After he tore through A&M defensive coach John Chavis’ D last season on the road in his first college start ever, much of the fanbase including myself thought Shea Patterson might be ahead of the curve with this whole “grasping the college offensive playbook” thing.
Things turned south.
Patterson struggled against Vanderbilt and Mississippi State in 2016, and many were optimistic that his mastery of Hugh Freeze’s offense would come in handy while learning Longo’s new offense on the fly, but that’s just not the case. Longo Ball is a completely different monster full of different plays, reads, and checks.