re: The O line is simply not good

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To the rest of us, the answer is obvious. Stop hiring your friends and people you're comfortable with and start hiring people that are competent at their jobs.

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Not sure about the rest of the post but this one thing is for certain. Being someones buddy is ok but this is a job not a social club. Some tough decisions have to be made and as much as I like Ensminger we need a different OC.

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Just look at his binder avatar. He is an O hater.

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Not true. I was willing to give Orgeron the benefit of the doubt up until the Matt Canada fiasco and then the hiring of Ensminger.

The binder avitar was an indictment of the hiring process that resulted in a hiring like an Ed Orgeron, not Ed Orgeron himself, and an expression of my hate for Alleva.

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Anything less than 100% of the bad being O’s fault is unacceptable, but he balances that with 0% of the good being assigned to O!

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I give credit to Orgeron for the following things:
1. Recruiting. I think he's a great recruiter.
2. Emotion and motivation. I think he's a great motivational coach and he gets the players hyped up to play the game. He's a player's coach and the players love him. This is evidenced by the fact that he doesn't have let down games like Les Miles did.
3. He's candid with the media. Some would say too candid so not everybody likes this but I appreciate it.

I give blame to Orgeron for the following things:
1. He's not qualified for the job. This doesn't mean that he can't do the job but he probably should have never been considered to begin with when there were so many other coaches available who probably would have took the position. Rumor was that Dave Aranda was offered the job and turn it down because he recognized that he wasn't ready so forgive me if I don't withhold blame from Orgeron because, "why would he turn down the money and power?"
2. Some of the coaching hires he's made.
3. The promotion of Steve Ensmoinger to offensive coordinator and the continued offensive futility.
4. The Matt Canada situation.

With all that said I still hold out hope that Orgeron can right the ship but it's going to completely hinge on whether or not he makes a sensible offensive coordinator hire for 2019. If he continues with Ensminger then I'm done with him and I want him fired yesterday at that point.

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I’m not an O pumper, but I am content with the current recruiting, the unpredictable and more balanced offense, the 9-2 record, and the top ten ranking. Now give me 10-2, a bowl win, and a top 5 finish and my contentment will turn to happiness, but not bliss that only occurs with a Naty.

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Nothing wrong with that take. We all agree that the record this year exceeded most people's expectations but I think anybody with two eyeballs can see that should be attributed to special teams and defense. It's certainly not because the offense lit the world on fire or even was good enough to crack the top 80 offenses in the nation. And this is the problem everybody has.

The last head coach did all the same things Orgeron is doing. He was fired because he wouldn't fix the offense. It doesn't look like Orgeron has done anything to try to address that either. He took a step forward with the Matt Canada hire, then took a big step back with the Ensminger hire, so I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens in the offseason.

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and yes Burrow frequently had suggicent time to throw the ball. But that doesn't change the fact that the O line blocking was poor.

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I think he was touched once all night.

had significant time to throw the ball, you the blocking was poor? huh

we didn't punt once with the first team out there.

pretty much ran at will


you could have made this post after most games this season. But not last night

How many of these linemen with eligibility left are playing this year?

Mae Tehuema
Garret Brumfield
Will Clapp
Ed Ingram
Toby Weathersby

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We're not getting a push. I'm not sure how much Is technique and how much is strength.

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You would think that a line with players like S Charles, Brumfield, Hines, Cushenberry, Lewis, Magee, and Deculus would be stronger. I just don't get how these guys are not making a one of the better SEC O lines. ON paper we are deep and talented on the Oline. Different story on the field.

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the unpredictable

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It's not very unpredictable. Ensminger really struggles to make in game adjustments and work outside his gameplan it seems.

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and more balanced offense

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It is more balanced for sure.

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I love how the guys who said we would only win 4-5 games like to nitpick now. They lost all credibility when we didn’t implode.

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Who said we'd only win 4-5 games?

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To the rest of us, the answer is obvious. Stop hiring your friends and people you're comfortable with and start hiring people that are competent at their jobs.

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Nailed it. I think his insecurity in hiring friends will undo it all. It is hard to imagine that the oline players are generally not serviceable. It is on the STAFF to make them better.

so you are saying that it's the coaches fault for the six dropped passes!

Yep, there's your starting Center, RG and RT, 2 of the 3 being upperclassmen that actually have the desired strength. Hurts a lot more than anyone wants to admit, evaluating, coaching and keeping OL is our biggest issue it seems