Here are a few things wrong on offense that are not Pease's fault: Murphy getting hit on every down that DJ Humphries chooses not to block or even chip, the ball hitting Burton and Robinson in the back when they do not turn around, giving the opposing defense our snap count by using the left guard to signal the snap, penalties by the o-line, and finally, Brown/Jones being slow to hit the hole (Taylor got 5.2 ypc by hitting the hole quickly). We should be fine if Burton and Robinson work with Murphy this week, Taylor gets more of Jones' carries, and if Humphries works on technique (or the Gators switch to a moving/veer o-line).
OK--I am with you on all of this, and would take it maybe even one step further (a road you started down I think there at the end): Let Murphy run a kind of hybrid BETWEEN the "power-run/pass-to-run" we have been playing, some of that "moving/veer", AND some of the "old" Meyer-offense Tyler was originally inspired to walk-on at UF for, and I think a balanced, flexibly-called result (adapted on-the-fly according to what works in-game) may get just the kind of results we're looking for. Murphy will be more comfortable and accurate in such a "mix", I think (he can stand in the pocket, if asked to do so--but he's generally more accurate when he moves in planned roll-outs, etc.)--and it plays to our various strengths, even as it "mixes things up" and makes us MUCH less predictable in how we look, call and run our offense.
As for the rest, well, Humphries was a walking DISASTER-area last Sat., just a single-handed walking MESS, finding multiple ways to F-up, sometimes on the same AND consecutive plays! He's talented, but he either gets back to fundamentals and moves on to better things, or he finds himself down the depth chart. Burton himself did some things we just don't expect from him at this point--and we can only hope it WAS "crossed-lines-of-communication", or whatever, and that he's back to form AND back in-sync with his QB from here on out. Brown and Jones are/were similar kinds-of-runners, a nice tandem you could run together OR to spell each other; when Jones was getting his timing and "wind" back after that whole virus-set-back pre- and start-of-season, Brown had begun to show he wasn't far behind him even at Jones' best. Now he's our "bread'n'butter" back, and Taylor gets the opportunity I thought he deserved before now--and certainly not like this, but here's how it is and I have a feeling it could serve us well, in the long run.
Note something else here: Everything I say, while being true and applicable to dealing with this season's immediate problems and getting back to winning here and now, is also pretty well the blueprint for beginning to develop NEXT season's line-up, style--and building the team-to-come on offense. No surprise, to me this last is every bit as important a consideration, maybe even MORE so. We are very near HAVING the "defense of our dreams" (may even have it already, with the experience and depth we have now that will continue to grow and improve, plus the guys we have coming back now from injury next year)--but we have a whole LOT of work to do elsewhere--Special Teams AND offense...now, ST is more a combination of "keep working hard, and find a FG-KICKER", where offense, as I think we're beginning to find a consensus on, while still requiring some "moving parts" (as I say, another discussion altogether--and one I'm hoping we'll NOT have to get into with the same groaning angst after NEXT Feb's NSD), is much more a matter of philosophy--as in strategy and tactics--than anything else (and in my opinion, of course, that in turn means either Pease finally begins to show he's got more than he's been allowed to actually show and do out there up 'til now, or we get ourselves someone who DOES, finally).
