Long Drives

[Coldsleeve Jr.]

The last coach I called for us to fire is Croom. In any sport. I didnt even call for us to fire Stands. I just kept pointing out how he did less with more

Seek self awareness

[Coach34]

Seek self awareness

seek posts where I called for Mullen to be fired since there are so many

[Coldsleeve Jr.]

seek posts where I called for Mullen to be fired since there are so many

Why would anyone waste their time? I can find 10,000 posts of you bitching and moaning about Mullen followed by drooling over the Moorhead hire.

[Maroonthirteen]

You take what the defense gives you. If they want to give you a three man rush and give you 4 to 5 yards you take that. If they get frustrated with that and start playing man then you go for the longer pass or the touchdown pass. If you can continue to get 4 to 5 yards on passes or runs per play then they will have to abandon the 3-8. We just weren't consistent prior to the TAMU game with the short passing game on continuing down the field (penalty, dropped pass, bad pass, missed block, etc.) so they could just stay pretty much in a 3-8 with a few blitzes thrown in.

Exactly. ^^^^


Also, it seemed to me that Marks made more guys miss and out ran a few and turned those dump offs from 1-3 yard gains to 5-8 yard gains. Will made a few more throws. The WR caught better. TAMU got impatient. TAMU knew they couldn't allow us to sustain long drives and flip the field and/or score. TAMU knew their offense wasn't going to score a lot of points or make long drives. So they gambled with trying to stop us quickly.

Also, the early TO was them and not us. It was big that we got an early lead.

[sleepy dawg]

Lolz! Good thing I didn't mistype!

102K posts?!? First I've seen since I've been on here. Glad I brought you out of retirement.

I took a couple of years off, but damn, do I really have that many posts? Surely that's a mistake.

[Johnson85]

Thats a lie. Link it. I never called for us to fire Mullen. You are a lying moron

What does it mean to declare that you no longer support a coach and his staff if it doesn't mean you want them fired? Are you arguing that you said they needed to be fired but you didn't actually call for us to fire him?

[Coldsleeve Jr.]

What does it mean to declare that you no longer support a coach and his staff if it doesn't mean you want them fired? Are you arguing that you said they needed to be fired but you didn't actually call for us to fire him?

"It doesn't count unless you type the word 'fire'"**

[ShotgunDawg]

To add to it from what Jordan Rodgers was saying during the game broadcast - if the defense is only giving you the dink and dunk, then you have to have the patience and ability to pick them apart that way until you force them to break the drop 8 or whatever zone they apply. So I think possibly you still have a chance for some 10+ play drives if that is what the defense is giving you. As Rodgers said (and to give C34 some credit on his criticisms of Leach) you HAVE to make those 10+ play drives convert into points.

In Wyatt's film breakdown, he showed some throws that Will made that were not dink & dunk vs the 3-8.

The 3-8 has been over played by the MSU fan base. It's not an issue when the offense is run correctly

[ShotgunDawg]

When facing a 3-8 we cannot afford zero or negative yard completions that we had so many of prior to this weekend.

We also had more 10-12 yard completions this weekend which seems necessary to make this offense go.

The 3-8 is not an issue when Will does his job & makes the right reads

[ShotgunDawg]

The last coach I called for us to fire is Croom. In any sport. I didnt even call for us to fire Stands. I just kept pointing out how he did less with more

I called for Joe to be fired after the Tennessee game. That was when I knew it had to be done

[BrunswickDawg]

In Wyatt's film breakdown, he showed some throws that Will made that were not dink & dunk vs the 3-8.

The 3-8 has been over played by the MSU fan base. It's not an issue when the offense is run correctly

I agree with what you are saying. I've believed all along that this system takes a solid season or two to perfect. We are just now getting comfortable in it. Will and the WRs seem to be getting it more every week. The next step will be Will understanding when to audible to a run play so our backs are getting closer to 20-25 carries a game. I know everyone wants that to be on Leach right now - but Leach's whole philosophy revolves around teaching the QB how to manage the game. Leach isn't going to call straight run plays - it's going to be the QB's job to pick those moments correctly and allow the RBs to gash the opponents.

[sleepy dawg]

I agree with what you are saying. I've believed all along that this system takes a solid season or two to perfect. We are just now getting comfortable in it. Will and the WRs seem to be getting it more every week. The next step will be Will understanding when to audible to a run play so our backs are getting closer to 20-25 carries a game. I know everyone wants that to be on Leach right now - but Leach's whole philosophy revolves around teaching the QB how to manage the game. Leach isn't going to call straight run plays - it's going to be the QB's job to pick those moments correctly and allow the RBs to gash the opponents.

Most teams will show us basically the same look all game, right? If so, what are you basing your audible on?

[Turfdawg67]

I took a couple of years off, but damn, do I really have that many posts? Surely that's a mistake.

It's gotta be. No one will take that title from MS7.

[Mjoelner34]

The 3-8 is not an issue when Will does his job & makes the right reads

Also when the receivers make the right reads and break-off or alter routes and 5 can block 3. All 3 phases of that worked perfectly Saturday night.