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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1236083, member: 40"]
This is the last time I'm going to state this, since you seem to be intent on ignoring the pattern yielded by the data-there were NOT only 2 or 3 games in which we were down multiple guys.  We were down multiple guys in at least 6 games, and probably more.   Being down 2 or more players from an 8 player rotation constitutes a significant compromising of depth at a position--especially when 5 of them start.

It wasn't a minor issue, it was a major problem throughout the entirety of the season.  We had OL problems pertaining to compromised depth at the beginning of the season.  We had games in the middle of the season where we had significant depth constraints due to injury, and we had games at the end of the season where we were forced to limp toward the finish line at OL due to having multiple players not able to go due to injury.  It was a bad problem that hit us in the mouth at the beginning of the year and never got appreciably better throughout the ENTIRE course of the season.  And in several instances, we had guys who were playing while injured due to the magnitude of other injuries at the position, which padded the # of OL we had playing in a handful of games.

You are significantly understating how big of a problem it was, and misrepresenting it by claiming it was "only 2 or 3 games."  That is not factual.
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