalties which screams poor coaching