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The similarities between the offense we are seeing this year and the one we saw early in the 2004 season are shocking.
We all thought that with the performance of the offense the last few games of the 2004 season we were locked and loaded, but it has not shown up in 2005 yet.
Grad makes some good points about execution. The majority of the problems on offense are execution. Some may be the offensive scheme in relation to the players we have on the field. Are they suited to run this type of wide open offense? Is Coach Tressel comfortable calling plays in this type of offense?
Tressel's team historically get better as the year goes on, lets hope we do enough against Iowa to get the job done and then we have a bye week where we can build on our success.
I think the key is Troy Smith. If he performs well, the offensive woes will be less. I do not see the progression I was hoping to see from Troy and some of that can be contributed to missed practice time. I have always wondered if we bought into Troy Smith being the best fit for this team based on the Michigan game. To this point he has not duplicated that type of performance.
To have a successful offense, all 11 players must be on the same page and if you had a chance to watch the last game, there were countless missed assignments, dropped balls and missed reads by everyone.
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