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Schedule really sets up nice. South carolina got hot late but started slow and I expect the same this year. A lot of big games at home could be a special year.
9 should be the expectation
Southeastern Louisiana (H) - W
Arizona(H) - W
LSU (H) - Toss
South Carolina (away) - W
Alabama (H) - L until we beat them
Western Michigan (H) - W
Arkansas (A) - Toss Id say a win but toss since its away
Auburn (A) - W
Kentucky (H) -W
Texas A&M (A) - W until Jumbo leaves
Southern Miss (H) - W
Ole Piss (H) - W
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Originally Posted by
DeltaSwamp
9 should be the expectation
Southeastern Louisiana (H) - W
Arizona(H) - W
LSU (H) - Toss
South Carolina (away) - W
Alabama (H) - L until we beat them
Western Michigan (H) - W
Arkansas (A) - Toss Id say a win but toss since its away
Auburn (A) - W
Kentucky (H) -W
Texas A&M (A) - W until Jumbo leaves
Southern Miss (H) - W
Ole Piss (H) - W
How Naive...
We will be playing Ole Miss with a 5-6 record.
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Originally Posted by
THE Bruce Dickinson
How Naive...
We will be playing Ole Miss with a 5-6 record.
Ok show me where i am wrong
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Southeastern Louisiana (H) - W
Arizona(H) - W
LSU (H) - L
South Carolina (away) - Thinking this is a straight up win is silly. We have never played well there and they drummed Tennessee and beat Clemson last year at home. L
Alabama (H) - L
Western Michigan (H) - W
Arkansas (A) - Agree on the toss. Tough place to play but Pittman is floundering. He's either gonna sink or swim this year. KJ being back won't be a picnic. 50/50
Auburn (A) - They will without a doubt be better under Freeze and it will happen fast. L
Kentucky (H) -Most pivotal game of the season. Have to win this one at home. W
Texas A&M (A) - We have owned them as of late, and it won't last forever. They have players. L
Southern Miss (H) - W
Ole Piss (H) - Playing the rival at home to go to a bowl. 50/50
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Originally Posted by
THE Bruce Dickinson
Southeastern Louisiana (H) - W
Arizona(H) - W
LSU (H) - L
South Carolina (away) - Thinking this is a straight up win is silly. We have never played well there and they drummed Tennessee and beat Clemson last year at home. L
Alabama (H) - L
Western Michigan (H) - W
Arkansas (A) - Agree on the toss. Tough place to play but Pittman is floundering. He's either gonna sink or swim this year. KJ being back won't be a picnic. 50/50
Auburn (A) - They will without a doubt be better under Freeze and it will happen fast. L
Kentucky (H) -Most pivotal game of the season. Have to win this one at home. W
Texas A&M (A) - We have owned them as of late, and it won't last forever. They have players. L
Southern Miss (H) - W
Ole Piss (H) - Playing the rival at home to go to a bowl. 50/50
Southeastern Louisiana (H) - W
Arizona(H) - W
LSU (H) - L - this is not in BR and so it is a toss. history says I'm right
South Carolina (away) - I said in original post they got hot at the end after starting slow at worse this is a toss
Alabama (H) - L
Western Michigan (H) - W
Arkansas (A) - Agree on the toss. Tough place to play but Pittman is floundering. He's either gonna sink or swim this year. KJ being back won't be a picnic. 50/50
Auburn (A) - Agree they will be better but there team is going to put ALOT of emotion into the Ole Piss, Bama and UGA game. Freeze will put 150% into Auburn's rivals and not as much into MSU week. even if Auburn has the better record frequently under Freezus I think we will be no worse than 500 against them while he is there
Kentucky (H) -Most pivotal game of the season. Have to win this one at home. W
Texas A&M (A) - Yes we have owned them as of late so I can't understand why you insists this is a loss. At worse a toss L
Southern Miss (H) - W
Ole Piss (H) - Until there coach puts more emphasis on building a team not through the portal they will be gassed by the time they play us I feel very confident this will be a win
You could talk me into a few of my original Ws being tosses, but splitting those should still have us expecting an above average and potentially great year
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Originally Posted by
DeltaSwamp
Schedule really sets up nice. South carolina got hot late but started slow and I expect the same this year. A lot of big games at home could be a special year.
9 should be the expectation
Southeastern Louisiana (H) - W
Arizona(H) - W
LSU (H) - Toss
South Carolina (away) - W
Alabama (H) - L until we beat them
Western Michigan (H) - W
Arkansas (A) - Toss Id say a win but toss since its away
Auburn (A) - W
Kentucky (H) -W
Texas A&M (A) - W until Jumbo leaves
Southern Miss (H) - W
Ole Piss (H) - W
You realize we're asking Will and the OL and the WRs to do things they have never done? the OL was trained to pass block, WRs to run to space vs a zone, Will to throw to grass. Hell, we didn't have a TE on the roster 6 months ago. We have all new coaches working together for the first time.
Defense should be good from the start. Special teams should be fine. Team culture I expect to be good. But the offense will have growing pains. LSU and USC are losses unless the offense is much better than it has any right to be in games 3 and 4. Hell, its entirely possible the offense is a train wreck vs Arizona. I still have that as W but crazier things have happened than such a new offense not working at all in game 2 vs a P5 team.
I got us 7-5. Those last 5 SEC games are not wins, they are tossups that lean us. We will loose 2 of them.
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Originally Posted by
the_real_MSU_is_us
You realize we're asking Will and the OL and the WRs to do things they have never done? the OL was trained to pass block, WRs to run to space vs a zone, Will to throw to grass. Hell, we didn't have a TE on the roster 6 months ago. We have all new coaches working together for the first time.
Defense should be good from the start. Special teams should be fine. Team culture I expect to be good. But the offense will have growing pains. LSU and USC are losses unless the offense is much better than it has any right to be in games 3 and 4. Hell, its entirely possible the offense is a train wreck vs Arizona. I still have that as W but crazier things have happened than such a new offense not working at all in game 2 vs a P5 team.
I got us 7-5. Those last 5 SEC games are not wins, they are tossups that lean us. We will loose 2 of them.
Much better take.
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Originally Posted by
the_real_MSU_is_us
You realize we're asking Will and the OL and the WRs to do things they have never done? the OL was trained to pass block, WRs to run to space vs a zone, Will to throw to grass. Hell, we didn't have a TE on the roster 6 months ago. We have all new coaches working together for the first time.
Defense should be good from the start. Special teams should be fine. Team culture I expect to be good. But the offense will have growing pains. LSU and USC are losses unless the offense is much better than it has any right to be in games 3 and 4. Hell, its entirely possible the offense is a train wreck vs Arizona. I still have that as W but crazier things have happened than such a new offense not working at all in game 2 vs a P5 team.
I got us 7-5. Those last 5 SEC games are not wins, they are tossups that lean us. We will loose 2 of them.
A WR (or even better two) that can consistently get open in one on one coverage, and a QB that can hit him, opens up everything. "New" offense, coaches, whatever, that all takes backseat to whether someone has the ability to get open and make the catch.
Defense is the opposite. If you have a single weakness, it will be exploited in this conference. A team has a much higher ceiling if the D is all around good.
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Originally Posted by
BoomBoom
A WR (or even better two) that can consistently get open in one on one coverage, and a QB that can hit him, opens up everything. "New" offense, coaches, whatever, that all takes backseat to whether someone has the ability to get open and make the catch.
Defense is the opposite. If you have a single weakness, it will be exploited in this conference. A team has a much higher ceiling if the D is all around good.
Exactly.
We are going back to an offense that most of these guys played a version of in high school. The weight is off Will's shoulders to consistently find the open receiver. Will is a very accurate passer. If we have a solid run game forcing defenses to go more man coverage Will can pick off a thin backside. If the defense plays above average while the offense is just average we can reach 8-4.
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TrapGame
Exactly.
We are going back to an offense that most of these guys played a version of in high school. The weight is off Will's shoulders to consistently find the open receiver. Will is a very accurate passer. If we have a solid run game forcing defenses to go more man coverage Will can pick off a thin backside. If the defense plays above average while the offense is just average we can reach 8-4.
My only concern about the transition for Will is that he will play in a more traditional pocket and won't have quick almost 1-2 second reads. I thought Will got in trouble when he had to sit in the pocket for 4-6 seconds to find a WR. Now that is not unique to Willi, but his lack of mobility could be a problem at times.
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Originally Posted by
HancockCountyDog
My only concern about the transition for Will is that he will play in a more traditional pocket and won't have quick almost 1-2 second reads. I thought Will got in trouble when he had to sit in the pocket for 4-6 seconds to find a WR. Now that is not unique to Willi, but his lack of mobility could be a problem at times.
I understand these concerns. I think Will will do better than expected. This offense will hopefully take some pressure off him.
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Originally Posted by
viverlibre
I understand these concerns. I think Will will do better than expected. This offense will hopefully take some pressure off him.
He is a damn good QB and taken for granted by a lot of our fanbase. I think he has a year where he throws for like 25 TD's and less than 5 interceptions.
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Originally Posted by
HancockCountyDog
My only concern about the transition for Will is that he will play in a more traditional pocket and won't have quick almost 1-2 second reads. I thought Will got in trouble when he had to sit in the pocket for 4-6 seconds to find a WR. Now that is not unique to Willi, but his lack of mobility could be a problem at times.
A running game will help that out. Defenses knew we were not going to try and run it on them every other down. Defenses also started doing a lot of delayed LB blitzes on Will too. Will isn't going to see a lot of heavy zone now either. I really believe the problem with Will was just the Air Raid offense in general. Leach was putting a lot on his shoulders.
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Originally Posted by
TrapGame
A running game will help that out. Defenses knew we were not going to try and run it on them every other down. Defenses also started doing a lot of delayed LB blitzes on Will too. Will isn't going to see a lot of heavy zone now either. I really believe the problem with Will was just the Air Raid offense in general. Leach was putting a lot on his shoulders.
My only concern about the run game is that it is going to take some time to get our OL used to running the damn ball. I think it is easier than transitioning to passing the ball non-stop, but still it will be a transition.
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