Re: Some you TNetters amaze me with just how quickly you throw

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Re: The offense...

Sep 12, 2015, 2:48 PM

I can respect that opinion. I give the offense a little more credit than you, but I understand your reasoning. I think the accuracy and ability to read defenses of Deshaun will definitely make every unit on the offense look better because of his play. I would be surprised if you disagreed that our WR are definitely another major strength of our offense.

As far as our RB's go, we are fortunate to have a level of depth that is quite rare. On the flipside, even though Gallman has shown improvement, we clearly don't have a CJ Spiller or Andre Ellington type RB at the moment. I think Feaster will solve that next year.

The TE group is incredibly talented, but for whatever reason they haven't been able to put it all together the last couple years following the Michael Palmer, Dwayne Allen, Brandon Ford era. With the three freshman TE's, I fully expect to see the position group to improve throughout the year as they push Leggett and Seckinger for playing time.

It seems so redundant to say this, but we all knew that the OL would be the big question mark heading into the season. With four new primary starters and very few starts among the combined starting five, experience is going to be very important to the development of our offense. The offensive line is the one position group that requires the most communication, trust, and familiarity with your comrades. Talent is great, but there is no substitute for experience.

I actually think the OL did well last week considering their experience level. Because it was only Wofford it's easy to discount the success that they did have last week, but I think it's very important to note that although they may not have completely dominated in terms of physicality on every play, there were few blown assignments. That's a very good sign for a young group playing their first game together.

IMO, it's been blown assignments that have been a bigger problem in the recent past for our OL with the exception of short yardage running situations. The guys appear to understand the protection, and as their technique improves, their physicality should also improve. It's not a matter of our guys lacking the strength (can't be sure about Mitch Hyatt given his youth) as much as a breakdown of technique from time to time.

Watson's ability to get rid of the ball quickly will help to mask the shortcomings of the OL when they are beat physically in pass protection. It's the blown assignments that even the best QB's can rarely disguise.

It's for that very reason that I think that this year's offense will still be a strength to an extent. I don't see any way that they will match the level of Venables' unbelievably outstanding defense, but they should be able to put up enough points to compete with anyone (unlike last year after Watson went down).

The one area that concerns me most of all is definitely special teams. I think most of us diehards would probably agree with me there. We were definitely spoiled for years by Pinion and Zimmerman before him in the punt game, by Catanzaro in the kicking game, and by Pinion and Benton on kickoffs.

The greatness that was CJ Spiller and the speed of Jacoby Ford have left us so spoiled when it comes to the return game that I'm not sure how anyone will ever measure up to the glory days of 2009 when it almost seemed like an abnormality if there wasn't a return TD or great field position from teams kicking the ball out of bounds away from CJ.

Anyways, half time is over so my diatribe will come to an end.

Hopefully our offense will improve as much as we both hope and our defense will continue to give their best effort to put up numbers better than 2011 Alabama.

GO TIGERS!

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Some you TNetters amaze me with just how quickly you throw