I sure hope so since I played OL in college! I totally get that you can mask some OL weaknesses with play calling and schemes. The coach can assist the technique component. But remember Glenn Cook? He was the guy who was always in the right spot, had the best technique, and was a coach on the field? He just wasn't very good. Do you understand that our OL is so poor that we can't even run a 5 step drop without fear and trepidation? It is a mess. CMR inherited this group of OL. CMR made the OL coaching hire . . . now we think Searles can't coach? Ok
Why are all those 4 stars and a 5 star on our OL such inferior talents?
Remember how bad all of our highly rated defensive players played under Folden?
Remember all the UM fans who used to dog the **** out of our defensive players calling them overrated and busts and soft and everything else because they couldn't stop anyone?
Remember Chad Thomas being derided for caring too much about music and not about football?
Remember all the ridicule Tracy Howard, who is a rookie NFL starter, heard for being too slow and overhyped?
It's not just Searels responsibility. His job is inextricably intertwined with Rick's job as OC. Searels isn't working independently. Those two are doing an awful job working together.
And Rick's work with Kaaya has been an embarrassment. He's got him completely shell shocked and frozen on the field to the point where he's holding the ball too long and walking into sacks.
We are regressing as an offense, and that's clearly not all as a result of talent just like it wasn't when our defense was walking in quicksand the last 4 years.