I don’t think Ewers will ever be the bold leaders that VY or SE were. He doesn’t seem to have that personality. However I also think he came in with a lot of hype that he was not necessarily ready mentally to handle. I think Sarks offense is more complicated than any Ewers has tried to run. The offensive leaders were Bijan and Roschon and Ewers was not mentally comfortable replacing them in that role.
After getting hurt, with exception of OU, he seemed to play scared. Scared of mistakes, scared of another injury and scared of failure. Other than the OU game I feel like Sark called games scared. After OU the play designs used in games were totally different. Less motion was used, passes down the seams were nonexistent and the imagination of the offense changed. I continue to not understand why.
With Bijan and Roschon gone next year, Ewers will have to be the offensive team leader. Hopefully some of that was seen last night. The coaches need to teach him to be the leader. The majority of the OL next year came in with Ewers. That group needs to develop a nasty streak and become five Studdards from right to left. They need to be the enforcers of the offense. A skill player fucks up and they need to answer to the OL. One of the OLs fucks up and he has to answer to the other four. An opponent fucks with Ewers or a skill player all five OL need to address it.