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Hookem2147

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  1. We potentially win the conference last year with a good punter. It isn’t sexy but with how good we think our defense is going to be, it matters.
  2. Some practice notes from Suchomel on OB
  3. I noticed in that picture the Texas football account posted on social media last night that whoever was at QB was under center. I recall us doing a little of it last year in the two games Manning started and we had some chunk runs (obviously the competition level wasn’t great). Also remember a redzone TD throw to Blue that came from an under center play.
  4. Graceson Littleton was running first team at nickel, per IT. Taaffe and McDonald at safety.
  5. Excited to see if this is the year the light finally comes on for Naashon Hughes and Kirk Johnson. The 10-time defending fall camp MVPs.
  6. I don't say this to excuse some of those performances because they were poor, but there is some game context that needs to be applied to a few of those situations. Arkansas- Our second half drives went FG, Punt, TD, ran out the clock to end the game. Very limited possessions. A&M- We had 190 second-half yards and moved the ball plenty. Two Ewers brain farts prevented a 31-0 laugher. Kentucky- We barely touched the ball in the second half until our final few drives. 3 play punt, 2 play Blue fumble, 3 play Ewers pick 6. Then we drove 49 yards and Auburn missed a field goal, and the final 15-play drive all runs for 86 yards and a TD. And against ASU our final 4 drives in regulation went TD, Ewers brain fart INT, missed FG and missed FG. And we again barely touched the ball til the 4th quarter because we had that 1 play safety and ASU held the ball for 13 minutes in the 3rd quarter. Although the offense was discombobulated for long stretches in that one, so I wouldn't put it in the same category as the other ones.
  7. Drives ending in kicks from 40+ yards aren't stalling out in the red zone. I can think of several end-of-half/end-of-game kicks (OU, A&M, ASU come to mind) where the offense did more than enough to get him in range. @MirrOlure beat me to it as I was typing
  8. Listening back to the interviews on the LHN app and Banks wasn't sugarcoating much in the kicking game. Paraphrasing a bit, but he basically said: "We were looking for leg talent. Let's face it, the kicks that Bert was missing, for the most part, were over 45 yards. We need to be able to make kicks between that 45-55 yard range and that was not something Bert was strong at."
  9. That section about Cornerback reads like a Jay Valai masterclass. Year 4 and your best corner is a 5'9 kid you only took because his brother was already on the team.
  10. Seems about right, but damn the lineup on paper looked a whole lot better a few weeks ago. Overall power is probably going to tick down from last year, but I think we should be a little more athletic and hopefully more consistent 1 through 9 in the order. -Robbins is going to be given every chance to take the CF job while Jonah is playing football. -I wonder if Early will be given some OF reps in the fall because we are mighty thin out there without Freeman and Moroknek factoring in anymore. Schloss is going to want to cram in as many good left-handed bats as possible against righty starters (Larson, Rodriguez, Livingston, Early, Williams) -Rodriguez at 3B and Borba at 1B is how I would wager it shaking out right now. I think Rodriguez in the OF is a last resort and while he would probably do it for the team, making him a primary DH doesn't seem like something the staff wants to do with a guy who hopes to get drafted pretty high in a couple of years. They want to do everything they can to find him a home in the field.
  11. Correct, Coleman at Auburn came to mind too. Some interesting roster cycles for sure. There are also some draft-eligible transfers like Singleton, Branch, Concepcion, Barion Brown and Nic Anderson who could play their way into high draft picks or put up a dud of a season. Feels like there is a lot of volatility with the skill guys this year.
  12. Looking through some draft lists for 2026 and beginning to realize that there isn't a lot of slam-dunk first-round skill position talent in the SEC this year. Even with overall QB play looking better than last year across the league, this might be a year where defense is king. Most of the guys being mocked in the first round (non-QBs) are dudes like Ant Hill (LB), Kadyn Proctor (OT), Keldric Faulk (DT), Jermod McCoy (CB), LT Overton (DT), CJ Allen (LB), Jake Slaughter (OL), etc. I found that interesting because I think there are some who are nervous with some of our inexperience and/or unknowns at the skill positions, but it appears it might just be a theme in the league overall.
  13. Sark and Flood have traditionally been good at scheming things in the run game to where we were beating teams by alignment/numbers a handful of times a game. I'm going to guess those tricks may not work against the Georgias and Ohio States of the world, but they seem to work against a lot of the other defenses. Even in the 2023 Bama game, we really didn't run the ball super well (92 yards in 29 attempts from the RBs). Same thing with Michigan last year (88 yards on 27 carries). The passing game drives the offense in the big games against the great defenses. That appears to be a feature and not a bug at this point and I would assume this year will be no different.
  14. I am pretty bullish on this secondary, but I expect our pass defense stats to dip a bit based solely on the fact that we are about to face a better group of QB's than we saw last year. -Davis Warren pretending to play D1 football for Michigan -Van Buren in his first career start for Miss State -Hawkins who couldn't throw a forward pass for OU -Florida's third stringer -Brock Vandagriff for a half before Stoops yanked him You would think one or two of Reed, Pavia or Green will take some steps forward as returning starters. I also think we are going to see a lot of teams try to dink and dunk against our pass rush so we will need to try our best to avoid getting dragged into the mud by some of these teams who want to control time of possession and shorten games. We fell victim to that in a few second halves last year where it felt like we barely touched the ball (although some of that blame falls on our own offense).
  15. The committee let us and OU in last year with 6-12 conference records and horrible non conference schedules. We played the 3 worst KenPom teams in the country in non con play. #362, #363 and #364. Teams with that resume should never be in the field of 68 but the committee allowed it.
  16. A lot of his production seemed to be schemed up stuff where all he had to do was catch the ball. Also needs to quit the volleyball sets on bullet passed that hit him in the hands. Very few probably remember this but the play before 4th and 13th against ASU, he caught a check down pass with 1 guy in front of him and ran out of bounds like he was trying to stop the clock. Small stuff like that pissed me off with him.
  17. Looking through his stats in the Cape Cod league and his batting average is .245 but he is slugging an awful .306. 2 extra base hits in 60 plate appearances and he is still striking out at an extremely high rate. Maybe the step down in competition will help but he seems to not be in a good place with his swing/approach/whatever.
  18. OU on3 site with some notes from an event Nagy spoke at (again, it's interesting that the GM is the one making all these public appearances)
  19. Anytime I come across an OU interview on Twitter or whatnot, it always seems to be Nagy talking. He was the only GM to attend SEC media days. Venables has basically been pushed to the side and is the defensive coordinator who will have to answer questions from the media after every game. I'd be interested to know how much actual input Venables has in recruiting because my guess is that it is very minimal.
  20. The overall schedule is better, but I think the problem people continue to have is that the "marquee games" are too often being played at neutral sites/tournaments or away. Season ticket holders don't get excited to watch us play UConn and Duke on TV. We hosted UConn last year and Gonzaga/Creighton like 3 years ago. Outside of that, the marquee non-con games at Moody have been pretty much non-existent. I also wonder what would get people excited when you have 13 non-con games. You are going to have creampuffs on there. Every team does and those are always at home. If we swapped out Southern for Michigan State, would that one game get people that much more excited? Or are they expecting like 3-4 notable home opponents?
  21. Yeah, last year they had UNC/Michigan State/Memphis/Auburn/Iowa State.
  22. I guess a home schedule like this was somewhat predictable once the 3 games in Maui, at UConn and at Duke were announced.
  23. Cam Williams was either 1st or 2nd nationally in penalties last year and we know Majors was good for 1 snap infraction a game. I'll knock on some wood, but I'm not sure it can get worse than that.
  24. The thought seems to be Neto is a run blocker and needs work in pass protection. Bobby brought up a good point a few weeks ago and I agree with him. Being a good run blocker is awesome, but the coaches aren't going to feel super comfortable putting you out there if there is an increased risk of their QB getting pummeled by a free blitzer or rusher.
  25. We can hope this, but we don't know. His snaps have been very limited.
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