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Another possibility is to rest this on Carberry, who is the new offensive line coach and running game coordinator.  Those are obvious weaknesses of our offense at this point, and it is not as if Carberry has had less talent to work with than Bloomgren did.

This is kind of interesting to me because we had a lot of OL issues early last year as well. Part of the reason we were optimistic about the offense this year was that things were basically settled, we returned 4/5 guys and had excellent candidates to fill in the remaining spot.

...And then everyone got hurt. So we're basically in the same situation as last year, except we haven't even had the most talented players available. I can see that causing a lot of issues, especially combined with your later point of defenses keying hard on Love.

[stupac2]

Another possibility is to rest this on Carberry, who is the new offensive line coach and running game coordinator.  Those are obvious weaknesses of our offense at this point, and it is not as if Carberry has had less talent to work with than Bloomgren did.

This is kind of interesting to me because we had a lot of OL issues early last year as well. Part of the reason we were optimistic about the offense this year was that things were basically settled, we returned 4/5 guys and had excellent candidates to fill in the remaining spot.

...And then everyone got hurt. So we're basically in the same situation as last year, except we haven't even had the most talented players available. I can see that causing a lot of issues, especially combined with your later point of defenses keying hard on Love.