Why Did We Draft Fred Davis?

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

......I'll agree we had protection problems the last two games. I'll also admit we ran up against the probably the two toughest defenses the last two games. but now your going to say we should have drafted an O-linemen ("which he probably would have had problems with the mental game. " Zorn's famous last words.) when you have to admit our offense played lights out for 8 games not allowing a sack and giving the best protection in the league? Hmm. I say our offense needs to get back on track and bring in a deep threat to push more defensive players out of the box. JC has to learn to throw a deep pass once and a while even if it's nothing but a ploy to show we might do it. Instead of throwing 5-10 yarders waiting for a 20 yarder plus to never develope.

In the first 8 games in which you say our offense "played light outs and we had the best protection in the league", we played against 4 of the worst defenses in the NFL.

1) Detroit Lions (0-8) 31st ranked defense
2) Cleveland Browns 26th ranked deense
3) St. Louis Rams 30th ranked defense
4) New Orleans Saints 24th ranked defense


Not exactly great defenses. These defenses do not scare anyone. If you are going to want the OL to play at your "lights out" level, we will need to play crappy teams like we played back then.
The problem is down the stretch we play:
1) Giants
2) Eagles
3) Ravens

You are only good as the teams you play against. Our OL usually plays well against the weak/crappy defenses and usually plays poorly against the best defenses. That means our OL is OK, but not good. We do not have a very good OL. The good defenses are making OL look like shit.
The NY Giants offensive line plays well against good and bad teams. That is why they are currently better than us. Manning has time to look down field and Brandon Jacobs, Derek Ward and Ahmad Bradshaw are running well against every team. Kind of reminds me of our old Hog Days in the 80's and 90's.
Campbell does not have the time to throw deep. It is not the play calling. Zorn does not feel confidant enough in our OL to give Campbell the time to throw down field, so they are forced to keep it short.