^^^^THIS
Will obviously has a ceiling. Hard to know though for real with Robertson until we see him play. But I don't expect him to be much better until he learns to reads. One thing for certain is better be able to adjust to the blitz and we still have to have plays for a 4-5 man front. Otherwise it won't matter l.
I’d like to believe this, too, but the extremely few times Sawyer has gotten into a game late, he’s looked lost out there. If he was better than Rogers, I think we would be seeing him more. I fully expect Will to return and start in 2023. Will Sawyer stick around and hold a clipboard another year?
The story is still the same. It’s really hard to be consistently good on offense running the same 10 plays bc you think someone is open every play. And because we never ask the defense to respect the edge. It can absolutely be worse at State but thats the crux of the issue. KY didn’t make the same mistake Ark did which was show a light box that allowed us to run. They mixed up looks so that even when they brought just three we didn’t check to a run. 10 offensive points our last 2 trips to Lexington. S Carolina had 17 last week. And they are terrible.
Will was not going to give our receivers a chance to fight for the ball. At least not last night. It’s why I hate watching on tv; I can’t see if they are really that covered, or if he’s just scared to throw it to them.
I don't know who told you that, but we hired Mike Leach in desperation because we were the last team in the country to decide to fire our coach
We’re in a period of college football where only 7-8 teams can make the CFP. And now those same schools can pay millions for whatever elite talent they want. I’m fine with high floor right now TBH, just keep us out of the cellar for the next 5-10 years. If our SEC West brethren want to over pay for recruits and blow up their programs every 2-3 years for not winning the West they can have at it.
No need for sarcastericks. That season literally doesn’t matter to anyone besides the people in Tuscaloosa
What do you need to see to consider our program being elevated? Are they supposed to be better than Bama or better than we’ve been for 20 years or better than the previous coach? What do you define as better?
OM was a dumpster fire three years ago, and they have a very good chance of playing in the CFP this year. The "we know our place so just accept it" mantra won't fly anymore
I thought the blueprint was rush 3, drop 8?
It was, back when KJ Costello was our QB along with a true freshman Will Rogers.
They've played 1 team worth a crap and was lucky as hell to win that game at home. Let's tap the breaks on the CFP until we at least see them beat some SEC teams.
It’ll be twelve teams in a couple of years. So you are looking at probably 25 teams who have a chance to get in.
Leach wasn't hired to elevate our program any more than any other coach. A good result would be a copying Mullen's success. A great result would be copying Mullen's success without all the job searching ********.
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We certainly had a bad game. I've seen a lot of offensive production since the first time someone on SPS proclaimed that the Leach stoppage blueprint was in place, and the next time, and the next time. Every time we've had an offensively inept game, someone trots out the blueprint narrative. We continue to adjust and put up big numbers afterwards. Time will tell if this is the real blueprint moment but I suspect it is not.
I’ll say again that I’m not going to blame Saturday’s loss on the defense, but it was an incredibly disappointing effort from Arnett’s squad. Aside from Bama, I cannot recall a team just running through one of his defenses for 60 minutes, but UK sure did that last weekend, and Arnett had no answers
It wasn't a good performance, but they still held UK to 27 points and scored 7 points themselves. Offense just needed to score 20 points. It was only a marginal performance because they let UK have the ball for so long, but if the offense had been marginal offense instead of dreadful, it would have gone to the wire at least if not been a MSU win.
Yep and since then he's gone 6-6. He's been coaching .500 SEC ball since then. Leach said OL is his main coaching focus and loves getting involved with their development. We've gone from not being able to protect 5 vs 3 to being able to do so now we need to teach our 5 how to block 4. I bought into the preseason hype with all those returning starters and our 2 SEC losses stings but I'm just trying to step back and take a deep breath and remind myself how bad things have been in the past after keeping up with them over 50 years now.
I'd say start by beating the teams we are favored against (LSU and KY to start) and work in an upset occasionally, that would elevate us now
Correct. I haven't seen our line or run D in general get cut up like that from an Arnett defense, and it was worrisome. Very frustrating too, when I felt like our O was gaining a little traction, and we only needed one stop... UK would run it right up the gut for a 1st down. OR, they would run it (many times) around the end when our DE was getting the **** held out of him over and over again. But I will refrain from blaming the loss on the refs. Point is, I hope we didn't just see a glimpse of what the rest of the season will look like.
Oxford team won 10 games last year. They have a shot to do that again. In 2019 they were not good.
