[washingtonismoney]

WIM, I think your original prediction is quite apt.  For months we have been saying that the season will largely depend upon how quickly our rebuilt O-line can come together.  Well, the answer is...it is going to take some more time.  I am sure they will improve.  Will it be before the road games at Washington and the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends?

well, look, even with the o-line worries the offense was by and large very effective (aside from, obviously, the redzone). If you assume college-average performance in the redzone the team destroys SC going away. Even if you think there's some sort of endemic Stanford problem in the redzone you have to admit today's debacle is unusual. So this strikes me as a classic outlier from which there will probably be progression to the mean.

So there are two opportunities for big upside:
a) redzone improvement
b) O-line gelling

If either or both improve we're in excellent shape offensively. And the defense played SC a lot better this year than it did a (less-talented?) UW last year.

[washingtonismoney]

WIM, I think your original prediction is quite apt.  For months we have been saying that the season will largely depend upon how quickly our rebuilt O-line can come together.  Well, the answer is...it is going to take some more time.  I am sure they will improve.  Will it be before the road games at Washington and the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends?

well, look, even with the o-line worries the offense was by and large very effective (aside from, obviously, the redzone). If you assume college-average performance in the redzone the team destroys SC going away. Even if you think there's some sort of endemic Stanford problem in the redzone you have to admit today's debacle is unusual. So this strikes me as a classic outlier from which there will probably be progression to the mean.

So there are two opportunities for big upside:
a) redzone improvement
b) O-line gelling

If either or both improve we're in excellent shape offensively. And the defense played SC a lot better this year than it did a (less-talented?) UW last year.