Unless you have Tebow or Newton, you cannot win in the SEC by just running a big QB up the middle that many times. Eventually, you are going to have to throw the football.
I think we also saw the real problem Dan Mullen has been fighting: he knows what he feels comfortable doing (pounding the QB up the middle repeatedly) won't win games, but he either is too stubborn to let a QB throw the ball or too convinced that it will go poorly if he does. Either way, that's on him. If he's too stubborn, well he needs to grow up. If he's convinced it will go badly, well, he picked these QBs. That's on him, too.
While Dak wasn't exactly throwing darts in the fourth quarter, you have to let him try. Who knows, he may have thrown a pick and we would have lost that way, but we didn't give our team much of a chance at all playing like that.
I think we also saw the real problem Dan Mullen has been fighting: he knows what he feels comfortable doing (pounding the QB up the middle repeatedly) won't win games, but he either is too stubborn to let a QB throw the ball or too convinced that it will go poorly if he does. Either way, that's on him. If he's too stubborn, well he needs to grow up. If he's convinced it will go badly, well, he picked these QBs. That's on him, too.
While Dak wasn't exactly throwing darts in the fourth quarter, you have to let him try. Who knows, he may have thrown a pick and we would have lost that way, but we didn't give our team much of a chance at all playing like that.
