You don't think that this offense is going to find its footing this year?
If I had to answer right now I would say we will have our moments but for the most part we will be extremely underwhelming to what we expected. I don't expect record breaking offenses but I do expect that we can be as good as our 2012 offense, and like most of us said that year if we had a better defense we could've dominated teams. Overall, I do not expect anymore what I expected before the season which was a offense that was similar to last season (yes I know its early, so spare me).
We will have our moments I'm sure but to me something looks off. Like Joe Bauserman, Lydell Ross off. The type of off were there's a major issue and it may take a big effort to fix (in those cases personnel changes) What I think is contributing that feeling to me is our play calling has shown no imagination, big tendency to test the perimeter, have no idea how to set plays up, and have shown no clue on calling the intermediate passing game. Sure I get that I could do no better but damn all this talent and they can't figure out how to hit 300 yards of total offense?
Our freaking defense scored just as many TD's as our offense. Here's what I propose guys and I'm convinced this is the answer... (so fucking agree with me)
1. We are shooting for baby steps here. The worse thing we could do is to go into the next game trying to make up for the previous two games and press the issue. Next game we are shooting for 35 points and 400 yards of offense (stop snickering because I know you are) but finding 2-3 plays that we can start to mold as staples. Of those 2-3 plays neither of them will be a jet sweep or rub route mind you. Also having one person start and finish this game at QB (and if it gets ugly so fucking what they need the reps), and also determine who your starting ELEVEN are because as of right now with all the "or"s and technically having TWELVE starters according to the Depth chart ( 1Qb, 5 OL, 1 RB, 1TE, 1 H and 3 WR's). I mean I get it we have a entire 53 man roster of players who can run 4.4 forties and are 6 foot 205 pounds that's awesome. However we only need 11 so how about in this game put who we know is our best 11 out there which I could care less who it is outside of JT at QB who I feel is the better route. So we have 11 starters and we develop 1-2 players we have that come in off the bench to spell players ONLY when they're tired such as Samuel for Braxton and Wilson for Marshall.
2. We then head into Indiana and build off of the 35 point 400 yard game and shoot for 42 points and 450 yards of offense. In this game we continue to repetitively use our 2-3 staple plays and in this game the plan should be to have a counter punch set up to the 2-3 staples that we start to develop rythme for because just as Indiana finds a way to stop it bam we hit them with a counter. Think Zone read comes back and just as they bring a guy in to defend it we then go zone read with JT keeping it then having a throw option when he keeps.
3. Now going into mid October we have 4-5 staples and we PERFECT them. At this point we've started to build chemistry with our personnel, our play calling, and our rhythm. By Mid October we can be a dangerous dangerous team if we do this correctly.
Focus on
no turnovers,find 11 starters on offense with 2 reliable back ups, sustaining drives, and finding plays we do well to run as staples. As long as our offense stops turning the ball over I'm confident we will not lose in the regular season, but if we press and continue giving up 3-5 turnovers a game we will have a uphill battle against MSU and scum.
If we press we will not get better as we will not show the patients that's going to be required to correct this. However, if we slow down and calm things down on offense we can build up steam so that by MSU we are a machine as we all thought we could be.