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  1. Ohio State won the pro wrestling match held last night. Unfortunately, the Longhorns thought they were supposed to be playing Football. 

    Watch what people do, not what they say. Ryan Day clearly believed he had an inferior football team and turned the game into a wrestling match. The zebras helped him do it. 

    The guards masquerading as OTs were severely overmatched in pass protection. Even just allowing blatant holding favors the weak blockers. That assumes it was called evenly, which it most certainly was not. There wasn’t just holding  I saw full body locks on pass rushers that were completely past the OL.

    Day didn’t believe his secondary could cover even a badly depleted Texas WR corps. His DBs clearly had instructions to grab, hold and tackle in coverage rather than play defense. You can see it from the opening drive, when the corner just grabs Golden’s arm and holds it down. Golden makes the one handed grab anyway but the Horns could not replicate that often enough. Watching that travesty, it’s clear why the only 2 Texas TDs came on plays where the RB wheel route was so wide open that no OSU defender could get close enough to grab or tackle before the ball arrived.

    Even the Suckeye DL got in on the action. Several times, they openly grabbed a combo blocker to keep him from moving up to the second level.

    So congratulations to Ohio State on making it to the WWE Wrestling Championship match. I’ll be cheering for the earthquake. 

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  2. 34 minutes ago, jet black said:

    I was pretty down on Quinn several times this season. But he’s improved his play so much at the end of the season. Wondering if it wasn’t injuries all along. Still wish he would stop floating the long balls, but I’m feeling good about him having a great game today. 

    Really it’s the deep middle where Quinn has issues. His sideline fades are often good throws with air under them to a spot. I think the deep ball issue is there but overblown. It’s a problem on deep middle when a safety can get over the top. Unless a defense is running cover 3, there’s not much chance for the safety to get there in time. 

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  3. Texas has the better pass defense, based on opponents pass efficiency. OSU has better run defense based on YPC. Texas is much better at forcing turnovers. OSU has a higher sack rate. 

    Neither team has faced Murderers Row offensively. OSU has faced more bottom feeders so their defensive stats are slightly inflated relative to Texas. No question that both defenses are outstanding. I’m not sure I can find a solid argument that OSU is better. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Horn Dogg said:

    The key play I remember was Reggie sitting on the bench on 4th down when we stopped Lendale White to get the ball back and win the championship.  VY is the best college football player I’ve ever seen.  It still baffles me that Bush was even in the running for the Heisman.

    Bush could outrun inferior athletes to the corner and get big yards like a HS RB. He got stuffed repeatedly or pushed out for short gains when facing better athletes. VY could run or pass against anybody. 

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  5. 52 minutes ago, BestNCountry said:

    Guess which wide receiver has 2nd most yards in cfb against zone?   Its a buckeye hunt hint 

    Tell us how many of those yards came against NW, Purdue, Nebraska, Michigan St and the MAC. 

    How many yards against Michigan’s cover 6? 


  6. 14:40 mark, Elven Warriors describing a pinching D Line clogging up the A and B gaps. That keeps the gap assignments clear and spills runs outside. The downside is the DL isn’t going to get much push upfield so it’s harder to covert run defense into a pass rush with momentum being lateral and towards a clogged middle of the line.

    OSU is playing a lot of 3 high safety looks with Downs playing as an ersatz MLB aligning 8 yards off and playing like a robber or Tampa 2 middle in coverage. The pinching DL keep blockers from getting upfield to Downs, freeing him from having run gap responsibility. He  can attack like a safety in run support instead of having LB run assignments. 

    In the 3 high look, both actual LBs typically align outside the OT with C gap run responsibility. This keeps reads simple and puts them closer for inside support on WR screens. They can play fast with the front 6 having clear responsibilities. 

    Of course, the crashing DEs create a void behind them. WR tunnel screens and RB swing passes either lead blocking are obvious ways to attack those voids covered by a single LB. Those are both staples for Sark and Ewers hits those throws precisely and in stride. Or he can force them out of those looks by going 4 wide or splitting Helm out in 11 personnel. 

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  7. 17 minutes ago, Herpa Derpa said:

    I'll help you out going forward in life. People are incredibly stupid and mind-bottling short-sighted. The average hump is even more stupid and short-sighted than you could imagine in your wildest and wackiest imagining. The more stupid and short-sighted they are, the more certain they are in their stupidity and short-sightedness. See Kanell, Danny and any other number of mind-numbing talking heads that just spew stupid and short-sighted thoughts as a career path. Being stupid and short-sighted means you will always find new ways to be stupid and short-sighted. Steady work if you can stand it. Once you understand this, and are not yourself stupid and short-sighted, you will be forced to endure a lifetime of battling the stupidity and short-sightedness all around you. But you should never again be surprised  at what the stupid and short-sighted are saying because you now understand the blathering morons are stupid and short-sighted and their words are as well. 

    Calculate in the fact we're discussing a rust belt fanbase that managed to fly to the wrong State for the big game and it's easy to follow the flippity-floppity of fools.

    TL;DR

    Think about how stupid the average person is.

    Then realize that half of them are dumber than that. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, BestNCountry said:

    How will we ever pass against your zone defense.   Maybe we will use flood routes, Seams, tight end and running backs… you know, our strength.  

    The great Yogi Berra once said: The difference between theory and practice is in theory there is no difference; in practice there is. 

    Howard’s worst performances have come against teams using mostly zone coverage. PSU was the most reliant on man at around 38%. The rest was zone. Michigan and Nebraska mostly used split field zone coverages.

    All of those teams confused Howard enough to force him to hold the ball and make bad throws. He got picked in all 3 games, twice vs UM. Those zone beaters existed in theory, not so much in practice against better defenses using zone. 

  9. It took OSU 3 weeks to install and rep one play (2 variations) and accompanying play action. And the PA doesn’t involve the OL in much different action. With 9 days this time, I don’t expect to see much new. Maybe one route combination they haven’t shown before. Maybe one different pressure look. The sort of thing you can install with one or two players, not a whole unit that has to coordinate as tightly as the OL. 

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  10. 3 minutes ago, troph said:

    That’s a really really good clip but he goes a bit too far and at about 18:30-18:40 he starts to claim tOSU has installed the whole Norvell offense and Texas should be worried about “all the layers” tOSU hasn’t shown. Nope, they didn’t ditch Kelly’s offense and install another in 3 weeks. They seem to have clearly made major adjustments that alone are substantial and really impressive but I’d stop there.  Implication, instead of being blindsided by unknown “layers”Texas has two weeks of film knowing this and the risk that there are so many wrinkles left it will be similar to Tennessee being caught completely unaware of the changes because they weren’t on tape just doesn’t seem as plausible. Don’t get me wrong tOSU is a fantastic team and I’m not going to be surprised if they win, I just don’t buy the full conclusion he’s coming to. 

    You’re right. I saw TWO running plays, one of which they ran previously (though rarely): GT Counter. OSU also ran a G-TE Counter I hadn’t seen before. So really they installed one new play and repped 2 plays and PA off that look. It’s a modest change in scheme and a huge change in emphasis. 

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  11. 5 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

    Everybody calm down. Their o-line is not good, and we have some strong, fast edges to push them around. We also have one of the best secondaries in the country. He may have Jeremiah Smith and Egbuka, but we still have the Thorpe winner.  Mukuba. Jelani Mcdonald, Taaffe, and plenty of depth.
     

    Ryan is also a perennial loser against team with equal taken. We aren't fucking Tennessee, and Oregon got their skulls drug because they played them before and knew what they were going to do. 

    We also have an o-line that can protect, and a defensive front who went 97 plays without giving up. That's some superhuman level shit. This will be a close game. If we can rattle Howard with our ridiculous edge depth, then we're gonna win. 

    So let's compare the now NIL league. Which is basically minor league football. Or even the final 4 in basketball. One team may look bigger and stronger, but can they outlast the team with similar talent and coaching? We shall see. I truly do believe tOSU is not going to win. Why you ask? It's being played in our home state and it might as well be held at DKR with as many fans coming in. This isn't turtle Tom. Sark will dial up some shit, and PK is an elite DC. 

    All of this. I will add that the OG bodies at OT have looked fine as long as they are run blocking - think old school Nebraska OTs. Force them to pass protect from the snap and the deficiencies in reach, footwork and quickness will become more obvious. In running situations, lower pad level plus strength can compensate, especially when pulling. That’s why Counter works better with this group than IZ where you have to whip your man face to face. Neither UTenn or Oregon was able to put OSU’s offense in situations where they had to pass very often. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

    No fucking way will Mack ever get a statue, or anything named after him. He won a single NC and 2 BCS  bowl games in his 16 years coaching. Not to mention he literally won 2 Big XII championships with superior talent han OU, and got Bob Stoops' chin cum all over his face in 8 of the 16. 

    He can pander his Schick all he wants, but there's probably 10 other coaches at the very least who have 1 NC. He's a charlatan. The guy was a yearly Holiday bowl ateendee. Not even good enough to make more than 2 BCS non-NC games, and 1 NC. ONE.

    Oh, right, right, how could I forget he didn't have a contingency plan when Colt got hurt because....well, he's a dumbass. So what does he do? You guessed it, he threw in a true frosh who didn't even get the chance to know the entire playbook because he was redshirting, and Mack seemingly forgot he had a real backup. This is how fucking retarded that man is. 

    That motherfucker deserves nothing. Am I being spiteful? Fuck yes I am. I don't give one single fuck how many "wins" he has here, or how many top 3 glasses he had; the truth is he is an average to below average coach, but has a great defensive staff with Akina and Robinson/Muschamp, he backdoored his way into Colt McCoy being a fucking baller. He never thought "wait a minute here....that kid over there at 2a Jim Ned HS looks just like the guy who can take us to that next step after VY. I never thought Ryan Perriloux was good enough, anyway. I pushed him out for Colt"

    Hes a narcassistic mouth breathing, bug eating dipshit. So, yeah, Mack, thank you for 16 years of 2 CC, 1 NC, 1 NC loss, and 2 BCS games. But wait, there's more...that limp wristed, dog hair eating, maniacal raging asshole told all the recruits to look elsewhere after he was canned because he's a thin-skinned brainlet who didn't appreciate where he was all those years. And instead of taking the high road, nah, fam, he just set it and his legacy on fire. 

    Absolute legend...of idiots that had surrounded himself with people more knowledge than him and beat up the Big 12, but couldn't beat his fishing buddy Bob Stoops. He had three 1-loss seasons, one 0 loss season, then you have another 2-7 losses in there each year 

    I swear to God there aren't enough drugs, including Ketamine, MDMA, and Xanax mixed together to change my mind.  I'm probably going to have an aneurysm. I should probably get some sunlight and go take drugs and lay in the grass and have an existential crisis.

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    So you’re over it…

     

  13. 2 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:

    I think the reverse is also true. I don't think other schools in the SEC really see us as carrying the SEC banner. It's kind of a bad look for the conference that the new team came in and ran it (T'vondre was right). Texas is in it for Texas, and concurrently the SEC hasn't tried to embrace Texas as one of their own. As it should be. 

    It won’t stop them from band wagoning any Texas victory. 

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  14. 38 minutes ago, Juicy said:

    Dude this was an epic breakdown, I wish there was more action on that thread because you really nailed it. If that was all your analysis fucking KUDOS to you. 

    One of the Longhorn internet commentators mentioned the shift to gap blocking. I went back and watched the MI, TN and OR games. The PFF guys did a great statistical breakdown of the change also. 

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  15. Both UO and the other UT run primarily man coverage. Texas runs an overwhelmingly zone coverage scheme, which is designed to make it hard to throw downfield. OSU won the last two games with multiple early downfield throws, which are unlikely to be available against the Texas secondary. 

    They are going to have to work their way downfield without making big mistaken. Of course with Howard at QB, they’re probably going to make mistakes. They were able to get comfortable and loose with a big lead and they could key on the QB within their base D. If they can’t open up that big lead early, I expect them to tighten up and revert to Ryan Day form. 

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  16. We knew ASU had smaller, quicker defenders and Texas had bigger, stronger OL. If you’re Texas, you want a shoving match in a phone booth. If you’re ASU, you’d rather have a foot race or a dance contest in space. 

    Texas’ preferred style in this matchup would be best served by running inside zone and (especially) Power. The double team is straight ahead blocking, not trying to move a defender perpendicular to your shoulders and feet while moving sideways. Defenders have to fight through a block to make the play, not outrace the blocker to a spot. 

    Texas specialized in off tackle and outside runs due to their own RB talent. Both OZ and pin and pull outside allow smaller defenses the time and space to use speed and quickness to disrupt the play. 

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