Originally Posted by
Johnson85
1) What the hell happened with our Oline? How do they go from being atrocious to dominating A&M?
My only possible guesses:
A&M's line is weak and then also had a gimpy DE, so it wasn't as big of a jump as it looks. It's just steady progress.
Guard is Jenkins natural position, so moving him there simultaenously took out a weak link and allowed us to get production from him (except that I don't think he replaced Desper, but Calhoun?)
Rankin is the type of guy that freeze's when he tries to think and he finally grasped the offense to the point where he doesn't have to think too hard about what he has to do?
The line was just finally allowed to get in a rhythm because A Williams running meant that not every mistake resulted in driving killing loss and also that 2 yd runs turned into 4 yd runs, 4 yd runs into 6, etc.
The OL just played with mroe fire because they were excited to have a good RB to block for.
Anybody have any insight as to which, if any, of those guesses have any truth to them?
2) How in the hell has A. Williams been basically sitting the bench up to now?
This is a lot harder to explain. I guess it's either A. Williams is a J-Rob in disguise and we can expect to start hearing negative things about him later (despite this being the opposite of what is mostly said about him) or Mullen really did let favoritism keep A. Williams from playing. I know A Williams has made mistakes earlier when he's played, but he hasn't done anything that the older backs don't also do. And he's so much better, you'd think you would just live iwth the mistakes as long as the effort is there. Really at a loss as to why he's just now being handed the reigns.