No, not me--thankfully for the rest of you....but by hythloday1 who some of you may know as a fairly even-handed analyzer of p12 teams...and also a Duck.
Curious if you Trojans mostly agree with his observations and prognostications, or find him all quacked up....?
@LA Duck Fairly exhaustive article, thanks for sharing. Ms Areola (giggity giggity) seems to have done a good job of assessing the situation. She's very down on the o line and thinks it will be worse than last year even. Gulp. She thinks the scheme is hurting them not helping them and that the loss of vera tucker is big. She claims he was "by far the best o-line man" on last year's team and doesn't see anything to change her mind for next year.
This team will live or die by its o-line play. Simple as that. Could be anywhere from a ten win team all the way down to a 7 win team, imho. Even with the weak schedule. Team needs to develop the run game as a bit more than an afterthought and be able to pick up 4th and one and 3rd and two more often.
Here's the bruins breakdown from same author. For our bruin pals.
Let me save everyone 5 minutes of their time. David Woods undervaluing Kyle Phillips is a joke. The kid is an excellent slot WR who gets open and catches everything thrown to him, and he's a good punt returner as well. Everything comes down to our defense and more specifically the secondary. They cost UCLA the USC and Stanford games. How they go is how our team goes this season.
@thesquat Since you're the board retard, I'll explain it to you again. When you're an alum of the school, you can say "we" just like you can say "we" when referring to SUC.
@LA Duck Fairly exhaustive article, thanks for sharing. Ms Areola (giggity giggity) seems to have done a good job of assessing the situation. She's very down on the o line and thinks it will be worse than last year even. Gulp. She thinks the scheme is hurting them not helping them and that the loss of vera tucker is big. She claims he was "by far the best o-line man" on last year's team and doesn't see anything to change her mind for next year.
This team will live or die by its o-line play. Simple as that. Could be anywhere from a ten win team all the way down to a 7 win team, imho. Even with the weak schedule. Team needs to develop the run game as a bit more than an afterthought and be able to pick up 4th and one and 3rd and two more often.
Here's the bruins breakdown from same author. For our bruin pals.
Thank you MR Duck, I will breakdown Alicia DeAreola( hat tip 909) article and provide some feedback.