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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 275276, member: 27"] I agree that Nassib is by far the best QB on the team. He is the starter and has to play. But the offense we have been running has been a complete failure. Given the talent we are currently able to get, I don't see us being consistently successful running an NFL style offense. It hasn't happened so far, it won't happen this year and it won't happen in the ACC either. The problem is that it is too easy to defend. We have a QB who is not a running threat, who is incapable of beating anyone one on one in the open field, by outrunning or overpowering them. We have a FB who plays regularly who similarly, is not a threat to the defense, can't beat anyone one on one in the open field and is, in many ways, dead weight. We have a TE, often 2 TEs, who similarly, can't beat anyone one on one, and post no threat to the defense. Last year, we had a RB who couldn't beat anyone one on one as well. Lemon and Graham were the only guys who could consistently get open, and Graham's bad hands, poor route running and injuries prevented him from being much of a factor. The 5 OL are OL. Nothing changes there. I want to see the other 6 players on the field all be playmakers, all be fast, all strong, all capable of either outrunning or overpowering LBs and DBs. If we can get the talent level and the scheme set up so we can do this, we will score a lot more points and be a lot more successful on offense than we have been. In a perfect world, we see Hunt emerge as a true dual threat QB, Broyld ends up at TE, where we have an appalling lack of athletic ability and speed, backed up by Stevens. We have Lemon, Sales and one of Kobena/Flemming/Foster/West/Hunt/Cornelius other there at WR most plays (3 WR set). And we have 3 or 4 RBs out there, all capable of beating LBs in the open field. I have great respect for Ant Bailey and what he was able to do with what he was given to work with, but he couldn't beat LBs or even DBs one on one and this killed us last year. I think Jerome Smith, PTG and Morris can all do this. I think AAM can too if he is able to get his weight under control. My biggest hope for 2012 is that Marrone ditches the whole concept of the big power FB and the 2 blocking TEs that are not threats catching the ball, and goes to a scheme that focuses more on stretching the field and forcing the defense to make tackles in the open field than on simply overpowering them or passing with only 2 or 3 options to throw to. I have my doubts over whether DM is prepared to do this. He seems pretty attached to what he has been doing. At least he is recruiting dual threat QBs now and has talked about the need to have a QB who can makes plays with his feet. I think the best thing we can realistically hope for is for DM to do something similar to what he did his first season here. Run the normal offense with the normal starting QB and bring in a different QB running a much different offense for a few snaps here and there to force defenses to prepare for and deal with 2 completely different schemes. Run the 'normal' offense with Nassib (though hopefully with more WRs, less TEs, more playmakers, less blocking specialists), and bring in a dual threat QB a few snaps here and there to run an offense that uses more of the field, generates more open space and utilizes more playmakes than we have been using in recent years. That would help, I hope, address some of the issues the base offense has and would position the program well for a change to the new scheme in 2013. Having Hunt sit out the spring football practices might end up having major long term implications for the program. The easy thing to do would have been to slap Terrell on the wrist for making the error in judgement and let him play. With Terrell having no parents, DM is probably more of a father figure to him than anyone else he has in his life. I am disappointed Hunt missed spring ball but impressed DM was willing to risk so much to do what he considers to be the right thing. Let's hope it will works out in the end. [/QUOTE]

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