Quote Originally Posted by teegre View Post
I was more referring to the Bengals game.

But, for the Colts game, his first three throws of the game hit his receivers in the knees. I’m pretty sure that the coaches didn’t tell him to do that...


OK. I wasn't implying that the coaches were telling him to do that.

Yes, he was awful in that Bengals game. There's no way around that. He made so many mental mistakes in that game. It was as bad a performance as I could remember by him. Even I was questioning Ben after that game, but the OL has just been beyond bad lately, not able to run the ball at all, and giving him no time in the pocket. If they can regroup and just get it done a little more so the offense could attack defenses down the field, the production would return. You could see how giving Ben the time to throw passes down the field with time to manipulate the safeties and step into his throws led to splash plays, which took a safety out of the box and kept the LB's from playing downhill. It opened up the underneath throws again, and you could see that there was more room even in the running game.

The offensive line is the engine that drives offenses.