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  1. 9 hours ago, DallasGatr said:

    Serious question. I’ve got a shot at buying one of these 2 at a “reasonable” price. I’m not buying both, but I want one PP for my collection. Any thoughts?f0a616b525c599aee7e1283538c37484.jpg
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    either you want the complications or you don't. how can we help?

  2. 6 minutes ago, Cajun said:

    Even when it’s a Longhorn game I just can’t watch Gameday.  
     

    It’s embarrassingly dumb on every level.

    they just talk about football and goof around? you being a rhodes scholar and all probably need something much more erudite, huh?

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  3. 58 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Also, @HenryJames has been saying all week that the first offensive play of the game for Texas will be a post route to an uncovered Gunnar Helm for a touchdown. 

    I tend to think we have a chance if Sark comes out and calls some dink and dunks and chews up some clock. If he dials up the bomb on 1st down I'm throwing something at my TV.

  4. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

     

    Fairly certain that this is just the latest iteration of “KennyPowders”. Same antagonistic, unfunny attempts at being a funny contrarian while working some sort of bit. What he lacks in humor or creativity, he makes up for in volume. 

    I assume he’s trending towards another crowdsourcing. 

    did you make a score prediction on this one?

  5. 4 minutes ago, Colonel Sanders said:

    For me College GameDay is kind of like the NFL draft.  I'm excited to watch it,  but within 5 minutes I find myself switching the channel. 

    to what?

  6. 1 hour ago, Chewbacca said:

    Yeah, but there are locals deals.  They do that shit to keep the riff raff out. 

    Negative, ghostrider. The 'locals' pass is 7 total days for the season. The unlimited pass is $3K.  

  7. 29 minutes ago, ermahgerdhorn said:

    Even idiot fan bases panic when they realize they are about to actually have competition year in and year out.  Same thing aggy, tech, ou, etc. do to us.  Bama fans are freaking out right now about the prospect of if not playing us every year then at least having to best us for a shot at a conference title.  

    sorry man, but we're only a scary giant in our own minds. Bama isn't freaking out about anything other than Saban retiring.

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  8. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

     

    Yeah. Imagine if a bunch of far right wing conservatives, which is the party doing this in Israil, decided that they didn't like the power of the judiciary to claim certain things illegal or unconstituation and were perpetually striking down the overreach of a far right legislature, so they would go ahead and gut the power of the judiciary so they could do whatever they want. 

    Or, in a the terms of checks and balances, they removed the judiiary as one of the checks that keeps things balanced. 

    So I just listened to a podcast about this and it's even worse as I understand it. There is no other body of electors (eg House and Senate) that can act as a check on bills passed by a slim majority in the Knesset, and there is no executive veto power. So in essence the judicial branch wasn't just another check on the balance of power, it was the only check. And they've decided to do away with that entirely.

    Scary stuff.

  9. 9 minutes ago, Hard Times said:

    I'm not going to insult my intelligence by watching that whole thing. What kind of idiot thinks that other QB's don't have dropped balls, WR's run wrong routes, teammate knock the ball out, OL miss blocks??? If you ADJUST every QB then Quinn will fall right where he is, 59th in the country in QBR. One can argue the QBR is flawed, but then it's flawed for all.

    The only thing I will give the kool-aid drinkers is the PI's. It's obvious a Texas WR will have to get gang raped on the field for a PI to be called. But that still doesn't change it to a completion. Quinn was #50 in QBR last season, and that's what he is until he starts improving that number.

    The level of koolaid one needs to drink in order to call QE's performance against Rice 'excellent' requires Narcan.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    199.8. I was a freshman in college the last time I saw the scale under 200. 
    this was the number I was waiting to see!  

    Putting aside your weight, how do you feel? Do you have energy? How are you doing mentally?

  11. 13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    It took twitter 2.5 years to have a celebrity with over a million followers (think it was Ashton Kuchter in 2009).  There's multiple Threads users with a million followers already.

    Is Threads going to replace Twitter as the 15th or 16th most popular social media platform in the world? Not right away. 

    However, they are down to just a couple of features that are needed for a lot of people to fully bail, and Musk is doing his best to help twitter to shed users with the anti-Jewish stuff.  Which, by the way, it's a fantastic strategy to blame the Jews for his advertising woes, I'm sure there are no Jewish people working in marketing or in positions of power over marketing.

    On the flip side, if this doesn't come to fruition, and Twitter remains the de facto place to do whatever Twitter does, then the network effect is much stronger than anyone could possibly imagine. We're essentially watching an organization try to light itself on fire.

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  12. 51 minutes ago, 4th and 5 said:

    What is Steve Sarkisian’s blueprint for Alabama? Inside Texas’ motion package

    AUSTIN, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 10: Head coach Steve Sarkisian of the Texas Longhorns talks with head coach Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide before the game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 10, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
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    One year ago, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian put a scare into Alabama, coming within a point of the nation’s top-ranked team. Now, as he prepares for Saturday’s rematch in Tuscaloosa, Sarkisian is armed with the blueprint that had the Crimson Tide defense reeling, especially before Quinn Ewers got hurt.

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    That blueprint is a fluid pre-snap motion package, which Sarkisian has continued to build on since his days as the offensive coordinator at Bama. His ability to move players pre-snap provides him with the mismatches needed to exploit perimeter defenders. Expect it to be a constant in his game plan this week, especially with Crimson Tide defensive backs Jaylen Keyand Malachi Moore already nursing injuries from last week.

    Sarkisian moved his pieces on offense on at least 52 percent of snaps last year, according to TruMedia. While this may not seem like much, it ranked 20th at the FBS level. Let’s look at the four pre-snap build-ins Sarkisian uses to out-leverage defenses and generate space in the passing game, exploring how he builds upon them — coaches call it layering — during the course of a game and season.

    Example 1: Formation into boundary structures

    When you put on Texas tape, the first thing you notice is how much space Sarkisian and offensive coordinator Kyle Flood allow their skill players to work with. The second thing is how many times defenses allow it to happen. In the coaching profession, it is called “FIB,” which stands for aligning the “formation into the boundary.” This is where an offense aligns the strength of the formation into the short side of the field, which Sarkisian and his staff did on more than 70 percent of snaps last year, which was 12th in the country, according to TruMedia.

    Because so many defensive structures are generated to align toward the passing strength of the formation, this often leaves fewer defenders and more space for offensive players to work with. This is Sarkisian 101; if the defense gives you space, take it. Last week against Rice, Sarkisian repeatedly lined up star receiver Xavier Worthy to the field side, prompting a man-to-man matchup with an inferior cornerback.

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    Ewers sees the matchup and delivers a speed out (or Omaha route in Sarkisian’s system) to Worthy, which generates a 25-yard gain.

    Sarkisian has plenty of weapons on the perimeter aside from Worthy, including Ja’Tavion Sanders, one of the best pass-catching tight ends in the country. Sanders is 6 feet 4, 243 pounds and armed with the innate ability to stretch defenses vertically. His 54 catches last season were the most for a tight end in Longhorns history.

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    Sarkisian will also align him to the boundary, presenting a nub side (no receiver) surface to the field.

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    For most two-high defenses like Kansas State, this produces a hard Cover 2 check, which gives the corner flat responsibility to the field while the safety plays the first deep route. The problem is Sanders has the athleticism to get on the toes of the near safety and has the ball skills to out-muscle them at the point of catch.

    Sarkisian knows this and runs a typical smash route, getting Sanders matched up on a high safety for a 15-yard completion.

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    How FIB is layered

    Defenses are formationally based, so most times they will have one to two checks against FIB surfaces. Quite simply, if they feel like their corner can play the receiver to the field, they lock him up. Such was the case in the Alamo Bowl against Washington. Though the Longhorns lost 27-20, Ewers threw for a career-high 369 yards and Texas had some of its biggest chunk plays on formation into boundary concepts.

    The Huskies played a healthy dose of man coverage, particularly on third down. In the image below, Sarkisian may not have the matchup he wanted at wideout, but he did match up running back Keilan Robinson on an interior linebacker. A simple wheel route out of the backfield produced a 10-yard gain and moved the chains.

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    Similar to FIB checks, most defenses will only have one or two checks to empty formations, and that usually revolves around playing some sort of man. Sarkisian will again align his top skill players to the boundary, where there is more space.

    In the image below, Worthy converts on a third-down slant against a Washington corner for a first down.

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    Example 2: Orbit motion

    Perhaps no other coach — save for military academies running the triple-option — uses orbit motion more than Sarkisian does. He puts a premium on having receivers, like Worthy, work around the quarterback to the opposite side of the formation pre-snap. This forces another defender to match Worthy. It’s easy for a defense to game plan taking him away pre-snap, but when he allocates himself to another end of the formation, it puts an extensive amount of stress on defenses to communicate and cover.

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    In the image below, Sarkisian brings Worthy back across the formation against ULM with the purpose of throwing him a bubble screen. With two receivers already aligned to the field, the nearest tackler to Worthy is a deep safety at 10 yards.

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    Ewers throws the screen and Worthy picks up an easy 8 yards.

    How orbit motion is layered

    The next week against Alabama, Sarkisian again motioned Worthy quite a few times behind the quarterback. These were done early in the game and Alabama defensive coordinator Pete Golding made the decision to have corner Kool-Aid McKinstry shadow him across the field. The problem was, by the time Worthy caught the ball he had a 15-yard head start on McKinstry, generating a first down.

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    The second time Texas ran it, Alabama tagged a blitz right into it. This time, the problem was that the ball was already thrown to the flat and Worthy was matched up with an inside linebacker who was the nearest threat to tackle him. Again, a 13-yard gain.

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    Sarkisian’s eyes in the booth were on it, so the final time he ran the orbit motion a series or two later, Worthy drew defenders over to the field, allowing for a screen into the boundary for a 12-yard gain.

    And later in the year, Sarkisian built in various elements to throw off the orbit motion such as the wheel concept, which outnumbered the defense. In the image below against Oklahoma, Ewers gets the ball to Sanders, who runs the wheel off the double slant concept.

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    Example 3: Return motion

    While defenses start to clue in on these orbit motion tags by rotating defenders over, Sarkisian progresses to using what is known as “return motion” — or having receivers end up where they started pre-snap. The speed of Worthy and others puts a great deal of stress on defenders who are forced to think on the fly and make adjustments.

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    In the image below against Oklahoma, Sarkisian gives the presentation that he’s pairing orbit motion to run the screen on the opposite side of the formation.

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    But Worthy stops before reaching the midline and works back to the boundary for a bubble screen and a 10-yard gain in the red zone.

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    How return motion is layered

    Later in the game, Sarkisian scaffolds the return motion into a downfield shot. In the image below, Robinson draws both Oklahoma defenders into pressure, allowing him to sneak out on a wheel for a 15-yard gain.

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    But he won’t always use return motion from perimeter receivers. One of his most successful variations is from the slot, where he will use receivers like Jordan Whittington to simulate jet sweep in one direction, only to come back the other way with the ball.

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    In the image below, it affects the Kansas secondary, which rotates to the boundary but is unable to redirect to the field in time.

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    Example 4: Motion to stack

    The final pre-snap movement build-in that the Texas offense implements is what is known as “motion to stack,” where Ewers will call in receivers to align more tightly together.

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    The stress this puts on defensive backs is two-fold: One, they need to communicate their coverage responsibilities quickly; and two, these condensed splits provide for more spacing for receivers to run vertical routes. Sarkisian used these build-ins exclusively in last season’s matchup against Alabama.

    In the clip below, Worthy motions to stack, aligning on the hash, then runs a vertical pipe past the corner for a 46-yard completion.

    And if Sarkisian prefers the matchup with Worthy on a safety, he’ll use the same pre-snap motion package and run what’s known as a “vertical switch” where the outside receiver runs a seam route down the middle of the field.

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    He used this concept against West Virginia last season to generate a 46-yard explosive play to Worthy.

    How motion to stack is layered

    Sarkisian won’t always use these motion build-ins to produce explosives. Often, he’ll use them to generate quick throws for Ewers, who is able to get the ball out to athletes on the perimeter.

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    In the image below, Ewers calls in Worthy to motion to stack so that he can get the ball to him on a bubble screen. Because the receivers stack, the nearest defender is 10 yards removed.

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    They will be paired to both two-receiver and three-receiver formations.

    In the image below against Kansas, Ewers motions in tight end Sanders to get a bigger body to block on the perimeter for Keilan Robinson, who scores a 15-yard touchdown.

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    Expect Sarkisian to use these same motion packages on Saturday against Alabama. And why wouldn’t he? It’s the cornerstone of his system and part of the reason why the Longhorns had the Crimson Tide on the ropes a season ago.

    We’ll see how Nick Saban and his staff adjust this time around.

    just had a horrible flashback of P trying to prove Charlie wasn't a garbage coach. 

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