Has Bugel lost it?

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by davy

I don't know what you guys think but I'm seriously concerned that Bugel has had 3 offseasons now to find and develop some decent young offensive line guys and appears to have failed miserably.

I keep hearing that everybody is happy with the back-ups but I've yet to see anything on the field to suggest that anybody can step in without a significant drop-off in performance.

Am I being too hasty?
Am I putting too much blame on Bugel?

I know good offensive linemen don't grow on trees but I hoped for better than what we seem to have at the moment.

It could be that you are being a little too hasty, and you are right when you say good linemen don't grow on trees. We can't expect to have OL men in backup positions with all the capabilities of starters because if they did they would be starters. Back-up OL men are like relief pitchers in baseball they don't have 100 plus pitches in their arms. We probably have enough depth as long as all our starters are not out at the same time, So far we've only seen the back-up's all playing together not replacing an individual starter who may go down, so I'm going to hold serve on the back-up OL until I see them perform under different circumstances. I have the utmost confidence in Bugel, he and Jim Hannifan were the best two to ever come through here.