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Message: [QUOTE="statsgrad, post: 1180356, member: 3183"] There is zero talent at WR outside of Ishmael. Go back and really watch the games and tell me how often our guys get separation -- real separation -- relative to other teams in the ACC. Even Ishmael is generally making fantastic 1 on 1 grabs with a guy draped all over him. West does the same. How often has Broyld ever broken one deep? Guy still has zero touchdowns. When was the last time Estime, Mr. Speed, got behind a defense? When was the last time Erv even threatened to get past the 30 on a kick return? The talent at WR is is just not there-- there is a reason Ishamel is our #1 as a true freshman. Not one time this season have I ever thought "wow our guy just burned their guy really bad" -- it's always a Houdini catch in traffic. How many of our skill position guys on offense are even going to sniff the NFL? Having said that I give a heck of a lot of credit to Shafer/Bullough, the defense, and especially the offensive line -- all are playing very, very well given the circumstances. Our speed/depth at WR/corner is never going to match FSU and Clemson. Once we are back in the top 25 regularly we will get the occasional stud but we will never have a plethora of speed like they do. That is always going to be an issue for us. TCU only passes the ball 53.5% of the time. Syracuse 47.4% of the time. It's not like that's a world of difference. In fact we have run 557 plays in 8 games, so if we passed as much as TCU that works out to about 4 additional passing plays per game. That's not going to be the difference in us being 3-5 and us being 6-2. I think we can agree that we'd all like to see more down the field passes. McDonald lined up a bunch of WRs and just tried to run by defenses, it didn't work. Lester has gone back to more pick plays and schemes and suddenly the offense looks at least halfway decent again. I'd love to see an offense that is balanced but takes more play action deep shots. That is the true theme behind these Baylor/TCU offenses. It's not the number of passing playings, it's the number of deep shots. With our current talent we can't take deep shots without a quality run game and play action. With McDonald play action was non-existant. I'm not a huge fan of the pistol for that reason, the play action fake out of it isn't quite as dangerous. [/QUOTE]

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