Let's not overlook E-'s point about the receivers--and personally I think that though Reed and of course Burton are making both the TE position and some plays out of the backfield efficient and effective, aside from Hammond (who is currently more and more becoming Jeff's "go to guy" for the big play) and his YAC, the WRs have been a real let-down...neither one of the promising starters, Debose OR Dunbar, has stepped up yet--they have both WAY under-performed, and this has severely cramped our passing, the balanced play-calling that this offense depends on to get rolling and set the opposing defense on its heels, and most of all is affecting the break-out progress of young Driskel: the fact that he has come this far this fast despite that lack, continues to show leaps of improvement in knowledge, poise and skill WITHOUT that component of his passing game yet reliably available, is pretty damn amazing in and of itself--and he's done it on-the-road in the SEC, in hostile environments against a couple of pretty good teams...Yeah, I'd say the future is pretty promising, a whole LOTTA "upside"! For these and other reasons, I feel we haven't seen anything LIKE his "breakout game" yet...that'll come when both the O-line AND the WRs put together the respective kinds of performances that they are supposedly capable of, that presumably they were brought IN here for.
I'll say this: recruiting-wise we need to go back to the "grind" and gather a few 4- and 5-star (or at the very least under-the-radar/highly-promising) WR prospects to compete immediately for starting roles in 2013. Meanwhile, either the guys we've got come into their own soon, or they find themselves pushed for playing time and eventually pushed ASIDE next season--we can't keep waiting and wondering what their problems are: both have been mainly "practice wonders" so far.
