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Hookem2147

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. At the time, it was a marquee early-season game and was considered a "big" game. They were the defending national champs.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Inside Texas projects Texas' offensive depth chart for Ohio State, with notes on each position
  7. Inside Texas projects Texas' defensive depth chart for Ohio State, with notes on each position
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Also a top 5 redzone team in 2021 in TD percentage and overall scoring.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. A former player offers thoughts on the 2025 Texas Longhorns (IT)
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. His videos could be 10 minutes. Lots of repeating the same things and rewinding clips over and over to fill time.
  18. Dunlap with a few practice notes on OB
  19. They already letting Max Merril attend practices as a guest?
  20. 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?
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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