I don't have too many concerns here. Yes our guys are young and will naturally make mistakes due to inexperience. But we're going from 1 offensive line coach to 3 (stai, garrison, cotton). And we're moving from a man offensive line set to a gap set... courtesy of Yoshi hardrick's info in his interview yesterday. Hardrick came out and said straight forward, last year we couldnt be agressive because we had to stay in our spot, watch our man, and think way too much. This year they're playing a gap so they just watch the gap and come much harder off the ball. Qvale and Hardrick have come forward saying this year is going to be much much easier mentally.
Plus even though we are young, we have more depth this year than we have before. And with this new offense where the guys can just play skill without the brains you're going to see a lot more of the talent and a lot less of the confusion and error. They've got 3 guys on them now every day in practice, they're breaking into groups and getting double the practice, Yoshi says it's more fun, harder hitting, easier to pick up. We're gonna see Sirles, Qvale, Coffey, Hardrick, Caputo, Cotton, Jones, Moore, Pensick, Rodriguez, Thompson and Moudy all take the field this year. Not to mention 4 top 100 freshmen coming in and a pretty heck of a group giving us a good look for this next incoming class.
I think a lot of the problems with our offense last year was that we never took the brace off and just ran. We had a lot of talent caught up in the mental aspect of the game. How many times did you hear Watson say this kid is talented but he's got to grasp the mental aspect before he can play... this year it's simple, and the talent is what's gonna see the field, not the brainiacs or the seniors who know the system best.
We know fullbacks are going to be utilized way more, we know there is going to be a lot of no huddle, we know signals are going in as hand signals from the sideline instead of receivers running to get the signal and then coming to the huddle. We know that receivers are running multi-purpose routes, we know kyler reed is going to be lining up as a TE,WR, and RB. We know there are going to be some option plays where guards pull. Defensively we know they've been practicing a lot of 4-3 and are actively going after TONS of LB's in the 2012 class.
We now know Dagan Reed who had an offer from Nebraska but no one else cause of grades is going to be walking on, Braylon Heard is most likely going to make his grades and get to campus, Mike Marrow is coming in as a fullback/linebacker and was regarded as one of the top 10 fullbacks in the nation in 2008. I mean, this team is loading up. The problems with the offense last year weren't problems with talent, they were problems with coaching and that has been taken care of.
