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On Further Review

So last night I watched the South Carolina game (again) with my brother-in-law the ex-running back, making heavy use of the DVR to re-run plays we found interesting.

We focused a lot on the play of the offensive line and the type of running plays that were being called in certain situations.

We confirmed our sense from watching the game live that the running plays we used on short yardage weren't any different than the running plays we used in general situations. Many of our running plays develop a bit slowly and require either zone blocking or some serious pulling by the offensive line. In either case the offensive lineman have a tendency to be standing up rather than getting down low. When the defense is loaded up to play the run in short yardage, it was easy for us to get beat by the defensive guys going low (one just played bowling ball one time and rolled into the backfield), or get outnumbered, or just plain miss blocks. You see all three things happening. Missed blocks, especially on the back-side of the slowly developing plays, killed us. Both on the goal line just before the half, and on the 3 plays beginning with second and 2 on the next to the last possession.

It was pretty obvious that the type of running plays we were using for short yardage were as much the problem as the execution.

We also saw (again - this has been a thorn all season) that we are terrible in picking up the blitz. McFadden appeared clueless on one particular play and managed to totally not block a blitzer that was running directly at him. An offensive lineman did what I've seen them doing all year -- If they don't have a defensive lineman to block, they end up not blocking anyone. One let a defensive back that had lined up at outside linebacker ("check" please??) just go right past him as if he never saw him. We were getting sacked by one man blitzing along with a 3 man rush.

Speaking of checking off plays -- we have absolutely no offensive strategy in place to combat the blitz. Checking to a slant is not that hard. We haven't had a quarterback coached well to "think" at the line since Ferguson left.

Also noticed for the seemingly millionth time that we just can't execute the "waggle" play -- where you essentially leave a guy unblocked and throw over him to the flat. That play never works for us and should be trashed. Oh, and by the way -- note to Houston Dale -- the defense is keying on Peyton Hillis.

The way we manage the offense in "situations" -- "what" we call "when" -- is a huge part of our problem. Not having or effectively using a package of short yardage running plays hurt us Saturday. I really wish we had some real quick hitting dive plays or had seen that toss sweep that has worked fairly well all year.

Our offensive line and pass protection is also a huge problem. This year's offensive line has, overall, not played well. Short yardage and pass protection have both been poor.

Again, it was clear that we are not very good at clock management and situation preparation. The two minute drill package was not well planned. We let over 30 seconds pass between plays while we were confused about what to call, and then had to change personnel packages when we did decide what to call. Houston Dale the head coach would be reaming out any offensive coordinator not named Houston Dale for this type of performance.

For those not keeping close watch, our "one back" running package is a combination of what the Colts and the Redskins do. Watch those two teams and note the type of passing offense they mix in with the runs to get an idea of what a comprehensive offensive package could or should look like.

I know this is like beating a dead horse. The offensive coordinator position is just not getting the job done.

Getting Down to Cases

Welcome to the beginning of my view to the litany of things that are wrong with the Arkansas football program and some thoughts as to what to do to make corrections.

To start with, our offense is poorly designed. In fact, it’s not designed at all. It’s a mish-mash of a few running plays with a few passing plays that Houston Dale drew up and a few passing plays (very few) that he stole out of the so called West Coast system or from what-ever NFL camp he visited last. There is no cohesive approach. That’s why it doesn’t work very well. That’s why a quarterback doesn’t seem to be able to play very well. That’s why Mitch Mustain won’t look any better than anyone else has lately.

Personnel packages and formations strongly signal the play calls. If all of us fans think we can call the plays, you know the other team can. My success rate was over 80% Saturday against South Carolina. My son's was even higher. (I called a few South Carolina plays also -- just by looking at the Arkansas defense and counting on Spurrier to have his quarterback make the right checks at the line.)

There is never an effort made to “attack the defense”. Our focus is simply on attempting to execute the plays we happen to want to run. Plays that are very limited in what they do.

What to do about this? We need an overall redesign of the offense or the adoption of some existing, proven approach to offense. We need a new offensive philosophy – one that’s hopefully not as "offensive" as what we have at present. This is not as simple as hiring an offensive coordinator or having someone else call the plays. Hiring some offensive coordinator du jour and then mixing their thoughts with the current, limited thoughts and further mish-mashing the current mish-mash. Things would just get worse. Mixing in Gus Malzahn thoughts with existing Houston Dale thoughts (or lack there-of) will simple create more frustration and failure for everyone involved.

The truth is we don’t have a clue what we really want to do.

Today we have this crazy co-coordinator thing going on. This is bad. Markuson is in charge of the running game (the “running game coordinator”), and Wittke is in charge of the passing game (the “passing game coordinator”). And never the twain shall meet, except that each supposedly recommends a play to Houston Dale on each down.

Ancient Chinese proverb says that “man with two watches not know what time it is”. (No, I have no clue where some ancient Chinese guy got one watch, much less two.) It is no wonder that we have to call time-out every time we get inside the 10 year line – a committee meeting is required to call a play. A play that will probably require a certain personnel package that has a high likelihood of tipping off the defense – and apparently we’ll line up and stand there for the last minute of the time-out so the defense can get a good look at what we are up to and be able to make any adjustments needed to stuff us. But I digress.

I’ll go back to the fundamental problem. We don’t have a clue what we really want to do. Even without Markuson and Wittke whispering in his ear on each play, Houston Dale is of at least two minds himself. There are a lot of voices going on inside of his head on every play call.

So how do we decide?

We practice running 70 percent of the time – I suppose to make sure we’ve got those 4-6 plays down really well. So we usually default and do “what we do best”, which is run.

Why do we run (usually the stretch play) after each really good play we have? This is amazingly simple. We call the stretch play to give us time to think of what we might want to do next. Unfortunately, “next” tends to be second and 8 or worse, and the defense gains the advantage in the chess match they are playing against our checkers gurus.

The truth is Markuson’s offensive line tends to let us down. Ok, I know we’ve been a great running team for years. I’ll give you that. I’ll throw back at you that we’ve been a great running team that can’t pass block on a consistent basis to save our lives. This year we are a great running team that can’t make a yard when we need to by running the ball that also can’t pass block on a consistent basis.

Markuson needs to go in my opinion even if Houston Dale stays. He has way too much influence. We will not change our offensive approach as long as Markuson is around. I think he has pictures of Houston Dale or something.

We can’t develop a quarterback along with a passing game if we practice running 70 percent of the time while also getting immensely impressed with ourselves when we “run” all over the cream-puff directional schools on our schedule.

We can’t really develop a quarterback if we don’t know what we have in mind to run when we recruit them. Do we want a “run-pass threat” like Robert Johnson supposedly is, or a passing threat like an Alex Mortenson? It seems we are constantly in a conflict between what we want to do and what the quarterback is supposedly best at.

Scrap the existing offense and start over. Take a direct approach to something new -- steal from the New England Patriots and from Charlie Weis at Notre Dame. He’s been able to take the Patriots offense to Notre Dame pretty effectively, so we know it translates to the college game. Hire a coordinator experienced with this system or one that can buy in and run that system. Oh, and don’t make a big deal publicly about what you are doing. Keep everyone guessing.

Eliminate the current separation between the passing game and the running game that we have today. A ship can only have one captain, and offense is a ship. If Markuson can’t deal with that, he must be eliminated.

Our goal on offense should be 1) to average at least 6 scores a game, with at least 3 being touchdowns. I really don't care how many yards we average running or passing. I do know that the successful team achieve more than 50% of their total yards from passing. (It is very difficult against good competition (i.e., the SEC) to run the ball all the way down the field into the end zone. It’s not going to happen very many times. This is why today it does not really bother teams if we rush for 250 yards as long as do it between the 20’s. We won’t score enough to beat them. As we proved Saturday, we are not a threat with the passing game from the opponents 20 yard line, so they can play and stuff the run.)

Can this be fixed with Houston Dale at the head coaching position? Or would be too much of a limiting factor. It is apparent his brain can function only slightly above the High School level of offense and that his coaching ability is limited in even effectively implementing that. His ego and his stubborn ways have been on display for quite while now. My bet would be on "no".

Our offense has not been consistently effective in any year Houston Dale has been here. 1998 and 1999’s success on offense was due as much to big play capability (Stoerner to Lucas, mostly on check-offs when Clint recognized man to man on Lucas) that resulted from the training as quarterback Clint received from Joe Ferguson. The success with Matt Jones, was, well . . . . due to the amazing abilities of Matt Jones in making things happen many times out of nothing.

Approach to the offense and coaching makes a huge difference. Look at what happened with Joe Ferguson his senior year after Don Breaux left. Look at what’s happened at Notre Dame their first year with Charlie Weis.

Unless we change our approach we are not going to get any better on offense. No matter the talent level of the players.

Georgia -- Passing (or lack thereof) Thoughts

The Razorback tried their best General Sherman approach to march over Georgia but came up a bit short on the scoreboard.

The Arkansas defense brought it on Saturday and made an excellent showing. There are still a few things that could be criticized – but you have to admit they played well enough to deserve a win. Considering the offense and special teams provided field position to Georgia to lead to 10 of the 23 points scored, we have to feel pleased with the performance and improvement in the defense..

Yes, I know Shockley getting hurt definitely limited what Georgia tried to do. But it was obvious that we had a pretty good defensive game plan and came to play even while he was in the game.

My story remains unchanged from the past few weeks. Our offense cannot be counted on to score enough points to win a ball game. We are not going to have a drive of any significant length more than once a game. We don’t have consistency of execution at this point to even be considered much of a threat from within the red zone. We’ve had 8 trips into the red zone in the last 2 games that have delivered only 20 points. – less than a field goal per entry into the red zone.

While everyone, including me, has been down on the play of the quarterback position, the issues Saturday had as much to do with overall offensive discipline and execution as anything the quarterback did or didn’t do.

8 out of 11 completions to the running backs. We did absolutely nothing to attack the cover 2 zone. We have no passing game. It’s just that simple. Robert Johnson is not even looking down field, once missing the tight end wide open for what would have been a 25 yard plus gain. 116 yards passing is a joke.

I’ve pretty much had it with the Peyton Hillis show. He has way too big of a role in the game – RoJo / Waco seems locked into him on what little of a passing game we try to have and it appears to me to be a crutch that is simply getting in the way. Why he continues to return punts amazes me. He has been inconsistent at best, letting balls go over this head, catching the ball at the 7 yard line, one muff and one out and out “just missed it” that cost us a field goal, and then letting the final punt drop to the ground and roll. Hillis apparently is allowed mistakes that sent others in the Houston Dale era to significant bench time. Plus, I’m tired of his talking in the press.

Where’s Monk? We are doing absolutely nothing to try and get the ball to our best receiver (supposedly – it’s really hard to tell if we have a “best” receiver since it isn’t exactly apparent we have “any” receivers).

It’s time for Houston Dale to quit naming names and calling out players. He’s the coach. This is his show. He needs to take responsibility on his shoulders.

From the “it could have been important” departments: Houston Dale let 54 seconds run off the clock prior to our last possession of the game by not calling a time out after Georgia’s 3rd down play – a time out it was obvious that Reggie Herring was encouraging him to call.

Georgia had 8 of their 11 defensive starters either out or impacted by injury during the game. It was good that we ran over them pretty well – McFadden and Jones are obviously studs – but it ends up just making my point. Arkansas running for 250 yards and not doing much of anything else on offense is something opponents will live with. We can’t beat anyone doing that because we can’t score enough points.

We’ve now played both Alabama and Georgia good games. This is not about “talent” – we have some pretty good talent. Could be better I’m sure, but we have the ability to be competitive.

That said, I'm not sure we will win another game this year. South Carolina -- we'll probably get out-coached, Ole Miss -- winning in Oxford will be tough. The pressure will be on then for Mississippi State, which means more bad things can happen than good. LSU should beat us easily.

I know this was supposed to have been a "down" year, "free pass" and all of that, but this year has been and will continue to be worse that it should have been.

Nothing New at Quarterback

So, unlike Tipster, I was actually ok with the play calling for the most part Saturday night against Auburn. There were a lot of things that were open that we didn’t take advantage of. The play of the quarterback had a lot to do with that. But we’ve come to expect that from a Houston Dale coached team.

Let me start by saying that it is the coach’s responsibility to put a quarterback on the field that can execute.

I felt that Houston Dale was making a mistake when he awarded the starting quarterback slot to Robert Johnson after only one week of fall practice when RoJo / Waco was supposedly only operating at 70% physically. That pretty much told me that it was never a contest in Houston Dale’s mind. No doubt the other contenders for the job felt that as well.

Robert Johnson’s response at the time gave me little confidence. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but it gave me the impression that he viewed himself as somewhat of a “made man”. I’d prefer someone operating in fear of their job on a weekly basis.

From the very first game it has been obvious that Houston Dale has not had great confidence in Robert Johnson (as well as others at times – such as the freshmen running backs against Vandy.)

Running all over Missouri State did us little good. If it really had value then why did we immediately bench the two freshmen running backs from the next game? We should’ve worked on our passing game in the game situation. Now that we need it, we don’t have it sharp and ready, and are making mistakes that appear to be due to lack of repetition and game experiences. We should have taken a look at other quarterbacks in the game situation. Surely all of them can hand off.

There are a few consistent things I’ve noted in RoJo / Waco’s performance on the field.

First, his footwork has been lacking all year. Many times his feet are just not set when he needs to be throwing. If your feet aren’t right, the throw won’t be right. It’s just that simple. Footwork is the most basic element of executing from the quarterback position on passing plays. I’ve mentioned this in a few posts already this year, and it was a theme of Houston Dale’s on his show Sunday. The feet are a big problem. It’s true in practice too.

When RoJo / Waco’s feet are in good position he tends to throw a pretty good ball – to the right. He doesn’t throw the ball well to the left or over the middle out of the pocket for some reason, feet set or not.

Against Auburn RoJo / Waco had a tendency to “rush” when under pressure. John Wooden, the great UCLA coach, had a saying – “be quick, but don’t hurry”. The only way to master this concept and have it on display in your performance is to have many repetitions under pressure.

He bails a bit early on the pocket. Needs to hang in and deliver the ball. “Happy feet” are not a passing game’s friend.

Would another quarterback do better at this point? I think it’s time we found out. Alex appeared very mechanically sound in the 2nd half of the USC game. Cole has a bit of a “gamer” look to him. Casey Dick, of the four, appears to me to have the most potential. I saw him in a number of practice drills that gets delegated to the 4th string guy and he just impressed me in a lot of ways. Footwork, receiver selection, and most of all, the ability to put the ball in very good places for the receivers. Not to be negative on Alex or Cole, “just saying”

Had Houston Dale not already had his mind made up and given everyone a good look he would have had to given Casey a shot at the job.

I would not, at this point in the season, take the redshirt off of Casey. That would be just stupid. If Houston Dale were to find his way to that decision I’d recommend he be run out of town underneath a rail.

I’ve watched enough practice this year, and over the years, of many different coaches, to have formed this opinion: Houston Dale is a lousy quarterback coach. I think one of the reasons he left Arkansas and Lou Holtz was he didn’t see the need for Holtz’s picky quarterback coaching. Holtz was very exacting in his approach to footwork. Houston Dale obviously is not a student of footwork.

Clint was coached by Joe Ferguson, not Houston Dale. Matt Jones hardly practiced, and was so lazy when he did, and was such an amazing talent, that his coaching was fairly limited at best. Ryan Sorahan was a pretty good looking fundamental quarterback, and, I believe could have been very successful if we had really wanted a quarterback.

I’ve watched Witke in practice and it’s hard to tell. The fact that we work on the passing game only about 30% of the time may be having more of an impact than his coaching ability.

The results on the field for many years from the quarterback position have been poor. I don’t count Matt, as most of his results came more from his ad lib’s and options plays than from fundamental quarterbacking.

A huge source of the problem is that Houston Dale does not know what type of offense he wants to run. Oh yeah, he “fits” it to his talent. This may sound like a really good thing, but is really a foolish idea. Doesn’t work very well when your top 4 quarterbacks have at least two if not three different “styles” of play. Which one do you choose? We need a style we want to play, and to recruit quarterbacks that can play the style we want to play. I would hate to be Robert Johnson for two years being the second string in the Matt Jones offense, getting limited repetitions in practice, and then be thrown into the fire with a fuller version of a somewhat different offense -- one that looks more like the late 90’s than like the current decade..

A defined offensive approach and recruiting and preparing quarterbacks that are able to execute and deliver on the field are a coaching responsibility.

Robert Johnson may not be playing well on the field right now, but it is the quarterback position that we have a problem with – and have had for a number of years. That is Houston Dale’s responsibility and he has not done a good job with it.

Read this article and tell me I’m wrong. Quarterback is not a new problem.

It's About the Experience

It’s time to rant a bit about the state of the Razorback football program. So here goes rant number 1. (There will be more to follow)

The stadium experience is not very good. The product on the field is not the only thing that needs improvement. We've had less than a handful of games in the past few years where the crowd was really good and loud. Alabama a few years ago and Texas comes to mind. Tennessee in 1999 was an excellent crowd.

We have a beautiful stadium that should be an excellent home field advantage. Why isn’t it?

In my view some things need to done different.

First of all, it seems most people enter the stadium at the last minute before the game, or in the first minutes of the game. I sit on the end of a row at the 40 yard line 50 or so rows high. The first 7 minutes of each game are a parade of people coming in to sit down.

At the playing of the National Anthem the crowd on the East side is typically pretty sparse. By middle of the 1st quarter it will be filled in.

The crowd doesn’t come ready to play. People need to get into the stadium and be ready to go when the game starts. We need reasons for people to want to get into the stadium. Need to put on a show. However . . . .

The pre-game show has gotten old and tired. I’m all for tradition, but this no longer works very well. The band and the cheer squads appear to be just phoning it in. Hard to blame them as it is probably difficult to play to a half full stadium 20 minutes before game time. I’m not sure I would do a lot different, but someone smarter than me needs to give this some thought.

Has anyone else noticed that the visiting teams have been timing our introduction and running onto the field just before us, making sure that our team is greeted with a chorus of boos mixed into the cheers?

The stadium sound system is terrible.

The radio broadcast has gotten terrible. I usually listen to the radio during the games. I turned it off several times Saturday. Paul has lost it in the broadcast booth, if ever he even had it. His descriptions of the game are extremely lacking. ARSN needs to shorten their commercial breaks and do their part to keep the game moving. Television can stretch things out, but radio doing it is pointless. I could not believe the extra 2 commercials when we had the ball on the 5 yard line. ASRN is part of the team and they need to do their part better.

I like Keith Jackson in the booth. I used to like Quinn on the field back when he actually had something to say. “They’re running right over us” is not value added commentary in my view.

While it is clear to me the role Chuck is playing in the booth, I think needing 3 people in the booth talking borders on ridiculous. I’m not being anti-Chuck as generally I enjoy him (especially when he goes through his routine of all of the things he's "not saying"). But, if Paul can’t do his thing with a producer in his ear (rather than having to interject on the air) then we need a new Paul.

Concessions in much of the stadium are difficult to get to, especially pre-game and halftime. I don’t even bother. I would buy things when the vendors were walking the aisles, but didn’t see a one during the Auburn game. I do think selling bottled cokes for $3 is getting a bit carried away.

Halftime is too long (or at least it feels that way). Our band, unfortunately, is too small to really put on a big show. Quite honestly I’d rather watch the Springdale band.

Scores and stats are not well done on the scoreboards, and scores are often way behind. The big screen should be better utilized to provide stats during the game. There should be annoucements of other scores of interest during the game.

That spelling out “Go Hogs” at the end of the half doesn’t seem to work.

The band needs to play more and better during the game. That stretch in the third quarter the band should have been rocking between plays. Instead, we got to hear the very small Auburn band play while ours sat on its hands.

I would start the games at 7 instead of 6. I know there’s the issue of people driving back, but night games in Little Rock started at 7:30 for years.

All that said, I still believe the potential exist at Razorback Stadium to have amazing crowds. Part of that involves having something to cheer for. Early game time-outs on the goal line and less than desired results cause the Fayetteville crowd to shut off. The band and the spirit groups need to have some pieces of business worked up for these types of scenarios to help keep the crowd involved.

I think our people should consult with Jerry’s people in Dallas. Texas Stadium does a pretty good job with creating and maintaining excitement around the event. Of course, they do have those cheerleaders . . . . .

Auburn -- HogBlogger Quick Thoughts

Ok, I have to admit I was both right and wrong in my pre-game assessment of the Auburn game. I feared that we couldn’t score enough points to beat them, but felt that some easy early opportunities could give us a chance.

Problem was, we had early opportunities (provided by our defense) but couldn’t take advantage.

Right off the bat (as the saying goes), we got an interception, took the ball strong right down to the 5 yard line, and promptly called time-out. Players stood on the field and waited while the last minute of radio commercials played, allowing ARSN to avoid coming in late for the play (glad we got THAT straightened out), while the crowd sat on its hands wondering why the game was not continuing. All momentum was lost. How many times have we called time-out inside of the 10 yard line this year? This indicates to me a lack of situation preparation going into the game.

RoJo then under-throws a wide open Monk in the back of the end zone on what was an excellent play call. We then throw our patented pass to Peyton Hillis out in the flat (that I’m sure no defense we play would ever expect we might throw) in lieu of our usual draw play and the result was the need kick a field goal, which fortunately we executed to perfection.

Without going into great detail, the story is this: 4 red zone opportunities, 10 points. Defense stays on the field for . . . . well, just let’s look at the official time of possession.

1st Quarter.............9:26 Auburn, 5:34 Arkansas
2nd Quarter...........8:02 Auburn, 6:58 Arkansas
1st Half................17:28 Auburn, 12:32 Arkansas

You had to know at halftime that the odds were we were about to be smashed.

Things didn’t get any better. We got the ball to start the first half and promptly made 8 yards on first down. Then, no gain on a running play, and a failure to connect on our patented pass in the flat to Peyton Hillis. (How many times a game do we run this play?)

Auburn takes the ball and drives 73 yards for a touchdown, 40 of which were on the ground.

Time of possession for the second half.

3rd Quarter.............. 9:26 Auburn, 5:34 Arkansas
4th Quarter.............. 9:56 Auburn, 5:04 Arkansas
2nd half.................19:22 Auburn, 10:38 Arkansas

Here are the things that stood out to me.

Not taking advantage of early scoring opportunities. Scoring 21 first half points instead of 10 makes it a vastly different ball game. Points on the board makes all the difference in the world. Look at how Notre Dame hung in with USC – by moving the ball and scoring early in the game.

Our quarterback and receivers combined to miss several opportunities. There were two instances I saw clearly where the quarterback and receiver read the defense differently and didn’t connect. One would’ve have been a touchdown to the tight end, where the tight end made the right read and broke to the post while the quarterback threw underneath. Another on a key 3rd down when the receiver didn’t “sit down” in the zone causing the quarterback to appear to throw behind him. This has been a problem all year, and the past several years. In both situations the play calls were great. Execution was not there.

The amount or lack thereof of time we work on our passing game in practice and in the “easy” games comes into play here. These type of failures to execute are created back on the practice field and solved by repetitions and coaching. This isn’t about “ability”. It is about play design, and having quarterbacks and receivers on the same page as to mental execution.

Our passing game is just a mess. Beyond what I mention above, I still saw several poorly designed plays. On both long throws we had only two receivers in the pattern, both to the same side, and no check down receiver. These plays have no chance of success.

It was nice to see that pass protection was more than adequate.

What happened to the defense in the second half? At least 3 things. 1) We left them on the field too long in the first half. (Our offense can’t stay on the field very long it seems. This might be ok if we were actually scoring). 2) When you do great things on defense, stop your opponent, take away the ball, and your offense then comes up flat and puts the defense right back on the field, your defense gets discouraged as well as tired. 3) Auburn decided to take our “speed” and pursuit either out of the game (by playing “smash-mouth”) or by using it against us. Truth was, they were stopping themselves in the first half by not dealing effectively with our blitzes. We are best attacked on defense by doing only a few simple things. That’s what they started to do. That’s what everyone has been doing.

I continue to believe our offense leaves our defense hanging out to dry. Not getting points early when you could and should, 3 and outs, or really short possessions really hurt a defense. It’s been that way the last few years. For all of our talk about “time of possession” and the running game, we are pitiful at controlling the clock.

For the game, our amazing rushing game had 148 yards. We passed for 174 yards. 322 yards total. Auburn had 436 yards total. Over 240 of which came on 3 drives.

Halftime adjustments – none made. This is stupid. You need to do some things differently in the second half just to give the other team something to think about if nothing else. Build tendencies in the first half that you purposely counter in the second half. It’s not like there weren’t adjustments that needed to be made, as Auburn had plenty of success in the first half with some things.

I'll have a lot more to say as the week progresses, but in general, unless we find a offense we are not going to accomplish much the rest of the year. The one we have is not getting it done at all. Not even close.