as well. He put the tackles out wider which took away the outside game and forced the QB to
keep more and they had someone keeping a much closer eye on Bo as we did. When you couple that with the fact that you guys couldn't really throw the ball down field effectively your offense seemed to struggle more after the Bama game.
Exactly. Teams with good fronts dared us to run between the tackles.
The only time we could against a good defensive front was the LSU game, and we had made an adjustment to bring Engram down inside as an extra blocker, and we cut the jet sweep between the guard/tackle hole.
It's really a problem with any offense when you're having to try to scheme around your personnel. Once you've started doing that, anyone with good personnel is going to be able to scheme to beat you. We had one major weakness early, and we added a second weakness late in the year, which is why teams with solid fronts (Bama, Auburn, Missouri, and MSU) made life difficult on us.
We'll see if our OL is stronger up front. We'll be less experienced, but I think we'll be more talented overall than we were last year. If they can get the job done for interior runs, stopping our offense will become a much bigger challenge.