Is Mullen/MSU football taking another step?

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Just gonna respond to everything from this thread in 1 post:


5) Good teams are able to run vs other good teams. We have less than 100 yards total vs LSU the last 2 seasons- yet they gave up 117 yards per game last year. Auburn gave up 132 yards per game- we only had 103 vs them on 33 carries. We have lacked talent on the OL.

You are a coach. Um, sorry, your buddy coach34 is a coach, so surely he's taught you enough that you know it isn't this simple. At the time we played LSU and Auburn, we were extremely one dimensional on offense. Fitz was shaky and hadn't settled in. We weren't throwing the ball especially well. Yes, our OL talent was lacking....but you don't just line up and run the ball against those teams, you have to do other things to open up the run...especially with our OL struggling the way it was. Those are things were weren't able to do against LSU and Auburn. Especially Auburn. It's just not as simple as to say, we couldn't run the ball because the OL sucked. If teams have a solid defense and load the box, it really doesn't matter how good your OL is. You gotta be able to do some other things to open it up.

ETA: Trying to run Holloway on interior zone reads and off tackle didn't help matters either. I wish we had gone with Aeris a lot sooner. But my point still remains....you can't be one dimensional and expect to run the ball on anyone in the SEC (except Arkansas and Ole Miss).