Doing their best to get Tanner Lee killed so far today, against Northern Illinois no less. If it is difficult to recruit and develop OL in the land of beef, perhaps it might just be a difficult position to solve at the college level? "Our Ol blows", seems to be the second most popular complaint on fan message boards, right behind "fire the coach". Perhaps, just perhaps, it is more complicated than our message board coaches would lead us to believe?
As an aside, the OL play of #22 USF was also far from stellar last night, but they still managed to put nearly 700 yards on Illinois (agreed, bad example, but they do have at least one stud on the DL that I noticed) due to a variety of factors:
1) On most passes, the ball left the QBs hands before any rush could get to the QB
2) Extremely mobile QB who was a strong rush threat
3) Strong presnap reads-- a ton of times, the QB threw right in the direction of where he knew the rush was coming -- by design.
Now, the USF QB is a truly special dual threat QB, but ours has legs as well--hope to perhaps see them tonight!
As an aside, the OL play of #22 USF was also far from stellar last night, but they still managed to put nearly 700 yards on Illinois (agreed, bad example, but they do have at least one stud on the DL that I noticed) due to a variety of factors:
1) On most passes, the ball left the QBs hands before any rush could get to the QB
2) Extremely mobile QB who was a strong rush threat
3) Strong presnap reads-- a ton of times, the QB threw right in the direction of where he knew the rush was coming -- by design.
Now, the USF QB is a truly special dual threat QB, but ours has legs as well--hope to perhaps see them tonight!
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