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You adjust your offense to the talent it has to try to win a game. Going 3 and out 3 consecutive series and going on repeated scoreless droughts during his tenure is OC is not based solely off talent deficiencies but an inability to adjust his offense to win games. I am glad you are satisfied with getting our first conference win after 14 consecutive losses. I have higher expectations. Staying stagnant or regressing were not part of those expectations. They are obviously okay in your book.
What you and Darth and the other supporters or Lindgren are missing is we have one win. Let's start worrying about doing the things to get us a Win like scoring and putting pressure on the opposing team's offense to put up two scores, rather than our own.
We aren't missing that, actually.
I don't disagree. My underlying point is that we could have beat Arizona, and previous opponents, had we not bogged down and quit trying to put points on the board. Arizona loss is a lot like Oregon loss, opportunity was there to take over and we pissed down our legs and it starts with meek play calling.
I agree you need to adjust to your talent, (Great coaches can do that) however games are won and lost in the trenches, and IMO our O-line is the cause for all the issues. Lack of running, having enough time to pass, having to move the pocket so Sefo doesn't get killed. Sefo has his own issues, but If you have no O-line it doesn't matter what you call. they show signs of clicking on a couple drives, then they die out. I think the stalling out on drives is almost entirely on their shoulders. JMO
This is the problem, right here. Again, nobody thinks Lindgren is an offensive mastermind. What most of us are arguing is that the offensive issues are not solely on him or Sefo, like you have been saying. There are plenty of reasons the offense has seemingly regressed and the blame should be shared by all involved.
The offensive line has had its issues protecting Sefo and especially against Oregon. But against Arizona and OSU I feel like the Buffs had as good as a game as you are going to get from such a beat up and lacking elite talent line and we did not do the necessary things to beat two winnable opponents away. Fortunately we got one win in those, but it could have been two wins... or two losses! Fair?
Sefo has proved that he can't throw the slant. It's a real problem, and a big reason why we fail to expose blitzing defenses.
That is a big problem in college football and above. That play is important. I felt like we kind of hit the slant with DD and Lee a little last year but we also hit the LB for a pick often as well. We have to be more efficient on offense somehow. The quick slant is really effective in blitz and part of reason Broncos are struggling this year. They don't have that in their repertoire. Neither do the Buffs!
I'd like to see the slant thrown a little more as well, but not sure that is the problem.
Maybe you should wait for the game to be over, clown.
