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Burt Macklin

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  1. I’m not sure what you’re talking about really. No way Safety is the only spot. DE is way more complete with Trey Moore in the fold. He’s a big upgrade over what we had last year, plus we return Burke and Sorrell and have Simmons ready to play a specialty role. This team is also more complete at OL this year. Yes, we have to replace Jones, but Hayden fucking Conner started all last year. Improving at RG and returning 3 starters with more depth is much more complete. Same for CB. We have to replace Watts, but Watts was a very limited CB. Muhammad will be much improved and ready to break out this year with Brooks another year older on the other side and Holmes as a quality backup for both spots. We also have Guilbeau behind Barron and elite freshmen like Mack and Black. I’d also say we’re better at QB. Quinn will be in Year 3 of the system, which makes a big difference, and I’d take 2nd year Arch over 2nd year Murphy at backup.
  2. The part that cracks me up about all of this is I’ve seen a lot of national media lazily approve of the Colin Klein hire without giving it much more thought. Klein took over a top 20 offense under a HC with a clearly-defined offensive scheme that he continued to run while adding in some more QB run game. He didn’t improve the offense; he merely kept it going at top-20ish for 2 more years, while inheriting a top 10-15 OL room in the country full of 4th and 5th year guys. Now, he has a total mess at OL that is not going to be able to win with the power run game, and a QB made of glass that he can’t default to running if he wants to make it past game 3 of the season. Klein could end up being a good OC, but he’s a big question at this point. This season is going to make him adapt in ways he’s never had to before, who knows if it will work out. Or he could choose not to adapt, like most college coaches, and fail miserably. Either way, I’m looking forward to it.
  3. JFC, man. We have like 3 or 4 guys returning on next year’s roster. Not every transfer you get is going to be a star. These are extremely good pieces to add to a top 25 college roster.
  4. Because Antonelli’s nowhere near ready, and having him be absolutely murdered by his teammate probably won’t be all that helpful for his development. Leclerc had one of the best rookie seasons in recent memory, scoring 39 points in the 2nd or 3rd slowest car. He won F3 and F2 going into F1 and it took him about 2/3 of the season to adjust. He scored 13 points in 14 races, and then scored 26 points over his final 7 races. If you put Antonelli in a Merc and he takes that long or likely longer to adjust, then he could be losing to George by over 100-150 points and things could be pretty rough for him.
  5. To add some context to the work Sark’s done with the roster, from 2012-2020 we had 9 guys drafted in the first 3 rounds. Sark hasn’t even had a single one of his full recruiting classes on campus for 3 years and he’s about to have 5 guys drafted in the first 3 rounds this year.
  6. I think his primary gripe was about his guys having to occupy blockers instead of attacking, and we already changed that the last couple years. I don’t remember him wanting to coach edge/OLB, and LSU has a dedicated edge rushers coach so that’s not part of why he left.
  7. If anyone was on the fence about whether we should go after Bear, these two posts should settle it.
  8. So you’re saying the info in there is more up-to-date than the usual Orangebloods report?
  9. Blue entered the portal last offseason and fumbled the ball when we were trying to run out the clock against Wyoming. It’s not a mystery why it took him time to earn more touches. in fact IIRC @Hookem2147 proclaimed that fumble against Wyoming would be Blue’s last ever carry at Texas.
  10. Yeah, it seems like there’s a lot of smoke on this. I have a hard time believing it, though. I know Antonelli has had an extremely successful junior career, but he was below F3 last year and then skipped to F2 this year. So far, he hasn’t lit the world on fire in F2, which is fine for his age and lack of experience, but throwing him into an F1 car when he hasn’t even adjusted to F2 yet seems like a bad idea. It sounds like Toto is leaning toward putting Antonelli in the Merc next year (probably because Toto’s given up on this reg set and wants to prep Antonelli for 26), so I guess that could be why they’re looking to rush him into Williams this year to see how he progresses.
  11. I wasn’t following F1 when that happened, but the story about Charles losing Jules and his father within a two year span is what first made me root for Charles. It’s crazy to think a driver died under safety car conditions in a 2014 race. It’s truly inexcusable. Also wild to think that if not for that accident, Charles and Jules could have driven together for Ferrari.
  12. Quinn’s sack avoidance numbers and pocket presence have always been terrible. The injury didn’t change much.
  13. Agree with this. Conner could step in at either G or T in a pinch, so he’s very valuable for creating depth on the OL. Having said that, it would be severely disappointed if he’s starting.
  14. That was just a terrible reach by the Cowboys. They thought they needed a run stopping NT, so they took him way too early. If Sweat was in the draft last year, Cowboys probably take him there. Sweat’s problem is he just doesn’t provide much pass rush or pass disruption. In today’s NFL, that’s always going to decrease value. Going in the second as a run stopping NT is still very high.
  15. He’s a huge upgrade at safety over Jerrin Thompson, Taffe, true freshman Williams, etc. He’s a proven above average P4 Safety. How much more ceiling he has is yet to see.
  16. Well then your question is an even stranger one. He will still be playing safety in 4/5 wr sets just like he would in base. If we bring a safety down to cover, he’s good at playing the slot for a safety. He’s not as good full time as a nickel CB. Those are two very different things.
  17. Hill already played off ball LB last year, so we’re not moving him. I’m sure he’ll still blitz plenty again this year, but his role isn’t changing. You’ve clearly never watched Blackshire play. Blackshire was slow and couldnt move at 250ish. Now he’s over 260. He would get absolutely murdered by Michigan’s offense, and playing him significant snaps would be monumentally stupid. Blackshire was a culture take. He may get some run in goal line situations, but that’s pretty much it. Are you under the impression we don’t play safeties in dime sets? He’ll still be playing safety. PK very rarely runs true man. He’s almost all quarters/matching, which is perfectly fine for Mukuba at Safety.
  18. I was about to say Riley’s already tanked his chances at an NFL HC job, but then I remembered Kingsbury got hired as a HC after being fired from Tech and not even winning half his games with one of the greatest QBs ever.
  19. Exactly. This guy gets it. You can find guys like Anthony Hill, Manny Muhammad, and Ryan Wingo just sitting in the portal every offseason. Why are all these dumb head coaches wasting their time and NIL money recruiting them out of HS?
  20. It means Robinson had terrible vision and wasn’t actually good as a RB. He was mainly a gadget player. Wisner can do both.
  21. Sure but things at Red Bull were very different a year ago. If they’re not doing everything they can right now, it’s a huge mistake.
  22. The team who can’t figure out a ground effect car to save their ever loving lives isn’t that interested in Newey. LMAO Merc is so bloated and lost. They’ve been fading hard ever since they lost their massive engine advantage and it’s not getting any better. Their strategy team tends to be slow to react and too conservative. Their pit stops have been consistently slow for years, and they obviously have huge issues with car design and development. If there’s one team willing to absolutely break the bank on Newey, it should absolutely be Merc. Them not being that interested in him just shows they’re still lost and not even close to figuring things out.
  23. And about 20 of those 25 were guys who hadn’t played a snap of college ball yet.
  24. You are drastically overrating Finkley. He’s undersized and doesn’t have great explosiveness. He’s a solid backup, but he’s not starting at any program that has hopes of sniffing the playoff. He could probably start at low end P5 schools or G5 schools.
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