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  1. Then again that doesn't excuse some of our dumb safety play either. Take this play for instance. This is the play where TCU ran a sprint out, or rolled the pocket coupled with a levels concept or flood patterns for the olds. Look at Thompson at the top of the screen. He gets turned completely around. What I want you to think about is this. The quarterback rolling to his right is telling you where the pattern is going. Why the fuck would the receiver be breaking to his left Thompson? This is just dumb football. The route was always going to match where the QB was going. Had he played the percentages he assumes the route breaks playside and has a chancento jump it or at worse discourage the throw. Just stupid football by the guys on the back end. This is why Taafe is playing.
  2. I think that Stat is misleading. Anytime you get close to a QB as he is throwing is considered a pressure. It doesn't say how long QBs are holding the ball. QBs seem to be standing back there for an awfully long time judging by eye test. Just my opinion. I'd like to see a Stat on that though.
  3. If you can't run block with your down 5, running more TEs gives you more surface area(gaps) to pop runs. Maybe that's it? Who knows what they are seeing in practice.
  4. Thatguy

    9-1

    Agreed on all accounts. I am the choir here. We are in year 3. Program trajectory is headed the right way but people here expect perfection. We are still a flawed team, but winning despite that.
  5. Thatguy

    9-1

    I understand that. What I am saying to you is that a 5 star receiver isn't going to go play in a wishbone system despite NIL. Here are all the things kids are looking at. Program trajectory. System fit. NIL. How soon can they get on the field. All of those things are important. So when you add in that the coach is an asshole kids start looking at choices. As you know, some of the "kids trying to leave" shit is them posturing for more money. Some kids like Wiley, are truly looking for a better fit despite being taken care of as far as NIL goes. Tom Herman has systemic issues that would keep a lot of high quality player from playing for him.
  6. Thatguy

    9-1

    But you DID get to see that. Saban, despite seeing on film that if you attack our center guard combos we struggle running the football, came out and ran what he always ran. He then tried to man up on our NFL receivers and got his secondary walked by. ALL GAME. Never made coverage adjustments. On offense he wouldn't cut Milroe loose. Even when the game got desperate.
  7. Thatguy

    9-1

    You are misjudging my ties to the program and who/what I know. Seriously. We all appreciate what you do for the program. However, bags aren't everything. A fact aggy is fucking around and finding out. Program trajectory and fit are a big deal. Kids want a bag, yes. However, their ultimate goal is the NFL and so program fit is also important.
  8. Thatguy

    9-1

    I get what you are saying but we olds need to wake up. Gone are the days when we could roll out of bed and beat TCU or Iowa State. Kids aren't willing to wait at big time programs anymore. They will leave and go somewhere else. So there is more parity in college football unless you are one of those teams at the very tippy top that has been stacking talent for eternity. Texas is starting to get back to that but there are still holes that end up affecting games. For example, Georgia doesn't have to panic grab receivers. Our most clutch receiver was a guy they let go of. That's how stacked they are. They shrugged their shoulders at him leaving.
  9. Thatguy

    9-1

    He didn't recruit lights out and NIL is everywhere. You can get the same dollars at other big time programs so if you hate the coach just go to Ohio State.
  10. Thatguy

    9-1

    People here see the recruiting rankings and don't understand that it means potential. A lot of these kids don't know shit and have just been getting by on pure athletic ability. We still have a ton of shortcomings and we tend to lose intensity once we get up on a team. 0-line- Our center and LG are weak in the run game and our RG is strong but busts some assignments here and there. We struggle with consistency and cannot just line up and run on a team when we want to. Receivers- We have one receiver that catches everything but loafs, and another receiver who is dynamic with the ball in his hands but gets pushed around by DBs and never wins a physical contest with a defender. Every game they take turns trying to see who can get a receiver killed by missing blocks. TEs- Our superstar TE struggles blocking. RBs- One RB is nails, another one is big and physical but tip-toes and doesn't run with good feet, another one is too lite, and the other one is fast but doesn't run with patience. D-line- Our starting tackles are monsters against the run, but as TCU showed if you wait til they sub out you can go with pace to keep them on the bench and run on the backups. Ends cannot get home with any kind of consistency. We have no natural pass rushers. LBs- One is slow when in conflict. The other one busts assignments on the regular. The young dude is fast and physical but doesn't know shit yet and is constantly flying all over the place but is wrong often. CBs- Watts is physical but slow. Brooks doesn't challenge receivers enough allowing QBs to throw perfectly on rhythm, and loses inside leverage constantly. Other guys are young. Barron is a stud but hurt. Safeties- Slow. Late. Bad angles. Only make plays when the call confuses the QB or a deflection or such. None have made a break on a ball that was thrown well. Over the course of a 60 min football game each one of these rears its ugly head. All of them showed up against TCU. They are who they are. Accept it.
  11. Yes! Because it worked last year. For all Xmans abilities once the ball is in his hands he is actually pretty easy to push around, and doesn't fight for the ball in the air. So TCU enacted the same plan they had last year it's just they didn't calculate the AD problem and also now we do a better job of getting X the ball in the quick game.
  12. That was a back shoulder fade. You can throw them with air or with pace like Aaron Rodgers does. You throw the ball short and to the outside and let the receiver adjust to the ball. Ball is perfect for when the receiver has coverage over top. In this case the safety is coming over just like on the INT. If Ewers throws this out in front it is either picked or AD gets hit and likely drops. AD stumbles to the ground but this is how its supposed to look from a receiver standpoint.
  13. He was trying to hurt him Burnt. You can see how hard he is flexing when he is twisting him. We can agree it is part of the game put that was def on purpose. It's like how there is a regular tackle and a Dallas Turner tackle, where you pull them in by the waist as hard as you can and then drive all your body weight into them as they land. You can see it in the technique. They were trying to hurt Worthy too.
  14. We have to back them off. Just like last year they were coming up and being extremely physical with our receivers. At times the box was pretty heavy so getting them to back off was a must. However, Sark wasn't running the run action that he usually does to get safeties to come flying up. Those were straight dropbacks where optimum protection was key. You can tell because Brooks stayed in to block. It's as if Sark told Quinn to just air it out no matter what to get them thinking about it. We left a lot of our playbook off the table to make sure Quinn stayed upright. We ran the ball 19 times(I count the WR screen as a run) to just 9 tosses in the second half. Something was clearly going on with QE so it seemed Sark was only using him when he had to.
  15. I don't know. But we have to do something about the left side. Maybe Hutson at center and Neto a LG? Not sure.
  16. Banks, Campbell, Williams, Hutson, and Roberson.
  17. Brooks came in hurt. Looks like the Frogs got the scouting report and put a little extra twist on the ankle. They were trying to hurt Worthy too. I am sure Sark called the plays to protect Ewers. Sark isn't the kind of guy to call a whole quarter's worth of running plays. So I chalk it up to that.
  18. Yes. In the 3 man the NT is usually someone really physical and disruptive, and our C and LG aren't physical. It's a bad bad matchup for us, and those teams in the past were able to handle our running game without committing too many bodies to it. In most modern 4 man fronts there is a DT over the center(A gap), then one in the B gap, but the ends are outside the tackles. Makes it easier get the center some help in a zone blocking scheme. We will struggle against 3 man fronts with a solid NT as long as 65 and 76 are still on the 40. Because the SEC is a physical conference, most teams play defensive schemes the way we do.
  19. The less times you throw the better chance you have of not getting your QB hit. Ewers wasn't hit all night. Just what we needed. On to the next week.
  20. It's the teams with 3 man fronts. They attack the weakest part of our line and we can't get push. Traditional lines we are decent against.
  21. You guys are fucking regarded. Pretty clear QE isn't 100%. Sark seemed to want nothing to do with putting him in harm's way once we got up on them. I can appreciate that. He called his number in the end and QE delivered. On to the next. Quit fucking crying.
  22. Imagine being 9-1 and writing a post like this.
  23. He has a solid point though. The guy was loafing it for quite awhile. Not sure why. Maybe X was getting the ball too much for his liking.
  24. Maybe the negative energy from Horn fans is why we always find ourselves in these situations. Geezus.
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