I'm not a big X's and O's guy like yourself, but if we have a walk on TE and a rFR with a knee held together by popsicle sticks and elmers glue to seal an edge, with a back up G making his first or second start pulling to get to the second level, and a QB who doesn't know how to read a defensive front....you probably can only take a few shots at power read a game. And the IZ they keep hammering probably helps set that up.
Am I way off base?
I've gotta think at this point with a QB who literally took a snap at TE this season, top 2 RBs out, top 4 WRs in fall camp out, 60% of your starting OL out, that the message to Satt is play conservative, eat up clock, and pound the rock hoping they can break a few big runs as the game goes on. Sprinkle the play action or roll outs with a simple read, hope a combo of that gets you to 20 points and lean like hell on the D.