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Hookem2147

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  1. Also a top 5 redzone team in 2021 in TD percentage and overall scoring.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. A former player offers thoughts on the 2025 Texas Longhorns (IT)
  6. It is obvious they are making these tweaks and changes to try to nudge the committee into getting rid of the loss column bias, but I'll still need to see it happen to fully believe it. Another advantage of these teams that schedule nobodies in non-con is that it allows Indiana to spend entire offseasons/early season weeks prepping for their 1-2 big conference games, while another school is having to spend time and effort on their early season marquee matchup. We saw it in 2023 when OU had the Georgia game cancelled, so they played 5 nobodies before Texas, while Texas had Alabama week 2. We didn't do ourselves any favors in that game, but it was also an advantage for OU that they didn't have to put anything on film they didn't want to in the first 5 weeks.
  7. There hasn't been any mention of that. I'm sure the SEC schools that fight for bowl eligibility every year will claim they need to keep those pay games to help fund FCS football or whatever excuse they can come up with. My guess is schools like Ole Miss, Tennessee, Missouri, the ones who regularly put together crap non-conference schedules, will be scheduling FCS, a MAC school and Syracuse/Rutgers/Maryland to try to say they are fulfilling the requirements the SEC put in place. We will see how long that lasts.
  8. His videos could be 10 minutes. Lots of repeating the same things and rewinding clips over and over to fill time.
  9. Dunlap with a few practice notes on OB
  10. They already letting Max Merril attend practices as a guest?
  11. Nahlin: Trevor Goosby's injury is not exactly minor but it won't keep him out of the Ohio State game. Dislocated finger? I won't pretend to be a doctor, but it seems like the type of injury that isn't nothing but also isn't going to keep a guy in the trenches off the field. I guess the additional worry would be ligament damage?
  12. We’ve gotten in this back and forth before. The 2024 line was the best one we’ve had in a long time. Yes, they struggled in certain moments but also ran over some good fronts and delivered quality pass protection almost all year relative to the athletic abilities of the guy they were protecting. His unit has improved compared to where it was when he got here. He turned Jake Majors and Christian Jones into NFL players. We are now in the point of a roster cycle where his group will just have to have grow up quickly and includes some unknowns. We’ll see what happens.
  13. I mentioned it a few weeks ago, but they did not do a very good job of getting the tackle cupboard restocked with options once it became clear Banks/Williams were potentially going to be 3-and-out players, and guys they recruited at tackle like Agbo/Kirkland were not going to be good enough to play here. The 2024 and 2025 classes needed another tackle. But even then, I'll acknowledge they should have probably backfilled from the portal at some point, even if it was a redshirt freshman from Wake Forest or some such that was a developmental take with a little game experience. Bama took one of those this year from Ball State. It didn't need to be a frontline guy who was going to cost seven figures.
  14. He is listed at 6'3 312 pounds so it doesn't feel like a size thing. He is listed as heavier than Hutson and the same weight as Robertson. Just feels like a case where Robertson has a 2 year head start on him in the program. As mentioned above, Gerry has mentioned that the staff still thinks highly of him and Nate Kibble. They are only entering their second season in the program.
  15. I'd be interested to know if Neto was playing LT for the entire practice or just certain periods or what the exact context was. Him taking a handful of reps at LT in the team periods is a lot different than him playing LT the whole practice from drills to srimmage settings to everything. I agree it wouldn't make sense for him to slide out there if Goosby's injury was truly short-term, but it doesn't make sense that Chatman, who had a good scrimmage and is coming along nicely based on what the 9.95ers say, wouldn't take reps at the spot where he played 2 days prior.
  16. There were 100 qualified rushers (QB and RB) who averaged over 5.3 yards a carry in FBS last year. 4.7 yards per carry is not very good for the college game.
  17. Ewers and Blue were never afraid to mix in a momentum-killing turnover. I'd have to do some digging to get the actual number, but I can remember at least 4 redzone turnovers for Ewers. That also played into the overall redzone issue.
  18. After the Wyoming game in 2023 when he fumbled as we were trying to run out the clock, I said something to the effect of he will never play another meaningful down here. In my defense, he was like 4th on the depth chart at that time and if Brooks doesn’t get hurt, Blue probably stays glued to the bench and storms off to UH or wherever after the season.
  19. I’ll tread lightly on my RB takes after my infamous “Jaydon Blue will never get another meaningful carry here” statement from 2 years ago, but it sure seems like Gibson is getting buried on the depth chart. Will be interesting to see play out because we have 6 scholarship RB’s, all juniors or younger, and there is no chance all 6 of them are on the roster in 2026.
  20. Williams is still nursing the hamstring issues from almost 3 months ago that he played through at the end of the baseball season? That isn’t great.
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