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Lerka Lerka

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  1. 25 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    Won it once, but against very stiff competition: Adrian Peterson and J.J. Arrington.

    It was great because A) most of the All-American teams jilted Benson that year in favour of Peterson and Arrington, B) fuck blOU, and C) Cal fans were already salty about us pipping them for the Rose Bowl spot, and Benson beating out Arrington for the award sent their saltiness through the roof.

    Trust this man folks, he knows a thing or two about saltiness. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

       Last year he lost the starting job. Then he lost the QB battle this year two when he had a year in Sark's system and Quinn was coming in fresh. 

       Floyd never suited up for Texas but we did waste a scholarship spot on him. My point is that we don't have the depth that everyone thinks we do. 

    Fify

  3. 1 hour ago, Helobious said:

    That would actually cost you some for dressing broke. My point was I look way cooler in cheaper clothes from those places than anyone ever does in Patagonia. 

    Nothing says cool like wearing a yankee beanie in Texas.  Personally, I’d rather look like a wannabe douchebag finance bro than a wannabe douchebag yankee bro. To each their own. 

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  4. Are  we in Texas?

    Been mentioned up thread but SRO should file charges on his / her own accord unless you tell them your son is unwilling to cooperate with the investigation / case.  Even better that way so your so can say he had nothing to do with it - in case he’s worried about being labeled a snitch or something. Out of his control.

    Very unlikely this makes it to trial stage, so don’t sweat your son having to testify in court. Ask the prosecutor to demand restitution as a part of any plea bargain so you can recoup medical expenses / copay. And I would demand to see the video. Let them redact the juvenile faces etc..  don’t hesitate to escalate to superintendent level. 

    It’s one thing to get shoulder-checked Derka style in the hall while passing but to randomly push a kid down a flight of stairs? Nope.
     

    I bet this girl has a severely dysfunctional home life. It’s easy to just say fuck that little bitch etc but in reality, it’s quite sad. Try to take pity on her for likely being raised by shitty parent(s). 
     

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  5. 7 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    You all deserve this:

     

    Texas' two-high defense

    Ian Boyd•about 13 hours

    Jerrin Thompson makes a tackle in the spring game (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

    One detail the open practices revealed about the 2022 Texas Longhorns was how they intend to honor Steve Sarkisian’s mandate for playing tighter coverage. The Longhorns ran a lot more single-high safety man coverage in practice, either to bring some blitzes or to drop a safety down near the box, than they did for most of 2021. Yet, the base defense remains a two-high coverage which has a lot of variety and is being executed more aggressively and at a higher level than we saw a year ago.

    A two-high, pattern-matching coverage is one of the more popular defensive systems in modern football. There are weaknesses to the scheme, but the more variety you can add to the system and the better your safeties are at recognizing offensive tendencies the more difficult you can make it for opponents to get the ball down the field.

    This has major value for Texas since they take on several HUNH (hurry-up, no-huddle) spread teams this coming season, including their rivals across the Red River. The ability to position safeties in different leverages to squeeze the space these teams are trying to exploit could be a massive factor for Texas in competing for a Big 12 Championship this coming year.

    Texas’ two-high coverages

    The Longhorns played a few different two-high coverages in the open practice alone with an obvious preference for quarters concepts.

    Pattern-matching quarters these days typically boils down to man coverage on the outside receivers by the cornerbacks, particularly on vertical routes, with the linebackers taking inside receivers on underneath routes and the safeties covering them if they go deep.

    The scheme is most effective if the safeties have a good feel for recognizing where the offense is trying to go and the cornerbacks can hold up down the sideline without help over the top. Texas has two primary quarters coverages which both function in that fashion, they’ll probably play both at the same time.

    One is a more aggressive brand often called MEG quarters. MEG stands for Man Everywhere he Goes. The cornerback is playing man coverage, perhaps press-man, on the receiver across from him and shadowing him around the field. He might have help deep and inside from the safety or he may not, depending on how occupied the safety is with the inside receiver. Texas will probably use this coverage in the boundary quite a bit in 2022.

    Then there’s MES quarters, Man Except Shallow, which is the technique everyone knows and hates from 2021. The cornerback plays off on the receiver and will play him on vertical routes but stay loose and let him go if he runs a shallow route inside and close on the ball on a quick stop route. The Longhorns will likely play this version quite a bit to the wide side of the field where a quarterback’s throw is in the air long enough for a corner to hang back and react. In either coverage the safeties are able to read keys and potentially arrive wherever the ball does, depending on how well they know their jobs.

    They also showed two brands of quarters for defending the dreaded 3×1 formations of the HUNH spread teams which put three receivers to one side of the field.

    First option, a “poach” coverage with the boundary safety rolling toward the trips side.

    Second option, the defense plays man on the outermost two receivers with the cornerback and Star.

    The defense can cycle through either (or play single-high man with a safety dropping down to cover an inside receiver) based on whether they want to ask more of the boundary cornerback or of the Star (nickel) and field cornerback. The former example leaves the boundary corner on an island without much help, the latter example helps him while deferring stress to the coverage defenders furthest off the ball.

    They’re both potentially useful depending on the matchups with opposing receivers and the quality of the quarterback. Need to lock down a lethal X receiver? You’ll probably play the second option and trust the Star and field corner to hold up outside. Worried about an offense’s speed to the wide side, you may roll coverage and trust the boundary corner. I’m guessing Texas will lean toward option two given their move of cornerbacks Jaylon Guilbeau and Jahdae Barron to Star.

    If you can cycle through multiple varieties of coverage against a spread team’s favorite formations it creates hesitation in the quarterback and opposing play-caller.

    How will this work in 2022?

    Much like the single-high man coverages which are going to take a greater role in the defense in the coming year, this approach puts a lot on the safeties to control the middle of the field. The “Star” (nickel) ends up with a lot of tough coverage assignments. He can get involved in the run game but the presence of their pure man coverages and the quarters coverages which put him in man coverage on a slot without the guarantee of safety help are all reasons for using a converted cornerback like Barron or Guilbeau.

    The quarters coverages involve the cornerbacks having to own the sideline on their own while the safeties play flat-footed reading the inside receivers. They can end up running the alleys and arriving pretty hard and fast in run support or robbing routes thrown over the middle. What matters most is they know what’s coming and can arrive where needed with violence and leverage. There will be obvious value in getting Bryan Allen and Kitan Crawford acclimated back there because of their physicality and athleticism but you can’t rush things. Veteran reliability in these defenses is worth more than a faster 40 time, they have a lot to diagnose. TCU routinely had some 4.7/4.8 40 time guys who’d make a lot of plays running quarters because they knew how to use the system to arrive at the right places.

    Weak spots in quarters coverage for Texas to worry about include the following. First, two-high quarters coverages are helpful against the run IF the safeties are good at fitting downhill from the hash marks and IF the defense is properly setting edges in front of them. If not…

    …and there are plenty more examples from 2021.

    Secondly, quarters coverages are vulnerable deeper down the field. They can be hell on teams trying to throw anything quick or off a three-step drop, but if a team can protect the quarterback long enough to read a safety’s reaction to multiple deep routes, there are 1-on-1s galore to attack. Hudson Card connected on a few in the open practice for touchdowns.

    Texas’ single-high man coverages are good at getting numbers around the box quickly while keeping someone over the top to prevent a touchdown on a post route, but they’re vulnerable on crossers and throws in the middle of the field. The quarters coverages lock down everything quick and intermediate but consequently are a little slower to arrive against the run and less reliable over the top.

    What matters is playing great team defense with the linebackers helping disrupt routes and the pass-rush preventing quarterbacks from sitting back and dissecting the downfield coverage. Texas’ mastery over these base concepts is clearly improved and simply getting their athletes to play good, team defense is going to yield shocking results. It’s been about four years since Texas could even do that.

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