Will Friend needs to be FIRED (& other offensive observations)

Who in their fizzleing mind would take a true FR who had practiced primarily at LT and place him at LG, and expect him to play well)?!?
Who in their fizzleing mind would continue to play OL roulette with the game in the balance?!? The largest lead we had was 7 and played the vast majority of the 2nd half behind!
Watching live (on TV) I thought Jahmir played the best of the OL. Smith, after he got his feet under him played OK. The two FR 5* showed flashes and deserve more development, that IMO, Will Friend can't provide. Bottom line is Chaney has worked with the tackles while Friend worked with the interior (when the press was present) and the results showed their relative abilities to teach.

JG was making protection calls (much more than last year) but at least once the OL didn't respond (IMO) correctly

JG had a bad game. He made several poor decisions. How much of that was the result of poor line play or RBs failing to pick up blitzes (FAILED far more than they were successful) I don't know
A lot has been made of his decision to slide early on a play but a) he doesn't have a nice yellow line to play to, b) we don't have 300 pound people trying to take our head off and c) he has been taught to slide (wouldn't be talking about it if he had just pushed North instead of (slow) dancing to the West on the next play)

WR: After JJ, next slide
JJ played his most complete and consistent game. Clearly he is as healthy as he has been in two years
Callaway played OK, but far more is expected of a SR WR with his skills
DW-A showed flashes but is still way too inconsistent, disappears all too often

Gray can (will) be very good. He has skills you can't teach but he needs to learn how to play RB at the college level.
Chandler was disappointing. Showed flashes but inconsistent and wasn't used much in the 2nd half, why?

Some mind numbing play calling
What the fizzle was going on in the 2 minute waltz at the end of the half?
We played a LOT of empty backfield yesterday. One time we were in a tight left bunch formation and optioned the RB outside the bunch - interesting formation, didn't do a damn thing with it.
We also played a lot of what used to be called the West cost offense. Which I think is Chaney's acknowledgement that his OL sucked going into the game.
Very little miss direction type plays including one neat little fly sweep inside handoff (moderately successful)

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