The frustrating thing is that this was incredibly predictable.
We went into the offseason with our centers being:
1) an aging career backup 2) an aging guard who got moved off of center five years ago because his bad snaps were hurting qb development 3) a 7th round pick
Choosing to add nothing to that group is a firable offense
I’m sure it was mostly a result of Minnesota’s prevent defense late in the game, but blocking sure seemed to improve when Whitehair got pulled for Patrick.
Poles thought: Cody who we’ve known can’t snap since 2018, Patrick who was a bad backup G and even worse C in Green Bay, and Feeny who looks like he has a slightly better resume than Patrick would solve C for us.
This fanbase was dying for a C in the offseason but only after poles ignores it they flip flop to defend the lack of investment there. But somehow Im using ‘revisionist history’ because I’ve been consistently critical of how hes addressed OL.
*I guess I forgot Kramer but that changes absolutely none of my points.
I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Sometimes the snaps are skipped to the qb’s feet.
It really throws off the QB game, both Fields and Bagent had to spend the first second after a snap guessing where the ball is, which just throws off their timing on every other aspect.
They are the best plays, the defense thinks it’s a fumble and fields takes off running vs standing there waiting to be sacked.
We went into the season with two Guards who play Center only when necessary (Whitehair and Patrick), a LG who used to be a RG and was drafted to play LT but primarily played RT in college and who’s never been healthy (Jenkins), a LT ranked 72nd best OT last season in true pass sets (Jones), an RG coming off a significant injury (Davis), and a promising rookie—but still a rookie—RT (Wright). This was the obvious outcome.
I wish there was a metric for this. It’s absolutely insane.
LOL – like I told people on r/nfl
“You think your team is bad? Can your team snap the ball? Guess what, that means they are better than the Bears”
Just have to laugh about it at this point. What a sad situation.
I refuse to discuss any other aspect of the offense until we can snap the ball lol.
Tbf to Lucas Patrick his snaps look goated compared to Whitehair
You’d think this would be a given, but… here we are.
We can’t draft Caleb. Dude will be too short to catch snaps from our Center.
It makes you appreciate how difficult it must be to snap a ball. Most professional athletes make it look easy. Not these guys.
Where is /u/tidyjoe34 to defend the quality of our o line play?
At this point just start Feeney
Even Carm from CHGO can snap it better than whitehair
Kreutz had a similar fucking problem(not giving it to the QB all the way when under center, causing them to have to dive on the ball), but nobody ever acknowledged it back then. If it only happened with small hands Grossman, then it’s the QB, but he did it at least twice with every QB he played with
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The frustrating thing is that this was incredibly predictable.
We went into the offseason with our centers being:
1) an aging career backup
2) an aging guard who got moved off of center five years ago because his bad snaps were hurting qb development
3) a 7th round pick
Choosing to add nothing to that group is a firable offense
I’m sure it was mostly a result of Minnesota’s prevent defense late in the game, but blocking sure seemed to improve when Whitehair got pulled for Patrick.
Poles thought: Cody who we’ve known can’t snap since 2018, Patrick who was a bad backup G and even worse C in Green Bay, and Feeny who looks like he has a slightly better resume than Patrick would solve C for us.
This fanbase was dying for a C in the offseason but only after poles ignores it they flip flop to defend the lack of investment there. But somehow Im using ‘revisionist history’ because I’ve been consistently critical of how hes addressed OL.
*I guess I forgot Kramer but that changes absolutely none of my points.
I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Sometimes the snaps are skipped to the qb’s feet.
It really throws off the QB game, both Fields and Bagent had to spend the first second after a snap guessing where the ball is, which just throws off their timing on every other aspect.
They are the best plays, the defense thinks it’s a fumble and fields takes off running vs standing there waiting to be sacked.
We went into the season with two Guards who play Center only when necessary (Whitehair and Patrick), a LG who used to be a RG and was drafted to play LT but primarily played RT in college and who’s never been healthy (Jenkins), a LT ranked 72nd best OT last season in true pass sets (Jones), an RG coming off a significant injury (Davis), and a promising rookie—but still a rookie—RT (Wright). This was the obvious outcome.
I wish there was a metric for this. It’s absolutely insane.
LOL – like I told people on r/nfl
“You think your team is bad? Can your team snap the ball? Guess what, that means they are better than the Bears”
Just have to laugh about it at this point. What a sad situation.
I refuse to discuss any other aspect of the offense until we can snap the ball lol.
Tbf to Lucas Patrick his snaps look goated compared to Whitehair
You’d think this would be a given, but… here we are.
We can’t draft Caleb. Dude will be too short to catch snaps from our Center.
It makes you appreciate how difficult it must be to snap a ball. Most professional athletes make it look easy. Not these guys.
Where is /u/tidyjoe34 to defend the quality of our o line play?
At this point just start Feeney
Even Carm from CHGO can snap it better than whitehair
Kreutz had a similar fucking problem(not giving it to the QB all the way when under center, causing them to have to dive on the ball), but nobody ever acknowledged it back then. If it only happened with small hands Grossman, then it’s the QB, but he did it at least twice with every QB he played with