Its not about the recruiting - we have the talent but the offensive schemes and sets were awful. Everyone was saying now that BK was gone now Rees will be free to do his own offense. Well if that was it, no thank you! No Screens, No Jet Sweeps, No Merriweather, No adjusting to the 8 or 9 in the box by OSU. Stupid.
Carr is going to be in the 2023 class. I don't like it, but he will be. I think Rees has all of (if not most of) his eggs in that basket.
No. Not a bit. WR group has been very poorly recruited for awhile, the only player that has proven anything of skill is Styles who was pretty good last year and possibly Merriweather. Jury is still out on Colzie, and we haven't even seen Merriweather yet. Not only is the talent lacking, but the development hasn't been good either. That position group is a liability and has been for awhile.
Agree. I’d throw the QB position in with the WR.
Couple that with the communication issues on the OL and the physical struggles of the interior and it's a recipe for poor offense no matter who your OC is. If you're losing in the trenches you're not going to be effective scoring. The fact Rees was able to be 18th in ppg last year with a poor line is a testament to his ability.
I'm willing to give Buchner a pass for now, we haven't seen enough yet. He went 8 for 8 starting that game. We need to see what he can really do once the OL gets the communication issues fixed and Patterson is back. If he can't cut the mustard...it's Pyne time!
You lost me at "we have the talent". No. We absolutely do not.
Yeah, TB12 is TBD. It is pretty sad we’ve gotten one career start out of our ‘18, ‘19, ‘20, and ‘21 QB recruits.I'm willing to give Buchner a pass for now, we haven't seen enough yet. He went 8 for 8 starting that game. We need to see what he can really do once the OL gets the communication issues fixed and Patterson is back. If he can't cut the mustard...it's Pyne time!
If Stanford circa 2010 is the plan maybe they should go all in on that? It seems to me like Rees is kind of hedging his bets in terms of where the roster is at and where they want to be in terms of the offensive scheme so as not to scare away elite receiver talent. As a result the offense doesn’t seem to have any sort of identity to hang it’s hat on.
Are we? If he's not 100% before 11/5, it won't matter much when we get him back.
Indulge me in a bit of doomposting, but OL and TE are the only positions we recruit as well or better than OSU. No one beats the big three simply by playing ManBall and calling interior runs all day, but if OL and TE were truly the strengths of this team, we should have had more success than we saw on Saturday. They got a pass last year due to turnover on the OL and the spate of freak injuries. But if we're struggling to control the LOS with Kristofic, Correll and Lugg this year as well, that tells me that our OL is actually seriously overrated. I'll be cautiously optimistic if they bench the mediocrities and start the younger guys against Marshall, because they've legitimately got a chance to round into form in time for Clemson, but I can't be optimistic about the lineup we rolled out this weekend.
You can bet every one of our opponents is going to stack the box and sell out against the run until we can reliably start punishing them with constraint plays. And if our IOL continues to be this shaky (aside from Patterson, these guys were not reliable last year either, so significant in-season improvement isn't a given), then we may be in for a very long low-scoring season.
Hard point to argue against. Hopefully we find out quickly or MFMF is willing to make moves and get the best players on the field or break status quo at least.
I was shocked to hear OSU had a former walk-on WR get significant reps this weekend. In fact, he scored the go ahead TD and followed that up w/ a special teams tackle that gave ND shitty field position…again.
As much as Pattterson moved around in the pre-game, I assume that means he'll be back for BYU at the latest. Could be wrong though, I am not a doctor, it's all the same principles though. *stares at map*
Difference is that Ohio State having a former walk-on get significant reps means he beat out several high level receiving prospects to get to that point.
We probably should have grabbed a transfer or two.
That's under the impression that there were transfers who were both able to get admitted and wanted to come here.
Rees is the only one who was also a fairly recent starting quarterback for Notre Dame.
I loved Tommy as a player and love the idea of him as the young offensive genius. I just don’t think he’s really done more than an average job so far, based on results.
