Old and New OL Debate.

[Mongo3451]

http://www.chicagobears.com/news/article-1...a4-526d6d7acb57

 

Several months ago I made a post regarding the importance of continuity with the offensive line. This article reminded me of those sentiments. The respective comments from Trestman and Kromer below say it all.

 

"I think the biggest thing is that they've stayed healthy and they've been able to play together," said coach Marc Trestman. "That's the biggest thing in growing lines. I've seen lines with all different talent levels come together because they've played together. That's the No. 1 thing.

 

"There's so much communication involved and there's so much body language involved and knowing where people are and what they're going to do. Keeping them together and the fact that they're healthy has really helped us get better quickly."

[jason]

http://www.chicagobears.com/news/article-1...a4-526d6d7acb57

 

Several months ago I made a post regarding the importance of continuity with the offensive line. This article reminded me of those sentiments. The respective comments from Trestman and Kromer below say it all.

 

"I think the biggest thing is that they've stayed healthy and they've been able to play together," said coach Marc Trestman. "That's the biggest thing in growing lines. I've seen lines with all different talent levels come together because they've played together. That's the No. 1 thing.

 

"There's so much communication involved and there's so much body language involved and knowing where people are and what they're going to do. Keeping them together and the fact that they're healthy has really helped us get better quickly."

 

And if I recall the convo, I still say five scrubs with good continuity means a beat up QB. There has been some continuity in previous seasons and the still sucked. That's talent level, period. You need a balance of both, but if you have to choose one, you choose talent and ability over continuity every day. Give me a probowl OL with zero continuity and they will quickly outperform a poor OL with lots of continuity. If that were Webb and some other scrub on the right side instead of Long and Mills, the continuity wouldn't matter much.

 

Luckily, this year the Bears have both talent AND continuity.