Ole Miss offensive coordinator Phil Longo spoke to The Clarion-Ledger this week about the Rebels’ struggles on offense.

As the article points out, the Rebels have scored just three points in the past six quarters and haven’t scored a touchdown in 103 minutes. The defensive unit also has given up two touchdowns to Cal and Alabama’s defenses.

“It comes down to execution. I’m not happy with our last six quarters of play but this is a process. I’ve been through this before,” Longo said. “It’s just a process. We’ve got to take the offense and the players and we’ve got to close the window and get them to the same place. I think when that happens people will realize what these guys will be capable of in this system.”

Longo believes execution has been the primary issue with the offense thus far. He realizes, too, that there have been complaints from fans of the offense being too “predictable” and “simple.”

“I think we’ve been a little simple, I do. … Until we execute fundamentally, it’s not going to matter what we run,” he noted.

Longo said Ole Miss has to execute the basics of the offense before it can implement anything too creative.

“It’s hard to run the whole marathon before you run the half marathon,” he said. “I think the one thing we’re acknowledging is we’ve got D.K. Metcalf, DaMarkus Lodge, A.J. Brown and Shea Patterson. They’re all very popular names.

“They’re all very talented individuals,” Longo added. “But between them, before this year they had maybe eight starts. These guys aren’t seasoned veterans yet and we aren’t playing that way. Until we do, we’re going to see lack of execution. So what we need to do is get back to fundamentals and take a little more of the burden off players and play fast.”