Damarcus Smith is warming up on the sidelines

[Withers940]

[untjim1995]

I believe we are one decent (EFFICIENT) QB from being competitive in most of our games and making a run for a bowl. If that is a good team to you then yes I think we are. 

Not this year, we aren't. The QB is mediocre on his very best day. But the OL blocking for him is very inexperienced, the defensive front seven is still very undersized, and the special teams are not good. 2013 proved, just as 2002-2004 proved, that the only ways you win with the McDickney Offense is to have a killer defense and great special teams that complement the run-run-draw or throw bubble screen-punt offense. We don't have that even if Damarcus Smith became 100% of what you hoped he would be when he signed and showed up to fall camp. The overall developed talent on this team is just woeful, still. It very well could get much better in the years to come, hopefully, since that is the ONLY chance that this style of play has to succeed. If Damarcus Smith doesn't get to start and keep the #1 QB job at some point this season, I expect him to transfer. He will then know that his talents do not align at all with what the busdriver QB needs to do to succeed here, especially since Mac's offense is likely to get MORE CONSERVATIVE with the next OC he hires than what we currently have in Chico. That's why I believe that your next busdriver in 2016 is either Greer or Means, somebody who is going to run the offense the way Mac wants it run. And you can take a maximum of 3 or 4 wins to the bank with that style of offense next year if the defense isn't back to its 2013 level again. How fun will it be to see a program going into 2017 with a coach who can finally get replaced because he is deemed affordable to replace, coming off of three years that we probably won't combine for 10 wins? It will be just our luck that Mac will have another 2013 type season in 2017 and RV will extend him again...