No. You havent bested anyone. You say the same thing every time and Will does the same thing every time. Lead the team and for the most part, win. Im done. Again eat shit and piss off.
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If you throw our lower division teams, we have only outperformed 1 team in total offense vs our opponents' common opponents. It was usf vs nc st... we got 45 more yards than USF. Ark st got 212 more than us vs memphis. Vs la tech, we got 435, which is 174 less than SELa and 143 less than smu.
See this just proves me right even more. When have I said that he is better that Corral? Obviously he is not the athlete Corral is. But if you put Corral here and made him throw it 65 times a game behind an OL that only has 2 or 3 guys with any considerable reps in the system, then add in the drops we have what would be the result? Will is doing all he can do. He is not perfect but I can promise you if Corral is in this offense we would turn it over at a way higher rate.
Leach has to adapt. He has to add to what he is running and there is plenty there to take advantage of.
Ive never seen State fans worship OM like ive seen here lately. They beat us on a fumble at the foot line while we had 43 kids on the sideline. But yall think they are going to beat the Chiefs
This is a pretty accurate take IMO. Will is very hesitant, he doesn't come off of his presnap reads and find 2nd and 3rd receivers well, and he cannot throw accurately while on the move hardly at all. Arm strength does seem to be lacking some too. Can Will improve on all those ... I believe he can but he has a pretty good ways to go yet. Just compare Will to Gardner Minshew. It's night and day.
C34 can pound on the "system" all he wants but at the very least it should work against teams like Memphis and the lower to mid-tier SEC teams. Will it work against the Bamas, FLs, GAs of the world? Maybe not. But Memphis has a bad D and it should work against them regardless. It has historically worked against teams at that level or even above over many years.
Our talent level isn't very high plus the offense is really in Will's hands at the LOS. Blame Leach all you want but in his system Will can check off to anything he wants to at the LOS. And the OL and skill players all have to be on the same page. They're all still young and haven't grasped that yet near as I can tell. Also, our RBs may be somewhat tough with some power but they are not very elusive at all. I don't think they have developed great vision either yet. So IMO execution right now is the bigger problem.
I will add that Leach letting the punt return go by without a review was pathetic and pissed me off too. Sometimes I do wonder myself if he's semi-retired. While I haven't been keeping up with recruiting like I normally do, he seems to be letting some of our top DL in the State get away from us ... and that is our bread and butter and MS produces as many or more top DL as any state in the country. We gotta get those guys.
So IMO it's a combination of all and I personally always believe most any coach needs at least 3 and really 4 years to get a program turned around when it was bad coming in. There will be somewhat significant ups/downs along the way. And ours was bad after Moorhead screwed it up. This team does remind me somewhat of Mullen's 2016 team. Not sure there is as much talent on it tho.
The most disappointing thing about Leach is the sloppiness and a lack of attention to detail. Everything else is what we thought it was.
I hope the kinks get worked out. I hope Rogers figured out how to read the whole field and find the wide ass open receivers. But I’m not a fan of this style of offense…and wasn’t when we hired the man. Nothing has changed my mind.
Lets compare Minshew to Will. Minshew didnt get a D1 offer. There goes the Will has no talent theory. Minshew started in JUCO then transferred from 2 different schools before he was a 6th year senior at WSU. Will is a Soph. That is not a fair comparison. I know both of them very well and I can tell you they were both a lot a like. I couldnt care less if anyone believes me or not.
Not arguing those points. Not here to bash Will either. I said Will needs to improve a lot of things. Also pointed out he's still young and he is a true soph. One of his main problems right now may be confidence in his decisions which may be why he's hesitant.
Some people on here bashed our historic best players ever and ready to sit them if they make one mistake. That's just what they do especially in game threads. Try not to overreact to strenuously when they do that cause no matter what ... they will do that.
Just like now ... I said he has a lot of improvement to make and you jumping up to vehemently defend him. What's kinda unrealistic some is how you're automatically projecting him to be as good as our best ever sometimes ... or at least it's coming across that way. He ain't there yet by a long stretch. He's gonna get criticized dude no matter how good he becomes. Better kinda get used to it.
Oh believe me I am fine with criticism. He is not perfect but the hate on him here is over the top. He knows he missed a TD to Polk on the first post route. Nobody is harder on Will than Will is.
Some folks almost always think there's a backup that's better. In our history Dak may have been the only exception to that.
Mullen's 2016 team was like that too. Frustrating as hell to watch. Then they turned into the 2017 team and would've really given Bama a run in 2018 IMO if Mullen stays.
ETA: My main point is that a lot of that can be attributed to youth. And this is still a very young team.
The reason we are struggling is not Will?s fault.
He is doing what he can based on the offense he is being asked to run.
The fact that we are being outschemed every week by CUSA defensive coordinators is not Will?s fault.
Washington showed everyone the blueprint yo beat this offense. Leach refuses to adjust. Blaming Will is lazy.
Y'all are so full of it. Y'all aren't seeing receivers down field open.
The check downs are because that is all that is open vs a drop 8. Anytime he does throw more than a 5 yard pass, the wr is clobbered immediately because those DBs are top of the wr.
Anyways, doesn't matter, people see they want.
I didn't record it but my recollection is we moved the ball somewhat well against drop 8 (rushing 3) in 1st half, with throws downfield a ways (10 maybe 15 yarders). It was when they rushed 4 (and dropped 7) in 2nd half when we looked like crap struggled more to move or sustain drives.
Leach's downfall will be not changing his offensive philosophy to evolve a running game to compliment his air raid passing style. I think he needs a good dual threat QB w/ a couple of big, bruising backs.
Maybe so but he also needs the personnel to do that. Right now he doesn't have that and maybe he isn't recruiting it either. I'm not keeping up with recruiting enough to know for sure right now. Historically speaking tho his QBs don't run and I do think that would help if we had a QB that could make teams pay more when 8 are dropped. So you may have a valid point if he doesn't adapt some.
Just having an athletic dual threat QB on the goal line plays would totally change things. Another wrinkle a defense has to think about. A 6'3" 235 QB who can throw it but can also bowl over a LB for a chunk of real estate four or five times a game would do wonders for this offense.
They played a 3 man front probably 65-68 of the 83 plays we ran. They didn’t do any big changing in the 2nd half
You mean like our 2014 or 17 teams that were pretty good. Mature and experienced. Players maybe similar to what Leach has that were developed over time. Were those OLinemen on either team 4* players at all (1 on 2016 was). One walk-on Olineman on 2014 team. 2013 up/down year. 2016 up/down year. I suggest you develop a better memory of past regimes. Or maybe stick to Hoops.
Unfortunately, we're just riding it out again. Waiting on our next coach and praying someone makes the right decision.
8 of our 11 offensive starters are JR’s or Sr’s. Just how old do we have to be?
Our team under Mullen immediately became better running the ball. The reason? Better scheme.
We went from embarrassment to really good in the span of one year, from 2008 to 2009.
If you think I?m wrong, go back and watch the 2008 egg bowl and then watch the 2009 egg bowl. Mullen installed a competent offense and took advantage of what we had, he didn?t wait 3-4 years to bring his guys in.
Leach is getting paid to win games now, not run a scheme we aren?t equipped to run.
I was under the impression that Leach didn?t need big time QBs. So I don?t blame Will. It?s the offense.