We missed Billy schrauth yesterday. Kid is a mauler
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Cumulative effect
Two factors here.
The first is where BC was bringing 8 or even 9 all day long.
The second is where Lady Luck has been pretty nasty towards us when it comes to freak injuries.
Losing one starter usually results in a degradation of your offensive line, and losing two makes this even more prevalent.
There are now three starters who are missing (Schrauth, Craig, Jagusah) on the offensive line. For most teams, this would have resulted in having porous pass protection, and weak run blocking (even without the opposition crowding the line).
The line was supposed to be one of our strongest assets at the beginning of the season.
I'm not bashing Absher, Otting, or Lambert, all of whom performed at least reasonably well (Otting is a big time stud). If anything, they've kept the line performance at a good, or even very good level.
It's simply that the line isn't quite at Joe Moore Award standards right now. It's still better than most top 25 teams' lines, though.
Yesterday's performance showed very good pass blocking all around, and CJ Carr did an excellent job of calling pass protection audibles. I don't think he got sacked even once.
We've actually been fortunate that Coach Rudolph is a top notch offensive line mentor, and that he developed a lot of quality players ready to step in.
A big YEP to that.
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Will any of these 3 injured guys be back for Pitt, that game is going to be difficult?
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Re: Will any of these 3 injured guys be back for Pitt, that game is going to be difficult?
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Craig out for the year
Ashton Craig is out. Joe Otting is the starter for the rest of the year, and this was the least impactful substitution.
Charles Jagusah has been out since fall camp. Guerby Lambert has done an adequate job filling in at RG.
Billy Schrauth was declared out for 3-4 weeks around late October. He's going to be out for Navy, and we're going to need some help from Lady Luck to get him back for Pitt.
Yes, he plays at an All American Level
But BC had 9 in the box. The game plan should have been (as it was) to take deep shots to take advantage of the safeties playing run support. I think the offense actually didn't do half bad. Price's fumble inside the 5 cost us a TD, we missed 2 (!) extra points and also on a 2-point conversion attempt, plus we missed a field goal, plus we passed up field goal attempts because our kickers were off. We easily could have had 40 points.