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WATCH: Casey Woods previews SMU-Temple

On3 imageby:Billy Embody•10/18/23•

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SMU OC Casey Woods. (Matt Visinsky - On3)

SMU offensive coordinator Casey Woods met with reporters on Monday to preview the Mustangs’ game against Temple on Friday. The Mustangs are coming off arguably their worst offensive showing of the season.

Quarterback Preston Stone threw for three touchdowns last week, but he didn’t operate at a high level completion percentage wise. The staff knows that’s something that has to improve as does its downfield passing production.

“There’s a nature of that a little bit, that’s the nature of the deep ball, right? Everyone calls it a 50/50 ball,” Woods told reporters. “You’d like to win more of those than you lose, but there’s a reason that it’s a 50/50 ball. It does take your percentages down a little bit about what you’re going to do. Now we hit some, they made some big, big time plays particularly early in the game that kind of got us up on the scoreboard early. I think that there is an element of the feast or famine, it showed up probably a little too much.”

On the film study side of things this week, Woods and the rest of the staff looked at how to get more out of the big play potential this offense has with all the playmakers it has on the field.

“When you get in there, you’ve got to be able to still control the ball, which is where we are we’re digging in this week to make sure that we can continue to do that moving forward this season,” Woods said. “They know that, one we’re having faith in you to go make these plays, putting you in opportunities to make plays, and then some get made, some don’t and then we’ve got to we got to live and die by that a little bit.”

SMU takes on Temple Friday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN2 in Philadelphia.

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