you can win a nat title or compete without being a juggernaut on offense or without a qb that just airs it out, you only need to look at bama and their qb hurts. he's running for 100 yards per game, passing for a 150 and could have very easily beaten Clemson last year. but they pound their running backs.
this year's ohio state team might need to turn into that. I know urban probably doesn't want to accept that, and JT might not want to accept that, but the fact of the matter is that's what we are. make the best of what you have for this year, revamp the offense when you have a better passer next season. JT's freshman year he was unreal, why? he ran for almost 1,000 yards. when he and your running back are both going for over 1,000 teams had to respect that, and in turn, it gave him some easier throws.
and I agree, devin smith and Michael Thomas were great, but you don't need those guys to run good routes and schemes. their's about 50 programs in the country that get guys open deep with less WR talent than we currently have. there's probably 25 teams that throw for 300 yards weekly with less WR talent than we currently have. im not sure Oklahoma has WR's that are much different than ours, they definitely have less experienced WR's but they cooked us left and right due to scheme. how many times did Mayfield hit a guy in the middle of the field, just 10-15 yards from the line of scrimmage wide open. totally easy throws, but we never hit anything close to that. we never run a screen, to a RB or TE. we throw dumb backwards passes, that if lucky, get 2-3 yards, which begs the question why not just give it to Dobbins, at worst he'll get 2-3 yards and maybe pop it.
it's frustrating to watch the same, vanilla gameplan for about 6 games in a row now dating back to last year. there's nothing new, same results over and over. the offense was amazing when urban got here and was fantastic for about 4-5 years, but now he's unable to figure it out, which I'm sure is driving him nuts as well. JT's a senior, he's not an NFL prospect, in the past I said you can't run your qb that much you'll get him killed, but now, I'm thinking if he runs it 15 times a game who cares, but it can't be at the expense of dobbins, weber if healthy etc. maybe they need a package with another qb, sort of like they did with JT and Cardale before. maybe JT needs to be a red zone QB, he killed it when he ran that with cardale between the 20s.