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[QUOTE="timkay99, post: 3165574, member: 635"]
This board really, really overrates the skill position talent here, especially at WR.  No better than average ACC talent.

RB: Adams and Neal are solid average ACC running backs.  Will get you what is there.  Similar to Strickland.  They don't break tackles and they don't make people miss consistently.  Howard will run you over, Jordan can run by you (given how he beat guys to the edge against BC, but that is one of the worst defenses we have played).  Adams and Neal are significantly better in blitz pick-up then the young guys.

WR: How is the talent "good"?  Note - good to me means above average.  Harris has been non-existent this year, not on the same page with the QB (in an offense predicated on WR and QB seeing the same thing and making the right reads), demonstrably shown so and the coaches have no confidence in the back-ups to play them.  In the slot, Nykeim has taken a step back.  Trishton is a slightly above average ACC WR, but the drops hurt.  Hendrix is the one to hold out hope for (since he's been hurt since he's gotten to campus), but the other talent has proven to not be better than Taj on the outside or Riley/Nykeim in the slot.

TE: Benson has one big catch against Holy Cross and got open a couple times against Clemson.  Is it coaching?  Hackett is a solid average ACC TE.

The issue, especially when an OL is significantly below average, is your skill guys have to make something out of nothing.  Hasn't happened much this season.  Not many of our present skill position talent wins 1 on 1.

Hoping the OL really is just magnifying the skill players or coaching is putting the players in bad spots, but I don't think a Dino Babers offense would have this many issues if the skill position talent was as strong as hinted at above.
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