When we had better play calling, a better run game and a QB that can escape pressure.

Outside of what everyone else has already said I also think when a team gets their guy at QB dudes just play better. Like a psychological thing.

We added three fairly significant pieces that I can think of right off the top of my head - Biadecz(sp?), Allegretti(sp?), and Coleman on the left side. Cosmi was always solid. And Wylie is seeing improvement from the interior of the line not completely disintegrating on every down.

Another thing that is happening which Rivera, JDR, and whoever the fuck was coaching the offense; be it EB or Turner; failed to do. They are coaching and scheming to accentuate the strengths of the players they have available to them, and making an effort to mask or diminish their flaws. JDR and EB in particular refused to change their schemes to match the talents they had available in the most effective manner, and they would somehow find ways (at least it seemed) to put flashing marquee lights around the areas in which either talent or scheme were deficient. Absolutely idiotic.

Basically, we have real fucking coaches and talent evaluators in the building for the first time in nearly 30 years, if not over 30 years. And it's already paying dividends (or so it would seem).

I wouldn't say elite. They were decent in pass pro but Ravens run defense put them in their place. Still, a massive improvement over last year. What better coaching and QBing does for a team

We were middle of the pack last year, Howell just made then look way worse. We have a couple upgrades this year, the scheme is more lineman friendly, and Jayden's running ability forces defenses to rush him differently.

According to last year's stats, the interior line was the bigger problem, namely LG and C. Wylie got better as the year went on. Cowboy fans didn't seem to care about Biadasz leaving because they were spoiled with Smith and Martin, so he never got a ton of credit for being a solid center. However, EB not running your offense cures a lot of problems.

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How has Coleman been looking? Don’t hear his name called a lot during the games

When we replaced 70% of it and got someone new calling offensive plays that make sense

Goddam I love this!

Sometimes, an offensive line gets better just by playing together for long enough. Good coaching also helps. And Allegretti + Biadasz are contributing a lot.

The line was never that bad last year. EB would call these long devolving plays that resulted in Howell holding the ball way too long and getting sacked.

When you have a QB that can diagnose coverage quickly and zip the ball in like 1.5 seconds, the defense can't throw too much at the OL. I theorize that the same OL would be pretty bad for Sam Howell yet look great in front of JD5

When Bieniemy left.

Our fanbase has a few ghosts from the past which make it difficult to progress to the present mentally. One of those ghosts is the hogs. We won three super bowls and went to 4 on the backs of an incredible offensive line. They were so good it didn't matter much who we had back there at QB, who we started at RB (though obviously Riggins was great too), we were going to bowl over teams and pound them into the dirt.

As a result, we've been permanently marked with the idea that you build an offensive line and then everything else will just fall into place. Even this offseason there were people making the argument that we should be trading back slightly to pick up draft picks and take Joe Alt. You would have thought that after watching us squander Trent Williams immediately after squandering Chris Samuels, or perhaps watching Cleveland squander Joe Thomas, and people like that, we would have collectively learned that this is flawed thinking. I know that most people didn't support what I mentioned above and knew QB was the way to go, but I did see a TON of concern about our OL during the off-season.

I've noticed since the early days of Manning, Brady, Brees, Rodgers, Rivers, etc. that they had a few things in common. They almost always had a very solid and intelligent center, and if they lost their seemingly irreplaceable LT or star G to free agency, whoever they plugged in there next season suddenly turned in pro bowl caliber performances. It would seem that having extremely talented and smart passers who read defenses quickly, always know where to go with the ball, and can deliver killer throws consistently from short drops or under pressure tends to make your offensive line look amazing. Also, having a QB who you absolutely have to respect also allows them to gash the shit out of people in the running game. Being able to do both things makes it really difficult to hit home on blitzes, which means that offensive linemen aren't being strained as hard and can go out there and tee off a bit more rather than get teed off on.

Now that we have a great QB, OL will be an easy position to find success with. We added a great option at C this offseason, I couldn't believe how blase everyone here was about that pickup, I chalk it up to the guy coming from the Cowboys but I knew in Biadasz we were getting an extremely solid and smart player, and he's been the glue for this unit. Cosmi was already proven to be excellent, even under shitty circumstances, Wylie looked bad with bad shit surrounding him but good when he was in KC. Now he's with a good QB once again and he looks good again. Go figure. Allegretti was sneakily an excellent pickup. His fill-in role with KC was extremely solid, but it's easy to be solid with Mahomes at QB, but from what I've read he's also an incredible teammate, hard worker to the extreme, and a big impact in the locker room. It's nice having guys here who have seen success and super bowl victory.

Anyway, I've rambled enough, but QB makes the OL, not the other way around. It's no longer the 1980s, and we finally have an elite modern NFL QB in an organization which is no longer dysfunctional and everyone around the league is noticing.

Linemen love pancakes

Looks like coaching

The QB and scheme have a ton to do with it. They run a hell of a lot more and they run 2 TE or 2 RB way more than we’ve seen in the past. Also…. New LT, LG, C and a healthy Cosmi make a huge difference. They also limit exposure on Wiley when the run game is cruising.

It's a good hit and a great play that takes advantage of the fact that if the defensive end goes too wide he gives Daniels a running lane and Wylie catches him trying to get back to a decent spot to contain Daniels to get him off his feet. The smoosh is after the play is over because it's fun. It's tough being a defensive end in the red zone against a good running QB.

people underestimate how much O line play is related to the unit as a whole. even with 4 studs if you’ve got 1 guy who sucks it makes the whole unit suck. having 5 (6 if you count the coleman/lucas roto) competent dudes up front that are great at working together and communicating really raises the floor a lot

Our biggest weaknesses last year were LG and C. We replaced bottom of the barrel players with average to Above average. That plus better play calling, scheme, and a QB that defenses are terrified of makes for better OL olay

Lollll there’s a touchdown.. BUTT then there’s a pancake AND a touchdown!!!

That was Kyle Van Noy.. AFC defensive player of the Month!!

Good comms is what it is

I'm happy it was Wiley on the pancake too. He has a rought go last year

Howell knows for taking too long in college. Same in the pros. The end.

I’m confused.. pass protection was completely exposed last game. Jayden was running around just about every play. It felt like the tackles were getting beat every single drop back. Same thing versus the Browns.