I've seen how some people on the board are crediting the O-Line with giving up just one sack, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind here. This was the Texans. Once J.J. Watt left, they have no pass rush. This is probably gonna be the easiest D-Line we face all season and we still gave up a completely unacceptable 16 pressures. Nothing has changed. It's an illusion. Lawrence may have struggled, but I saw a guy who also showed much better anticipation, pocket awareness and a much quicker release than our past QB's. Put Minshew or Bortles or Glennon or Foles or who ever back there for this game and we would have given up multiple sacks. Even after one game in his NFL career, I can see that Lawrence makes the O-Line appear better than they actually are. Does he have things he needs to clean up? Absolutely! He is a rookie who was forced to throw 51 times in his very first NFL game and he threw 3 picks, some pretty ugly. This is gonna take time and patience, but lets not get fooled into thinking the O-Line has gotten better. It hasn't. Quite frankly, I'm scared for Lawrence's safety. We are facing Von Miller next week and the week after that we face Chandler Jones and for those of you who aren't aware, Jones just had five sacks in one game against former Pro Bowl OT Taylor Lewan. If he did that to Lewan, how many sacks will he have against our OT duo? 10, 12, 15?

I'm also gonna tell you that help at OT, is not gonna come during the 2022 draft either. I've spent the last 2 weeks scouting all the top guys and this may be the worst OT class I've seen in 5 years, maybe longer. I've seen Evan Neal of Alabama, Jaxson Kirkland of Washington, Kenyon Green of Texas A&M, Daniel Faalele of Minnesota, Zion Nelson of Miami, Thayer Munford of Ohio State and Charles Cross of Mississippi State and Rasheed Walker of Penn State. Of all these guys, I'd only give Evan Neal a first round grade and in some cases we have Kenyon Green, who needs to be kicked inside to OG and Thayer Munford, who I believe is completely undraftable. The problem with Neal is that when is the last time Alabama has ever churned out a successful NFL OT? The send a ton of them to the NFL, but they never seem to stick. IMO, we only 2 options if we wanna protect our QB. We need to overpay in free agency for a top notch OT like Terron Armstead or Duane Brown or we need to use our first round pick and perhaps a player to make a trade for an OT like Laremy Tunsil.

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