Someone who is more knowledgeable about recruiting and personnel will have to help me out on this, but this is my problem with the whole "young team" excuse. Most teams can point to something, an aspect of their game that, if they don't really excel at it, are at least good at and can hang their hats on. Florida is a bad team, but they can point to guys like Hargreaves (a sophomore) and their defensive play as a whole as something they do well. I don't know that I've seen a team like this in the Les Miles era who, top to bottom, does nothing well. Not line play, not backs, not QB play, not the secondary, not linebackers, nothing. Especially on the defensive side of the ball. Has the NFL really left the cupboards that bare, or is it something deeper?
I think it's deeper. Going into the season the one area we had no doubts about was the O-line. Now it appears to be one of our many weaknesses. Grimes is probably a problem but we all know the influence CLM has on every aspect of the offense. He was, after all, an O-line in a previous life.
Lets not get carried away. Studrawa was fired because his line underperformed season after season. Grimes has not done any better so far, but Stud had to go.
THe OL with Turner last year was poor. It is not Stud, just like it was not Crowton or Stud as OC. It is Miles.
Go to SEARCH and enter Studrawa or O-line and read the 2013 entries. There was a lot of unhappiness with the O-line and its coach.
