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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 741063, member: 19"]
Yeah, I must be getting into my midweek sympathetic mode a little early.  But think about everything we lost.  Nassib is the biggest piece by far.  Look what's happening at USC, trying to replace Barkley.  It's a complete disaster, even with Marquise Lee still there.

Then throw in the 2 WRs who caught the majority of passes thrown to WRs.  We were excited about last year's #3 guy being the #1, but never really allowed for the possibility that maybe West had a nice season because he was the #3 guy and so much focus was placed on Lemon and Sales.  We lost the best offensive lineman on the team, who is also one of the best offensive tackles that ever played at this school.  Lost another multi-year starting guard.  You can tell this is hurting the run game.

Getting us from GRob to respectable was one big step we took under Marrone.  But even some of the biggest schools out there have trouble reloading.  This doesn't even touch on who our first two opponents were or that we have an almost all new offensive staff, which wasn't our choice.  If Marrone and Hackett stayed, yes, I'm sure the continuity would have different results.  Not 2012 levels, but probably running the ball better, and probably not throwing the ball to the other team as much.  Keep in mind that we didn't start running the ball well last year until Pugh was back.

That's a lot of words about the offense, I think the D will ultimately have less excuses if we see more efforts like Saturday.  You just can't give up 387 yards and 34 points in the first half like that.
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