Disagree
I’m watching this team play their arses off and WVU is just head and shoulders better than we are.
We are bad and we’ve been bad almost all year. We’ve played a couple good quarters the entire season.... The first half against OSU, the first half against Texas, the first quarter against WVU, and the 2nd half against SMU. That’s it.
I don’t see anyone out there quitting. They’re fighting for extra yards and appear to be playing hard in general.
We just suck at football. That’s our problem
I see four major problems on offense.
First: our O-line is missing blocks and getting beat to often, that is obvious.
Second: our QB holds the ball to long, causing part of the problem with problem number one.
Third: we don't have a hot route to offset a blitz. Either we don't have one or the receivers aren't running it. Thus defenses keep blitzing us and are successful doing it.
Fourth: this effects the first two problems all the time. Our receivers don't run crisp routes and rarely get open. Thus problem number two, and then problem number one follows. Other than Reager, who is considerably better than all of our others, and Barber, I have not seen another receiver who can be depended on to catch a pass, let along get open. Example, in todays game one of our receivers ran a lazy route like he often does, then was hit by a defender. After being hit, he throws his hands up instead of trying to catch the pass that sailed right passed him. He was even called out by the announcers for acting, (Austin), run your route crisply and catch the ball.
This causes more problems than folks realize. We don't run slants, thus allowing the QB to get rid of the ball quickly. We don't have receivers that run crisp routes, other than Reagar and Barber, thus our QB is stuck with the ball way to long causing problem number one.
If this team is to win the next two, someone has to address the receivers and their route running along with the lack of routes that allows the QB to get rid of the ball quickly.
These are just my opinions, but I played ball and even coached for a while. There are solutions and obvious ones, but someone has to be strong enough to call them out and implement them. Kind of like leaving an ineffective QB as the starter for way to many games. Now make some changes and lets see some improvement.