Henne sips cosmos W/ a straw, when he's not ordering bloody mary's . I agree things are slow, but there were plenty of ways to go on a thread like this. We could've looked into individual players' pass pro efficiency. How did Jerry do? Berger? Murtha? McQuistan, or Incognito, both at center & guard. How will Pouncey affect the performance of the unit? Do we need to sign a FA guard like Blalock or Dahl. Instead its "Henne this Henne that" Henne called the wrong protections, Henne sucks, I hate Henne etc. IMO the forum as a whole suffers when we can't have a normal conversation w/o the QB bashing.
At T, Long was #1 with a PFF grade of 16.9 in pass protection. Carey was #25 with a 0.6, which is a bit more than average. At G, Cog was #27 with a 1.9 grade. Jerry was # 42, 0.9 grade. Murtha was #52, -0.5 grade. 8 At C, Berger was #13 with a 0.5 grade. Cog, in limited play was #27, -1.2 grade. In looking at the centers there were only 10 who played well in pass protection. Even Pouncey was way down the list, graded at -8.1, giving up 3 sacks, 4 hits, and 17 pressures. If our Pouncey works out, he could make a big difference. Overall, the OL did much better as a whole than the individual parts, not counting Big Jake.
I don't know about saying they "did much better as a whole than the individual parts". You have to keep in mind there a 64 starting spots in the NFL at tackle, 64 starting spots at guard, and 32 starting spots at Center. Let's do something simple like take the snap-weighted average ranking of a team's entire OL, ranked by total grade (not just pass protection grade). By that measure the Dolphins' offensive line was #8 in the league behind the Texans, Jets, Patriots, Ravens, Falcons, Cowboys and Bengals. I kept saying during the season that the Dolphins' offensive line isn't as bad as people think. A big problem is just loss of perspective. People don't watch a lot of other offensive lines so they don't realize they're all pretty inconsistent and they all have their nits. The Dolphins were no exception to that. This staff seems to have an obsession with the offensive line play though and so it'll never be good enough and it'll always be the way the team could get better. I think that priority system has unfortunately rubbed off on the fanbase.
