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Hookem2147

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  1. Alex Dunlap's UTEP OL Grades (long post)
  2. 4th down attempts against UTEP 4th & 4 UTEP 44- Incomplete pass to Wingo 4th & 1 UTEP 22- Gibson first down run, drive ends in TD 4th & 1 UTEP 22 again- Gibson first down run again 4th & 2 UTEP 10 (same drive as above)- Manning missing a wide open Livingstone, INT 4th & 2 UTEP 34- Manning missing wide open Livingstone on post route The first and the last ones were somewhat in no man's land, which is usually a go for it. Maybe the first one is a punt, but against a team like UTEP, probably not. If we kick FGs on the two drives featuring the middle 3 attempts, we end up with 6 points vs the 7 we ended up scoring. I'm not disagreeing with the overall premise of kicking more once we start playing real teams. Just saying none of the 4th down decisions last Saturday were outrageous.
  3. I got bad news if they thought what we just showed wasn't a dumbed down version of the offense
  4. We are already one of the most undisciplined and penalized teams in the country through 3 weeks. I think everyone needs to come to terms with the fact that Neto Umeozulu isn't good at football, and there is a reason he isn't playing in his 4th year in the program. They were basically going to hand him a starting spot after last year, and he still found a way to let someone pass him on the depth chart.
  5. He mentioned that after the San Jose State game that they learned after their first year in 2021 that they needed to be prepared for a different defensive look every game than they've seen on film. I don't think they are surprised by it, but he probably needs to just stop mentioning it because I could see how it comes off that way.
  6. He already redshirted his first season here. I'm sure the market for 4th-year players who got beat out by Connor Stroh is booming.
  7. The next positive thing Ryan Niblett and Aaron Butler do on offense will be the first positive thing. It absolutely is not helping that we are having to play those guys meaningful snaps against any opponent on our schedule. I'm not the biggest DeAndre Moore fan, but he is Calvin Johnson compared to Niblett and Butler.
  8. Well, the 2024 OU offense was bad because their QB play was atrocious. So I think we are violently agreeing here. Very rarely are you getting a bad offense that has a good QB. They are usually the tide that lifts all boats.
  9. As Bobby and Gerry said all week, if Arch was this bad in August or last spring, he wouldn't be the starter. I'm going to guess he was able to throw swing passes to the RB's during fall camp with little issue. If we had an average QB through 3 games, all of our counting stats and offensive rankings would be respectable. Probably not elite, but respectable. Arch Manning himself probably left 21 points on the field against UTEP before we even get into the issues around him.
  10. He also seems to be back on the S&C tangent he was on in 2021, based on what he said on his podcast yesterday. Something about how the way we lift weights isn't translating to football strength and the top weight room performers are transfers.
  11. Bobby said this morning they expect to see Tre Wisner back on the field this weekend
  12. Looking forward to the junk defense Sam Houston put in during the bye week that will limit us to 14 first half points
  13. His inability to layer the ball or know how much to put behind his passes is the biggest issue I see right now. The pocket is rarely going to be perfect and you have to play football on the move sometimes, so the footwork/arm angle stuff is never going to be pristine, but he seems unable to determine when to put air under the ball and when to throw a fastball. He throws a 1000 MPH fastball to Clark on a sideline on the short side of the field. Then, on the wheel to Wingo and post to Livingstone, he has no feel for how much air to put under the ball.
  14. David Morris also trains KJ Lacey
  15. I ain't worried about Simmons in the least. Nothing these first 3 teams have done in the passing game has been conducive to edge players getting a bunch of sacks. He'll be fine.
  16. I'm assuming that is another PFF number, so I'll take it with a grain of salt. The OL ain't great, but it has been adequate in pass protection, and I rarely see Arch running for his life. If anything, he has created some self-pressure by bailing too early on reads.
  17. I think the idea is that Milwee and Flood are supposed to help formulate the gameplan and be the lead voices in the room when Sark has to go to a defensive meeting or whatever. I've heard the analyst they promoted to assistant QB coach (Bimonte) is pretty involved too and is who sits in the box as the eyes in the sky for the offense. Maybe it has changed, but several years ago, I heard a second-hand story about a game where Sark was on the headset asking the offensive assistants for recommendations/suggestions and was basically met with crickets.
  18. We had Casey Thompson playing behind a bad OL with 4 fingers and Marcus Washington as his WR2 and we had a better offense than this. There are JV QB’s at Austin Westlake who could make some of the throws Arch is missing. I don’t care how bad Caldwell was at Troy, you can’t convince me he couldn’t throw a 8 yard curl route to a receiver standing stil.
  19. CJ Vogel just posted the full snap counts Defense Out of 61 total snaps. 45 – Jaylon Guilbeau 42 – Michael Taaffe 40 – Jelani McDonald, Anthony Hill Jr., Hero Kanu 36 – Liona Lefau 35 – Malik Muhammad 34 – Graceson Littleton 31 – Maraad Watson, Trey Moore 30 – Colin Simmons 29 – Ethan Burke, TyAnthony Smith 24 – Zina Umeozulu 23 – Cole Brevard 20 – Jordan Johnson-Rubell, Derek Williams Jr. 19 – Wardell Mack 18 – Warren Roberson 17 – Kade Phillips 15 – Lance Jackson 13 – Brad Spence, Travis Shaw 11 – Colton Vasek 8 – Melvin Hills 5 – Kobe Black 3 – Josiah Sharma *** Offense Out of 85 total snaps. 85 – Brandon Baker, Trevor Goosby, DJ Campbell, Connor Stroh 81 – Arch Manning 78 – Parker Livingstone 75 – Ryan Wingo 66 – Cole Hutson 62 – Jack Endries 31 – Spencer Shannon, Jerrick Gibson 28 – Christian Clark 26 – James Simon 24 – Ryan Niblett 23 – Daylan McCutcheon 19 – Connor Robertson 16 – Jordan Washington 13 – Nick Townsend 8 – Aaron Butler 5 – Emaree Winston 4 – Kaliq Lockett, Matthew Caldwell 1 – CJ Baxter
  20. Gerry said this morning that this is catching everyone in the building by surprise, and it is not what they saw in practice throughout the spring and fall.
  21. I saw him on the field early. He had a pressure on Nelson on 3rd down when UTEP was backed up in their own end zone. Didn't see him much in the second half.
  22. Did OU’s offensive ineptitude hurt their ability to fix things? It’s an NIL world and about 90% of conversations and decisions these days center around money.
  23. There isn’t a playcaller in the world who could work with what Arch is offering right now and make it look good. -Simple swing passes to RBs? Overthrown. -Quick hitches to the perimeter? 2 feet out of bounds. -1 v 1 with a receiver having 3 steps on a safety? Overthrown. We had to take the ball out of our own QB’s hands in the second half and spam 4 yard runs against UTEP over and over. That was the most depressing moment for a Texas offense since we started a right tackle in the Strong era who had a nickname from the coaches about being afraid of contact.
  24. Anyone who wants the glass half full can rightfully point to the fact we had 470 yards and should have still covered the spread despite all the times we stepped on our own dick. I don’t see any position or aspect of the offense as being completely inept like OU last year or anything like that. It’s just a lot of little things adding up right now and we only need to clean up like half of it to properly complement this defense.
  25. Massive line swing. Spread is down from -41.5 to -40.5 today.
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