Thread by @ckparrot

After NE gave Miami's OL a pass by rushing only 3 players on a lot of downs, trying to take advantage of Miami's weakest unit by getting the job done with a small budget so they could send resources elsewhere, Buffalo decided to pounce on the weakness. They hit pay dirt.

There are a lot of uncomfortable conversations and feelings happening behind those walls today, I have no doubt. Flores has burned through 14 offensive coordinators and 27 OL coaches in less than 3 years and that's contributing. Personnel choices on OL have been...bad.

Sometimes you keep trying to see the light on a guy you never liked in the draft, but at some point you cut it and say, there's a reason I didn't want him. That's where I'm at with Austin Jackson. I wanted to cry when they couldn't get Tristan Wirfs and got this guy instead.

What's most disappointing is I know internally some were super jazzed about Austin Jackson and thought he'd be a star. He's got such great athleticism, but he was never, I repeat, never, a good left tackle at USC. And sometimes you want to draft offensive linemen that are...good?

Decision after decision, Ereck Flowers, Austin Jackson, Solomon Kindley, Michael Deiter (doing well at C, a position he was not drafted to play), Jordan Mills, Evan Boehm, J'Marcus Webb, Julie'n Davenport, Isaiah Prince, Adam Pankey, Danny Isidora, Ted Karras..suggests a pattern.

Whoever is back behind the curtain deciding what traits make an attractive OL to go after from a personnel standpoint...is not very good at it. It's a pattern. It's not one guy. Their homeruns are actually just singles. And their overall average is very poor.

Liam Eichenberg and Robert Hunt are the best decisions they've made on OL since Flores came to Miami. That's not hindsight, just judging as if I were the one making the decisions. They may have lucked into something w/ Deiter at C, which always should have been his position.

Sometimes you try and screw your eyes up and see the sailboat (schooner), maybe they're putting an emphasis on this, maybe there's good reason to do that, etc. Football people ALWAYS have a reason, whether you like to think so or not, and I always try and find that reason.

But in the end when receipt after receipt is coming in and personnel people around the league are quite literally laughing at your team's expense, you're tempted to toss it all and say, fuck it I'd never have drafted those guy, signed those guys, etc., and I also had a reason.