FOOTBALL MTSU lands QB transfer from P4 school
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Talked to him.
"Really liked the coaching staff and the opportunity to play football at a high level close to home."
"Called Coach Reeder and Coach Mason when I committed and they were excited."
"I visited MTSU on Tuesday and loved the coaching staff. I’ve been around the campus many times growing up so I had a rough understanding of the layout, but enjoyed getting a look at the new football facilities."
"I have three years of eligibility remaining, and looking to come in and compete every day to make the QB room and team as strong as possible."
"I would consider myself a pass-first QB, but have the athleticism to extend plays and make throws out of the pocket."
"Really liked the coaching staff and the opportunity to play football at a high level close to home."
"Called Coach Reeder and Coach Mason when I committed and they were excited."
"I visited MTSU on Tuesday and loved the coaching staff. I’ve been around the campus many times growing up so I had a rough understanding of the layout, but enjoyed getting a look at the new football facilities."
"I have three years of eligibility remaining, and looking to come in and compete every day to make the QB room and team as strong as possible."
"I would consider myself a pass-first QB, but have the athleticism to extend plays and make throws out of the pocket."
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Missouri and Drinkwitz run the pistol offense it looked like MT tried to run (in spots) last year. Seems like a good take to help implement it more in year two.
The pistol is a pointless and worthless offensive formation. You can do it for a little while then the defense quickly adjusts because it's basically the I-formation with at least one less blocker. It's especially ineffective in short yardage.
The reason I don't like it is because it basically removes one or two blockers from a traditional pro set (as noted above) and it also reduces options for misdirection in the run game. Jet sweeps, reverses, traps, counters, etc., are almost eliminated. The most elaborate thing you can do is pull an offensive linemen. It just does not do enough to change the eyes of the defense. I also think play action is weakened a bit.
But then again, I've already been on the record from day one that I was very worried about Mason installing a garbage offensive system. I hope we stay away from the pistol and find more creative ways to get play makers in space.
The reason I don't like it is because it basically removes one or two blockers from a traditional pro set (as noted above) and it also reduces options for misdirection in the run game. Jet sweeps, reverses, traps, counters, etc., are almost eliminated. The most elaborate thing you can do is pull an offensive linemen. It just does not do enough to change the eyes of the defense. I also think play action is weakened a bit.
But then again, I've already been on the record from day one that I was very worried about Mason installing a garbage offensive system. I hope we stay away from the pistol and find more creative ways to get play makers in space.
Missouri went 22-5 in the SEC in the last two years with that offense.
There's no one ultimate way to win football games. If there was, everyone would do it. You get the right Jimmies and Joes and you can run anything you want.
The reason I don't like it is because it basically removes one or two blockers from a traditional pro set (as noted above) and it also reduces options for misdirection in the run game. Jet sweeps, reverses, traps, counters, etc., are almost eliminated. The most elaborate thing you can do is pull an offensive linemen. It just does not do enough to change the eyes of the defense. I also think play action is weakened a bit.
I don't think we're going to be in a position to install a complicated offense like that above. We're going to have guys for 1-2 years max - we just need to find ourselves a Qb who's a run/pass threat, stick him in something simple, and run the RPO. The pistol is perfect for that.
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This is an unfair oversimplification of the pistol. Pistol with 10 personnel doesn't have the extra blocker, but you can run pistol with 12 and 21 personnel (extra blockers).
You do realize that counters / traps involve pulling OL, right? And that it's still possible to run jet sweeps / reverses from pistol?
Honestly, I think pistol can be effective for the PA passing attack (again, depends how you use it).
But, I don't disagree with you re: Mason & offense. That was one of my concerns when he was hired and it remains a concern heading into year 2. Mason's offense and his offensive views (or at least what we saw toward the end of Vandy & last year) are 2008 football. Football has changed. Good coaches adapt. Will Mason?
And as @RaiderDoug said, the name of the game with the portal is simple. I'd do a 3-4 day install (not the traditional 7 day install for pro style offenses) of core concepts with tags to attack defensive tendencies. Utilize tempo to MT's advantage.
I’m going to just respond to one part of this because if I can disassemble one thing I could the rest of it but don’t feel like wasting my time on this. Of course I didn’t provide a complicated or sophisticated analysis of this. It was a broad stroke. Using my one example sure you can run a jet sweep but without misdirection with the RB. It’s easy for LB to key off this. Easier to defend.
Also Missouri mid tier in offense and scoring. Top 20 defense. They won with defense.
So basically, you're saying you can't run a fake to RB and hand off on a jet sweep?
I won't argue this. But I think this may have been in response to someone else?
Well, they're Missouri. They're never going to amass the talent to really run up the stats on the rest of the SEC.
My point was if the Pistol was so ineffective and easily shut down, they wouldn't have won 22 games in 2 years. They'd have to reincarnate the '85 Bears defense to do that.
Again, there's not an instruction manual to win football games. Run specific X offense, Run specific X defense = win all games.
UGA runs the pro-style. Tennessee runs the veer'n'shoot. Air Force runs the triple option. They all win a load of games with completely different offenses. It's the Jimmy's and Joe's, not the X's and O's.
Agreed. You can either recruit offensive linemen or you can't. That is why most CUSA teams run some version of the Air Raid - it's easier to find receivers than offensive linemen.
I'm not against a run based offense because, personally, I prefer to watch that over a QB dropping back 40 times, but it remains to be seen if Mason and Reeder can implement any offense successfully at this level.
They might or might not. If they do, I'm not sure it'll be because they figured something out that no one else has. If they don't, I don't think it'll be because they're stupid.
Nobody out there is re-inventing football - look at the NFL - they all have an army of coaches and staffers and a mountain of tape on every offense out there and it still boils down to players making plays.
No one has all the right answers here. It's a cat and mouse game at every level.
Pick a system (I haven't seen anyone running the Flying-V though), recruit and acquire the right players, coach and develop and motivate them properly, and then you still have to choose the right play in the playbook at the exact right time. All of those variables combine in myriad different ways to produce the outcome of a game or even a play.
Good coaches can get more of those variables right than wrong and win. Bad coaches don't, and lose.
