Defient, we have a very vocal, small minority that is negative right now.
The overwhelming majority of the fan base sees the progress.
We're better right now on offense than we have been 2017 & basically doing it with freshmen
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I don't know where you get that "inferior team" stuff. If you have been paying attention they have not been inferior to us, not even close. It took Vandy having five turnovers for us to beat them. Once people figured out the proper defense for us we have been really bad on offense. The last two games finally showed some signs of life. That with 49 and 43 scholarship players available. I don't like the air raid either. I thought we made absolutely the wrong hire for us and said so at the time. The fact is that we are stuck with him for at least two, probably three, more years. Since that is the case I want it to work. The last two games it has looked better. If you are expecting Leach to have a running game in order for you to be happy, you aren't going to be happy. This is what he does and he isn't going to change.
I agree about this offseason being one of Leach's biggest ever.
I believe that Leach is extremely intelligent.
Now, here's the kicker. Will he apply that intelligence into incorporating a run game with his scheme??
Ohhhh how I hope he does. IMO if Leach would truly work hard at coming up with an AIR-RUN RAID, he could create something special.
Kicking a couple of field goals change the game Cooter. Coming away from no points is a "downer" especially in a tight game. So laugh all you want cause Msu has a hard time scoring if you are paying close attention. Just saying and really not trying to bash you or others. I think Gun made the comment about Msu scoring 40.
My point was a knock at Kiffin for being a dumb ass and O was glad he played into our strength, defense.
Bottom line, we need better offensive linemen to enhance our running game and we definitely need better DB's. I knew when I saw Corral launch those long passes that they were going to be TD's. We also need to get stronger. Looked to me like Ealy carried our whole defense into the end zone.
ED is mostly shotgun posting the talking points that he is fed from someone or what he is parroting from the Out of Bounds show. If someone post an alternate opinion, he is quick to chime in with the excuse du-jour. Then the thread evolves into arguments over the validity of the excuses.
It's obvious though that the MSU AD wants to get the message out of.... "patience." "Work In progress". Bo Bounds has said it for weeks now on every show in some form or fashion.
We seem to be in phase 2 of keep the fans on the bandwagon.
"Oh look at that, we almost won. Getting better."
Let?s look at why we didn?t score more.. 1st thing the fumble at the goal line. That?s 7 more points. In the 2nd half. We had 2 drives stopped on third down - not by the Rebs but our Center-two drives, that was a killer. Then on another drive we had the 15 yard chop block penalty. Then when we really needed Heath to make a play ?Will hits him in both hands and he fails to make the crucial catch. That was huge, I instead of the Hail Mary we would have tried a FG to tie. Ole Miss really didn?t stop Us we stopped Us.
Walley and Heath saved Rogers last night. Most of his passes to Heath were 4 yards over his head. Now that could've been designed that way due to Maliks height but it got him hurt at the end of the game. Walley is just a stud. He has been that way since 10th grade. A good thing about Rogers that no one has mentioned is his escapability. He started having success when he rolled out. This brought the Lbs up and provided time for the receivers to get open. Big difference from Costello. But in the future if Leach doesn't incorporate a strong running attack this offense will not work. Everyone talks about how great it was back in the 90's well I don't remember Kentucky having many wining seasons then. And for everyone saying Mullen didn't leave any Recruits well he left us stocked, but it was for his type of offense. Moorhead was just a very bad head coach.
Listen to Nick Fitzgerald's interview on a MSU podcast. It shed a lot of light into why the culture eroded. Basically the players respected Mullen because he would jump their ass and keep them in line. When Moorhead came in- and this is per Fitzgerald- players basically took advantage of his personality which was a lot more "let's be friends" than anything based on what he said.
I'm not saying that makes them "bad guys" as in a bad person but I do think it's probably hard to go from a coach being your friend environment to another hardass.
Let's not act like Dan didn't have any "moral victories" in year one. LSU and Florida come to mind. And Florida was only close because Banks returned two pick sixes. We averaged 22 PPG that year and then 18 over the next two years. Right now we're at 18 for context. And Dan's "offense" was aided statistically by at least three pick sixes that year stat wise whereas we've only had one this year.
If you told me before the game that we score 24 points and punt the ball 6 times and turn it over once, I would assume everyone would be furious.
Just because our defense kept us in the game with their red zone defense;
Moorhead went to Oxford and ran the ball down their throats in 2018, and yet our current HC was determined to pass it all over the field;
We scored 24 points against a historically bad bear defense.
I get it, I don?t want to think we made a bad hire, and hopefully we keep playing well, we have two winnable games left;