This team is not built to be that explosive. There is no bigtime WR, QB, RB like the explsive teams have. We share the load on this team. No one person can change a game. Thats why we sell the players on being blue-collar workers, All-In, family, etc. Without these things, we don't win many games. Yes, you can get 1 or 2 big plays a game. But, if you're not stopping people in this league, you're not winning games. The best way to stop teams in this league is to keep their offense off of the field. Having an efficient offense does that. Thats why we were in every game JB started. I look at a team like Alabama. Now, we are not Alabama, but they had almost the same passing yards we had (2797), with 16 TD's and 8 INT's. We would expect the BCS champs to put up better passing numbers than ISU (2760). The difference is they led the country in rushing (2788, 34 TD's) and TOP. This helped their defense to play lights out due to rest (now they are very talented on defense but we have the best LB duo in the country) and keep the offensive teams off the field because of their ball control type offense.
If SJ can be more efficient and manage the game better, great (it could happen but I don't see it because he's not that type of player). But, I wouldnt want JB to change his game to try to get flashy because it's not who he is. He's a team guy. Plus, he'll start forcing balls like he did the spring game and then everyone will want to know why didn't he take 5 yard checkdown. SR is not either guy. He doesnt have the velocity of SJ or the running ability of JB. He is a underneath passing guy without the zone read ability. You may get accuracy but you lose a huge part of the offense.
The guys need to be who they are and CPR will have to make a huge decision on which direction he is willing to go with the offense. Efficiency or Flash. Because he won't get both in either guy.
