My individual Olineman grades from the Steelers game

[leachisabeast]

You claim "everyone" defends him on a board in which virtually everyone agrees he's on his way out, and then get pissy and insist you meant "everyone, except this board" and we all should have read your mind.

IDK what he's on about either. The only people who I see defend him are legit scouting websites who grade individual players on a play by play basis. I see a ton of unfair criticism on Birk that isn't warranted half the time, but it is true that he is getting too old, and needs to pack it in after this year if he's going to have performances like this in the big games.

[runrayrun27]

Anybody seen anything from Ben Jones or Phillip Blake so far this year? We picked GG over him and I always criticized the pick because I thought Jones and Blake were better options. I love Blake, but that's probably because I'm Canadian, gotta support the 1 of 10 nflers haha

[leachisabeast]

Anybody seen anything from Ben Jones or Phillip Blake so far this year? We picked GG over him and I always criticized the pick because I thought Jones and Blake were better options. I love Blake, but that's probably because I'm Canadian, gotta support the 1 of 10 nflers haha

Blake is berried on the Broncos depth chart as the third choice right guard, he isn't even listed as center on the depth chart.

Ben Jones is actually starting at right guard for the Texans and is just terrible, I'm really surprised the Texans haven't got someone else yet.

[londonraven]

On birk, when he snaps the ball in the shotgun, he checks the qb and then snaps, in rhythm.. Everytime. It was getting a bit predictable at the steeler DEs were getting the jump on the snap. Everytime. I was going nuts watching it.

Until crucially in 4th quarter when they were finally caught offsides.

Maybe coincidence, maybe played the DEs and set them up for it..

Any thoughts?

[AirFlacco]

nice analysis Leach; and my eye test sure saw Birk getting handled. You may be a little kind overall; that Oline struggled in my view, but I didn't go back and look at tape or stats later.

Are you primarily relying on stats?

Ditto.

The o-line was one reason why Rice couldn't run. Rice was the other reason.

[Section 502 Raven]

i watched the game on nfl rewind and concur with your birk comment.he was road kill against hampton.

i wish oher would stay on his blocks longer.his assignment seems to work back to the ball a lot.

[RavensDomination]

You claim "everyone" defends him on a board in which virtually everyone agrees he's on his way out, and then get pissy and insist you meant "everyone, except this board" and we all should have read your mind.

So again, I am failing to see how saying "everyone" would cause anyone to read that as "everyone on this board." To reiterate, there are more Ravens fans out there than the posters here. I listen to Ravens talk radio every day. Tons of people and most hosts defend him. Preston even defends him.

[ActualSpamBot]

Everyone means everyone. If you meant some people on the radio, then you should have said that.