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Originally Posted by rabblerouser
Have you seen that offensive line? Cam Erving?
It's...well...offensive.
And it's how Patrick has been hurt since week 1. He's been getting killed behind a line that just kind of...stands there.
I don't know how anyone who has watched the games doesn't understand that...you DO watch the games, right?
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Pat got hurt by
accident. Andy at no time tried to put Pat in a situation to get him hurt/killed. Nor did he hire a hitman to kill Mahomes, to my knowledge. Pat just got unlucky.
As for our OL, contrary to whatever you believe, before Fisher got hurt, it was considered one of the best OLs in the NFL. In the top 10 or 15, IIRC.
After Fisher got hurt, and couldn't go after a few plays in the Raiders game, Erving was inserted at his spot,
BECAUSE, OF THE LINEMEN WE HAD IN THE ROTATION, HE HAD THE MOST EXPERIENCE AT THE POSITION.
Since that moment, the OL hasn't been as good at protecting Pat, that's a fact.
But how could anyone account for Wylie and then Hunter getting hurt in the same game?
Unfortunately, Pat's dinged up his ankle twice since the original injury, once by being stepped on, which is no one's fault at all. Not Pat's, not the OL that stepped on him, and not Andy Reid. Unless he has psy-kinetic powers that allowed him to mentally push that lineman's foot onto Pat's ankle.
Are you suggesting that Andy Reid has supernatural psychic abilities? Or perhaps he has the ability to see into the future? You have evidence that Andy has a crystal ball in his office perhaps?
The reality of the situation is that Pat has gotten pretty unlucky. The initial sprain was unlucky. And then the subsequent tweaks to that ankle were also unlucky.
The kneecap was just unprecedented. No one gets hurt running a sneak. Well, okay, Louis Riddick looked it up a week ago and said on air that he found
ONE instance of a QB getting hurt running a sneak. Out of literally tens of thousands of attempts. And that injury wasn't a dislocated kneecap.
So basically the sneak gives you a 90% chance of success and a 99.99% chance of not being injured after.
What would you call?
Yeah I know; you somehow know better because you're "a fan," so you'd have called something else. Whatever.
The only thing I'll agree with is that Cam Erving isn't a great replacement for Fisher. He's made more than a few questionable decisions at the position. He is better than he was in Week 2, but he's just not really a T. I'd have looked really hard at LT Trent Williams (WASH?), and who knows maybe they did.
But of the available offensive lineman on the roster, fortunately or unfortunately the coaching staff feels that Erving is the best of the back-up bunch. I'm going to guess that since between them they probably have about a century of experience, they probably know better than 99.99999% of fans.
And yeah, I've watched this team.
I've watched the Jags game 3x. Raiders 3x. Ravens 4x. Lions 2x. Colts 2x. Texans 2x.
In slow motion no less.
How many times have you watched each Chiefs game?