First off to 7 since I know you are reading this, I will officially cancel the ban bet bc I like you honestly. Dont always agree but thats fine. I never had hard feelings about any of it.
Secondly for anyone who still thinks the offense cant work or that Will isnt the guy you are beyond help. If you think Will just benefits from the system I will leave you with this, if you swapped Corrall and Rogers, OM would be just as good and we would be in trouble. Will could run OMs offense with his eyes closed. One is extremely demanding on the QB, nothing functions at all without him. The other asks him to read one conflict defender or hand it off. Other than that throw it as far as you can. If you cant see that you dont know football as well as you think you do. Also, Will is so much better than Minshew was at this point that it is not even close. Will did not run true air raid in HS. Trust me. I would know. He ran concepts of it but it was mostly RPO stuff with some air raid. Shallow cross Y cross but it is not close to what he is doing now. He handed it off more on power than he did true air raid.
As far as this team goes Leach is one of the best hires in the history of the school. There are going to be frustrating moments but we had plenty of those with Jackie and Mullen. This team should easily be 10-2 and tbh the biggest reasons why we are not are out of our control. We were hosed in 2 games. Plain and simple. We lost to LSU bc we did not play well until late and Alabama kicked our teeth in.
We are going to beat ole miss. If we tackle and sit back and make Corrall beat us and slow down Ealy/Conner it may not be close. Their vaunted offense is not so vaunted anymore. I had been saying that all year but it is what it is. Their best shot is to max protect, put Drummond in the slot on our safeties and sling it deep. Other than that they are in trouble.
The OL was the biggest key to our season and when we put 57 in we got exponentially better. 78 is a head case at this point but he plays hard and the coaches are there every day. If we had someone better they would be in. The WRs grew up after Alabama and they have figured it out. The drop 8 myth is dead. Drop 8 if you want to. 7 and 23 will make you miss and 85 and 24 know where to sit down. 2 is pretty accurate. It does force us to kick FGs we just have to make them or find a way to punch it in on the ground. Win fade balls. The key to stopping us is pressure and being physical with our WRs. OM has one kid who could get pressure but they dont have a soul who is going to cover us or tackle in space. They are going to put 7 on 78 and let it ride.
Defensively we played as bad as you possibly could for about 1 and a half quarters. We could not get lined up nor adjust to save our life. Jett Johnson played by far his worst game. Brule played his best. Give credit to Arnett for making adjustments bc we do not come back if we dont stop Tank and line up. That was the biggest thing. Our safeties are a problem but its just like with 78. If we had anyone else they would be in. I still think we do too much on defense scheme wise but we play hard and make people throw the ball to beat us. We have to find some safeties who can cover if we are going to stay with this look. We are going to have to make Corrall drop back and throw it. We cannot let them gash us and get their tempo going. We are going to win up front and they wont beat our CBS enough to win. I would really love to see 30 come in at safety on passing downs to give us a better chance.
Special teams were better and McCord is giving us all he has. Ruiz is done here.