This thread makes me sad. I wish we could all stop bickering about QB and just agree that the real reason we're gonna struggle to get 6 Ws is that our D, and to a lightly lesser extent our O-Line and RB, suck balls and taint.
I also think we're going to need to play Sams more because we simply must have a better running game to chew up yards and clock, especially when our D is just so unbelievably soft. Like a warm, soft turd. But damn, I just really wanted to watch TLABL rack up 200 yards a game snagging pass after beautiful laser-like precision pass. If the passer can't run for crap, it just won't matter.
The defense is giving up about the same yards per play as they were last year, give or take a few inches. The only difference is that this year, we're -2 on turnovers after two games as opposed to +4.
Missouri State was a really bad offense last year, and we gave up 414 yards. It's just that, during that game, we only gave up 9 points, so folks didn't panic as much.
LaLa was a top ten team last year in terms of yards per play on offense, and they have a pretty strong dual threat QB. We held them to under 400 yards, and the first half was pretty dominant, defensively.
The defense is getting scapegoated pretty hard right now, and they aren't nearly as bad as everyone thinks they are, at least statistically. We just don't have an Arthur Brown running around out there making us look really good.
Also, Waters is turning the ball over too much, and that's putting us in bad spots.