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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 3938950, member: 297"]
Our offensive line was historically atrocious last season. Our lead running back Tucker had some success despite that, so assuming improvement on the line I think he can have a monster year.

We also played a ton of true freshmen on defense last season, and our hope is that accelerated their maturation. I think we were all pretty encouraged by what we saw last season from the defense. If the offense can be just average that would help the defense a ton.

I don't think we're an awesome team. I think we have the chance to be pretty good, and I don't think we're what people would expect from a team coming off a 1-10 season. But after lots went wrong last season we really need a lot to go right.

Ohio's a good program, no doubt, but if we're going to be a competitive P5 team, winning this game on the road against you all is something we need to be capable of doing.

As for people to look out for - Mikel Jones makes stuff happen, but I also think one of our other young linebackers Wax is going to be a force. Garret Williams is an excellent corner, but the true freshman Chestnut and the other young corner Nunn I think will also be very good. We have lots of solid guys on the DL, so the matchups there could get interesting.

On offense, we're deep at running back. Jarveon Howard took the Covid year off last season which gave Tucker a chance to emerge, but he can sneak up on you and make some big plays. Our TE Benson can fly. It seems like we've got a pile of young WRs and one of them will pop. Everything really comes down to how well our OL can gel and what we get out of our QBs. We have some options, so we'll see what happens.
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