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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 732145, member: 874"]
Take thread from first half of last season.  Remove the name of Nathaniel Hackett and insert George McDonald.
 
I'm disappointed with the way the O looked yesterday, but there's plenty of blame to go around.  The offensive line didn't play as well as it did the last half of last season.  Allen seemed to stare at receivers a lot, indicating he's not completely in control of the offense and/or on the same page as his receivers yet.  He also seemed pretty inaccurate at times.  Receivers in general seemed pretty pedestrian.  McDonald didn't call a great game.  Some of this may have been trying to protect Allen from mistakes, but the play has to get signaled in quicker.  We weren't creative enough with trying to get the ball to Broyld.  He's our best playmaker with the ball in his hands.  We need to force feed it to him just like Penn St. did with Robinson.
 
Most of this shouldn't be surprise.  We're replacing a first round draft pick O-lineman, a fourth round pick at quarterback, and an offensive coordinator that had three years to get familiar with his players and familiarize his players with his system.
 
I'm hopeful we'll get better as the season progresses.  I just hope we can make strides this week so we're not too far behind the 8 ball by the time we get to conference play.
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