Sunday Morning QB- We Are Who They Thought We Were Edition

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Originally Posted by Bothrops

So odd for MSU football to have great skill players like Shapen, Coleman, Mosley, Craver, Traore, and a Safety like I Smith but lack so much in the trenches.

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It is weird isn?t it. But historically we can get those trench guys so I don?t hate the approach of getting someone who can recruit and coach the other stuff, give Lebby 2 years to turn over the roster

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

I sure am glad we dont get the ball out quickly to our RBs anymore. The play fakes to the RBs on 3rd and 22 are so much more fun to watch

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I’ll make sure to do Year 1 comparison between Leach and Lebby at season’s end

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Originally Posted by Coach34

I’ll make sure to do Year 1 comparison between Leach and Lebby at season’s end

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Sounds good. Let?s see how much of a fight we put up with a full 85 and a spring practice. Leach didn?t have either

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

Sounds good. Let?s see how much of a fight we put up with a full 85 and a spring practice. Leach didn?t have either

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Man let it go. Leach passed away. We didn?t fire him, he didn?t retire, it was his time to get called home. He isn?t coming back. I hope you enjoy Will?s success at Washington this year and I hope you enjoy what Sam and Nelson are doing at Brandon. You do know that yall aren?t running the Air Raid there right? Do you vocalize that in meetings as much as you do here?

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

No. Not if the rumor about us hitting the portal hard in the offseason is true that is. Which remains to be seen.

Also if Hutzler doesn't improve we will replace him.

We can rebuild pretty quickly because of the portal.

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Not if we cant evaluate any better than we did this year.

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Originally Posted by parabrave

Well we got a QB who can do that.

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Originally Posted by DEDawg

Because we have. We haven?t seen us stretch the field like this since Tommy Stevens (but Shapen is actually hitting those passes)

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Yes, I was complimenting our QB on his ability to stretch the field. He?s accurate too.

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Originally Posted by Homedawg

Not if we cant evaluate any better than we did this year.

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Yeah I don’t know if we scooped up leftovers because we had to have bodies, or our evaluations were not very good. Either way, something has to change for the better. Or lastly, that’s all we could afford.

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Originally Posted by Bdawg

Yeah I don’t know if we scooped up leftovers because we had to have bodies, or our evaluations were not very good. Either way, something has to change for the better. Or lastly, that’s all we could afford.

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1st year Coach walked into a messed up locker room. No way in his first year as HC he was gonna knock it out of the park. He now has a little more information what he needs going forward.

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Originally Posted by BankerDog

Man let it go. Leach passed away. We didn?t fire him, he didn?t retire, it was his time to get called home. He isn?t coming back. I hope you enjoy Will?s success at Washington this year and I hope you enjoy what Sam and Nelson are doing at Brandon. You do know that yall aren?t running the Air Raid there right? Do you vocalize that in meetings as much as you do here?

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I really just like giving 34 hell

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Originally Posted by Homedawg

Not if we cant evaluate any better than we did this year.

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This is the part that eludes some, we actually spent significant NIL money on guys this year. I don't understand the guys we brought in, and the overall gameplan on how to use NIL to get difference-makers on campus.

Spending NIL to get some some G5/borderline P4 guys is not a smart strategy.

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Originally Posted by Choctaw Dawg

When your Safety is leading the team in tackling, its a pretty telling sign that your front 7 is not that great.

Linebacking core was non existent last night.

Bit of a hot take, our offense was worse than our defense yesterday. We expected a rough defense this year, and we all expected a high scoring game. I was of the opinion all week that if we score 30 plus which I figured we could be capable of doing last night we would win the ball game. The offense came up short of that with an awful first half to blame for it.

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It's hard on an offense when your defense can't get off the field. A drive killing mistake on two different series can cost you most of a half. An adequate defense and our offense gets a change to recover after a mistake and get back into rhythm. That's basically what happened in the third quarter.

Anyone could see the 3-3-5 was not stopping the run and it shouldn't have taken 3 1/2 quarters to adjust. I also read all preseason how fast we were and even had a speed coach in our S&C program. Our entire D, especially LB's looked slow. Without Issac Smith they put up 50. We also seem to have spent little time on wrapping up while trying to. make a tackle. We have a very young coaching staff ecept for a coach that can no longer close the deal on DL talent it seems. Oh well, maybe we improve. Hail State!