09-21-2017, 11:19 AM
(09-21-2017, 10:45 AM)AncientCityIndian link Wrote:We had a more experienced O line, McCaffrey, Hogan and Washington, U$C, Oregon and Washington State were not where they are now and we did not have SDSU on the schedule. Our opponents have caught up with our physicality and we need a different edge.
Uh, Oregon was way better in 2015 than they're likely to be this year, and @Northwestern was at least as hard of a game as @SDSU. I'd bet that WSU will be about the same in '15 as '17. USC and Washington are likely better than they were, but let's see how they're doing once their QBs leave. But, really, none of that matters, because the offense was still very good using metrics that adjust for strength of the opposition.
I don't necessarily disagree that the staff could use a shakeup, there definitely seem to be lower lows on offense than seem reasonable based on what we think our talent level is, but the idea that the guys in charge are BUMS and that they have {long list of flaws} when the same guys managed to be really obviously quite good only two years is just flat-out wrong.
