SEC Thursday Night Football #20 Mississippi State at Missouri Tigers ESPN 9 PM ET

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TrueOrange said:
I've been told the Ozarks are nice.
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I just think personally they pale in comparison to the East Tennessee mountains, but then again I am pretty biased I suppose. I usually drive through the Ozarks to fly fish the White River in Arkansas every year. That's a pretty lengthy drive from Chattanooga.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
There would be no excuse for losing to this that team.
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Their offense is just so bad.

It's like the running game needs production from the passing game for things to be opened up to be competent/have any success.

But at the same time, their passing game is just so very poor at this point (and the QB so inexperienced) that it really needs to heavily rely on their running game to cover for it / hide how bad it is.
 
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There's Hunt...apparently a lot of the analysts had expected that guy to be playing at least somewhat going into the year (based on athletic ability), but for some reason or another that staff just doesn't seem to play him.
 
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TrueOrange said:
Their run defense seems to be playing fairly well defending the run (for a game far enough off, it looks like the leading rusher's Prescott with about 30 yards), or has Miss St struggled running the ball this season?

I'm guessing more of their focus when playing UT is going to be on the rushing aspects of our offensive play style.
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State has been pretty pedestrian as far as rushing goes, they have no good running backs really unless you wanna toss Dak in as a rb. Their rush d isn't great either.
 
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eskimovol said:
State has been pretty pedestrian as far as rushing goes, they have no good running backs really unless you wanna toss Dak in as a rb. Their rush d isn't great either.
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What kind of numbers? As a team are they overall productive, though, or just passing enough that it compensates?
 
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I have a new strategy: let Missouri start drives near the goal line.

All their offense can do inside the 10 is apparently just move the ball backwards.
 
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TrueOrange said:
What kind of numbers? As a team are they overall productive, though, or just passing enough that it compensates?
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I honestly couldn't tell you the numbers but I've got a good friend that is a state fan and I've watched a few of their games. I know uk really didn't have a difficult time moving the ball against them but they couldn't get it done in the redzone. Looked it up, they are 96th in rushing.
 
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Geez, Lock is just so ineffective (missed an open WR in the endzone). He's going to end up today 11/26 for 107 yards passing and 2 INTs.

Though to be fair, this is partially the reason that a lot of analysts would say that you don't go with the "trial by fire" method throwing most true freshmen QBs straight in.
 
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In fact, Dak has 30 more rushes and almost 200 more rushing yards than their leading rb. the rb has 196 yards.........on the year.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Was that a unicorn on the screen or did Mizzou just score a TD?
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Right? And they almost scored a second! But per the Missouri norm when facing any level of defense in short-yardage situations, once their offense reached the 2-3 yard line the only way it could move was backwards.
 
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VolFootballnut said:
Closer than anyone else:p Thanks for being a wet towel;:nono:
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You were really close; I'll give you that Dave.

But you also predicted a team unable of scoring even one TD since the beginning of Oct to score 2 tonight? You severely overestimated their offense in that one.
 
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UTK said:
Mizzou should be an easy W. Even if they keep our offense in check for a while their D will get tired.
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To be fair, their defense has been spending 30-44 min on the field each week this year.

But more than anything, it's that their offense is too bad to even stay on the field (their 3rd down conversion rate the last 4 games: 5 for 16, 0 for 14, 2 for 13, and 1 for 14) - let only score - with anything remotely close to being considered consistent.

Any scoring at all by the other team - even field goals - pretty much becones even more of a weight pressuring that offense to produce even more in an area that it's just so bad at that it can't (pretty much anything more than 7-10 points).


But you see it again in the second half. They had, what, like somewhere around 20 minutes possession in the first half, then come the 3rd quarter...like 3 or 4 drives, 6 minutes time of possession, and like 27 total yards of offense (...and of course 1-2 turnovers).
 
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