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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I've looked primarily at pass block win rates. Mostly because I don't really care about his run blocking (I know I should. Still don't).
As for LT vs. RT -- it just has much less impact on my analysis given that A) They're both extremely expensive now and B) We need our RT to be able to block as well as our LT because we put our TE off the line as often as we do.
Now I think a good argument exists that the right answer would've been to retain Wylie at a much lower figure than Taylor and then sign, say, Armstead. But at the time Armstead signed, we still had OBJr.
When we signed Taylor, the situation we found ourselves in was one where we HAD to get a guy who at least had the tools to play LT to say 'yes'. Wylie didn't. Taylor does have the physical tools to do that job.
And someone would've paid him LT money, IMO. So again, the market is what the market is. LT vs. RT becomes less and less relevant at that point.
The options were pretty damn limited when we declined to Franchise Brown, couldn't get a reasonable extension done and ultimately entered the off-season without a single OT under contract. We put ourselves in quite a pickle.
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I don't know what to even think about Pass Block Win Rate. If you look at those stats right now for the year you will see for interior lineman we have:
Thuney at #1 with only 6 pressures allowed 98% win rate
Creed at #3 with 11 pressures allowed 97% win rate
Trey at #17 with 18 pressures allowed 95% win rate
Then at tackle we have:
Taylor at #13 with 24 pressures allowed and 92% win rate
As a team we are 2nd (72%) in pass block win rate and 2nd (74%) in run block win rate.
So one bad spot on this offensive line has completely ****ed this offense to hell? Patrick Mahomes can't handle one weak link when supposedly the other 4 guys are some of the best at protecting him?
****ing Cincinnati has the 29th (52%) pass block win rate and Joe Burrow looks like an MVP.
So either the metric is flawed some way or something is wrong with what we are doing with the plays or something is wrong with Mahomes.