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  1. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Yup, PK is dog shit. Perhaps if they didn't waste game reps on Brockermeyer and Foster all season we'd have a younger guy more developed. 

      It's so much more than that. To play well on defense its about trust. We beat on the LBs for wrong steps and bad eyes but how many times has the D-line failed them? Supposedly PK plays a single gap scheme but the way the D-Line plays sure as shit looks like 2 to me. Arms extended, waiting to see which way the play goes. DEs firing recklessly upfield, ignoring all the keys and contain responsibilities. Hard to do what you are supposed to when the guys in front cannot be trusted to be where they are supposed to be, and do what they are supposed to do. We saw this same shit with Manny and the LBs looked just as lost. It's a lack of trust.

     

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  2. 30 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    This just isn't a great Bama team in general. I have no idea why people think they are going to waltz into Atlanta and handle Georgia without issue. 

    Because we've seen GA turtle time and time again.

  3. 1 minute ago, Codaxx said:

    To be honest this has been going on a long time. It isn’t new to this year. OU has been drilling Texas with counter Trey for years. LB play has been terrible for years. The season is over and if someone said Ford was the best LB on the team,  I really wouldn’t have a strong argument against them. Until Texas can roll out 2 solid LBs, the defenses will continue to be bad. It’s been since 2011 that Texas finished #1 in total defense in the Big 12 and just 3 times in the last 10 years Texas has finished above 5th in the Big 12. 

    Which is why I am now on the "its us" train.

  4. 5 hours ago, Beer Horn said:

    The edge player should not be up the field on a down block for sure. With pullers coming to him he has to cap/squeeze/leverage (whatever term you use) the pullers, no one to spill to. Neither lb sees pullers and safety is so deep taking a shitty angle. This is just bad in so many ways that it’s hard to believe. But it’s something we have come used to seeing weekly unfortunately.

     

    3 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    It’s terrible and the mistakes are Junior High level mistakes. These are basic fundamentals taught at lower levels. 

       This looks exactly like what we saw when _iaz was here. Exactly. To a tee

  5. 3 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

    I think Ian Boyd showed how PK liked to play his safeties with Jimmy Lake versus how Terry Joseph played them at Notre Dame. We played the ND way and things never meshed. I have always thought that PK just does not go from being pretty damn good DC to being useless without being interfered with by Sark. I believe Sark promised Joseph defensive passing game coordinator a neutered PK. We saw this kind of thing before with Leon Fuller when Mackovic got involved and made a DC with top 10 defenses year in and year out all of a sudden rank 60th in D.

     I don't think so on this one. PK said bend but don't break. That means allowing the short throws and come up and tackle, which appears to be what we are attempting to do. We just lack the effort and speed to get guys on the ground shortly after the ball is delivered. Most of the time we are bailing its to morph into some type of coverage. Defense is about effort. Run hard to the ball and good things happen. We aren't doing that as a whole.

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  6. 32 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    Foster loafed on the tackle as usual, but this was a big gainer mainly due to our LBs - Gbenda in particular. We're in a 4-2-5 look (with 4 actual down lineman) with a safety creeping up in run support at the snap.  Gbenda has bad eyes, bad feet, bad steps and is way out of position. The pulling lead blocker has no one to block. Just really bad fundamentals. 

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    How we are attacking the LOS on the D-Line and the lack of effort /concepts are contributing to the LB failures as well.

  7. 3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    PK fucking sucks dick and is ass. 

       That wasn't the point. I am tired of all the idiots that keep saying scheme change. PK may very well be terrible. I don't like his scheme. Shit I don't like Georgia's 3-3-5 Mint. But Georgia does it with all 5 stars so they make everything look good.

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  8. 14 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    exactly.

     

    14 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    you keep doing this. 7WS is the one saying changing scheme.  if he's that dumb to keep PK and ask him to change his scheme(which is impossible, apparently) then maybe 7WS shouldn't be a head coach.

    and you keep doing this. DA has run the same 3-4 base that he always has just with the front adjusted. It's an adjustment not a scheme change.

  9. Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

    Carrying water for a defensive coordinator at Texas who is worse than Manny Diaz, yikes....

    Bro you know I was the first to clown on Diaz, but then he left and got his mojo back. After awhile we have to start pointing the finger at us. We're the woman who's on her 5th husband and its not working out. But she swears its them.

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  10. 2 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Go read up on Dave Aranda.  He has been very flexible with his scheme throughout his career as a DC.  He coaches circles around PK.  

       Once again, flexibility inside of a scheme and a scheme change are two different things. Aranda is still working inside the 3-4 platform he has been running forever. We've run a bajillion different looks. Anywhere from 2-5 man fronts, nickel and dime, and cover 1 thru quarters on the back end. What his scheme, regardless of how many men are on the LOS, asks the players to do up front appears to be something they are not good at or we don't teach well. Regardless, every DC we've had has come here and run into the same problem. Manny did. Charlie did. Orlando did. And now PK has. All these guys were good DCs before they got here and then we broke them. I think the problem is us. Here is what I think it is.

      I think we have a couple issues. I think we are playing kids too early. Tossing them out there before they've learned their craft. There are two types of players. You have the lower star try hard guys who didn't have the sheer athletic ability but through effort made to the collegiate level. Then you have the talented guys who's technique is bad but overcame it through sheer ability. Baylor gets the former. We get the latter. So when you play a guy like that he is really raw, and makes a lot of technical mistakes. I believe we've been playing dudes too early and they develop bad technique, but then they compound the problem by being the toxic yeah yeah coach I got it guys. I cannot think of any other reason these coaches are struggling here. It makes sense when you add in the fact that the only two DCs to come in here and be successful were guys who ran high school level defensive schemes that the guys probably already played and thus could be effective.

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  11. 16 hours ago, vtaenz said:

    True, but I think he was in charge of linebackers. His recruiting and development of linebackers while he was here was not good.
    My memory is fuzzy but he may have lost out on several LB he was recruiting and went with his 2nd and 3rd choice but that was a really bad spot on this team under him.

      No, you only remember it that way because of Manny Diaz. He left Manny K Rob, Acho, Hicks, and Edmond. Hicks was injured and Edmond looked like he didn't know how to play football before Greg got him. But the 2011 defense was only good because they were Boom's guys and then when Manny had to teach them they were shit. Greg got them and Edmond turned around and we all know about Hicks. He still playing.

  12. 2 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

    If only we had previous evidence to show how bad Sarkisian is. 
     

    80 games just isn’t enough evidence to show how good or bad a coach is….

      Regardless of how you feel about Sark, Herman is the reason we have the roster we do. We hired a guy who had exactly one year of HC experience and never knew if he could recruit. So now here we are.

     

    Just now, ztejas said:

    Herman's best team was completely on the backs of Charlie guys. And last year he was buoyed by 2 immediate impact NFL guys and Sam.

      Sure was, and that includes Sam too.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:

    Would you take Freeman, if you couldn't get Boom?

    Yeah, I know neither is happening?

    Nope! We hired 4 sexy picks over the last 4 decades and all 4 failed. I know one guy who came here looked at an undersized guy named Earl Thomas and said he is my guy. Found a way to play tough, physical defense despite being undersized. Largely made this conference his bitch during his stay here. I will take the proven guy. Everyone else is the same dude. Good wherever they came from but not here.

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  14. 1 minute ago, Starfleet Command said:

    Herman is responsible for this dogshit roster. He left the program in far worse shape than good ol’ Chuck Strong. 

    Truth. Herman was also propped up by Sam Ehlinger. People acting like these two Jags would somehow be better with Herman is laughable at best.

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  15.    The only reason to change is to bring a counter Sark type guy. Someone fiery, who gets the team emotionally in the right place. Someone who calls a good D but can also recruit well. To me Boom is that guy, but if you can't get him then don't just grab a different guy for the sake of grabbing a different guy. This is 4 DCs now that have struggled here under 4 different regimes. Its high time we start looking in the mirror.

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  16. 3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    This is such a chickenshit take tbh

    Kids are kids, it's the coaches jobs to motivate them and keep them inflated after things don't go their way. Blaming everything on the players is the coward's way out.

      His take is pretty accurate. It's clear you've never been the fix it guy in whatever organization you work for. When you take over a failing organization the first thing you do is come in and identify the problem. There will be four categories of people. Toxic, apathetic wait and see, and try hards. You get rid of the toxic, hire more new people, which are usually more try hards if your evaluation process was good, and this gets the attention of the apathetic wait and see types to shit or get off the pot. In football the first season is eval. Then its time to replace the rot, get some young try hards in here, and hopefully that will turn the apathetic ones.

      Last year Baylor went 2-7. This year Baylor is 8-2. I don't know if Sark is the answer but I do know it takes time to change a culture. A

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