I'm selling.
The offensive line has improved immensely since the first half of the season. They've crept up back towards just below mediocrity. The scary thing is that with our weapons all we need is a mediocre line to have a dangerous offense. However, the line just isn't there yet and it is probably the most likely potential cause of us losing a playoff game (along with penalties, which are also highly associated with our line).
There are some reasons though why I think we can overcome our line:
Rock, I believe, mentioned the lack of scoring drives following a sack. That statistic was brought up in the Tampa Bay game at which point we had yet to score a touchdown on drives where Rodgers had been sacked. We broke that trend in the fourth quarter of the Tampa game and have since scored touchdowns on drives in which Rodgers was sacked against Dallas, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh. Since the fourth quarter of the the Bucs game we have had 15 drives in which we have given up a sack (4 sacks in fourth quarter of Bucs game, 2 in one drive, and 2 in one drive against Dallas) and have scored touchdowns in 4 of those drives (26.7% of the time... and even post Tampa game we're 3/12 or 25%). If you compare that to 47 touchdowns in roughly 152 possessions (64 punts, 47 offensive tds, 35 fg attempts, 6 failed fourth downs... which I realize does not include drives that ended with the clock running out, could not find that statistic), we generally score touchdowns 30.9% of the time. So in addition to giving up less sacks we're also doing a better job of overcoming them when we do.
I know it is a small sample (12 vs. 152) but I'm not surprised that we are doing better now. Rodgers has the highest qb rating on third down and has an uncanny ability to convert 3rd and 12-15. The whole team is also doing a better job adjusting to blitz packages. We are no longer seeing guys come completely unblocked like they did earlier in the year. We are also getting the ball out quicker. Whether that adjustment has come from more slants and shallow crossing routes being called, receivers getting open quicker, or Rodgers doing a better job reading the defense pre and postsnap (and I think it's a little bit of all of them), we're not taking as long to get the ball out.
I also find it interesting that the teams we have scored on after giving up a sack (Dallas, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh) are the ones that are the most aggressive and blitz happy of the teams we've played. Teams like that are more likely to get pressure and force a big defensive play, but they're also more susceptible to someone like Jennings or Driver busting a big play on a slant because they've committed so many people.
As it stands, I think we're a very dangerous team and probably the scariest of the wild cards. Our oline will probably give up a couple sacks against anyone we play in the postseason and that is why I'm selling right now, but if our team responds well to the sacks we may very well win in spite of our oline.
edit: bit about scoring against aggressive teams
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