Yup, that was the basis of my argument earlier. We know there are a few glaring weaknesses at OL. But our lack of playmakers IMO far outweighs the OL issues.
Ok, I will give you that. But its even more of an indictment of how bad the QB play was. Thad holds the ball like he is in a sand lot game and has zero touch. he can throw a deep ball as we saw when he connected a few times late in the year.
I meant the entire offense. The read option is designed to freeze the LBers and ends to give EJ a few more seconds to read the defense. Which I thought he did a decent job a few times, his problem is he hasn't caught up to the speed of the game from transitioning to college and that's why you see late picks across the middle. The read option maximizes our offenses strength on every play which is the threat that the our RBs may touch it every play. EJ has to build confidence and trust his decision and throws, something Hackett was hammering into him daily. Next year will be telling, as for the rest of the league Kaep and Wilson are way ahead of the curve already, that could tbe the reason they don't feel the need to run the read option.