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<blockquote data-quote="orientalnc" data-source="post: 180751" data-attributes="member: 1199"><p>I think way too many of us spent too much time this past summer at the Koolaid bar just off Techwood. Remember when we were discussing our OL and several mentioned we have four of those five dominant guys back? Yeah, me too. But the guy we are missing may be the only rookie starting lineman in the NFL this season. He was very good. And he made the guys on either side of him better.</p><p></p><p>And the two guys who shared the B-back position? The guys that left with ten years in our system? We replaced them with two players with no experience in the offense. At A-back we still have Snoddy, but he may have been our weakest blocker at that position last year. Hill, Zenon, and Bostick all had 4-5 years in the system and knew their role was blocking. Andrews was probably our best blocker in the open field. Boy, we miss him!</p><p></p><p>At WR we lost two great blockers to the NFL and now, our #3 WR (also a good blocker) to injury. Guess what guys? No offense works very well without blocking. This is why we are not getting open on the edge. Defenses do not have to put extra guys in the box to defend the dive. Part of that is the talent of Skov and Marshall compared to Laskey and Days, but even they would have trouble with no gaps.</p><p></p><p>CPJ warned us of this during August, but we thought it was just our greatly improved defense (read, the addition of Jabari) stopping our still "work in progress" guys at the skill positions. We wanted to believe all the things ESPN was saying about us and the sudden respect we were getting. Then someone spiked the punch bowl with two lopsided wins over hapless opponents. We started talking about blowouts in South Bend and getting even in Durham. </p><p></p><p>It's time to get real about our team. Thanks to an improved defense, we are still very competitive, and may be good sometime this year. But these young guys in the backfield have got to get some experience. We are asking more of them than is fair. Return the purple drink pitcher back to the fridge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orientalnc, post: 180751, member: 1199"] I think way too many of us spent too much time this past summer at the Koolaid bar just off Techwood. Remember when we were discussing our OL and several mentioned we have four of those five dominant guys back? Yeah, me too. But the guy we are missing may be the only rookie starting lineman in the NFL this season. He was very good. And he made the guys on either side of him better. And the two guys who shared the B-back position? The guys that left with ten years in our system? We replaced them with two players with no experience in the offense. At A-back we still have Snoddy, but he may have been our weakest blocker at that position last year. Hill, Zenon, and Bostick all had 4-5 years in the system and knew their role was blocking. Andrews was probably our best blocker in the open field. Boy, we miss him! At WR we lost two great blockers to the NFL and now, our #3 WR (also a good blocker) to injury. Guess what guys? No offense works very well without blocking. This is why we are not getting open on the edge. Defenses do not have to put extra guys in the box to defend the dive. Part of that is the talent of Skov and Marshall compared to Laskey and Days, but even they would have trouble with no gaps. CPJ warned us of this during August, but we thought it was just our greatly improved defense (read, the addition of Jabari) stopping our still "work in progress" guys at the skill positions. We wanted to believe all the things ESPN was saying about us and the sudden respect we were getting. Then someone spiked the punch bowl with two lopsided wins over hapless opponents. We started talking about blowouts in South Bend and getting even in Durham. It's time to get real about our team. Thanks to an improved defense, we are still very competitive, and may be good sometime this year. But these young guys in the backfield have got to get some experience. We are asking more of them than is fair. Return the purple drink pitcher back to the fridge. [/QUOTE]
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