destination for visiting team fans. Plus teh black hole crowd will pddle hop on over for the game - they went to LA.
I tihnk Tom tossed away a lot of footballs to make teh oline look better. The eye test- still the best scouting tool around, tells me they were very pourous at times, it was only when Wynn returned and both Cannon and Mason had a week to recover did the line improve.
all those rankings mean diddly and are opinion based. IF the OLine ranks well then the problem is 42 year old QB - it is a belittle Tom mentality the media carries.
To hear PFF tell it they are incredibly diligent and skilled at grading Olinemen with the admission that sometimes even they can't tell who was supposed to block who, which was refreshing to read. I think their stats are better than nothing, but nobody should get carried away by them.
I much prefer the random, amateurish observations made by my own lyin' eyes and they told me the OL was exactly as you and others suggest -- quite shaky for the bulk of the season. I'd add that, IMO, the line's issues seemed more mental than purely physical and cohesion between the boys was a rarity, albeit a partially excusable one. We expect more from a Scar-coached unit and it never really came together.
One thing I noticed on many occasions is Brady escaping pressure through clever footwork but by the time he got out of trouble and the mechanics reset the WRs were all wearing defenders like scarfs. Over and over he would chuck it in the 5th row rather than chance a TO and it should be clear that he was under a huge amount of duress in 2019. Stats don't reflect the full story. Only Thuney was consistently excellent and Mason and Cannon didn't wake up until well after lunchtime. I'm bullish on Wynn, but, after a strong start, he had his ups and downs in was what essentially a rookie year interrupted by injury.
Those pocket mechanics of the GOAT have helped us to a lot of success through the years, but when the pocket is filthy then Tom is a sort of fish out of water. The contrast between his Old School pocket-centric style and the many New Age RPO guys that can throw on target from seemingly any position or situation was, at times, glaring to me.
He needs a much cleaner pocket and it remains to be seen whether we can provide him one in 2020. Too many questions now to know how that will likely shake out. It could actually get worse.
:dbanana:wuv
