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The root of our struggle

At this point of season it seems that our team resumes this annoying identity: we play one half good football. Period. No matter whom the opponents are. Lately it becomes more disturbing trend: we play good on the first half of football and sit on the lead only to wait for our defense to collapse.

So what's the problem? if there is an single important thing that you want to point out, what is it? Some might say it's Cam. Some might say it's the rush three. I tend to agree with the Baltimore sun writer Kevin whose last name is so long that I can't spell it right: all the problems, directly or indirectly, trace back to the woe of offensive line and Jared Gaither might be the single most important loss in the preseason. Let's face it, Oher is not a good left tackle now and it's not clear that he will ever be. He was a great right tackle. Other offensive linemen changed out of their natural position to play. Also, it might prove a mistake to let Jason Brown go. Matt Birk is showing his age.

The coaches are doing part of their jobs. Our running game, let's be honest, was not working last night and the only time I remember it working like a charm is the bronco's game. What do you expect Cam to do? pound his head against the same wall again and again and expect to work? it's the very definition of madness. The pass play is the high percentage play right now and I have no problem they went with it.

Joe is doing his job, mostly. I mean, peyton manning is this best QB ever. what happens when he is sacked 5-6 time and hurried 7-8 times a game? he throw 4 interceptions! two pick 6! this is frankly happening to Joe flacco every frigging game. You expect him to be immune to pressure? don't kid ourselves.

So what can we do to fix it? Honestly, I don't know. maybe there are some magic potion they can use to make our O-line smarter and better all of sudden. Maybe they need an Oline only meeting. Maybe they need run more creative screen plays or whatever to reduce the pressure. Until this Oline problem is solved, we would have to be very lucky to win a superbowl.

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