The Current Status of MSU Football As I See It

[MetEdDawg]

Here's my hope. Mike Leach has basically forced SEC defenses to do one thing. Play zone. How the zone is executed will change, but for the most part, in less than one season he's dictated how defenses will have to play him.

My hope is that given a proper offseason and another year of learning the system, he will be able to effectively attack both the zone and man. He will have a QB that can diagnose what the defense is giving him and execute it quickly and efficiently.

We saw glimpses of that Saturday. We dictated things for a couple drives and took advantage of what was given to us. If we can continue to do that and take advantage of what the defense is trying to force us to do, we will be very tough to stop. And that's the point of the Leach offense. You give the defense so much to prepare for you confuse the piss out of them and take advantage of it.

[ShotgunDawg]

Here's my hope. Mike Leach has basically forced SEC defenses to do one thing. Play zone. How the zone is executed will change, but for the most part, in less than one season he's dictated how defenses will have to play him.

My hope is that given a proper offseason and another year of learning the system, he will be able to effectively attack both the zone and man. He will have a QB that can diagnose what the defense is giving him and execute it quickly and efficiently.

We saw glimpses of that Saturday. We dictated things for a couple drives and took advantage of what was given to us. If we can continue to do that and take advantage of what the defense is trying to force us to do, we will be very tough to stop. And that's the point of the Leach offense. You give the defense so much to prepare for you confuse the piss out of them and take advantage of it.

This is 100% correct.

That’s what exciting. We haven’t been able to get top level SEC defenses out of man coverage in our history and Leach has done it on 7 games.

Think about that. Think about the gravity of that and what the future will look like when our 5 year starter knows exactly what defense he’s facing every week.

All C34 has talked about for years is how new SEC offensive guys struggle with all the man to man. Well, Leach threw that right out the door.

Are we great against zone yet? No, but for goodness sakes we’ve only got to practice against one thing. My guess is we’ll be excellent against it this time next year.