Saturday, October 24, 2009

U-G-L-Y

WOW. I didn't think our offense could look any worse the week after a putrid shut-out that included a goal stuff of Whaley. Yet what transpired today was even more horrific, the one garbage time TD notwithstanding.

Adam Weber has completely and utterly regressed to a one WR QB, who wasn't helped by horrid drops (Eric Lair when the ball hits you IN THE FACE CATCH IT!), yet more consistent pressure, and his own horrible decisions. It is amazing tOSU wasn't up 21 points at more at half. That points to how well our D played once again. It is beyond sickening just how bad the offense under Weber has been. Check out these stats, up to date as of the end of today's game. Keep in mind there are 120 teams in D1 football. And 11 teams in the Big Ten.

Yards/game -- 293.7 -- 110th in the nation (11th in the conference)
Points/game -- 23.1 -- 83rd in the nation (10th in the conference)
Sacked/game -- 2.3 -- 76th in the nations (9th in the conference)
Rush Att/game -- 29.9 -- 105th in the nation (11th in the conference)
Rush Yds/att -- 3.5 -- 85th in the nation (9th in the conference)

It is truly pathetic the offense has been this bad. We need to establish some identity on offense, and much like Gopher Bandana Guy, I welcome a switch to MarQueis. He is not the savior, but he brings a spark to the O, and will get valuable experience for the future. Plus, he can't be ANY worse than Weber at under-utilizing the talent (or at least highly recruited players) that populate our skill positions.

And please Jedd Fisch, for the love of all that is holy, RUN THE GODD*MN BALL consistently! Stay with it! Failing that, go to quick hitting passes, just get positive yards every play, setting up makeable 3rd downs!

By the way, if you want to check out a great site for stats (where I got the data above) check out this site

Well, I'm off to quaff some Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA Ale to dull the pain of watching our offense.

1 comment:

Gopher Bandanna Guy said...

Make sure to have an ale or 6 for me, bud. That's about all that will let my brain forget this loss.