[Austroturf]

I am not sure that Bryce's health is that important to us winning. I could actually argue that this year we are better off without Bryce as the presence of Bryce causes our play calling to run him into a stacked box with little success. Without Bryce, our coach calls more plays that are more likely to result in more yardage than Bryce is getting with our current OL.

Yes, this reminds me of 2014, when our entire offense was about getting Ty Montgomery the ball.  Ty got injured before our final regular season game against top-ten UCLA, and everyone was predicting a disaster.  The opposite happened.  Hogan was forced to use multiple weapons that nobody had game-planned for; and we ambushed the Bruins in the Rose Bowl, knocking them out of the South Division race.  

That said, Shaw has already shown that, when Love is unavailable, he just rams the next back up into the same D-line buzz-saw.  Not sure Love's absence will dramatically alter our offensive schemes.

[Austroturf]

I am not sure that Bryce's health is that important to us winning. I could actually argue that this year we are better off without Bryce as the presence of Bryce causes our play calling to run him into a stacked box with little success. Without Bryce, our coach calls more plays that are more likely to result in more yardage than Bryce is getting with our current OL.

Yes, this reminds me of 2014, when our entire offense was about getting Ty Montgomery the ball.  Ty got injured before our final regular season game against top-ten UCLA, and everyone was predicting a disaster.  The opposite happened.  Hogan was forced to use multiple weapons that nobody had game-planned for; and we ambushed the Bruins in the Rose Bowl, knocking them out of the South Division race.  

That said, Shaw has already shown that, when Love is unavailable, he just rams the next back up into the same D-line buzz-saw.  Not sure Love's absence will dramatically alter our offensive schemes.