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Picking up on this thread a bit, I would be curious as to why Hogan is not performing as he was last year and the year before.  My suspicion is that the inability for us to truly establish the running game as we have the last several years, coupled with the inability of the offensive line to give him enough time to develop the long play action pass that were the signature of his play last year (especially). 

I'm not sure what the fix is, but I'm pretty sure that the answer will not be "change quarterbacks", at least not this year.  We have seen Crower, and while he has done about as well as can be expected for a backup, I doubt he would be better than Hogan at this point.  Burns has shown that he is taking longer to pick up playing in a modern passing offense than we had all hoped, and Chryst is a freshman, and WIM has outlined quite convincingly why playing him would be a mistake both for now and for Chryst's future development.

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Picking up on this thread a bit, I would be curious as to why Hogan is not performing as he was last year and the year before.  My suspicion is that the inability for us to truly establish the running game as we have the last several years, coupled with the inability of the offensive line to give him enough time to develop the long play action pass that were the signature of his play last year (especially). 

I'm not sure what the fix is, but I'm pretty sure that the answer will not be "change quarterbacks", at least not this year.  We have seen Crower, and while he has done about as well as can be expected for a backup, I doubt he would be better than Hogan at this point.  Burns has shown that he is taking longer to pick up playing in a modern passing offense than we had all hoped, and Chryst is a freshman, and WIM has outlined quite convincingly why playing him would be a mistake both for now and for Chryst's future development.

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