My Biggest Concern for FB 2023

[Todd4State]

I've been saying the same but keep getting told these guys run blocked in high school. We will see.

Me too!

[confucius say]

I?m not concerned about their run blocking. Look at how we they blocked for the run with only 5 OL. Look at the Texas A&M game especially. When asked to run block they had no problems. Now add a TE to that and maybe even an H-Back on some plays.

Were we running against a 5 man box?

[Coach34]

They were basically blocking five on three or four the vast majority of the time plus we spread the defenders out with our formation.

That's not going to happen this year when we line up in a two tight end set and our OC is telling the world we want to establish the run. Unless we line up like that in an obvious pass situation or something.

We won’t be in a 2 TE set very often. We don’t have enough TE’s

[CaptainObvious]

Is Cooper staying on Offense or moving back to Defense?

[Todd4State]

Is Cooper staying on Offense or moving back to Defense?

I think he's moving back to defense.

[Todd4State]

We won’t be in a 2 TE set very often. We don’t have enough TE’s

We were in them a lot during the spring game. And that was before we have Goede and Spivey coming in. Then we have Harmon and Clayton.

[CaptainObvious]

Thanks. Where are they projecting Isaac Smith to play and do they think he will be healthy by fall camp?

I was just reading about this guy. He had 25 total interceptions in High School. 2 as Fr, 6 as a So, 8 as a Jr., 9 as a Sr. Does he not have the speed to play corner? That?s some 4 Star numbers for sure!

[Todd4State]

I was just reading about this guy. He had 25 total interceptions in High School. 2 as Fr, 6 as a So, 8 as a Jr., 9 as a Sr. Does he not have the speed to play corner? That?s some 4 Star numbers for sure!

He's a safety all the way. And he's going to be a really good one.

[speedy1972]

He's a safety all the way. And he's going to be a really good one.

Yes, I agree 100%. I've watched this kid play many times in person and he's out there playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers. Not only was he the best athlete on the field in HS, he was always the smartest player on the field. He goes up and gets the football and can score when he gets it. Also was the punter on a top 3 or 4 team in 4A. Barring injury, I could see him being an All-American before his time is over in Starkville.

[speedy1972]

Made the president's list in his first semester at MSU as well.

[Cooterpoot]

We lack quality TEs. We'll see some 2 TE, but I agree with C34. It won't be as much as some believe.

[confucius say]

We won’t be in a 2 TE set very often. We don’t have enough TE’s

I expect a good bit of 11 personnel.

[Reason2succeed]

Having a running game isn?t rocket science. Numbers usually win. Block the guy in front of you that could make the tackle. Double team the star player.

Like I said before I am much more worried about all of these new starters in the secondary knowing their assignments and avoiding coverage busts.

To go along with this I am interested to see if transfers are more likely to do well when they come up from a lower level of competition with a lot of production or from a higher level of competition but without the on field experience. My guess is the latter.

[RockyDog]

What is Arizona supposed to look like this year? I know they built a portal team last year and De Laura put up big numbers but seemed to struggle against teams with a pulse on defense. Hopefully our defense and a cross country road trip will help stifle them. We sure don't need a shootout in a must win OOC game especially so early in the season.

[Captain Falcon]

What is Arizona supposed to look like this year? I know they built a portal team last year and De Laura put up big numbers but seemed to struggle against teams with a pulse on defense. Hopefully our defense and a cross country road trip will help stifle them. We sure don't need a shootout in a must win OOC game especially so early in the season.

They are improving as a program but I think we will be fine in a night game at home. I am expecting something similar to when NC State came to town two years ago. Talked myself into being worried going in, then we won comfortably.

[RockyDog]

They are improving as a program but I think we will be fine in a night game at home. I am expecting something similar to when NC State came to town two years ago. Talked myself into being worried going in, then we won comfortably.

Thanks to Tulu's kick return and a bend but don't break defense. The offense was terrible. We don't need a repeat of that.

[Big4Dawg]

What is Arizona supposed to look like this year? I know they built a portal team last year and De Laura put up big numbers but seemed to struggle against teams with a pulse on defense. Hopefully our defense and a cross country road trip will help stifle them. We sure don't need a shootout in a must win OOC game especially so early in the season.

Their o/u team wins is 5

[coachnorm]

What I am looking forward to is an offense that is not scheme compliant in its ABSOLUTE form. Every football offense has some kind of scheme but SCHEME cannot negate match-up principles shortcomings. Over the last couple seasons, there was too much step counting and attempted geometric perfection. Without making this statement into a coaching clinic, why do some receivers cut on their inside foot? The answer is the receiver is executing a technique of breaking the cushion and manipulating the defender by forcing his hips to flip. This is not step counting. When the hips flip, the receiver immediately makes his cut regardless if it is the preferred or not preferred foot. The receiver can not give the defender make up time to get back into his technique.

None of this upper tiered technique has been executed with us. We just get distracted with scheme compliance. Remember, any high school coordinator worth his weight in salt, has attended the requisite clinics or had face to face exposure with college or NFL coaches to understand schemes. Scheme execution is just a break-even proposition at best. Big games are won by managing match-ups by coaches that have learned how to do so. BTW many new high school football coaches are former NFL guys that understand match-up and they are embarrassing incumbent scheme scrubs coaching their thing for decades.

I believe that this scheme bullshit of late will get upgraded with someone who understands match-ups. BTW, when a QB throws on faith that his receiver will execute the requisite technique to get positioned to win contested catches, pass blocking shortcoming all of a sudden become fewer because someone is not holding on to the ball all confused.

[BuckyIsAB****]

We won’t be in a 2 TE set very often. We don’t have enough TE’s

Maybe but we have 2 that we have some really high expectations for

[BuckyIsAB****]

What I am looking forward to is an offense that is not scheme compliant in its ABSOLUTE form. Every football offense has some kind of scheme but SCHEME cannot negate match-up principles shortcomings. Over the last couple seasons, there was too much step counting and attempted geometric perfection. Without making this statement into a coaching clinic, why do some receivers cut on their inside foot? The answer is the receiver is executing a technique of breaking the cushion and manipulating the defender by forcing his hips to flip. This is not step counting. When the hips flip, the receiver immediately makes his cut regardless if it is the preferred or not preferred foot. The receiver can not give the defender make up time to get back into his technique.

None of this upper tiered technique has been executed with us. We just get distracted with scheme compliance. Remember, any high school coordinator worth his weight in salt, has attended the requisite clinics or had face to face exposure with college or NFL coaches to understand schemes. Scheme execution is just a break-even proposition at best. Big games are won by managing match-ups by coaches that have learned how to do so. BTW many new high school football coaches are former NFL guys that understand match-up and they are embarrassing incumbent scheme scrubs coaching their thing for decades.

I believe that this scheme bullshit of late will get upgraded with someone who understands match-ups. BTW, when a QB throws on faith that his receiver will execute the requisite technique to get positioned to win contested catches, pass blocking shortcoming all of a sudden become fewer because someone is not holding on to the ball all confused.

Man that is a huge word salad but I can tell you that what foot you cut off of is based on the route. The problem for State wasnt the routes it was the folks running them