Pinkel hints at burning Doherty's RS

This wouldn't surprise me, but my expectations are limited. If either freshman was lighting the world on fire, they'd already be on the depth chart. Hopefully Dougherty can produce if he gets into a game.

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If either freshman was lighting the world on fire,

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remember Henry Josey could barely break into the two deep, and needed injury's to help him get a "chance". This staff has not always seen the obvious before, in fact they're actually pretty good at missing it.

if Steward and Abbington could use "game experience" then why for fuks sake is Hunt, a senior walkon out there? If he's an SEC RB than I'm gadam ballerina.

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Playing Culkin or Hunt in a role of lead blocker / blitz pick-up / outlet receiver could do wonders for both the shaky running game and offensive line.

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instead of that, or in conjunction, maybe try something that's worked in the past.

Put Reese or Blanton in slot, basically run a 2 TE overload, and get some big targets out there crossing in the middle, assuming either of them can catch the ball, we used to do that pretty well with Egnew, Coffman and Rucker.

They've been trying to "fix" Mauks mid range game by moving Nate Brown or Wingo inside, which is just taking away their speed and athleticism in one on ones out on the edge, where it is needed. If you watched Browns HS film, he's a boss at running to the endzone, doing a spin jump move and skying for the ball. We need to work to their strength, instead of trying to "adjust" the rest of the team to fix the hole in Mauks game.

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Doherty can't be worse than what we've seen.

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nope, he can't, and outside of Hanbrough who has done much of anything running the ball, Mauk up the middle seems to be the next best thing.. Steward looks like he's moving fluid and pretty well on his feet, none of our RBs are going anywhere unless the line happens to throw a block, that was obvious w/ Witter out there as well.

If Abbington and Steward are going to do anything at all at MU, it really needs to be now, this year, and if we are going to see them in a game, these first OOC's are the ones to do it. Hunt on his best day is not going to outrun Steward and he's now as hobbled as Hansbrough, can anyone explain what Gary is thinking by trotting a walkon out there?

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I'm primarily talking about trying to get our anemic (non-Hansborough) running game going.

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ok, I didn't spell that out to well, right now we have pretty much no middle passing threat, Mauk completed all of 1 pass across the middle last night that I can recall. There is almost NO REASON for a defense to leave anyone to cover back in the middle, no reason to respect that part of our game, so there is no reason the defense doesn't crowd the box to stuff the run game with backers and safetys. So searching for ways to fix the hole in Mauks passing game is also part of fixing the run game is kind of where I was going.

Getting tired of analyzing all the problems we have that could get fixed by just putting Lock in.

It starts up-front with Ricker and his NON-performing unit. You can talk about RB's all day, the OL is not executing. I've seen two games in-person. On their best execution, there is most always a leak. SEC teams will kill us without improvement.

Per Lucas Vincent on twitter: "Not saying Connor should spend less time filming him lifting for Instagram and more time on pass blocking but yeah I am."

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They just never went to those guys.

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yea, that's kinda the point.

I know Winnetonka's not Lee's Summit but do you know Ryan Williams as well?

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Doherty can't be worse than what we've seen.

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I was thinking the same thing. Neither Abbington nor Doherty could be worse than what we've seen so why not see what you have.

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I know Winnetonka's not Lee's Summit but do you know Ryan Williams as well?

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I don't.

IDK. That Oline is going to make QB's and RB's look bad no matter what