This could be good, but I am not sold on blaming Doug Marrone. We don't know what went on behind the scenes. While we had lots of high draft picks on offensive line many were considered high reaches, and many were drafted with a notion of playing them outside their normal positions which is a recipe for disaster. Cesar Ruiz was a center in college but we drafted him with our Center spot already taken by McCoy. Andrus Peat was a left tackle in college, but we drafted him on the notion that he could play right tackle or guard. Trevor Penning was just a raw rural juco kid and we penciled him in as day 1 starting left tackle.

Maybe Marrone was a bad coach, maybe he was a good coach, but what he had to work with was highly questionable. If he thought Penning was ready to start and took so long to realize Peat belonged at LT not Penning, and was all in with paying Cesar Ruiz, then he is an idiot. But its also possible that the final configuration of our oline that won 4 of 5 games was what he wanted all along, and that he was ordered by Loomis and DA to start Penning at LT and feature Ruiz as some elite guard to justify Loomis' bad picks and just 'do you job, make it work.'

In the end, one less geriatric Matlock drinking buddy for Loomis and DA is a good thing, but the root of the problem is Loomis, who traded up to draft Penning and forced him to start, drafted and overpaid Ruiz, and broke the bank for Carr when it was obvious to anyone that our oline would struggle to protect an aging QB.