Blake Sims stats vs Power 5 Home/Neutral

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Sims looked just average all night in Tiger Stadium. Then those last 50 seconds he looked like a fricking legend. The kid is really good when he's on.

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drops were not helping him. had some huge ones from usually dependable players

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drops were not helping him. had some huge ones from usually dependable players

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Yea, and he made some really bad throws as well.

It was a whirlwind of bad circumstances
- had 4-5 bad drops on plays that would have been of the 10-15 yard variety
- Blake missed some open guys on well designed plays (Christion Jones down the sideline on a bubble pump and go, DeAndrew White on a flag route near midfield, etc)
- we ran a ton of those low percentage fades in the 1st half
- LSU has great DBs

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Each teams fan base brings up pointless, historical statistics in order to percieve the matchup in their favor.

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Stats and trends from the current season we are playing are pointless?

Aight.

Would you rather us just talk about feelings and grit and stuff instead?

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ive noticed a trend among MSU's opponents prior to the matchup: Each teams fan base brings up pointless, historical statistics in order to percieve the matchup in their favor. Each one of these teams has lost... By just about 10+ points.

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Meh, this is a forum to discuss football. Discussing performances, stats, trends, and matchups from this year is how you discuss football. Several MSU fans on here seem to understand this, why don't you?

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You could dvr the opponents previous game and key on individual positions and watch how they play and who they match up against, if you have the time that is. That's what I do. I think to understand a team like MSU and what their coaches are doing, you really have to watch the complete game and look at who's on the field at certain times. That's part of the reason why I have been so confident about MSU this year. I think there's more to our team than what's on paper.

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Well, I'm not going to do that, but I have looked at both the traditional stats and the analytical stats and it looks like we have a bunch of really good matchups. State's pass D is better than the traditional stats say, but their overall offense isn't quite as good as the traditional stats say.

And Blake's play at home, specifically the ability for Kiffin to basically call plays and checks with us at the line, is a huge difference in how we play. It isn't just Blake playing at home, there are tangible things we can do differently that directly effect the play on the field and it has shown.

Should be a good game.

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He's not a good QB. Only has the mental ability to read one side of the field, which is why they run so many plays with yeldon underneath and Cooper over the top. It's also why you've struggled against decent defenses.

Go back and watch a few plays from Saturday. I'll give you a dollar if you see him make a check down and progress to a different area of the field.

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He's a very good QB at home, and he did it against a pretty good Florida defense. He will be siginicantly better on Saturday than he was at LSU or at Arkansas. That's just the way it works.

He might not be great, but he is just better at home. Both throwing the ball and making reads, but more so because Kiffin reads the defense and adjusts, something he has serious trouble doing on the road.

Maybe you guys will magically shut him down, but I doubt it.

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Look who UA has played at home..

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Florida's defense game by game

EMU - 125 yards
Kentucky - 450 yards
ALABAMA - 645 YARDS
Tennessee - 233 yards
LSU - 305 yards
Missouri - 119 yards
Georgia - 460 yards
Vanderbilt - 308 yards

Florida's defense is a solid defense who gives up an average of 286 yards pre game not including our game. We put up 645.

UA's home opponents combined overall record this season: 24-24

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He's not a good QB. Only has the mental ability to read one side of the field, which is why they run so many plays with yeldon underneath and Cooper over the top. It's also why you've struggled against decent defenses.

Go back and watch a few plays from Saturday. I'll give you a dollar if you see him make a check down and progress to a different area of the field.

I'm not saying he isn't good enough to get the job done, Cooper covers up a lot of incompetence.

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Blake isn't as good as some of us want to make him and he isn't nearly as bad as some of our opponents wish he was either. Truth of the matter is he is a converted running back, starting for the first time behind the worst OL we have fielded since 2007 and he has us at 8-1 and in position to play our way into the playoffs and his stats are pretty damn good however you want to spin it.

He has struggled on the road bc he can't communicate with Kiffin, but at home he has looked like Russell Wilson, so we shall see. I'll take my chances with the kid, he has a ton of heart, is a good leader and seems to be clutch when it matters most. Heck, he put the ball right on the money for the win in Oxford and had our 6-6 TE actually jumped for the ball instead of waiting on it to land in his hands, we are likely undefeated right now.