As bad as our O-Line was to start the season last year:
--We took a lead into the 59th minute of the game at St. Louis before Dion Bailey fell down on that last minute touchdown pass
--We took a lead into the fourth quarter at Cincinnati that the defense could not hold
--We took a double-digit lead into the fourth quarter against the Panthers that the defense could not hold.
That's three losses that were due in large part to defensive breakdowns. I'm not putting it all in the defense--our offense couldn't do much in the fourth quarter of those games--but we had fourth quarter leads in all of those games with an offensive line that is objectively worse than the line we have now. Had we held onto those leads, the season as a whole would have played out much differently.
I'm not a fan of Webb but it looked like his biggest problem this preseason was playing in space at tackle. I've got to believe he'll be better inside than he was outside.
The first four games without Ifedi are going to be hard, no doubt. But we went to the Super Bowl in a year when Seattle was missing BOTH of its starting tackles for half of the season (and missing Max Unger for three games in that stretch as well.) No excuses. Seattle is still a better team than Miami, LA, San Francisco, and the New York Jets. I expect them to play like it.