My Take on the rest of the season for Carolina......

Sure, the loss of Latt hurts tremendously. You would have to be deaf, dumb, blind, and just plain stupid not to realize this. With that said, this team still has ton s of talent. Spurrier just has to change his game plan. I really think we have to go to a more tradtional spread. We have to get Ellington involved in the backfield. This kid wouldve been the POY in the state of South Carolina had he not been in the same graduating class as ML. He is a dynamic athlete with game-breaking speed. I can still see this team winning out. Maybe i'm too overly optimistic, but one man doesnt make a team. You have 11 guys on the field for a reason, and its just time for those 11 guys to take their game to another level. Wilds is a more than serviceable back and when you add Ellington into the mix, i think we can have a pretty damn lethal 1-2 punch in the backfield. Connor Shaw has been exactly what i expected him to be, a very cerebral qb that is athletic enough to put pressure on defenses with his feet. The recievers have got to start making the plays when they are present themselves. The bye week couldnt have come at a better time. We have two weeks to rearrange our offensive scheme to work with the players that we have available going forward. Our defense has really turned the corner as far as im concerned. I realize we havent played the best of competition, but Miss St isnt a slouch, especially at home.....just ask LSU.

Back to Connor for a minute. He did something at Miss St that hasnt been done in a long time(i dont think its happened since Spurrier arrived), he led us down the field, on the road against a decent football team for a win. He did this without Latt on the field as well. He completed his last 8 pass attempts when the pressure was on. He made some mistakes, sure. But he didnt make any mistakes that could have cost us the ballgame. His 2 picks werent that bad of throws. This is the kid to play qb that SOS has been looking for since he arrived in Cola. He is smart, a coaches son and a student of the game. He studies, puts in the extra time mentally and physically and he thinks ahead in the game just like the OBC would do. I have all the faith in Shaw and this offense the rest of the way. All this offense is gonna have to do is not put the defense in bad positions and we have a chance to win every game left on our schedule, including beating LSU or BAMA in the dome for the SEC title. Offense sells tickets, defense wins titles.

Some moves that i would like to see and this is just from a personal standpoint cause obviously im not a coach, but i would really like to see us move Qua Gilchrist to fullback. This guy was a beast in high school and i know he knows what to do with the rock when he touches it. I watched him for 4 years at Abbeville and the guy is ultra talented. He has the size to be a devasting lead blocker and the ball skills to be another guy that a defense has to account for when he is on the field. JMO. I wanna see Ellington moved to tailback the rest of the season. Dont gimme that size crap cause he is the same size a Jaquizz Rogers and he is playing in the NFL. I wanna see more motion and end-around type plays with our speed receivers, if for nothing else to get defenses out of position. This is all that Clemson does. I heard the other day that CU only has about 12 to 20 plays that they run, but they run them out of different formations just to give defense a different look. It works. Motion a guy away from the middle of the field and throw it where he used to be. Make a safety look in the backfield and go over his head, make the d-line slant and pinch the wrong way, get cb's outta position by having them trail receivers that are in motion. It all works and is the basic concept of the spred offense and it is what we have to do. use what we have and go draw up some plays in the effing dirt if we have too, cause there is an abundance of talent on the field.

I would love to indulge more on this topic and there is some stuff that i left out, but im at work and really dont have time to get to deep with this right now but i wanted to pass along my logics. Blake, dont write our boys off yet. This still has all the potential in the world to be a great season. The lattimore injury could bring this team closer and provide new motivation. You can bet your sweet ass that he will be right in the middle cheering and providing the leadership down the stretch. If the man with the injury can still be positive and optimistic, then by God, i can too.