The notes from the Duquesne game tell you everything you need to know about where this offense is, and where it wants to go. We don't need to pretend the first two weeks were pretty. They weren't. What matters is what Kirby Moore actually saw on film, and if you haven't watched The film room breakdown from the Duquesne game is worth your six seconds, you're behind. The staff is not panicking. They are adjusting.
What stood out in those notes is the shift in how receivers are being used. There's a clear effort to get the ball out faster, to let the athletes work in space rather than asking the line to hold for seven seconds. That's smart. It's also a direct response to what they saw against Arizona, where the pressure got home too often. Go back and read what Moore said after that one in Kirby Moore Breaks Down the Offense After Arizona. He wasn't making excuses. He was diagnosing. The Duquesne notes suggest he's treating the diagnosis. Routes are sharper. Timing is tighter. It's not revolutionary, but it's honest.
Our take is simple: this is a coaching staff that knows its ceiling, and it's not going to pretend otherwise. The offense is not built to chuck it 50 times and win a shootout. It's built to run through a few core concepts, execute them cleanly, and trust the defense to keep the game close. That's not a sexy plan. It's a realistic one. The notes from Duquesne show a team that is learning to play within itself, and for a group that looked disjointed in Tucson, that's real progress. The box score won't tell you that. The film room does.
Here's the specific takeaway you can text your buddy: watch the first drive against Duquesne again. Watch how the receivers adjust their stems based on the coverage. That's not instinct. That's a week of Moore hammering the same point. If that carries into conference play, the ceiling for this offense just got a little higher. If it doesn't, they're back to square one. Go Cougs.