Gald to heard we have a good group .
Very exciting to hear! It's also good to know the group will get even better in the fall when Freddie gets back.
I think you're right on with your assessment of the offense Whiskey. The key to whether we are great or not will depend on if any of those receivers step it up a notch. I don't think Jeune is a lock to start and I do think any of the 8 scholarship guys could step in and play if they show ability to beat defenders. This competition is what I want to see this spring and fall.
Not only beat defenders, but beat them down, too. We need lb's and safeties to hear footsteps because they've been crack backed into a stupor a few times. That'll make 'em a step slower in pursuit as much as a good dive will.
I ain't going down that road again after so much confidence going into 2015. Even accounting for injuries I think most of us were wrong about the plug and play aspect, Cheese was as I remember one of the few dissidents in what became a wildly optimistic biew of replacing all the A and B backs and WRs. If anything it should be a primer on the complexities of Johnson's offense. I'm just going to sit in the weeds and cheer for the best, whatever happens.
I think plug and play may have been achievable on a small scale, if it was just the Abacks, for instance. But when you throw in the Bbacks, the wr's, and our top OL at the most important OL spot...... fugetaboutit.
Okay, now take a deep breath. A spirited defense and I applaud it while pointing out the bleeding obvious. (Basil from Fawlty Towers keeps slipping in.) I defend simply on the basis of a 3-9 record. Of the inability of our WRs and Abacks to get pass route separation. And to block on the edge which closed the perimeter game. Of the Bbacks to pass block which had Thomas running to and fro helter skelter all year. And from what seemed to me in an admittedly non-scouting view, six or seven different guys going six or seven different ways some plays, and the plays were our routine plays. I concede the injuries, but yep, if we are talking plug and play then let's not distinguish between A and B unit plug and play vs. C unit. My defense of my view is oddly enough -- in my mind -- a rather rousing defense of Johnson's offense: it is not a plug and play, 1950's wing T retread, but a sophisticated and complex offense that requires a lot of reps and a lot of study. And then, a lot of experience. Our best ones seem always to have done better in the late 2nd or 3rd year, and Thomas was still very much a question mark halfway into his RS sophomore season, yet around the country freshman and sophomore QBs were starting and sometimes starring in less complicated sets. (I think Watson at Clemson is an outstanding QB and barring injuries probably headed to the NFL after this year. But it does not stop me from wondering: could he have started in this offense as a true freshman? I am not scout enough to know. I am observer enough to doubt it.)
