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I guess a lot is subjective. Broken routes, dropped passes, passes in which the WR has "alligator arms". All in all i have been less impressed with our WR's than last year.

That could be a matter of poor play by Fromm, though, or opportunities.

It's a combination of factors. Not the least of which is the absence of Wims. For Fromm's style of play, a true jump ball receiver was a HUGE help for him on down field throws. The accuracy wasn't a huge issue, rather get it near him and high and he could possibly bring it down or at least win the battle for incompletion vs interception.

Outside of that, I'd say the WR play has been about on par. Hardman playing better than he did early last year, but not as good as he did late. Fromm does seem to be making more mistakes in terms of missing open receivers, leading too much/overthrows especially.

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OL is still good.

It's nowhere near the level of consistency of what he had by the end of last year.

Thomas playing injured < Wynn at full strength
Big Country full strength > Mays playing as backup
Wilson at RT < Thomas at RT

There's a lot of talent there, but it's just not equivalent to what he had last year. This wasn't why he struggled in the LSU game, but it does explain a lot of the other struggles this season.

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What it off is going away from the 2017 strategy, which we would be using if we were ”limited” by a freshman Qb. Maybe being limited by that is a good thing.

Offensive approach definitely seems to be lacking. Using a carbon copy of the "limited" offense from 2017 for Fields may not work effectively as we rarely if ever planned on one of the "checkdown options" to be a QB run with Fromm. But perhaps more frustrating is why we feel the need to significantly change what Fromm is doing at the position to begin with... Overcomplicating things for the sake of doing so seems silly.

I'm firmly in the camp of "Give Fields more time, let us see what he can do", but the entire narrative by some here that Fromm is terrible, didn't accomplish anything, and doesn't deserve to continue to start is laughable at best. Kid's playing "well" by objective measures... he simply isn't playing "incredible". Everyone wants to jump to the conclusion that Justin is ready to deliver that standard, and I'm not sold that he is based on the limited dataset we have so far.