Quote Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog View Post
People tend to forget our OL wasn't bad all season. It is easy to think it was awful all season, but go back and watch the Texas game against a top 3 defense in the SEC and tell me it didn't perform?

Ran for over 200 against Tenn, put up over 450 total yards against a solid Florida defense, Shapen threw for 380 against Texas, and scored 38 against Upig.

After the UGA and Mizzou games, the offense went to shit. Gave up 8 sacks to UGA/Mizzou along with fairly constant pressure.

It is easy to say that the guys we lost were all terrible. The last few games they played weren't great - the Wake one especially, but the fact that Mizzou, UGA and the bears were able to put pressure on the QB is most likely due to the fact that their DLs were three of the better in the conference by the time we played them.
Our bottom of the SEC defense screwed us more than the OL did but that's what everyone wants to fixate on as "The Problem".