Take a redshirt freshman QB, give him a terrible offensive line, and then throw in a group of receivers who are slow, cannot get any separation at all and can't catch the ball.
Recipe for failure
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Totally agree.
All indicative of poor recruiting, development, and scheming....aka it's on Fitz and the coaches. And yet all we hear about is execution.....maddening.
Then add a team distracted by the '95 Rose Bowl team coming to town. I hope Fitz had a fun time this weekend.
An execution would be a great idea. How many ropes do we have?
Let me also add that while Thorson might be struggling a bit (who isn't?) I really don't see him as the main problem. If you were at the game and were able to look down field during the development of pass plays you would see that virtually nobody was EVER open. Amazing how you can have 5 guys in a pattern and not one of them gets more than a foot of separation!
This! It was totally maddening. Most of the time Thorson had enough time, he just didn't have anyone to throw to. I can't believe all our WRs are that bad, it has to be the plays or coaching or something.
Never open. I watched them closely today, and they are plain bad. Sorry to be so blunt, but Andrew Luck would have had to eat the ball on most plays today. Thorson had a very poor game, but with putrid play calling, zero play making deep this will continue to happen.
You forgot having a non-accountable coach for life who is arrogant and thinks he knows everything and won't change a thing.
Our receivers are a joke. And our WR coach is the WORST in all of college football. How he keeps a job is beyond me.
+1. First game I've seen in person this year so it is easier to see what was going on downfield. Much of the time the routes were either designed poorly or run poorly; either way it is not an individual problem so it comes down to coaching.
On one third and long there were 4 receivers and none went past the sticks. Other times when Thorson was scrambling it seemed the WR didn't know how to improvise to get open.
That's been the recipe for a few years now, even during the successful 2012 season. That year, we disguised it a bit because we had V. Mark, but we still struggled at times. Nebraska, in particular, waa good at shutting us down with this approach.
The only way for us to succeed on offense, I think, is with a true duel threat QB, ala Persa.