well, I’m my eyes, this is the main culprit. Has Goff missed throws and not been as good this season? Yes. Has McVay missed opportunities with his play calling? Yes. But it all starts up front. If you can’t block anybody, you can’t move the ball efficiently. Regardless of Goff or McVay. We don’t have a Russell Wilson or Lamar Jackson to alleviate pressure.
The blame is the OLine primarily; which hinges on the FO (including McVay) not addressing the OLine this previous off season.
I think the Oline is always a tricky bunch to evaluate. It's not like the defensive line where your LB's or Safety can help pick up the slack. If your oline really sucks, and is one of the worst in the league much like ours is, it effects your entire offensive productivity.
First off, I don't think anyone thought Rob Hav would be as bad as he is this year. Players sometimes have drop offs in their play but not as bad as he has been. Both him and Blythe have been terrible on the right side of that line this year. I think teams really keyed in on it this year and are exploiting it.
Allen, has been serviceable this year. He hasn't been great and he hasn't been terrible but he's been getting better every week. He'll never be the player that we expected him to be so he'll probably end up being a backup at some point.
Noteboom, well the biggest question with him in the offseason and this season was, Can he anchor, the answer is no. He's not a guard. He's a LT or RT. He doesn't have that anchor ability because he's for one too tall and lacks that lower body to do so.
I think Edwards has been a good Surprise. I'm not totally sure why they put him at RG when he was playing well at LG. But maybe the coaching staff saw something we didn't I guess at this point we'll never know because he'll probably have to play tackle now that everyone's injured.
Which leads me to my last point. The injuries this year have been terrrrrrrrible. The only good thing I can say about the injuries is at least we get a really good look at some of our young players in prime time NFL games even tho it's not under the best circumstances.