Trying to get the gumption to watch the rest but it isn't coming to me.. yet. At least i didn't delete the game... yet.
From the beginning, if i knew nothing about the outcome, I would have expected a win. But I would have been concerned that MSU had 3 ez drops for first downs... make those catches and it's a diff game from the start.
Overall, we seem faster and better. Obviously, that changed. And from I've read on the board and the clear lack of anything special to see in the first qtr, I have to wonder how much prep time the coaches put into this game. I recall reading where Franklin and company spent a lot of time recruiting. If so, was the message to the team 'just do what you typically do and these guys will fall'... it seemed msu with little prep time figured out all kinds of stuff to do to us... we had no answer -- worse, we had no imagination.
Maybe it wasn't true. Maybe the staff was pedal to the metal the whole way... focused staff, focused players. Sure didn't seem so, though.
Now, the last play. Remove the final play vs osu... does Franklin insert Tommy (or Clifford) to throw a rocket to the end zone? I'm pretty sure Tommy can rifle it there under pressure.. no way Trace can. But I think there was no chance after osu that Franklin can remove Trace from the last play this week.
Just an opinion. But I sure as hell would have preferred someone with a cannon arm to fire a missile that got reasonably close to the endzone.
Now, maybe I'll have a few shots and try watching the rest of this horror show. Maybe.
From the beginning, if i knew nothing about the outcome, I would have expected a win. But I would have been concerned that MSU had 3 ez drops for first downs... make those catches and it's a diff game from the start.
Overall, we seem faster and better. Obviously, that changed. And from I've read on the board and the clear lack of anything special to see in the first qtr, I have to wonder how much prep time the coaches put into this game. I recall reading where Franklin and company spent a lot of time recruiting. If so, was the message to the team 'just do what you typically do and these guys will fall'... it seemed msu with little prep time figured out all kinds of stuff to do to us... we had no answer -- worse, we had no imagination.
Maybe it wasn't true. Maybe the staff was pedal to the metal the whole way... focused staff, focused players. Sure didn't seem so, though.
Now, the last play. Remove the final play vs osu... does Franklin insert Tommy (or Clifford) to throw a rocket to the end zone? I'm pretty sure Tommy can rifle it there under pressure.. no way Trace can. But I think there was no chance after osu that Franklin can remove Trace from the last play this week.
Just an opinion. But I sure as hell would have preferred someone with a cannon arm to fire a missile that got reasonably close to the endzone.
Now, maybe I'll have a few shots and try watching the rest of this horror show. Maybe.
