Harrell is unimaginative & incapable of finding solutions.
Or making adjustments.
Slovis is accurate tough and makes every throw. But he holds on to ball way too
long. And locks onto his WRers.
Talent is down. Far from great but not worse than most teams we play since we don’t play in Big 12 or SEC.
although Utah did clearly “outman” us last night.
As a group, DL is worse than our OL. Hasn’t been the case last few years But it is this year.
Cant win without them. need to win 1 or 2 of those group battles each game. We lost both last night. against OSU & against Stanford As well.
Slovis is in a tough spot. Simple scheme to defend. He holds ball too LoNg.
And what happened to the deep ball? That was his thing....now it’s all underneath & into coverage. He is playing lateral more than I’ve ever seen This Season & it’s not working.
Dart showed what needs to be done in WSU game. We need to play vertical.
Doesn’t seem like Slovis has it in him Anymore? Strange.
Talent is down. Especially at LOS. That will always lose you games. I think the kids are competing. At least so far. They may quit soon. But Coaching is most to blame this year.
My grades.
Offensive Coordinator - F
Defensive Coordinator- C
Talent - C/D
OL- C
DL- D
LB- D
WR- B
Slovis - C
RBs - B-
Harrell is the main issue by a landslide, Slovis' problems are largely due to Harrell. A good OC wold taylor the offense to his QB's skills, but Harrell doesn't have the ability to do that. WR route trees are not good, spacing sucks and everything as you say is lateral.
Slovis has issues for sure, but a good OC would find ways to minimize those.
Talent wise, it's still better than the teams we have lost to. But it is undisciplined - LB's are out of position and our edge play is really, really bad. The raw talent is there but it is not coached or developed. My $.02