Maybe It's Not Just The O-Line

[JWsleep]

One other thing that compounds your stats, dgack, is how many backs/TEs we keep in to block. I bet we run less 3WR and far less 4WR than most teams. That lowers our sack numbers but does NOT point to a good O-line--quite the opposite in fact. Given Gibbs philosophy of max protect, it's hard to read from pass-pro to anything about the running game.

Bottom line: our best run blockers were Thomas and Jansen--in 2005 we ran it there most. We lost BOTH of them in 2 weeks. Now we can't run. I spy a causal relationship here, but maybe it's just coincidence. Not to mention that Dock was a better power-run blocker than Kendal.