(01-24-2024, 11:35 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(01-24-2024, 11:26 AM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote: I can comprehend it, Do you think my hope for the offseason is to find 4 brand new starters on the O line because they are good?

You just can't seem to seperate one from the other, Like I said the other day he's obviously hindered from succeeding by this terrible unit. It's still very easy to seperate what is squarely on him, and what's not. You can blame the O line on a fumble/int when the defender is under hsi nose or in the process of sacking him.. you cannot blame them for him running away and dropping the ball without contact or sailing a pass above the WRs head when he had time to throw.

Yes - William Trevor Lawrence makes a conscious decision inside Fortner's brain to not even try to block the 3 tech - and he wills the rookie TE to totally whiff picking up the safety blitz, specifically so that he can run backwards, then sideways, then downfield, where he makes a boneheaded, almost inconceivable fumble.

All of that is squarely on him.

He made a terrible mistake after being put in a situation he never should have been in. 

You can ignorantly ignore the dynamics of this. I prefer to have contextual perspective. 

I'm not giving him a pass. Just context.

And like I said, while you can blame the O line on him running away, you cannot blame them for him dropping the ball for no reason under no contact. 

This is why we can still say ETN is a good RB despite having bad YPC numbers this season, while also saying Tank Bigsby was a dissapointment. ETN may not have been an effecient runner this season due to the O line, but he also wasn't fumbling/dropping passes consistently like Bigsby. 

Self inflicted mistakes are the issue, not that he wasn't overly effecient behind a poor line.

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