And after the video game, Leach put the onus not on himself, but rather on the gamers.
Thats exactly what happened on Saturday. Kentucky kept the receivers in front of their secondary, let them take brief passes, and then punished Costello when he attempted to toss downfield. They didnt blitz. They just sat back and cooled, and waited on Mississippi State to make errors.
Returned to last year doing some movie seeing @Coach_Leach when he was at @WSUCougarFB.
Not sure why … hes running the very same things.
Does this play appearance familiar? CROSSING ROUTES!!! pic.twitter.com/F2wDsYYzPD.
— Ruscin&& Zach (@RuscinZach) October 2, 2020.
Kentucky beat Mississippi State 24-2 on Saturday. That score is not a misprint. Leachs high-flying offense scored zero points, with the defense doing the deal with an only safety.
Leach can say the gamers are malcontents or not doing the right thing, or whatever, and Im sure the players made some errors, but hes the one trotting out the exact same plays and anticipating SEC defenses not to adjust to them.
” Were going to have to inspect some of our group and find out who actually wants to play here,” Leach stated, through ESPN, “since any malcontents, were going to have to purge a number of those.”.
It has actually now proven stoppable. And like so often times in the past, Leach is lashing out after the result, this time putting the blame on the gamers, and stating that some might be “malcontents” that will require a “purge.”.
Why? After the very first game against LSU (which after another loss to Missouri, might simply not be any excellent at all), there were college football coaches that noted that Leach was running the specific very same plays and scheme he ran last year at Washington State.
All began magnificently for the Mike Leach period at Mississippi State, with his Air Raid offense surprising protecting national champs LSU with a 44-34 win. It was a declaration to the SEC that Leach-ball was here, and by the appearances of that first game anyway, unstoppable.
Leachs high-flying offense scored no points, with the defense doing the work with an only safety.
Mississippi States gamers did not play excellent on Saturday. Quarterback K.J. Costello, who broke passing records in the opening game against LSU, tossed 4 interceptions in the game. They just sat back and cooled, and waited for Mississippi State to make errors.
It took them a couple weeks. They figured it out. Thats not on malcontents. Thats on Leach.
Kentucky blitzed 3 times on 72 Mississippi State dropbacks.
Thats it. Thats the tweet.
— Richard Johnson (@RJ_Writes) October 11, 2020.
Mississippi States players did not play fantastic on Saturday. Quarterback K.J. Costello, who broke passing records in the opening game versus LSU, threw four interceptions in the video game. He tossed 55 passes on the day, completing 36 … for 232 backyards.
The protective solution, which I check out about before the video game even started, was to not let Costello throw the deep ball, and rather make him do dink-and-dunk brief pass stuff until he attempted to conjecture downfield.
Taking a look at those statistics– 36 total passes for only 232 overall lawns, shows simply a bit over 6 yards got per conclusion. This speaks to a failure of Leachs, not his players.
Thats on Leach.
