Scrimmage Stats Don't Tell Us Much

The Spartans held their first jersey scrimmage of the Spring, and I just want to make a brief comment about it.  First, one thing that could keep us from getting too excited is that it does look like the performance of the passing game for this first scrimmage was only a little better than last year's first scrimmage (here is the Spartans' statement on this year's first scrimmage and here is the statement from last year's):

Passing 2013: Andrew Maxwell 17-of-27 for 187 yards and three touchdowns (13 yards to AJ Troup; 18 and 4 yards to Keith Mumphery); Tyler O'Connor 6-of-10 for 141 yards and one touchdown (76 yards to AJ Troup); Connor Cook 11-of-18 for 73 yards and one interception.

Passing 2012: Andrew Maxwell 16-of-29 for 162 yards; Connor Cook 15-of-25 for 145 yards, one touchdown (38 yards to Jeremy Langford) and one interception; Tyler O'Connor 6-of-14 for 105 yards and one touchdown (37 yards to Tres Barksdale). 

On the other hand, we should keep in mind that MSU could have won as many as 10 games last year if the offense had just been slightly better.  Perhaps most encouraging, Andrew Maxwell did throw for 3 touchdowns this year and it does appear that the quarterbacks were "live" this year.  These things hint at a more explosive passing game.  

Overall, we're just going to have to wait until the season starts to really know what we have with this offense.  Actually, we may have to wait until the Notre Dame game to really know what we have.