corncraze
All-Conference
So Im gona piss some fans off here but
Im sick of the constant attacks on Watson,
First of all do we remember how it was our offense last year that carried us?
second do we remember how Saban (yes the coach who managed to take the Crimson tide back to the promise land in just 3 years) went directly after Watson for his offensive coordinator and offered double his salary.
third, Tom Osborne recommended to Pelini to keep only Watson and Gilmore from the Callahan coaching staff
fourth, Osborne and Pelini have both been nothing but supportive and encouraging of Watson
and fifth he can recruit (and if we do get rid of him there goes Gabbert, and maybe our hopes for Andrew Green next year)
Our two biggest problems this year were depth at the offensive line and experience and depth at the Quarterback position.
Lee would probably not have been the starter if Witt never transfered, and Green would have recieved a red shirt. Were forgetting how hard it is to start as a freshman, especially for an offense whose play book is about a half a foot thick.
People have forgotten how much depth we have lost at the QB position this year, Witt transfered, Spano was sidelined to ACL problems and that left us with a QB who only had 2 pass attempts all of last season, a QB fresh outa highschool, and LB converted to QB because we were so lacking in depth and he played the position in highschool.
Throw on top of that a battered offensive line (Burkes was a huge loss) of Callahan's last and lowly rated recruits, who give our QBs little protection, and you have a major problem.
People seem to be forgetting how our offensive line has been the root of most of our offensive failure. Helu has been battered from the process (and also probably because we over rode him), Lee (who can't make decent decisions to begin with) has no time, and our backs have no holes. We are such a one dimensional offense it ridiculous!
But Cotton is already bringing in the big boys, we have Arod coming this next year and Moore the year after that
So don't do for Watson's throat just yet, give him another year or 2 before we do anything, this year was a hard deck to play with.
If we continually suck on offense the next few years, the Il change my mind
Im sick of the constant attacks on Watson,
First of all do we remember how it was our offense last year that carried us?
second do we remember how Saban (yes the coach who managed to take the Crimson tide back to the promise land in just 3 years) went directly after Watson for his offensive coordinator and offered double his salary.
third, Tom Osborne recommended to Pelini to keep only Watson and Gilmore from the Callahan coaching staff
fourth, Osborne and Pelini have both been nothing but supportive and encouraging of Watson
and fifth he can recruit (and if we do get rid of him there goes Gabbert, and maybe our hopes for Andrew Green next year)
Our two biggest problems this year were depth at the offensive line and experience and depth at the Quarterback position.
Lee would probably not have been the starter if Witt never transfered, and Green would have recieved a red shirt. Were forgetting how hard it is to start as a freshman, especially for an offense whose play book is about a half a foot thick.
People have forgotten how much depth we have lost at the QB position this year, Witt transfered, Spano was sidelined to ACL problems and that left us with a QB who only had 2 pass attempts all of last season, a QB fresh outa highschool, and LB converted to QB because we were so lacking in depth and he played the position in highschool.
Throw on top of that a battered offensive line (Burkes was a huge loss) of Callahan's last and lowly rated recruits, who give our QBs little protection, and you have a major problem.
People seem to be forgetting how our offensive line has been the root of most of our offensive failure. Helu has been battered from the process (and also probably because we over rode him), Lee (who can't make decent decisions to begin with) has no time, and our backs have no holes. We are such a one dimensional offense it ridiculous!
But Cotton is already bringing in the big boys, we have Arod coming this next year and Moore the year after that
So don't do for Watson's throat just yet, give him another year or 2 before we do anything, this year was a hard deck to play with.
If we continually suck on offense the next few years, the Il change my mind
