re: What gives you confidence that Miles can lead us to another championship?

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Nice post. It's ALWAYS something though. Youth, depth, coaching changes, etc. Year after year, same old stuff.

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It's different people saying the same of stuff. But it's true in this case. We had an ineffective sophomore QB last season. However, we had an effective senior QB the year prior until injured.

If the idea is to control the ball and run the clock, that falls on the efficiency of the offense. They are trying to pivot with Harris in order to get more from the QB position, which essentially means taking a step back to move forward in this offense. He's playing fairly well considering his age and experience, but there are still growing pains that should reap rewards next season. Although, they need to let him become the leader of the offense and not Fournette. He touches the ball every snap and the offense needs to reflect the grit of the QB and right now that appears anything but confident.

The bottom line is there should be incremental improvement offensively as the season goes on and there has been at that position. However, as a unit, they are struggling due to things the QB is doing wrong, the o-line is doing wrong, and the RB sometimes is doing wrong. Now that stuff has to get in-sync without your 300lbs TE and starting FB. And now Hawkins is further hampered in blocking due to a bum ankle.

Defensively, we're no longer getting beat because DBs are out of position on the pass, now it's pursuit angles and tackling that have to be ironed out. It's more growing pains including injuries that have affect Mills early (6 games) and now Tre White lately as he tries to play through it.

I don't remember the last time we've had the injury bug so bad. You couple all of this with the fact that we lost 3 interior d-line players and this team is still sitting with an opportunity at 4-2 in conference and 7-2 overall.

That being said, safety will be a huge problem next season because no one has stepped up to quarterback the DBs on the field when Mills was out. That's not a good sign.