Maybe what Joe Moorhead doesn't understand..

[vandaldawg]

is that in the SEC, even when the defense knows what you want to do, and don't want to give it to you, you line up and 17ing take it anyway.

 

[tired]

That's not the only thing he doesn't understand

 

[MSUDC11]

“They loaded the box” is not a good excuse, and I’m super disappointed that he thinks it is. Teams have been loading the box against us for years, yet even Mullen’s worst offenses were never this bad. Maybe they struggled against Alabama and LSU, but he knew how to move the dang ball on teams that are middle of the road in the league. Moorhead seems to be unable to do that at this point.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Maybe I’m not paying attention, but I dont see too many loaded boxes against us. It always looks around 6 and 7. Don’t think I’ve seen 8.

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

Maybe I’m not paying attention, but I dont see too many loaded boxes against us. It always looks around 6 and 7. Don’t think I’ve seen 8.

You’re blind. UK had 8 in the box all night.

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Mullet was rational. During the relf years he knew we didn't have a qb who could throw. So he ran what we could. Even if it meant only getting 2or3 yards a play...short passes to mostly rbs and rpos to relf and perkins. And we did ok.
Thats what kills me. We could run a vanilla offense and be 5-0 right now and about 10th in the country. If course wed all be praising moorhead and be set up for later failure but at least wed be winning

 

[Bulldogg31]

Mullet was rational. During the relf years he knew we didn't have a qb who could throw. So he ran what we could. Even if it meant only getting 2or3 yards a play...short passes to mostly rbs and rpos to relf and perkins. And we did ok.
Thats what kills me. We could run a vanilla offense and be 5-0 right now and about 10th in the country. If course wed all be praising moorhead and be set up for later failure but at least wed be winning

It’s funny how time alters memories.

Mullen ran a 155 LB tailback straight up the middle for an entire season.

 

[Shamoan]

Kentucky loaded the box and we threw, Florida didn't and we still threw. Either way, the entire tenure for Mullen at state, teams loaded the box against us and we still ran the ball effectively with few exceptions.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

It’s funny how time alters memories.

Mullen ran a 155 LB tailback straight up the middle for an entire season.

My thoughts exactly. Mullen pulled a ton of dumb **** people have forgotten about. Moorhead over the last 2 games has State fans everywhere believing Mullen was Nick Saban.

 

[thatsbaseball]

When you hire a coordinator to be a HC you have to pay for his mistakes for X amount of time. Just like we did with Mullen. Moorhead's big test will be in the recruiting arena to run his offense...we'll see.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

It’s funny how time alters memories.

Mullen ran a 155 LB tailback straight up the middle for an entire season.

Mullen had a seniority/loyalty problem when it came to who played. Frustrated me. He knew what offense to run though.

 

[maroonmania]

“They loaded the box” is not a good excuse, and I’m super disappointed that he thinks it is. Teams have been loading the box against us for years, yet even Mullen’s worst offenses were never this bad. Maybe they struggled against Alabama and LSU, but he knew how to move the dang ball on teams that are middle of the road in the league. Moorhead seems to be unable to do that at this point.

So sounds like with Moorhead's offense it will only work if you are equally effective in all phases of the game. Since our passing game is our weakness and by defenses "loading the box" the read is almost always to pass, you are hosed because it normally has you doing the things you are not very good at.