The problem is that most of your D is simply two years older, not necessarily two years better.
Couple of aging LBs, but plenty of youth in there.
Really? The Bills had Lee Evans and Terrell Owens as the WRs in 2009 and nobody in the NFL took them seriously as deep threats because Dick Jauron didn't like to pass and Trent Edwards was too risk-adverse to throw downfield. It wasn't until Jauron was replaced as HC that the Bills actually used their WRs -- and teams somewhat took their deep threat seriously.
So basically, you agree with me when I say just having the speed and a couple of deep shots a game will make teams think differently.
Well, sweetpea, the Jests offense looks like the Bills offense during the Jauron years where they tried to run the ball (the Bills did have better RBs than Greene) and didn't want to pass the ball. Enjoy all those three and outs and the 1 offensive TD per game.
But your OL was crap and had a QB that didn't even throw for 2700 yards, and had 11:10 TD to int ratio.
You don't know much about OL play, do you? Slauson plays between a top LT and one of the best Cs in the league. That makes him seem a lot better than he actually is. Hunter plays out on the end against massive LDEs and blitzing LBers with a poor-blocking TE to chip and an aged RG who struggled to regain his form after surgery. They're about the same quality, but Slausson's deficiencies are more easily masked.
The RG hasn't missed a game in 7 years, and was a pro-bowler last year for the first time. Slauson does play between a top LT and the best C in the league, but that doesn't mean the LT doesn't get to handle the best LBs in the game. He has his hands full on every play. He wasn't getting beat when Mangold missed some time last year as an undrafted rookie center got man handled by the Ravens.
If Slauson's "deficiencies are more easily masked", then how can he be a problem?
Sparano was successful with a run offense? I suspect that the Fins fans here would disagree. Miami's OL play declined under Sparano's watch.
11th in 2008. 4th in 2009. Then BM got traded and Miami started passing much more. Whats wrong with having the 4th best rushing attack with injury prone Ronnie and aging Ricky?
What, exactly, does Greene do well for a RB? It took him 6 more games and 80+ more carries to get about 120 more yards than Freddie Jackson. How many 100 yard games has Greene had? Don't give me this "sharing carries" manure either; Greene shared carries with Jones and LT because he wasn't good enough to beat them out of their jobs. He only became the starter last season because LT was done.
Im not comparing him to Fred Jackson. Not sure where you got that idea. You totally ignored what I said. Whats wrong with having a 4.2 YPC average behind an OL u proclaim has three weak players?
Sanchez has made 53 starts. It's more than past time for him to show some maturity. A QB who needs "competition" to make him "better" is one hell of a crappy QB. We're talking NFL here, not Pop Warner. How come P Manning and Brady are so good when they've never been "pushed" by "competitors"? The only people who ever "pushed" them were themselves, not Rohan Davies or Curtiss Painter.
Sanchez also had to sit on the bench for most of his college career. And why are you comparing Sanchez with Brady and Manning? And for the record, Brady didn't break loose with his passing attack until his 8th season with Randy Moss. His highest TD totals were 28 twice, and LEAST number of ints until then were 12. Now his least number of ints in a full season are 4 (11th season) with highest number of TDs at 50 (8th season). What part of maturing much further than just 3 years do you not get?
