At the least, we need to have Yarno back. Butkus didn't get it, and I suspect the lack of coaching (especially with how young our OL was) was a real problem. Difficulty is firing Yarno what with the cancer and all. Perhaps the new OC will bring his own guy and the Jags can give Yarno an excellent severance package. 

 

Somehow, many of y'all have decided that a sack equals a failure on the OL. That is pretty far from the truth. Yes, some sacks are caused by failures of the offensive linemen. But some are caused by the failure of the RB to pick up...the guy he was supposed to pick up. And some are caused by the QB holding on to the ball too long...or stepping into the rusher instead of stepping in the right direction. 

 

Having spent a lot of time in a college room watching film on the offensive line, one finds that the truth is that unless you know the blocking scheme you can't really assign blame. The folks at PFF make some assumptions which seem pretty fair, but even they really don't know from whence the failure came. But, for instance, if the OL knows that Bortles is gonna take a three step drop and fire a...say...short crossing pattern...then the OL cut their assignments. However, if Bortles pumps the short cross and decides to go elsewhere and pulls the ball down...the guy I cut gets up and has a shot at him. On Bortles, and yay him for wanting to make something out of nothing. But we (on a message board) say...durn OL...they let our guy get butchered. Not the case. 

 

Given attention spans here I'll quit but re-emphasize...it isn't ALL on the OL.

 

Jim

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