re: It’s the offensive line

Need tackles that can move….require to pull and handle quick edge rushers! The benefit of being 6’5” and 325 lbs only helps when you can move…otherwise give me a guy the size of Plyburn! Aggressive, string and fast….and hopefully smart enough to know scheme rules!

I have been saying all year that all of our problems stem from dreadful offensive line play. An average offensive line would have made all the difference in the world. They can’t run block worth a damn and I have never seen teams get so much pressure on the quarterback by rushing so few people. Defenses should try to rush one and drop 10 and they could probably get a sack.

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It is the OL as by far the #1 problem on offense. I can't possibly tell you whether it is lack of talent or lack of OL coaching but it really doesn't matter. The OL sucks big time. Second worst problem on offense has been Sloan. There are PARTIAL solutions to a bad OL and he never tried them. More screen passes, misdirections like counters, running the wildcat on short yardage situations, the occasional trick play, etc. Third worst problem is a QB who refuses to run past the LOS when there is open real estate.

And for those who want to blame Kelly for the offensive woes, his name was on the head coaching office door. Davis should have been fired last season. Sloan should have never been promoted to OC and his resume for that position was only La Tech. On the QB situation, I cut him some slack there. LSU had Underwood committed until he reneged. And Van Buren last night didn't exactly light it up.

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OL problem is both talent & coaching. Bama beat us consistently with a THREE MAN RUSH!!! LT-Curne #57 especially had a bad game.

100% agree with you on Kelly/Sloan.

Van Buren left some to be desired sure, but again OL was getting beat by a 3 man rush leaving 8 defenders back against the pass. That is very hard for any QB to beat let alone a QB that has not been getting #1 reps and comes in mid-game.

Nuss has played bad and deserves to be benched. Van Buren is more mobile and gives us a better chance to win. I'd even go as far as to say if Van Buren was given the QB1 reps in practice and started the Ole Miss & Vanderbilt games that we would have won those 2 games.

My biggest thing that made me start questioning Davis’ developmental skills is that, like you said, a guy like Campbell was as good coming in as he left. No progression in skill level, technique, etc.