It is hard to believe... and yet, there's no denying that the OL performance has gone south along with Butkus being promoted.

But you're right - it is hard to believe, which is why I said "food for thought" rather than "SEE?!?! BUTKUS SUCKS!!!"

As I see it, there are three possibilities vis-a-vis the absolutely dreadful OL performance we saw last Sunday:

1. The OL coaching is good; the players all are just poor quality players, and no OL coach could get them to play any better.

2. The players are all great, and a much better OL coach is needed to get them to play better.

3. A little from column 1, and a little from column 2. This is what I think. If they took the absolute most talented players they have on the roster, the best any OL coach could do would be to have them playing "ok" as a group. I don't think, as a group, the talent is there to be any better than that - for sure not from the guys they played las Sunday. But also, unfortunately, this OL coach isn't maximizing what talent they do have, and so you get performances like we saw last Sunday...