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TBF to him, we've had a shit O-line for most of his stay here. Any time he's had good protection he's been good, but it's never lasted and we routinely have one of the worst O-lines in the league. Our offensive scheme is pretty shit too and nobody can get off press coverage.
We'd be better off getting rid when he won't eat up too much dead space (I think we can this summer) and starting over again, but we seem determined to spend money as if we're one or two players away every offseason which leads to an endless run of seven or eight win seasons.
@DFF is right. He falls into the same category as Andy Dalton.
If EVERYTHING is in place he looks pretty good and the team clicks along with him. But any one thing is off (o-line play, mediocre receivers, less than fully functioning running game etc) and he doesn't have the ability to overcome it.
It throws them and the teams they are on into a bizarre limbo. Do you use your 1st round pick to draft a replacement when you probably have bigger issues to address or do you deal with the other issues and hope you get the better performance from your QB? Most teams choose to deal with the other issues.