This graph shows just how critical the O-line is to a team's success

[MightyGiants]

[sooners56]

No debate there other than it seems, the teams with the better QBs have the better lines or is it vice versa??? 🤷🏼�♂️

[MightyGiants]

No debate there other than it seems, the teams with the better QBs have the better lines or is it vice versa??? 🤷🏼�♂️

The Broncos just benched their "better QB"

[sooners56]

The Broncos just benched their "better QB"

That benched QB has 26 TDs, only 8 picks and a 98 QB rating. I know every Giants fan would take those stats from any of our QB.

The bottom teams all have bad QB play except the Seahawks who also have 3 very capable WRs and 2 stud RBs

[MightyGiants]

That benched QB has 26 TDs, only 8 picks and a 98 QB rating. I know every Giants fan would take those stats from any of our QB.

The bottom teams all have bad QB play except the Seahawks who also have 3 very capable WRs and 2 stud RBs

It's almost like a great coach like Sean Payton doesn't measure QB performance the way fans do

[H-Town G-Fan]

It's almost like a great coach like Sean Payton doesn't measure QB performance the way fans do

The Broncos are benching Wilson because of his contract and the injury guarantee, so I'm not sure why you're implying it's because of his performance. It is purely economics.

[AZGiantFan]

Seems like bullying to me. 

[Bob In PA]

IMO, the OL is, always has been, and always will be the most important thing on any NFL team.

I keep going back to Vince Lombardi who had only a tiny handful of plays in his playbook, mostly run plays, and he made the team practice them over and over and over again.

Even with today's rules, the success of a team is always directly related to their success running the ball. In particular (since it is the most illustrative and the team is fairly well-known even by casual fans), note how the Chiefs' relative lack of success this year (compared to other Mahomes years) in running the ball shows up in their current, fairly mundane record (then check the chart in the original post).

Bob

[TDToomer]

Seems like bullying to me. 

Seems like business to me.

[uconnjack8]

Not sure why I am surprised, but I thought the run blocking would be better than the pass blocking the league as a whole.  Seems like pass blocking is the better of the two.

[MightyGiants]

https://x.com/LRiddickESPN/status/1740791406904438854?s=20

[Philosophers]

For the older folks here, do you remember when Ken Stabler was QB of the Raiders?  Do you remember how he would drop back 7 steps then his feet would not move as he'd be so comfortable in the pocket knowing he would not get pressure, he'd throw perfect passes to his WRs like Cliff Branch all over the field?  He looked like the most a curate QB ever.

He leaves the Raiders for his final approximate 2 years to play for a team without that great Raiders OL and looked horrible.

Same QB arm, brain, play processing, etc but much different OLs and much different results.

QBs don't block for themselves.  They need others to bring out their greatness.