Still Depressed
After sitting on our loss for a few days I am still upset about things. I watched Nebraska play Saturday and they actually ran something that resembled the West Coast Offense, you know the one we are told we run here at MState. I'm a 49ers fan so I've seen the actual WCO in play, and what we run isn't it. I watched pieces of a lot of different games Saturday and one thing rings true about all of them - no matter how good or bad the team was they all had cohesive offensive gameplans, playcalling that made a little sense, and they all scored at least a little. UAB hung in there with Oklahoma - they will beat us. JState hung in with Furman - they will beat us. Arkansas didn't play too horribly against USC - they will beat us.
Then yesterday came around and I watched a new offensive staff for Ole Miss, with a quarterback that had been on campus for 28 days, put together a good gameplan with creative playcalling to beat Memphis 28-25. That team has major problems - inexperience in the offensive line, their only good receiver is a true freshman, and they have an all new backfield. Yet, despite this, they actually scored 4 touchdowns and looked like a legit D1 offense. They are so much better coached on the offensive side till it isn't funny. Werner, their new coordinator, got the ball in the hands of their playmakers - McCluster and Green-Ellis. He got Brent Schaeffer to the outside a lot, ran to the outside a lot, and ran trick plays - in other words he wasn't predictable. He had an actual offensive gameplan that took advantage of their strengths while masking their weaknesses. Did you see them running up the middle time and again in the first half? No, they waited until they were ahead and had the Memphis defense wore down. Did you see them ignoring their playmakers? No, they got the ball in the hands of said players as much as possible.
Ole Miss can do it yet we cannot. They aren't any more talented than we are. They recruit from the same pool we do. This is like salt in the wound. 4 days later and I'm even more angry about our performance. I have chalked up every game except Tulane, which will be tough, and Jax State, which could be Maine all over again, as losses. We will lose the Egg Bowl. We will lose to UK after watching their offense last night score 28 on Louisville. We will lose to UAB. We will lose every SEC game this year. I can't really say when we'll score on offensive touchdown on a 1st team defense. This is pathetic and Croom should answer for this.
Then yesterday came around and I watched a new offensive staff for Ole Miss, with a quarterback that had been on campus for 28 days, put together a good gameplan with creative playcalling to beat Memphis 28-25. That team has major problems - inexperience in the offensive line, their only good receiver is a true freshman, and they have an all new backfield. Yet, despite this, they actually scored 4 touchdowns and looked like a legit D1 offense. They are so much better coached on the offensive side till it isn't funny. Werner, their new coordinator, got the ball in the hands of their playmakers - McCluster and Green-Ellis. He got Brent Schaeffer to the outside a lot, ran to the outside a lot, and ran trick plays - in other words he wasn't predictable. He had an actual offensive gameplan that took advantage of their strengths while masking their weaknesses. Did you see them running up the middle time and again in the first half? No, they waited until they were ahead and had the Memphis defense wore down. Did you see them ignoring their playmakers? No, they got the ball in the hands of said players as much as possible.
Ole Miss can do it yet we cannot. They aren't any more talented than we are. They recruit from the same pool we do. This is like salt in the wound. 4 days later and I'm even more angry about our performance. I have chalked up every game except Tulane, which will be tough, and Jax State, which could be Maine all over again, as losses. We will lose the Egg Bowl. We will lose to UK after watching their offense last night score 28 on Louisville. We will lose to UAB. We will lose every SEC game this year. I can't really say when we'll score on offensive touchdown on a 1st team defense. This is pathetic and Croom should answer for this.
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