Good lord you guys are good at missing the point.
To recycle the anti-Brion argument, there is absolutely nothing from Beck that has shown he deserves either patience or confidence, both of which he is being given now in boatloads. The one game all year he had a heavy hand in, was a disaster. Not that I blame it on him, but that's what it was. So if you want to use that one game, or any of the other games last year where the team was not healthy at critical positions, as an indication of how good the offense was last year, I don't know what to tell ya.
The offense got into a post-injury funk last season. Prior to that, it was rolling pretty good. No effing clue where all this dramatic "nothing is ever Shawn Watson's fault" is coming from. All of this that I said, is in response to guys claiming that our offense was the worst offense in the world last year and we just can't possibly get any lower. And other stuff like 'HE f'ing BLOWS! its fact'
Ah. That comes from the fact that, to my knowledge, after reading literally hundreds of posts you've written about the offensive woes over the past couple of years, I do not recall you ever singling Watson out for blame. It was Bo's decision, Martinez' failure, Cotton's line sucked, the defense gave up the lead, etc, etc, etc. If you really want me to, I'll go back and link to post after post after post where you've said this.
That's where this is coming from. It's not that we're good at missing the point. It's that you've been very consistent in your rhetoric, and I'm just adding the latest guy to the list.
And I think it can be said that you and others who share your views are also missing the point. Yes, you can look at numbers and show that last year's offense was not actually the worst ever. (Damn close, though, and saying, "It can't get
much worse than last year" just doesn't have the same ring to it.) But the point is that for more than a few games---some of which occurred before the ankle injury heard 'round the world---our offense could not have gotten much worse. And yes, I am talking about SDSU and Texas. Sure, we piled up gaudy numbers against defensive patsies like WKU, Idaho, Washington, K State, and Okie State, but we also failed to score a TD against Texas and managed just two TDs against I-AA SDSU. I can hear you already: "The game plan at Texas was sound it just wasn't executed properly because our guys dropped a bunch of passes." Well, it's true we dropped a few key passes, but a few unfortunate drops does not excuse an offense from failing to get into the endzone
at all. If dropped passes were the problem, why didn't we just throw more? Even if we were dropping every other ball we threw, why not throw twice as many and you'll end up the same? Instead, Watson was content to let Martinez and Helu get stuffed (or fumble) on runs that were doomed from the start.
And don't even get me started about the offensive disaster that was Texas A&M, the second half of Oklahoma, and Washington (Pt. II). Everyone assumes that we did poorly because Martinez was not 100%, but I think it's just as likely that you all are assuming Martinez wasn't 100% simply because we did poorly. I'm sure the ankle didn't help, but that just goes back to Watson's inability to take lemons and make lemonade. In case he hadn't noticed, football is a contact sport and injuries are likely to occur to key personnel. Any coordinator can just fold up the tent and go home once a key player goes down; the good ones find a way to work around it. (Take, for example, our defense.) And forgive me if I think Nebraska deserves a good offensive coordinator.
I could go on, but the point I'm making is that, at times (and particularly against decent defenses), our offense could literally not get much worse. Is there some risk for next in trashing the whole offense and starting from scratch? Sure. But if you believe as I do that it will result in a better system in the long run, then I am more than willing to give up Watson's inconsistent Frankenstein offense that was happy to take centerstage against mediocre defenses, but frequently failed to show up against decent ones.
And that right there is the forest
and the trees.
