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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. They can look down on our win against Iowa State, but most metrics have ISU ranked higher than Arkansas and Miami. Some even have ISU above A&M.
  2. This thread is always an interesting read a couple days after our games I thought ISU's use of rollouts was really clever. All of our pass rush is in the middle of the line. I expect to see more rollouts from other teams moving forward. We moved Cook and Crawford to safety this year. I have high hopes for Crawford next year but he definitely doesn't seem ready yet Before yesterday, Watts had played 86.37% of snaps, Thompson 85.68%, Cook 75.29%, Jamison 65.82% (lower due to injuries). And that's all with some blowouts where you expect to see the backups. We really don't rotate our DBs that much except for Barron (55.2%). Johnson (32.33% higher due to injuries), Guilbeau (30.25%), and Crawford (20.79%) are the only backup DBs with a snap share above 10%.
  3. To add on to this, I haven't seen anybody talk about ISU's heavy use of rollouts. Our best penetration comes from the interior. Get your QB on a designed rollout then suddenly those 340lb DTs have to get through the lineman and then chase the QB down. Plus rollouts are a really natural pairing with bunch formations. I thought their offensive gameplan was really smart. At least it gives our defense a couple clear things to clean up.
  4. Ojomo and Jones will get late round or UDFA looks too. Keilan seems set on the NFL and Billingsley is a big ?
  5. This might just be semantics but I don't think the correct approach with Quinn is to rein him in. The kid is testing his limit and that's what I want to see. His limit is higher than any other QB in college football. The sooner he finds it the better. He doesn't have a whole lot of time. Quinn has already shown a propensity for a lot of the things that freshmen QBs need to work - commanding the offense, going through progressions, throwing the ball away when he needs to. His main learning points are going to be more reps and consistent footwork. On that second point, his footwork is excellent when he needs it to be. It's just that sometimes he doesn't need it because his arm is so good and that's when the inconsistency turns up. He missed a handful of open guys against OU but I fully trust that he and Sark will improve on that as he gets more reps.
  6. A couple more quotes from Hudson about the game via OB
  7. Here are the stats the defense has allowed on short passes over the middle so far this year 22/40, 320 yards, 2 TDs Pretty pedestrian. Maybe we should rethink the narrative that this is some kind of gaping weak for us. ETA stats for slants specifically: 17/26, 160 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
  8. The worst QB battle take of them all was Ian Boyd saying the team's ceiling was higher with Card
  9. I guess it's good that he gets to see us, but OU is the home team this year so they'll be the ones hosting him. Technically this is an OU visit
  10. I was looking at the offensive grades like, "yeah Bijan's that dude, good for JWhitt getting up there, Banks is the best OL right, Majors and Jones getting solid grades seems about right, wait Coburn only at 60 I thought he was much better than that, Murphy at 58 holy shit PFF must really be terrible." Then I realized that was just for their fullback snaps LOL Jaylan Ford being our worst defensive starter at 62 is such a good sign. I'm seriously so impressed with the development on that side of the ball.
  11. We check in at #93 for average line yards, #78 for opportunity rate, #105 for power success rate, #77 for stuff rate, and #49 for sack rate. Not great!
  12. Dunlap's grading scale is pretty weird. But from following it for a couple years, my general interpretation is that <74 is bad, 74-77 is average, >77 is good, > 79 is great. Also, I have not been in agreement with the calls to replace Hutson with Campbell, but those clips are damning. I rewatched and saw him lose his balance a bunch but I hadn't counted it. 8 is pretty horrendous. The coaches seem to like Karic - maybe there's an option with him rotated in somewhere. I trust Flood to put the best lineup on the field though.
  13. I don't want to belabor the point that repeating the first half of your post ad nauseam is annoying, but I do want to say that the Texas NIL machine is going about their efforts in the right way. The team-wide deals lose their recruiting value if they aren't sustainable. It takes time to raise the kind of funds that will accomplish the goal at Texas. I don't know how SMU/Tech are funding their stuff, but the guy doing it for Miami has already said he's going to start scaling back. After one year lol. We aren't going to lose important recruits to SMU or Tech because of 30k, so have some patience while the difference-making work gets done.
  14. Give me 41-13 Texas and 193 yards for the receivers
  15. The bet on passion has been funding payments to players for more than half a century. I don't see any reason to think that will stop now that it's legal.
  16. Those were Sark's words in the preseason presser. My interpretation is that the coaches know our edge rush isn't consistent enough to force QBs to get ball out quickly, so the DBs will have to cover a bit longer to allow time for the DL to make pressure. That said the DL (interior especially) has been a lot better than preseason expectations. Agree with what you and Fumbles are saying.
  17. Judging safeties in coverage seems like an exercise in futility without all-22
  18. I quite like Thompson and Cook so far, but I do hope that Crawford can improve to take Cook's spot next year One thing that I don't have a strong opinion on but that I'm going to pay attention to is the demands that we're placing on the secondary. The defense is using the 'coverage to generate pressure' approach, which is a big ask by itself. Then you add a mobile QB like Harris, and you're asking them to cover for a long time. Like 4-5 seconds when the average release time is 2.5-3. I think the approach makes sense with our personnel (i.e. consistent strength being interior push), so this is more something to note than a complaint.
  19. Couple things on the run game and play calling in general IMO we're better at zone blocking (especially outside) than power schemes right now. I think the interior guys benefit from helping each other on their initial blocks. Makes up for their lack of strength and they're all athletic enough to get to the second level. Zone also means fewer pulls, which they've been bad at. UTSA LBs played the run super aggressively. We were able to punish on a couple jet sweeps but I think we need to see more of those early in the game rather than starting by trying to establish the inside run. Sark's affinity for speed should pay off big time here. On that note, Sark definitely held back schematically against ULM and UTSA, and not just because of the QB situation. He's saving a lot things for good opponents. Compare Bama with the other two and it's night and day. He'll show ULM/UTSA a lot of different personnel packages and formations, but is mostly running basic stuff out of them. I don't know where Tech falls in his mental hierarchy, but I expect to see more motion and creativity than last week.
  20. Bijan's financial priority needs to be getting to his second contract asap. And possibly to his third while he's still young. Unfortunately, RB is probably the position where it makes the least sense to stay for the fourth year. Fortunately, we're stocked at the position.
  21. I'd argue Quinn should travel for the process. He hasn't had to travel so far this year. Have him go through the flight, hotel, visitor locker room, etc. That stuff matters. Did he travel at all last year for OSU?
  22. Unfortunately I'm not sure that will work anymore now that it's been put on film
  23. I proposed something like this last year. A 2 qb system where Casey took the snaps and made the reads but would hand it to Hudson if it was an intermediate or deep pass (this was in the preseason when the narrative was Card had a better intermediate to deep ball but Casey was better short and knew the offense better) That didn't gain much traction, but perhaps this is the year. Quinn takes the snap, makes the read, and makes all the throws, but if he is going to be sacked then he hands it to Hudson to take the hit. If we're worried about Tech playing dirty and twisting Hudson's ankle, then when Hudson gets sacked and is at the bottom of a pile, he and Quinn can switch back so that they're twisting Quinn's healthy ankle instead. Player safety is always paramount
  24. Is scipio tex's post-mortem for offense out yet? Looking forward to that one
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