Louisville football's 2025 season is just 12 days away, and the Cardinals' fans are growing a little concerned for their offense. Louisville held its third and final scrimmage on Saturday, and while Jeff Brohm gave some good news and updates on the defense, he explained the offense isn't reaching its potential currently.
Brohm spoke about how he saw it after the third scrimmage, and while he isn't sounding all the alarms, he is clearly concerned with the offense heading into week one. The Cardinals have some easier opponents before their showdown with Pitt in week five, but Brohm made it clear this offense must improve.
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Jeff Brohm isn't impressed with his offense heading into game prep
While Brohm didn't dive into players specifically, he made it clear that they must execute and they must play together. He mentioned the No. 11 multiple times when he talked about the offense, and that it takes every player on the field to execute their job every play.
“Offense, it’s been up and down," Brohm stated after the fall scrimmage. "Our playmakers normally show up, and they've got to show up every game. They have to do it in practice and we have to get the other ones ready to go, we have to figure out ways to protect the quarterback as much as we can, we have to get the running game going, but I think good learning experience throughout camp and we know things we have to work on to get better."
Brohm wasn't impressed with the offensive line after the second scrimmage, and he isn't impressed after Saturday as well. The offensive line must give Miller Moss some time and block for this run game if Louisville wants any chance to return to Charlotte, and Brohm agrees.
He knows his "playmakers" will show up, like Chris Bell, Caullin Lacy, and of course Brown and Duke Watson. But if this line can't block and win the battle of the trenches, then it might not matter.
"Offensively, I think all 11 on offense have to execute in order to succeed," Brohm stated. "So offensively, like we told them all 11 got to do their job. They got to know exactly what to do, and they got to execute; otherwise, we can have a negative play that’ll set us back and make us punt.”
Brohm also stated there were times when they were sacked, called for holding, or just made ill-advised mistakes that would make the Cardinals punt the ball away. Louisville's defense is playing much better than anyone could have imagined, but this offense must step up and find ways to score like last season if it wants a shot at making the College Football Playoffs.
Louisville shouldn't have any issues with Eastern Kentucky, and it will be a good week one matchup for the offense to see what they must work on and get some real game film. But, week two versus James Madison is a sneaky game, and then they have a big test week five against Pitt.
The Cardinals' 2025 season will go as far as this offense can take them. So, Brohm isn't screaming in panic, but he does appear to have an eyebrow raised after fall camp, heading into week one.
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