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  1. As this smart dude named @JBJ we got roaming around this place alluded to, PK likes to run a tite front in his stack concept which has certain rules that activate the Jack end into dropping. A smart offensive coordinator could trigger that by choosing plays that force that drop with certain alignments and thereby take some pressure off his QB. Easy way to take Simmons out of the game.
  2. You look exactly how I pictured. ISU proper brother. Also, us olds played the original of that game growing up.
  3. Crazier than that. Boom had 15 dudes drafted that he either coached or recruited here. 3 1st rounders, 3 2nd rounders, 2 3rd rounders, 4 4th rounders, 1 5th rounders, 1 6th rounders, and 1 7th. In that time we had 4 offensive players drafted. Colt, Ship, Goodwin, and Swaim. 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, and 7th respectively. That began the dark ages. From the time that Boom's last dudes left in 13 until Sark got here we sent roughly the same amount to league on both sides of the ball as he did on one side of the ball in his short time here.
  4. A couple things- This just got me thinking that in some ways I admire aggy. I barely made it through the 2010's. I couldn't imagine having to dust off my pants and fill up the ole optimism jar every. single. year. Aggy has boundless energy, right up there with Cleveland Browns fans. You gotta admire the "there is always next year" mentality.
  5. Ah, the Big12 and not calling holding to equalize the games. I don't miss those days at all.
  6. Dude- We have some serious PTSD. The amount of detail all of us remember about that game is astounding. I'm old. I frequently get flustered and call my wife with my daughter's name. I can't remember what I did last week. But I remember that game like I watched it last night. I even remember where I was and what I did directly after(took a walk around the block to cool down). The fact that all @lilMAC25 had to say is "Taafe woulda caught it" and everyone here immediately knew the exact play he was talking about is Crazy!
  7. Game was decent. Quinn hits the TE and he fumbles. Comes back and throws an on target pass on a dig, db breaks on it, receiver tries to basket catch it which allows the db to reach around from behind him and get his hands on it. Deflected up in the air and intercepted. Cincy has all their weapons back, so they are scoring at will. Rookie QB. Down a few scores. Trying to make plays. That's all it was. He was fine when it wasn't obvious passing situations. It's easy to play defense when you are 3 scores up and know he has to throw.
  8. 100%. Taafe doesn't drop that and we are in the title game! What a terrible night that was.
  9. What happened in 2010 is we were thin at DT. I can't remember all the circumstances as to why it happened. Anyway, there was a stretch of games where we had to play Alex Okafor at DT, and at 260 he just couldn't hold up inside. It was a vicious circle where we couldn't score to force teams to throw so they just ran power and counter right at him all game until one popped. Also, you guys gotta remember Mack was a meddler. He wanted the recruits he wanted, so at times Boom's hands were tied. Anywho, people gotta remember he was only here for 3 years. Barely long enough to get rolling.
  10. First, the 09 defense was better than the 08 one. I feel like some of you guys are young so let us olds regale you with tales of Muschamp's prowess as a defensive coach. Lamar Houston was a slow RB/LB from Colorado when he came to Texas. We tried him off the edge but when Boom came he recognized his power, put a lil weight on him and slid him inside to 3 tech where he would be a disruptor. Henry Melton came to Texas as a 240lb goal line RB and we used him as such until Boom came and flipped him to his side of the ball and got him to the league as a big DE who could slide inside. Sergio Kindle was a 5 star LB who couldn't play traditional LB because he was stupid. Boom put him at Jack end where he would go on to decapitate many a QB in his career. Earl Thomas was a undersized 3 star recruit from Orange Texas who was never supposed to play here. He had decent speed but was undersized at 5'9-10. Boom got him and turned him into the best safety in the country, and next to Thomas was Michael Taafe..I mean Blake Gideon, the Michael Taafe before Michael Taafe. People see the finished product with all these NFL players and don't realize that it was Boom's eye for talent that created that roster. They weren't all bunch of 5 stars. Guys were lost with no real role on the team. You had some real dummies like Chykie and Sergio.
  11. I am trying to lead you to where you realize that just patting someone on the back and saying "sorry for your luck" isn't going to bring voters back to your side. I don't understand why you guys are acting like these situations are new. The right has been running the same playbook and it's worked against 3 generations of white folks for the last 45 years. F rom 1980-1992The Dems were doing exactly what you are asking them to do now. They were listening to the little guy and his life problems. Meanwhile Reagan and Bush were talking about cutting social programs and being tough on blacks because Welfare Queens and Willy Horton. These were the voting maps in those three terms Completely Washed!! Its infuriating to watch you guys do this. You wanna believe so bad that people aren't what they are showing you they are. You ignore voting trends. You ignore what the country has been telling you for generations, and that is this. People just don't want anyone that doesn't look like them to have shit, and refuse to believe that someone, who doesn't look like them that DOES have shit, came about it honestly. That's why we are willing to cut programs that are helpful to us. That's why we don't want universal healthcare. That's why the blackest state in the union, Mississippi, is also the poorest. That's why we hate DEI programs. These people aren't mad about their slot in life. They are mad that they are where they are and someone *insert ethnicity* got over undeservedly. That's why they are so easily manipulated. If you shipped out all the dirty ethnic people the country would vote for universal healthcare the next day. I know this because I see it every day. Everytime someone asks me where I went to school there is a pause and facial expression when I say Texas. The next question is always what sport did I play. The faces they make hopping out of our clean A6 at the tailgate with my wife on my arm. I told the story of making my daughter cut grass when she was 13 because life lessons, only to be asked how much I charge for landscaping by a couple yoga pants wearing, walker-bys. The look they gave when I told them it was my house. Lol. Every ethnic person with even a modicum of success has been met with these same circumstances and understands what they mean, and that is why the Jacob Savage's that voted for Trump are pissed. Those people in Ohio talking shit about the Haitians driving by in the Lexus is a prime example of that. The rest of us have been getting the shaft our entire life too, but we are smart enough to understand it's not the fault of women and immigrants with HB1 visas. You have to already be the kind of person thinking what the right is saying to take the bate on that shit imo. You already have an idea and here comes a politician just reinforcing what you already feel. I wish I could believe those dudes just needed some empathy, but history has told me different.
  12. Yeah, Georgia ran Mint a lot against us especially on running downs. For those that might want to dig into whar JBJ is talking about here is a video explaining the two.
  13. That does nothing to solve the problem, which is the other side is giving them someone to blame for their perceived slights and promising to eradicate the problem.
  14. Hard to say because he has been running Smart's defense, but when he was here we pretty much stayed in a 4-2-5(with a Jack LB). Some called it a 2-4-5 but whatever. He ran under/over fronts with a lot of single gap responsibilities so the front 7 could play fast and loose. On the edge we didn't believe in space. Contesting routes was the norm whether that be in zone or man. A lot of split field coverages triggered by alignment or personnel, where we would zone to one side and man on the other. He was pretty multiple. It looked exotic from the outside but had simple keys for the players. We played extremely fast on that side of the ball. It was a joy to watch the defense because they brought a hat every week. If you weren't around, go back and look at 08 and 09's scores. Best defenses we've had since I've been old enough to pay attention. Outside of a couple games, when teams we start they game getting the better of us we adjusted and shut that shit down.
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