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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 1214176, member: 229"]
I understand all that.  The offense made my eyes bleed at the end of the season - but I don’t believe Urban Meyer could’ve done much better under the same circumstances.  I’ll reserve judgment when Lester has a full complement of players.

There are some things I hate – namely our use of the run game and it’s design and the use of personnel.  I’m pissed we’ve gotten away from establishing (or having) a solid run game.  when we couldn’t run we were dead on arrival.

looking at things realistically, I can’t fault Lester yet for missing 3 of the team’s best offensive players – Hunt, Estime and Broyld – a woefully depleted line and a true frosh QB.  When you’re moving backup guards to tackle and inserting freshman at guard (or tackle) and playing 1 legged vets nothing good is going to happen.

When a team gets down to the 4th string QB and ends up resorting to the runt true freshman (I think he’s smaller than Nunes) behind the depleted line nothing good is going to happen.

So a few short side option runs aside I think (hope) a lot of the play calling was simply predicated on what we had or didn’t have.  I don’t know yet but I’ll reserve judgment when I see what Lester does with a healthy team and a couple of months to prepare.

(you take the pressure off bad QBs by running the football – we couldn’t run to save our lives.)  1st staff change I’d make – TODAY – is firing the pop warner offensive line coach and hiring a varsity guy.  the most ominous sign from the Nova game was how badly they blew up our starting offensive line.  This was a good unit that had regressed from day 1)
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