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I literally cannot stop thinking about you he Duke game last year. Their D-line looked like children compared to our O-line, but they still had their way with our guys with us somehow scoring 12 points.
I think this is emblematic of our offensive struggles last year. We were clearly superior talent wise, but the coaching stifled that. Using easy to read snap counts and a lack of any play diversity to the extent we had makes it almost impossible for any offensive line to have success.
This all goes to say that I don't think we can truly judge our oline yet. There's two advantages to playing offense, the defense doesn't know where the play is going and they don't know when it's starting. Our offense forfeited both of those advantages for last year.
We are not elite on the o-line, but I think it's easy to imagine a huge jump in production from the position similar to the jump the defense made when Manny arrived, just by the virtue of being used in a smarter way that makes their jobs easier.
I think this is emblematic of our offensive struggles last year. We were clearly superior talent wise, but the coaching stifled that. Using easy to read snap counts and a lack of any play diversity to the extent we had makes it almost impossible for any offensive line to have success.
This all goes to say that I don't think we can truly judge our oline yet. There's two advantages to playing offense, the defense doesn't know where the play is going and they don't know when it's starting. Our offense forfeited both of those advantages for last year.
We are not elite on the o-line, but I think it's easy to imagine a huge jump in production from the position similar to the jump the defense made when Manny arrived, just by the virtue of being used in a smarter way that makes their jobs easier.