Agreed. I’ve even said this a couple of times in the last half hour. This doesn’t change the fact the OL couldn’t block on obvious passing downs. Both things can be true.
I would have to go back and look at some "obvious passing downs" to see how well they blocked it. I honestly don't remember. Yeah, there were plays that they didn't pick up a house blitz that was on an obvious passing down, but a lot of teams have issues with that.
The time I felt really bad about Fields was during a preseason game where the defense brought a really vanilla blitz, like one extra guy, and he didn't see it and got his helmet knocked off his head. He should have hit a hot read on that, but he was literally just standing there. All of a sudden, boom. I was like, oh shit, that's really bad.