I think our offense just had a really bad day. Per the KNS Sunday morning, Hurd was nicked up, which might explain why we didn't run more.
I know they can do better, they showed that against uga. They just need to play like they did a week ago and not how they played yesterday.
A coupe of things.
Re: Hurd. We are woefully thin on offense, and having difficulty developing depth. RB is a case in point. We essentially have Hurd and Lane with a dash of Young. Scott hasn't seen the field on offense yet. QB, we are hurting. OL, ditto. WR we have some depth but arguably our two best receivers have been injured the last 2-3 games.
On defense we seemed to have improved overall speed and talent and are developing depth (see TK Jr as but one example). We are thin on the line but I would argue that we have improved the level of play significantly.
I'm sure you noticed we really stepped up our aggressiveness on defense Saturday and were really disguising our defense till the last possible second, really some late shifts, often to the point of attack. As an example, on one play we initially showed two deep, shifted to single and then right before the snap went to zero. We had our three corners on their receivers with no safety help over the top.
I had my doubts about Jancek last year (see my comments after the Oregon game) but the defense is playing at a high level. We just need more DL (coming with this class) and more overall depth.
