More analysis - Missouri

Georgia,s X factor Cornelius Washington also taks about OL.

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Looking a little closer at the offense, looking inward.

Aaron Murray - 35 TDs versus only 14 INTs. That's All-Pro. Completion percentage needs to be a few points higher. Took WAAAAAAYYYYYY to many sacks at 32! WOW. Did we even HAVE an O-line last year? Did anyone ever tell the kid that completing a pass to the mascot is better than a sack? Still, passing for more than 3,000 yards in a season is impressive. (There should be a coach on the sideline whose only job is to stay open in case AM needs an open man to throw to this year. Can't find a receiver? Hairy Dawg is WIIIIDE open!)

Running backs - Highest yards per game was from IC at 70. 172.7 yards per game from the entire committee, versus 241 per game from the passing game. Maybe AM is even better than we give him credit, because that's not a whole ton of run support. Combine that with the number of sacks last year, and the picture starts getting clearer - what supports both running AND prevents sacks? O-line. Having several fresh faces in the line-up at RB this year CAN'T hurt. More run support can only be a good thing. Alabama AND LSU had the run support.

I would be a heck of a lot more confident this year if I KNEW we had one of those "old fashioned" O-Lines - just a nasty bunch of brawlers with speed - 350 pounds of slow doesn't work as well as 290 pounds of FAST, and BAAAAAAAAD to the bone!

I'm beginning to think that THIS season depends less and less on CMB, and more and more on CWF. That's not going to be a popular thing to say on this site - I'm sure I'm about to get "quoted" a lot, but I sometimes wonder if the offensive play calling is limited to what the O-Line can handle? Remember that Abuurn game - offensive play calling didn't seem to be an issue one little bit in that gem, but every time we played against teams with legitimate D-Lines the outcome was not good. CMB takes most of the blame I'm sure, but I'm beginning to look in a slightly different direction.

As we like to say around here . . . COACH 'EM UP!

Placing blame on one or the other really is a hard thing to pinpoint, the bottom line is that the offense was inconsistant, to say the least, and put the defense in a precarious position most of the time. It is going to be very interesting to see if the OL ,and the availability of some premium RBs, can make up that shortcoming to stabilize and strengthen the offense this year. Barring injuries it looks promising. GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thriller wrote: Looking a little closer at the offense, looking inward.

Aaron Murray - 35 TDs versus only 14 INTs. That's All-Pro. Completion percentage needs to be a few points higher. Took WAAAAAAYYYYYY to many sacks at 32! WOW. Did we even HAVE an O-line last year? Did anyone ever tell the kid that completing a pass to the mascot is better than a sack? Still, passing for more than 3,000 yards in a season is impressive. (There should be a coach on the sideline whose only job is to stay open in case AM needs an open man to throw to this year. Can't find a receiver? Hairy Dawg is WIIIIDE open!)

Running backs - Highest yards per game was from IC at 70. 172.7 yards per game from the entire committee, versus 241 per game from the passing game. Maybe AM is even better than we give him credit, because that's not a whole ton of run support. Combine that with the number of sacks last year, and the picture starts getting clearer - what supports both running AND prevents sacks? O-line. Having several fresh faces in the line-up at RB this year CAN'T hurt. More run support can only be a good thing. Alabama AND LSU had the run support.

I would be a heck of a lot more confident this year if I KNEW we had one of those "old fashioned" O-Lines - just a nasty bunch of brawlers with speed - 350 pounds of slow doesn't work as well as 290 pounds of FAST, and BAAAAAAAAD to the bone!

I'm beginning to think that THIS season depends less and less on CMB, and more and more on CWF. That's not going to be a popular thing to say on this site - I'm sure I'm about to get "quoted" a lot, but I sometimes wonder if the offensive play calling is limited to what the O-Line can handle? Remember that Abuurn game - offensive play calling didn't seem to be an issue one little bit in that gem, but every time we played against teams with legitimate D-Lines the outcome was not good. CMB takes most of the blame I'm sure, but I'm beginning to look in a slightly different direction.

As we like to say around here . . . COACH 'EM UP!

I will buy that last comment. If the line hasn't been able to open holes, our backs haven't had been able to break for big gains. The only team we played, who was supposed to have a good D line, was SC. I don't recall them shutting us down. They won due to special team lapses and points off turnovers.

Murray should not have tried to throw ball away one time. Should have eaten it. I think he also fumbled once and it was returned for TD. That can be blamed on O line, but the fake punt was ridiculous.

Anyway, lets hope that has been the case with CMB. If we give opportunity to open up the playbook more, he might just impress us. Time will tell

Go Dawgs!

thriller wrote: Looking a little closer at the offense, looking inward.

Aaron Murray - 35 TDs versus only 14 INTs. That's All-Pro. Completion percentage needs to be a few points higher. Took WAAAAAAYYYYYY to many sacks at 32! WOW. Did we even HAVE an O-line last year? Did anyone ever tell the kid that completing a pass to the mascot is better than a sack? Still, passing for more than 3,000 yards in a season is impressive. (There should be a coach on the sideline whose only job is to stay open in case AM needs an open man to throw to this year. Can't find a receiver? Hairy Dawg is WIIIIDE open!)

Running backs - Highest yards per game was from IC at 70. 172.7 yards per game from the entire committee, versus 241 per game from the passing game. Maybe AM is even better than we give him credit, because that's not a whole ton of run support. Combine that with the number of sacks last year, and the picture starts getting clearer - what supports both running AND prevents sacks? O-line. Having several fresh faces in the line-up at RB this year CAN'T hurt. More run support can only be a good thing. Alabama AND LSU had the run support.

I would be a heck of a lot more confident this year if I KNEW we had one of those "old fashioned" O-Lines - just a nasty bunch of brawlers with speed - 350 pounds of slow doesn't work as well as 290 pounds of FAST, and BAAAAAAAAD to the bone!

I'm beginning to think that THIS season depends less and less on CMB, and more and more on CWF. That's not going to be a popular thing to say on this site - I'm sure I'm about to get "quoted" a lot, but I sometimes wonder if the offensive play calling is limited to what the O-Line can handle? Remember that Abuurn game - offensive play calling didn't seem to be an issue one little bit in that gem, but every time we played against teams with legitimate D-Lines the outcome was not good. CMB takes most of the blame I'm sure, but I'm beginning to look in a slightly different direction.

As we like to say around here . . . COACH 'EM UP!

thriller, I am and have been totally on board with your OL analysis. That's why I have stated many times that imo this year's success will depend largely on how our OL plays. They will get better as the year goes on but early on I don't think we will be any better than last year.....REALLY concerns me.

I would be more concerned about the OL if they did'nt have to practice against a very tough defensive line. That being said I guess the only thing that really matters is how they play in the games.