re: Mike Leach experiment

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Outside of the 3 blown coverage passes for 40+ yards State shut LSU down. Your Stat is skewed.

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Outside of 2 blown coverages by LSU, Miss State would have never had a chance. See how that works?

LSU came in with a defensive game plan to rush 3 and drop 8 into coverage and it worked for 3+ quarters. Whether it was the defense getting tired or State figuring something out.

Sure Rogers had 371 yds passing but it was on 62 attempts. That is 6yds/attempt, not very hot. On the other hand Johnson only had 280yds passing on 27 attempts for 10yds/attempt which is a much more respectable number.

When your offense is picking up 5-6yds/attempt you have to hit every pass, and missing one pass throws off an entire drive. The more plays that are run increases the chances for something bad to happen, i.e. a fumble on interception.