I've re-watched the game and one thing I'd like to discuss is scripted plays, and if we run them at the beginning of games or not. In the second half we began running plays (rushing plays) that were gaining huge chunks at a time. Even when we ran the same play back to back to back. In the first half when we rushed the ball we seemed to call plays designed to run between the tackles. We didn't use any pre-snap jet sweep motion and we didn't attack the edges of the defense.
My dad and I (we watched the game together) couldn't understand why we didn't "probe" Miss St's defense in the first half and earlier in the second half with these type plays to see how MSU handled them. I know our time of possession was limited but in the limited time we had the ball it seemed we didn't run a variety of plays early to see what may work or not going forward. I know in the NFL (and I completely understand "this ain't the NFL") teams start games out with "X" amount of scripted plays. From my understanding this is to probe the defense and see how they handle certain plays and gives the offensive staff an indicator on how to attack.
Thoughts?
My dad and I (we watched the game together) couldn't understand why we didn't "probe" Miss St's defense in the first half and earlier in the second half with these type plays to see how MSU handled them. I know our time of possession was limited but in the limited time we had the ball it seemed we didn't run a variety of plays early to see what may work or not going forward. I know in the NFL (and I completely understand "this ain't the NFL") teams start games out with "X" amount of scripted plays. From my understanding this is to probe the defense and see how they handle certain plays and gives the offensive staff an indicator on how to attack.
Thoughts?