bshirt, :shrug: It sucks but it's the best the O has the ability to do for the team. Luckily the D has more than the ability to shoulder that burden. What would be putting a REALLY outrageous would be to turn the ball over constantly or throw incompletions, killing potential FG drives (we seem to do that enough with false starts regardless) and not taking time off the clock.
Give the other team the TOP and the field position and every other advantage you could think of, even our D cannot be expected to overcome it. That would be an unfair burden.
I really hope we never see an O this bad again. But when that's how bad it is what we've done is the best thing we could do in order to
not waste the ability of the defense.
I would say we all saw how close we came to winning against some really good teams using the combo we did of our deadly defense and the constricted offense. TT and ISU are a whole nother story, that was not a shut down offense we saw and the result was boneheaded mistakes like Paul's lateral (Seriously, WTH, man?!) and Paul's untouched fumble inside the 5 (seriously, even more WTH) along with every other WTH moment in that ISU game.
It's a good thing the timing of our O sucking like this coincided with our D becoming godly. Because if this were last year's D paired with our O, we have probably not even been sniffing a bowl game since the end of October. Conversely, if this were last year's O, we are probably rocking it to Pasadena, or something like that.
What will next year bring? I guess right now, we can only hope...nobody expected this year's O to lay an egg, but it did. All we've learned is that we never really do know anything until the games are played.
Here's to beating the sh#t out of another Stoops brother's team in the Holiday bowl.
Yup. Time to send off Suh & the seniors on a good note. I hope the staff and team are more amped up for this game than us fans are...too bad USC didn't win.