I was talking to a friend of mine and we got into the discussion of the importance of O-Lines. I’m of the opinion that an amazing top-5 O-Line props up nearly any QB enough to be a great QB. He’s of the opinion an amazing top-5 QB helps inflate O-Line stats.
Who is right - or is it a little of both?
Bad qbs make good lines look bad all the time lol. It’s like how the tampa line all of a sudden stopped sucking when Brady was on that team not Jameis wINTson
Cowboys in 2015 when Tony Romo was hurt
2020 Eagles OL had a lot of injuries and inexperienced players, and a lot of week to week shifting around to cover for that, but according to PFF they were still one of the better units on the season, and Kelce played 16 games, which always helps
and Carson Wentz still shit his pants that spectacularly
Jimmy Clausen 2010 Panthers Brodie Croyle 2007 Chiefs
This site has the Falcons at number 3 so I’m going to go with them https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-offensive-line-rankings-week-9-2023
I know it doesn’t really count but the Cowboys Brandon Weeden season.
Dak Prescott every year?
Us in 2019, though it isn’t fair to call Brisket “terrible” per se
Not a season long, but Marcus Mariota in 2019 had a top 5 OL and played bad enough to be benched
Christian Ponder had some good o-lines
And the numerous QBs before him in the mid 2000s.
Chiefs also had some great Olines in the 2000s while blocking for the likes of Trent Green, Brodie Croyle, and Damon Huard.
Mark Sanchez used to have great O-Line his first 2 seasons with the Jets and still posted very average numbers. He did get them to the playoffs though but mainly because of their great D.
I’d go to Pennington as an example before I went to Sanchez. Mostly because it was the O-Lines fault the butt fumble happened
Browns have had a pretty good Olines through the years with absolutely terrible QBs. I think both things can happen but it just depends.
Bengals have had a terrible (less terrible this year) Line all of Joe Burrows career. He’s been great.
Correction: Browns have had good O Lines for the past few years. With the exception of Joe Thomas, the Browns have fielded some awful O Lines for most of their expansion era (with slight exceptions in 2007 and 2014).
The 2020 Pats had a top 5 offensive line and Cam threw for 8 TDs and 10 Ints.
Man that Pats team was not good but was way more fun to watch than what we have now
It doesn’t even sound like these are two differing viewpoints. One doesn’t really (fully) relate to the other.
2021 Colts