In Eric Nahlin's "horns up, horns down" article this morning, he had three "horns up" (positives). Arch, Livingstone, and the punter. And we had a punt blocked for a safety.
Imagine if Arch was your kid. He cannot continue to take shots like that the rest of the season. It's dangerous. Seriously, a statue like Ewers or Chris Simms gets sacked 15 times yesterday, and leaves the game in the third quarter to head to the hospital.
I would have to rewatch the game which is not something I am going to do, but I swear there was a play in the first quarter where someone picked up Cole Hutson and threw him backwards. I'm being serious.
What does the game yesterday look like if we do nothing but trade OLs with Florida? When the OL gives up 35 pressures and our offense is seemingly designed for the QB to hold the ball fucking forever.... this is a problem. Having a non-existent running game is also problematic.
This is the very first thing they need to do. There is just zero point in keeping Hutson at center at this stage. It's almost as bad as LG. After that then completely start over at guard, including potentially Campbell. Fucking try Jackson Christian or Christian Jackson or whatever the fuck his name is with the first team if we have to.
Tackles aren't great but we can live with them for now, and I'm pretty confident those are our best two.
Fine. We've heard good things about Kibble at guard. Try that then.
We've got 15 scholarship OL. There is just no fucking way the five (Brooks is a tackle playing out of position and that experiment probably needs to end now) we saw yesterday are the best of what we can put on the field. It's just not possible. Kibble, Chatman, Cruz, Robertson, some Colemans... you mean to tell me they are all a step down from this current first team unit?
The very first thing we need to do, and it's not gonna fix everything but it could act as a tourniquet, is put in Robertson at center and Hutson at LG. That could potentially be.... somewhat functional? I'm talking about just keeping players alive.
Here's an idea: If we insist on coming out every game in a two TE package (which, considering how the OL protects, is probably a good idea that we shouldn't have to do), then make one of those two TEs Jaydon Chatman or Nate Kibble. Like what we used to do with Karic. As in, not Spencer Shannon, who is not a threat to catch the ball nor a threat to block anyone.
They are going to bring a ton of pressure. Sark might want to think about maybe installing a screen pass into our game plan. God forbid we do anything to get a defense thinking or even just playing on their heels.
I wonder how much of this is on Becton. We recruit large humans who stay large, but are not seemingly strong at all. At least not in the way that would make them functional OLs.
Yeah I bailed after the sperm donor skit. Not one laugh. I guess this is The Marcelo Show now, which is unfortunate for me because I find him to be less funny than cancer. Although, I appreciated the thought being put in my head of Fineman and Sherman being lesbians.
We are so, so much worse in the middle of the line than last year. And we lost Hayden Conner and Jake Majors. They were not exactly Studdard and Sendlein. How is it possible the players we are playing there are that much worse than those two?
I didn't see it, but per IT Sark had a quote in his PC that was something like "I thought we did well with penalties". I read it about five times to make sure I was reading it correctly.