Great posts Cadaver.

Mullen has a real conundrum in his QB development.

- By teaching QBs to check down, he is teaching them the right way to play the position assuming fairly equal talent going against him.

- checking down gives you very little chance to play above yourself and pull upsets. It requires that you have to run too many plays per drive against superior talented players to score. The way to pull upsets is with quick strikes and big plays. Mullen's philosophy removes that chance unless he can impose his will in the running, which just isn't going to happen vs top 5 recruiters.

I feel like we've reached the point of insanity vs these teams. We continue to do the same thing every time, say we didn't execute, etc and continue to see the same result.

Mullen, you've been at MSU for 9 years and you've never beaten Bama and looked like garbage last night. If we haven't "executed" in 9 years against this type of team, why do you think it's going to happen in year 10?

To continue to harp on this insanity.