Agreed. This front office and head coach are very good, but very arrogant at times, no two ways around it. The identity of this team has been their offensive line. Everything they've done well has flowed hrough their dominate Oline. Goff's consistently strong play, was thanks to their line. Their ability to dominate in the run game, using it to wear teams down, break big plays on the ground, and control the clock were because of their line. Their ability to create play action for Goff and open the field up with the passing game was because of their strong running game and the offensive line offering pass protection that allowed plays to develop.
That has all changed this year. And the smartest guys in the room didn't do enough to fix it and made the wrong decisions when they did. I feel their own egos and hubris got in the way. Holmes, Agnew, Dorsey, and Campbell, they all knew Ragnow was contemplating retirement for multiple seasons, and did no real planning to replace him. Their plan, if you can call it that, was to slide a declining, aging Guard, who struggled at times last year, over to Center. Then they tried to rely on rookies like Ratledge to get them by. They needed to bring in a veteran Guard or Center in the offseason and did not. They should have done their damndest to at least try to resign Zietler, and maybe they did and we just don't know about it. They needed to get more depth at Tackle, instead of a project player like Manu and Dan Skipper.
Before anyone takes this post as me hating the GM, front office, and HC, it's not that. Not at all. I like most of what Holmes, Campbell, and Co have done with this franchise. But their plan for the offensive line Goff's offseason, the identity of their team, caught up with them I feel like.
Agreed. This front office and head coach are very good, but very arrogant at times, no two ways around it. The identity of this team has been their offensive line. Everything they've done well has flowed hrough their dominate Oline. Goff's consistently strong play, was thanks to their line. Their ability to dominate in the run game, using it to wear teams down, break big plays on the ground, and control the clock were because of their line. Their ability to create play action for Goff and open the field up with the passing game was because of their strong running game and the offensive line offering pass protection that allowed plays to develop. That has all changed this year. And the smartest guys in the room didn't do enough to fix it and made the wrong decisions when they did. I feel their own egos and hubris got in the way. Holmes, Agnew, Dorsey, and Campbell, they all knew Ragnow was contemplating retirement for multiple seasons, and did no real planning to replace him. Their plan, if you can call it that, was to slide a declining, aging Guard, who struggled at times last year, over to Center. Then they tried to rely on rookies like Ratledge to get them by. They needed to bring in a veteran Guard or Center in the offseason and did not. They should have done their damndest to at least try to resign Zietler, and maybe they did and we just don't know about it. They needed to get more depth at Tackle, instead of a project player like Manu and Dan Skipper. Before anyone takes this post as me hating the GM, front office, and HC, it's not that. Not at all. I like most of what Holmes, Campbell, and Co have done with this franchise. But their plan for the offensive line Goff's offseason, the identity of their team, caught up with them I feel like.