So what I'm seeing here is people refuting my point about the O-Line and QB coaches needing changed by saying either a) RT didn't do a good job or b) the O-Line stunk. But then at the same time RT can't be held accountable and neither can the coaches.
To me, that is making my point. The O-Line wasn't bad when it was bad. It was bad to epic proportions. But it wasn't bad every game. The players there aren't great, but they didn't come into the season with the reputation of being terrible. Our center is supposed to be one of the best in the league.
So, how is it that the O-Line coach gets a pass for not making the line at least passable? Why is it that the line performed well some games in the second half of the season and failed utterly in the last two games? To that point, RT, IIRC, struggled mightily even when he had time in those two games. He was inaccurate, he turned the ball over and his deep ball ... and he did have opportunities to connect deep in those games ... still wasn't there.
The players might not be great, but they performed extremely poorly especially at a clutch time. The team wasn't ready to play either of those games. It could be the personnel, it could be the coaches ... it very well might be both.
Forgive me, but I am not ready to just say it was all the players when the coaches in question -- Taylor and Turner -- both were related to Sherman who is extremely close to Philbin. That was an incestuous mess.
I seriously think some posters here are so desperate for good news or have developed such low expectations now that they'll accept just about anything without voicing any kind of dissent. You've hired a guy who seems to have a chance to be a good OC, and you are forcing him to keep coaches of dubious backgrounds whose positions underperformed at the most important time of the year ... and yet you are going to blame it 100 percent on the players. SMH
