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Originally Posted by Gary in Bradenton
Fresh blood may be good for competing and trying hard but 44 college freshman, especially undersized ones, will get their asses kicked against a much larger opponent in their first game. This is why I said that 300 yards could easily be reached in this game.
Also, in the initial post it talks about the shift in how MSU's OL blocks. If they are road grading off the snap, your DL probably has no shot in hell. They are being taught now to be aggressive out of the blocks so to speak. 300 pounds flying at you on the snap when you are only 250 is not going to result in good things for that 250 guy on most snaps. |
You're right in that UAB's DL isn't going to be pancaking any
MSU OLs. But what UAB and smaller DLs in general try to do is clog up the middle. UAB is probably not going to get much penetration unless it's off a LB blitz. UAB is going to be probably rely on stopping up the middle with bodies so that the running game is forced to the outside where the speed of our LBs and secondary can attack them. I'm not saying UAB is going to shut down
MSU's rushing game... never have, in fact.
MSU will probably get more than Oklahoma did against us if for no other reason but that
MSU will probably be running the ball more than OU did. But I will be surprised if
MSU exceeds 300 yards on the ground.
And just FYI... I keep seeing this 44 freshmen number being thrown around. I know of only about 25 true freshmen. If there are 44 "freshmen," then that is including guys that were redshirted last year. A redshirt freshman is a bit different than your straight-out-of-high school true freshman. But even so, I don't think we redshirted 20 guys last year.