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Hookem2147

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  1. Feels pretty useless to use a redshirt on a guy who is likely not sticking around in college to play football for 5 years. I think you try to see if he can become a special teams guy this year.
  2. I may be misremembering, but I don't think anyone really thought of Collins and Broughton as great run-stuffing guys heading into last year. They took the next step in their development and in Collins' instance, finally put everything together that he had flashed his whole career. Like you said, I think the depth is much better this year and we have guys like Brevard who specialize in clogging up running games between the tackles.
  3. 1st and 10- Snap infraction (in honor of Jake Majors) 1st and 15- Inside handoff to Wisner for 3 yards 2nd and 12- The spin around no-look screen pass that makes everyone's buttholes pucker. Incomplete 3rd and 12- DB slips and falls, Livingstone is wide open running down the seam!!!!! drop. Great punt to pin Ohio State at their 25
  4. Not really. It’s all guessing. Patricia hasn’t coached in college since he was a GA at Syracuse in 2003. Wadlington has been saying we need to watch Steve Belichick stuff from last year at Washington but that could also be a total waste of time if the rest of the Ohio State defensive staff forces Patricia to run stuff they are familiar with like they tried to do with Knowles last year. Knowles finally won the battle but it apparently caused a lot of staff friction.
  5. The outcome of this season probably isn't hinging on the performance of our left guard, but it would have been nice if the coaches used the 3 years of data points they had on Neto to make an informed decision on whether an outside option needed to be pursued instead of realizing a few weeks before the first game that we might be in trouble.
  6. Tom Herman tried this in 2018 and 2019 at receiver
  7. It’ll be interesting to see the progress of guys on the OL in mid October compared to Saturday. Especially dudes like Baker who are getting their first real action in college. I also think the 3 games after Ohio State will be important for ironing out the run game since we like to run so many different concepts. It’s Surly so I’m sure we will crown them the greatest ever or complete busts by Saturday afternoon, but guys are allowed to get better. I’m reminded of the 2023 opener when they looked like total garbage against Rice then were stonewalling Dallas Turner and Will Anderson the following week and didn’t have many problems the rest of the season.
  8. Bud Elliott is the only one who you can tell knows his stuff and does research every week. His overall knowledge of college football and specific players is impressive. Kanell doesn’t even look like he wants to be there half the time. And his betting picks usually suck.
  9. At the time, it was a marquee early-season game and was considered a "big" game. They were the defending national champs.
  10. In the last 2 years, he's won at Bama, at Michigan, won against all 3 of our biggest historical rivals, is 9-0 on the road, won a conference title, and won 2 playoff games. What do you consider big games? Rivalry games? Playoff games? Ranked matchups? It can't only be if you lose, because if we lost to OU or Clemson or A&M last year, some people would be trying to include that in their "big game losses", so if you are going to do that, it has to count as a big game win.
  11. We are going to try to win this Saturday
  12. Slightly off topic, but over the weekend I came across an extended highlight video of the '06 matchup in Austin. I had forgotten (or purposely blocked out) a lot of that game. Troy Smith overthrew Ted Ginn about 4 different times for touchdowns. Colt obviously wasn't good, but Mack and Greg Davis had the leash on tight that game. The fumble by Pittman when we were about to go up 7-0 in the first quarter was a killer.
  13. Inside Texas projects Texas' offensive depth chart for Ohio State, with notes on each position
  14. Inside Texas projects Texas' defensive depth chart for Ohio State, with notes on each position
  15. Possible, but I think the thought is a part time starter at Minnesota they brought in for mainly for depth might win the RT job outright.
  16. It feels like similar messaging you would hear from OU over the years. You just assume something is going to be good because that’s the way it has always been. I think their interior will be solid, but I don’t see how paying up for the Rice LT in the portal and him not being able to win a job at either tackle spot is anything less than alarming.
  17. Also a top 5 redzone team in 2021 in TD percentage and overall scoring.
  18. That’s not really the point. We’ve focused on OT depth/injuries so much and convince ourselves it could the Achilles heel. Meanwhile Georgia is starting Gunnar Stockton at quarterback and Notre Dame is starting CJ Carr, who by all accounts was outperformed in camp by the backup, and some people just gloss over it like it is no big deal. Everyone has flaws. The days of these stacked Bama or Georgia teams with basically no question marks are basically over.
  19. We all follow this thing so closely that we nitpick our potential shortcomings to death while downplaying the fact that every other team is facing question marks too. 2022 (defense), 2023 (RB/OL/QB) and 2024 (secondary) all had different talking points preseason we were very uneasy about. I also think some writers/fans are still needing to recalibrate what to expect out of regular seasons in this current landscape. I was listening to Paul Wadlington on a video this morning and he was talking about how 10-2 is now a very good regular season that will result in a playoff berth and maybe even hosting a first round game, which is not how people are used to being wired from the BCS/4-team playoff days. 3 of the 4 teams in the final 4 didn’t even win their conference and the other was Notre Dame. You just want to be relatively healthy and peaking at the right time, or have your wake up call right before the playoff like Ohio State last year.
  20. Bobby this morning Trevor Goosby’s hand injury has been the talk of the last week. Will the newly minted starting left tackle actually be able to start against Ohio State? After a couple of days off, the prognosis has been day-to-day. Things seem to be moving in the right direction though. As of now, he should be able to go against the Buckeyes. But that “should” also factors in continued healing at the current pace and no setbacks in the interim. Goosby js a key piece to this offense. He is the blindside protection for Arch Manning.
  21. A former player offers thoughts on the 2025 Texas Longhorns (IT)
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