A Couple of Quick QB Thoughts

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Originally Posted by TaleofTwoDogs

The last pro style QB that had success was Joe Reed. He was pretty damn good in the pocket, but that was 50 years ago. Tyler brought in the run first offenses and we have had some kick-ass run offenses since Tyler. I agree with everybody else that you need to have the OL to execute the air raid offense so it may be a couple years before we see what Leach can do.

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Dave Marler and Tony Shell both had excellent passing years from the pocket but neither had a competent defense to pair with them.

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Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg

3. I still think it's dumb to try to have pocket passing QBs at MSU. Virtually every good QB we've ever had was a mobile, dual threat type: Bond, Felker, Don Smith, Sleepy, Madkin, Omarr, Relf, Dak, Fitz. Conversely, some of our biggest busts or terrible QBs were pocket passers: Todd Jordan, Taite, Fant, Henig, Tyler Russel, etc. Why is that? IMO, it's because our OL and WR talent is too inconsistent. We can never seem to have all 3 positions be SEC quality at the same time. Sometimes we were lucky if just one of the three positions were SEC quality. For instance: I'll always believe Fant was good enough, but our OL wasn't even JUCO quality when he was here, so he took beating after beating and eventually developed QB PTSD. Tyler Russell didn't really have the WRs he needed to be successful. I could go on and on



Hail State!

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You needed to go back just a little farther. Dave Marler was an outstanding pocket passer in his one season at MSU (?78). But he?s probably the only exception that I can think of.