Every offense in the history of the program didn't include a quarterback staring down receivers and holding the ball too long.
Did you miss the part where I said during Leach’s tenure. Wasn’t talking about just last year. Leach was 1-2 against each of those I mentioned and the losses to each were all ugly offensively except for the shootout loss to Arkansas. Do you not remember 24-2?
Also, our defense was gassed in the 4th quarter of virtually every game against good teams because they were on the field all night. Last year's Ole Miss game was a great example of that since he brought up the 99 yard drive. But the defense still made a play to win the game in spite of the offense that night, so that was a pretty terrible example for him to bring up.
I never said it was special. I said it wasn't the most terrible offense ever put on the field at MSU. National offensive rankings back that up. It was 43rd (offensive rankings), while our defense was 40th (defensive rankings).
TOP in the Egg Bowl:
You act like our offenses under EVERY. SINGLE. COACH. WE'VE. EVER. HAD. didn't produce multiple **** shows yearly. I don't recall Mullen's team ripping Bama, Georgia, and LSU new ******** every year. As a matter of fact, I recall multiple people bitching constantly about how vanilla and predictable they were.
I don't give a 17 about other offenses. You keep bringing them up to justify the recent **** shows. All those other offenses got appropriate levels of bitching, too. It doesn't excuse anything that happened last year or the year before. Take your head out of your *** and listen.
Yet another example where you'll ignore your lying eyes and look at stats to form an opinion.
Yes, how dare I use data in an effort to arrive at a logical conclusion?
Sorry I refuse to engage in overly emotional hyperbolic BS in an effort to paint an untrue picture of our football program as run by our deceased head coach.
TOP is a misleading stat. UM ran 78 plays to our 77. Theoretically, both defenses should have been equally tired.
That's it. For us to have offensive gurus for coaches our offense have rarely been in the top categories in most important stats. Don't give a shiit about passing yards and pass attempts. I care about touchdowns. 3rd down conversion. Points. Total offense has not been great for having offensive geniuses. Why is that? Too much speed in this conference without having the best jimmys and joes under Moorhead and too slow and reactionary. With Leach the offense was too predictable, old and simple, and unbalanced for the sec to really work every game. Need balance and Jimmy and joes.
We aren't going to have them, more times than not. That's what so many fail to realize. At best, we have a bunch of Mississippi-developed 3 stars, or some out-of-state rejects. Maybe we get lucky in a select few years. That's why we have to innovate.
I enjoyed winning two of those three games, for sure. Our offense could have been better last season obviously, but it wasn't the worst offense I've ever seen. Relative to our recruiting it was fine. It certainly could have been worse.
I mean look at mullen best years we had were when players were fully develop mostly qb in year 3 and 4. And lineman in year 3-4. We had that last year with many of our offensive players but continued to struggle in scoring. Games that we ran the ball more and especially in redzone we scored more. Just need some balance for the red zone. Need to be ability to stick it running or something quick to tight end or talk receiver at the pylon
And this fascination with Leach some have is more about the man than the coach. The offense went backwards last season. As for comparisons to defense, defense scored a lot and set up that offense a lot. The offense kept it on the field so much it's a damn miracle it was as good as it was.
Leach was a better head coach for us than he was an offensive coordinator (and he was the offensive coordinator no matter what the official staff titles were).
Some of the criticism goes beyond rationality and into the realm of ********, which is what I was calling out. I've stated multiple times in this very thread that the offense wasn't the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, it was also not as bad as some of the posters here would lead you to believe. It was pretty good. It was decent. It struggled against top defenses, which is nothing new for any offense we've ever had here.
