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USF doesn't have the weapons on offense?


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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/49691-sec-big-12-well-represented-in-college-football-preseason-top-25

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USF doesn’t have the questions at QB that UC has, but doesn’t have the weapons on offense or special teams either.  Their defense is really good, but I also think UC’s secondary is superior.  Ultimately that’s why they are a few spots below the Bearcats.

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We have plenty of weapons.... they just gotta stop shooting themselves in the foot

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OK, I must not know anything about college football, or football in general.

I thought that the QB handles the ball on 99.9% of the offensive plays.

So, we have no QB problems, but have no offensive weapons? Isn't our QB be an offensive weapon?

Now UC has QB problems but has offensive weapons. Are they planning on having the WO's throw to themselves, or the RB's take the direct snap on running plays?

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If we have a running back step up this season or a receiver break out, they won't be saying this next season.

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Let these "experts" think what they will, and come the end of the season, our play will have done the necessary talking.

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we are stacked at every offensive skill position.

we have MG at QB and an athletic backup in Gregory.

we are four or five deep at RB and have a couple of guys [Ford, Taylor] that could break out with monster seasons and a senior leader [bBQ] with soft hands and a knack for blocking, all of whom should combine in committee for 1500 yards on the ground.

we have a deep receiving corps that is led by two seniors [TJ + Edwards], a junior who is clutch in posession downs [Jesse], and a dynamic sophomore with NFL size [Mitchell], not to mention a senior at TE who came on strong in the second half of last season [Ced] and a stable of young guys with a year of experience that will contribute [Love, Bogan, Erskin]... Not to mention nearly all of them have track star speed.

our issue is definetely NOT offensive weapons.  we have dynamic guys at every skill position that are amongst the best 2 or 3 in the BEast in their position [i would rate Grothe #2 QB, Ford #2 or 3 RB, TJ #3 WR, Ced #1 TE].

our issue on offense is depth at OLine.  we have a good 5 or 6 player rotation that can handle business at the LOS, but a couple of injuries and we will be in trouble.

doesn't matter how many weapons a team has at the offensive skill positions, if u don't get it done in the trenches and control the LOS there's gonna be problems.

IMO, this article is wrong on more than one count, because if anything our bigger questions are on defense [namely corner], not offense.  we return 10 starters from an offense that scored 38 ppg last season.  that isn't an issue.

about the only thing the article got even partially right is our weakness on special teams, which is limited to inconsistency in placekicking and a coverage team that gives up big returns [but doesn't give up return TDs at least]...  but our punting is amongst the best in the conference, so even special teams isn't all that bad.

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Yeah I think we have plenty of weapons on offense the oline is the weakness if we get hit by the injury bug.

Not sure how we will do with the new cornerbacks, there will be a drop some but it shouldn't be huge.

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