flakes {l Wrote}:I think the offense is going to come crashing down to earth once they play team with decent athletes on D. Our two yard out passes to a TE with a neck roll aren't going to cut it against VT and Clemson.
As has been said, this is based on absolutely nothing. Our offense looked good against teams with "decent athletes on D" at the end of last year, and the offense has only gotten better and more experienced since last year.
And while we haven't even seen what the full scheme is. Daz admitted after Holy Cross that he cares more about what the 1st team offense is doing against the 1st team defense in practice more than he cares about how it did in the first two games. We can make some assumptions about what the offense will look like:
1) A whole lot of AJ Dillon, presumably behind some stacked offensive lines with a very talented and experienced OL and some big TE's. That's dangerous.
2) Lot's of play action to both the TE's and Dillon out of the back field. Also, Daz mentioned that we'll see sets with upwards of 3 TE's. That's an 8 man line who can all block really well for Dillon, but also with 3 TE's capable of peeling off blocks and running down field, causing match-up nightmares for defenses, including Clemson who looked weak in the secondary this weekend. That's dangerous.
3) Deep balls. We've spent a lot of time in the first two weeks taking shots to the WR's down field and we know at least Kobay White matches up against better talent. That's dangerous, especially if team's try to leave a lot of 1-on-1 outside to collapse on the 8 man fronts.
4) Brown looks comfortable. Yet to be seen whether he still has the scrambling ability as last year, but he's shown poise and good decision making. And the backups have looked competent. That's reassuring.
It doesn't matter if we actually played high school teams, this is still the most balanced and talented offense we've seen since 2007. And they're also rested. And I hope Daz continues resting them. I hope Wake and Purdue are as bad as they've looked in the first two weeks and that we don't need any of the offensive stars to play a full 4Q until Week 6, because while we're talented, we're not deep at every position, so being well rested against garbage teams also makes us dangerous.