A few points
Baas looked like he was injured early in the game, he was playing kind of tentative after the first 2 series. I think his neck was really hurting.
While there were a lot of missed blocks, and what looked like missed assignments all over the place, i will say that Arizona was absolutely selling out to stop the run.
They were walking up the safety late a lot, and ran a ton of run blitzes. Truth be told they took chances and guessed right a lot.
I attribute a lot of the missed assignments and bad blocking on the Cards aggressivness to stop the run.
Late in the game, (and Dockett being hurt helped) they sat back when they knew the Giants werent going to run, and Eli picked them apart.
So basically, yes the OLine did not play well early, but you have to give the Cards credit, it really looked like their D gameplan was to sell out to stop the run.
and oddly, there were not a lot of audibles on the Giants end, or any for that matter.
lets not turn this into a typical BBI Giant trashing thread.
Other teams deserve credit too sometimes. Obviously the Giants made adjustments, they did score 21 in the fourth quarter.
Giants can rush for 10 yards each week. As long as they are dropping 30 pts I really don't care.
Odds are things will even out and the running game will kick into a higher gear sooner than later.
I , frankly, think that the Cards also won a lot of one-on-one battles vs the OL
i'm just saying there were a ton of plays where they walked the safties up, and if the Giants had a play action on it could have resulted in a big play. (which would have been the Giants guessing right)
One play it seemed like Diehl missed a block, but after i looked at it again it seemed like it was Baas' man and Diehl was just trying to help.
Hard to tell not knowing who was suppose to block who, but it looked like a missed assignemt
I'll add that this OL is not the Diehl-Seubert-O'Hara-Snee-Mckenzie line of just a few years ago when they still were able to run the ball eventhough trams we're selling out to stop it.
No one if this line will ever get there but they certainly need more time to gel. The injury to Baas doesnt help.