Some good points.
But, teams with a lot less talent can pass the ball.
I accept Chryst will be with us for a long time.
I don't know him, but from what I do he seems like a good guy. He just doesn't seem to light the fire in the bellies of his players.
I get our O Line is down. A big part of the reason is we are running straight into 8-9 in the box. That's 8-9 against 5-6. The smallest differential is 6 blocking 8 - the number of defensive run stoppers are 33% greater than the run blockers. To keep running into that is ridiculous.
Mertz made some mistakes, but he also made some good plays. Unfortunately, they were frequently on 3d and long. Then we ran headfirst back into the brick wall.
The coaches must have a better game plan than run into brick wall, run into brick wall, ok here you go shiny new passing game bail us out on 3d and long