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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
Fully agreed. The easiest way to ruin a young QB is to let him get the shit beat out of him on a weekly basis due to a shitty OL. You would think Ballard would want to make damn sure that isn't going to happen to AR, even if he had to let got of some of that cap space he loves to hoard over like Smaug. But he didn't, so now we have to just keep our fingers crossed and hope both the current OL gets better and also stays healthy.
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There is no quick fix for this. Every team is having issues. Every fanbase is complaining about it. I must see five tweets a day about team ______ why don't they sign Dalton Risener etc etc. If he was the answer he would be signed by now. Oline quality and depth is a league wide problem right now because teams are not developing players like they used to. One factor of that is the current CBA which limits practice time. Reggie was just talking about it on one of the morning shows. About how he has to limit reps for guys and the starters end up taking them all be there is not enough to go around. When he played everyone got reps, that is he Manning and Harrison built such great chemistry. Guys need reps to develop, especially oline who need to build chemistry. If you were going to sign a guy it would have been back in FA start. Now you see the league going towards athletic QBs who can improvise when a play breaks down, bc they are constantly breaking down.
Also AR will be holding the ball longer than usual, he has been doing it in 7-on-7 work all camp. He holds the ball long because he is still learning to process what he is seeing. That means the pass rush will get to him a lot. No oline will be able to pass block for a super long time. It's not possible. So we will see a lot of pass rush get by and get to him until he learns to get the ball out quickly. One of his pluses though is he has a good feel for the pass rush, something that showed up a lot in his college tape as opposed to someone like Levis who has a bad feel for the rush.