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[QUOTE="GoSU96, post: 380421, member: 114"]
They are one game behind the consensus schedule.  The only game I see as less than 50% chance is at Cinci.   They will win the next two and at least 2 of the four after that, as long as the don't get as dispirited and quit on the season as this board has.
 
For the folks who think yards are everything the team is ranked 39th in total offense and 28th in total defense.    That's a profile of a team that ends up with 7,8,9 wins.
 
What SU is right now is a good team with good talent that is unexplosive.   There are no easy points out there.  
 
They rarely have a short field because the defense doesn't get turnovers and there aren't any big returns on specials. The offense is very capable of moving the ball on drives, but it takes a lot of plays.  Individually the offensive players have trouble in their one on one match ups on 3rd down and in the redzone.    TD's like Clarks are few and far between.    Every point right now is a struggle and it's hard to overcome gift points on the other side.
 
Nassib has to throw into some pretty tight windows, do that 45 times there are going to be bad plays, and more so when you are pressing trying to come from behind.
 
From a capability perspective, this team is light years ahead of where it was when Marrone took over.    The rebuild is phase is over, and he has obviously made this team a competitive BCS program again, and that was the first objective of his job.
 
Now they need to win the second half of the year and keep improving the talent in the program.
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