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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 33434, member: 837"]
Yeah, I was going to post the same thing about the 375 yards. Is it it too early to have a referendum on Marrone and/or Hackett as the offensive leaders of this team.

I think the thing that is the most interesting here is how the defense has been the exact opposite (generally) for the three years. Shaffer came in and immediately turned the defense around and, while they haven't been pretty this year, Saturday marked the fifth straight game where they've either played well enough to win and/or hang in the game (USC, URI , RU) or at least made some big plays late to help get the W (Wake, Toledo).

Now the scoring offense/total offense numbers aren't great, but for a defense that lost a lot of key players and has absorbed injuries to some of it's best players, they have been pretty solid.

Meanwhile, we are on Year 3 of whatever the hell system we're running and even with toledo and URI ideally inflating our totals (not fellating, right?) we still have no idea what this staff actually wants to do. The only things we're sure of, in fact, are that this isn't anywhere close to what the finished product should look like, we are likely at least slightly deficient in terms of talent, we are sure we don't have a concrete direction AND arguable the worst unit on the group (offensive line) is supposedly our coaches' specialty. And, oh yeah, many NFL coaches have struggled to put together great offenses in college. That makes me nervous too.
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