re: Are we starting to like Klein? What do we need to see to believe he’s the right guy?

They probably spent the the week prepping for Weigman then after the game Saturday I’d imagine this week is a heavy dose of Reed prep. They’ll be prepared for both options.

Yeah my biggest thing is we can’t turn the ball over. No free opportunities

And if our offense struggles, allowing Tyler White to be a huge asset by flipping the field is critical.

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I don't expect they'll be able to move the ball up and down the field consistently.

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Or maybe they'll march down the field at will :(

If there is one thing I am certain of it’s that I want us to take a deep look at both the transfer QB and WR market this offseason

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How do you conclude the defense was the bigger problem when the O was shut out entire second half?

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How about both? Giving up 44 points isn’t going to win you many games. And it was very out of character for them considering the next most we’ve given up is 24 to miss st.

Scoring zero points in the second half is bad too, but add just a touchdown to that and that wins us all the rest of our games.

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That SCe game loss is on Elko and Klein for not diagnosing the issue and finding better matchups. Weigman should have started or at least played a few series even if just to throw a wrinkle at the base SCe D which was keyed up on shutting the run game...and with Reed, shutting the run game made things worse. Weigman's middle passing game would have opened up more plays and loosened up that SCe D a bit.

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I do agree with a lot of this. I know you can potentially lose a locker room (see Sumlin circa 2015 with Kyle Allen and Kyler Murray), but I really thought Weigman should’ve started. If he’s having a good game, he’s a legit passing threat, we’ve seen it in other games than just Mizzou this year. But a short leash and switch to Reed if necessary. Reed just isn’t a good enough passer yet and we could’ve figured USCe was gonna be better at stopping a running QB than LSU was. Look at how bad Milroe did them yesterday.

Klein needs to get better at exploiting some matchups and mixing things up. Help your young qb find success by making things easier for him.

Scoring zero points in a half is unacceptable.

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I’d say my grade through half the season is probably a B+.

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Full season complete, I downgrade to a C-. Not scoring an offensive touchdown vs sips, no second half points vs USCe, super slow start vs Auburn. All not acceptable and concerning that we played our worst ball at the end of the season.

Once we committed to Marcel, teams focused on stopping the run and zone read to force him into a passer, and we had no counter for it. I don’t feel like Klein did a good job of scheming plays up to put guys in better positions to make plays. And calling those inside runs on short yardage situations vs the longhorns when we hadn’t run the ball well all game? Pitiful.

Klein is too predictable, almost every second down play is a run, no matter what we gained on first down or what the defense is showing. Only starts to mix it up if we are playing from behind in a hole.

I never saw Calhoun make a block worth bragging on... Theo had a few early but somehow faded later.... hoping Platt n D Green get snaps next year and hope the screen game n jet motion get utilized more. Hate that we didn't get Bostick, the fish n the Refugio guy more snaps this yr.... also is Brownlow Dindy hurt?? Fingers crossed for the 2 fish LBs to be bad arse too

For a supposedly young creative mind he called a lot of old school power run plays right into defenses that were ready for what was coming, it's not like the defenses were disguising what they were running when we came to the line. They would have 7 or even 8 guys in the box and we line up, in shotgun most of the time (which is also a pet peeve of mine in short yardage situations), and then hand the ball off and try to run between the guards. I guess that works if you have the o-line of the early 90's Cowboy teams but with the o-line we were running out there after losing 2 or 3 starters it is dumb at best and maybe flat out incompetent. Young creative offensive coordinators spread the field out, take advantage of one on one match ups where your guy is better, play to the strength of your athletes, ala KK getting Mike Evans one on one with smaller guys on the outside, I saw very little of that this year. All of that said, even he got the wr's in the right position this year, chances are they'd drop the damn ball.