EAST LANSING – With the advantage of hindsight from his play-calling debut with Michigan State football, Brian Lindgren yanked away some of the blame from his young quarterback who took it on the chin after a dicey debut.
With that said, the Spartans’ new offensive coordinator has no regrets about letting Aidan Chiles unleash the deep balls he threw early and often, even if the results were far from desirable.
“Looking back on it, for a guy in his first start, I just think Aidan would sit up here and tell you the same thing,” Lindgren said Tuesday. “If they’re going to give you some of those opportunities, let’s go take it, let’s go make the play on those deep throws.”
Chiles’ misfires were far from the singular issue that Lindgren saw when re-watching MSU’s grind of a 16-10 season-opening win over Florida Atlantic on Friday. There were plenty of things he felt contributed to the Spartans’ struggles on offense and that must get fixed this week as they open Big Ten play Saturday at Maryland (3:30 p.m./BTN).
Michigan State’s Aidan Chiles recovers a fumble against Florida Atlantic during the first quarter on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing.
With four new starters on the offensive line, MSU failed to run the ball consistently, averaging just 3.2 yards on 36 attempts without Kay’Ron Lynch-Adams’ 63-yard touchdown run. The Spartans managed 293 yards of total offense and went 1-for-4 in the red zone, the lone score coming on an 11-yard touchdown run by Chiles, who followed Lindgren and head coach Jonathan Smith from Oregon State in the offseason.
“It was just a disappointing performance on our end, just a lot of inconsistencies in technique, assignment, just some some errors that I felt like we made kind of early in training camp and had gotten fixed,” Lindgren said. “I…
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Publish date : 2024-09-04 10:09:07
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