I need these questions answered......

[Beretta.sixpack]

As in the Alabama, aTm, LSU and now this game, its not that we lost, ITS HOW WE LOST that I cannot handle....

1. IF you are mullen and wilson and collins, you know going into the game EXACTLY what ole miss is going to do....at least I did....they run a very similar offense as aTm, and they laid the blue print on how to beat the **** out of us....so the question is, WHY were we not ready for that opening drive?

2. I thought our team quit. No emotion after half time and you could see it. So I'm reading the paper this morning, and one of the ole miss players was interviewed and he said "They quit. You could tell they quit. You could see it they way they were running their routes and blocking us"
How in the 17 as a head coach do you let your team do that? no focus or emotion in the 2nd half of tie ball game against your in state rival?

3. IN Game adjustments on the offensive side of the ball have been an epic fail for Dan Mullen throughout his head coaching career at MSU. Have we even run a draw or a screen this entire year? Its the same game plan week after week after week. At least it appears that way. Russell sitting in the pocket trying to complete long passes and getting killed and Perkins up the gut. They started stopping both, they kept getting pressure, and kept gettin pressure, and kept getting pressure.....so what did we do to adjust to that?.....draw on the blitzes? short quick passes? I noticed we did that against LSU, and LSU adjusted quickly.....

Book you will never see printed: In Game Offensive Adjustments: By Dan Mullen

4. As I sat in the stadium against Arky and aTm, I kept asking everyone around me, why do we not cover the slot receiver? every single play, why do we not cover the slot receiver? We get burned by that every single game....If I was an opposing qb or coach, that is the first thing I notice and tell my qb....."MSU does not cover the slot receiver, when we line up a slot guy, make them pay".......And they do. Why do we not cover slot receivers?


5. Its a scary thought that Ole Miss is a young team, and well coached. I have thought all season they were better coached than we were on both sides of the ball. I read were coach freeze said in his interview, that he felt it all week...."That we were just better than them" and they were. What was the real difference?


Im just real butt hurt this morning. Not that we lost, but HOW we lost.

 

[OleYeller]

We ran lots of draws. No hb screens, and we have a running back (Perkins) who can catch the ball. We don't make adjustments on D either. These are all signs of poor coaching ability. However, Tyler was off on his throws in the first half. If he had been accurate as usual, we might have scored more points.

 

[Beretta.sixpack]

He was inaccurate because they got pressure all night....and tyler is sitting back there not taking the short route and trying to go down the field.....how hard is it to adjust to that?

We ran lots of draws. No hb screens, and we have a running back (Perkins) who can catch the ball. We don't make adjustments on D either. These are all signs of poor coaching ability. However, Tyler was off on his throws in the first half. If he had been accurate as usual, we might have scored more points.

 

[57stratdawg]

In game adjustments don't matter. There was nothing we could do with their front 4 all night.

 

[NCDawg.sixpack]

Right. Tyler didn't have time to look for another receiver. If the primary receiver wasn't open, he had to force it anyway, or take the sack. We need a new OL coach in my opinion. I can't believe our OL is that inept.

 

[ckDOG]

# 2 is what pisses me off the most

Our guys looked to be going through the motions and WAITING for good things to happen. The OM players had a sense of urgency and tried to make good things happen themselves. The body language was night and day between the two teams. When this happens, you can throw scheme out the window, the game is lost. That is unacceptable in any game but especially one in which your staff and AD hype up through smack talk and gimmicky uniforms.

But since scheme is being brought up, it seems Mullen is straying from his bread and butter - the option game. I know we have limitations with Russell running, but having the defense respect the option doesn't necessarily require the QB to run and take hits. If you take a look at the Florida offense with Leake running the show (even after they tweaked it for him), they still heavily relied on their RBs and slot guys being around the QB at the snap. There were a variety of things that could happen near the QB at the snap and it kept the defense on their heels for that extra second. The way we utilize the pistol seems to take that away. We play action quite a bit, but there is still far less activity in our backfield than a typical Mullen offense. We have become predictable and the pistol play action doesn't have to be respected because our o line combined with Perkins can not establish a respectable inside running game. We need to make the defense think more.