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Notes on the offense, Locker and today's practice
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4:40 pm
by John Boyle
Today's practice was in shorts and shells, which is unusual for a Tuesday practice. Matt Mosley, who Tyrone Willingham said isn't expected to play, was not in pads and walked with a noticable limp.
Also not in pads was left tackle Ben Ossai, who suffered a concussion last week and is day to day. During the portion of practice open to the media, Willie Griffin looked to be the only tailback present, as both Terrance Dailey and Brandon Johnson weren't there.
Offensive coordinator Tim Lappano met with reporters today to talk about his struggling offense, and said he felt like the offense has regressed going back to the USC game.
"We’ve got to get better offensively. We’ve taken a couple steps backwards and I don’t think we’re playing with any confidence right now. I think that we got to be able to go out and execute, not make mistakes and play with confidence. That’s what you have to do. We didn’t do that Saturday, obviously, at all. We didn’t play with any confidence."
"It started after the USC game. I thought we were starting to get better and do some things offensively. But after the USC game we’ve regressed every week and that has to change to win a football game. It’s going to have to change.
Asked if it was just certain positions or the whole offense, he said:
"Nobody played well. The offensive front, the receivers, the running backs, the quarterback… there wasn’t one group that played to their potential against UCLA. We had a lot of mistakes everywhere."
Lappano also talked a bit about Jake Locker, and gave a little more clarity to his situation than we got from Tyrone Willingham yesterday. Locker's thumb is healing well according to Lappano, but he still isn't expected to throw a football again for another four or five weeks.
Lappano also mentioned that Locker has talked with compliance officials about the possibility of getting this year back, but said he didn't know what has happened with those talks.
On the surface, at least, it seems very unlikely that Locker could get an extra year since he redshirted already during his first year here. Most sixth-year cases (and they are quite rare) are granted to players who miss two years to injury. So it's not that shocking that Locker has checked on his options, but it seems unlikely he gets another year. And even if that were to happen, don't expect news on it soon, as sixth years are applied for and granted after an athlete's five years are up.
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