Thoughts on the new look offense

I like the misdirection plays (something we desperately needed the entire time Fournette was here, Jesus) and we had a couple of successful down the field play action pass plays.

Overall I think the offensive line is still lacking and is decent, but probably not much better than that.

Etling has a pretty low ceiling although he looks somewhat improved from last season.

The red zone offense is pretty terrible and was not very creative. That's bothersome. A couple of plays that were creative were so poorly executed, they were dead in the water almost as soon as the ball was snapped.

Overall, the passing game MUST play a bigger part in this offense and we need to be more balanced. That's up to Canada. We'll have to see if that shifts in the coming games before the heart of SEC play. Let's pray it does.

Let's be honest, this team has a great chance to head into the Bama game undefeated. So everything we work towards regarding this offense especially is for that game. Right now, this offense probably scores less than 10 points.

I will say in Matt Canada's defense, we probably don't have the skill position players to be the truly dynamic offense he would like to see.

It's early, but that's my observation.

 

We were talking about the play calling in the game thread, and the consensus is, Canada barely opened the playbook tonight. The penalties and the red zone miscues were the big issues tonight, and those are fixable problems.

 

1st play of the game, we put 8 guys in motion. Center, QB and TB stood still and every other player switched sides. I thought, well, Cam's gone.