Miss State scored 63 yesterday without Fitzgerald. That's concerning to say the least.
Miss State scored 63 yesterday without Fitzgerald. That's concerning to say the least.
Coach talked about going with different personnel packages on defense and one of those was with a 2 DL front line flanked by smaller players. I suppose that would be in passing situations where they would try to get some speed off the edge. I thought we did well enough in man defense but we did give up some passing yards in zone coverage. I firmly believe that is mostly due to a lack of solid pass rush which I am still concerned with moving forward. I think this offense is going to have to score a LOT of points this year to get us into bowl eligibility.
One thing that has not been mentioned much in this thread is the scoring drive right before half. Very efficient. Took up all but 11 seconds after getting ball in our territory with 3 1/2 minutes to go. Nunez looked in command and we changed tempo to a quicker pace with 90 seconds to go. That drive is what sticks me from last night's game.
what stuck for me was napier calling a timeout onstead of taking a delay of game penalty in the 4the quarter with like a minute left.no matter the score, he refused to give up those 5 yards
2 weeks to prepare for Mississippi state. I’d imagine that is huge when you have the type of staff that we have.
I think we should all appreciate the fact that the offense playbook looks to contain more than three plays and the jump ball was kept to a minimum. Also we have two legitimate passers at qb and that feels good. Nunez and Lewis wearing #s 7 and 17 respectively and Lewis being a lefty reminds me of Masson and Gautier.
Did y'all also notice the difference with Lewis under Napier? There was far less scrambling around recklessly. He was more poised in the pocket.
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