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[QUOTE="SmilinBob, post: 59422, member: 857"]
You have to look at the whole offensive picture within the context of the game it is playing.  There are so many factors from wind to turnovers to special teams and so on and this is why you watch and study the game and see where each brake down, success or defensive play and see what happened.  A good punt pins you on the 8 and a 3 and out because of a dropped ball gives them good field position.  If the punter shanks it we are on the 30 and now the receiver catches the ball and it's a first down.

SU needs more 20+ yard plays on offense.   The more time you have the ball the more chances for a backfire to happen but on the other hand the more time you have the ball the less your d and their o is not on the field.   The better our defense the more explosive our offense can be without bad consequences.  It's my feeling this 2011 offense was set up with an average d or worse being part of the deal plus we don't have that big play guy to break one but we do have some good offensive players.

A good offense, a real good offense can exploit the other teams weakness.  If you have a good or better defense the more chances you will have to crack the defenses code so to speak.  WV has a hell of an offense but we had a gameplan that beat it because it was one dimensional.  SU needs to keep improving and be able to do multiple things in order to brake the defensive codes and it has proven that it can not do this against a pressing aggressive defense, hell, even rhode island did a good job defensively against SU.   It starts with the oline and goes from there but when they do brake down it's up to the playmakers to make plays to help their struggling teammates out, get the ball moving and the confidence up.
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