Instead of whining, let's have a thread trying to deconstruct why our offense has fallen off for the past three games. I have a few ideas and it is probably a combination of it all. Feel free to share yours!
1) I suspect Chandler's throwing shoulder isn't 100% from the Tulane game sack. He was hitting out routes to the sidelines in his sleep at the beginning of the season and I don't think I've seen him complete once since the Tulane game. Obviously we don't really have proven QB talent behind him so he's trying to contribute still and play through it. I think E. Morris said it was a stinger in a presser and if it is, that is something that can come and go.
2) With the exception of Porter breaking a couple of big ones, the running game is almost no existent and makes us one dimensional. I don't think the backs are the ones to blame. The oline cannot consistently carve out lanes for our backs between the tackles. There were a few edge play runs last night that netted us 3-4 yards a play and I think that might be a direction we should go if the oline cannot create run lanes consistently. And the edge run game leads into...
3) the screen game. Teams know we love to run screen plays, it's very obvious from our film. E. Morris needs to change things up in this regard. Too predictable. The other problem with the screen game is it isolates the play to one side of the field, so if the screen is a bust (as was the case a couple of times last night), the safety valve is on the same side of the field where all the defenders are now concentrated. A lot of our passing and rollout plays tend to isolate one side of the field or the other and it makes passing lanes very tight or non-existent.
4) This late in the season, offensive playcalling hasn't changed much and it is predictable. Defenses are just better prepared for E. Morris' tendencies as a playcaller.