Drove 5 hours today and listened to all the talk shows. Here is the recipe for success.

Line depth: Not much you can do about that this season. Get Lawrence healthy, which means don't play him until Florida. Herron needs to get back, somehow some way.

We did a piss poor job of setting the outside edge on defense. Most of these breakdowns were due to freshmen. This can be coached and fixed.

This was not a Matt Canada offense. All these tight formations with a TE and F-Back are for max protection.
Obviously the coaches are very worried about a couple of things: (1) This line cannot block anybody. (2) Etling does not have the mobility or the arm strength to get out of trouble. They were playing 8 man fronts all night because they know that Etling is unlikely to beat them through the air.

The solutions: Play Brennan. Give him meaningful snaps. Let him throw the ball. Bench Gage and Dillon, a couple of 170 pounders who don't scare anybody. Take your big physical athletes like Davis and Sullivan and play them. If they don't know the offense, that's on you as the coaching staff. Start by teaching them one play. Then another. Then another.

Spread your horses out to keep the safeties out of the box. Give Guice a running lane. He does not have it now.