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Speed_Kills
They lost their Whitworth in Peters and Goff in Wentz and still won a championship
This is what I was responding to:
You:
The only 2 named here whose performance has an effect on an entire unit are Whitworth or Goff. We have actually seen MANY games, going back to 2007, where both the OL is jeopardized and the starting qb is out. Let's put it this way...it's never good.
My endlessly repeated description of the past OL disasters always stresses that it is more than one player. Actually in a lot of those years LOT wasn't the issue because Barron could handle LOT. It was everywhere else, and more than just 2 spots at a time.
However right now the Rams do not have anything like the depth they need to play long strings of games without Whitworth.
The Eagles lucked out, they had OL depth to handle losing Peters (probably because he's old so they planned for exactly this situation) and they could program in some games for Foles to put him in a good streak. My bet is that Foles is not going to be like that in the regular season when it stretches on to 5 or 6 games. His history has spoken. He does not hold up.
Back to Whitworth and the actual point. If this offense loses Gurley they can program around that. It won't be as dynamic but you can do things. With or without Gurley, it doesn't do as well either way without Whitworth.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/31/2018 08:59AM by zn.