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  1. On 9/1/2019 at 6:45 PM, LoJack said:

    It was cramps. It was his calf. He went out after the third play of the third quarter. He returned for a few plays in the fourth quarter. 

    Took hime 1.5 quarters so those were real cramps not LSU "cramps" then.

  2. 13 hours ago, Treefidy said:

    1000 seemed like a foregone conclusion, but a new commitment only garners 5-6 actual posts and that's just not going to do it with the class mostly full. 

    We might get 80-100 pages when the actual faxes come in, but that still leaves us 200 pages short.  

    We always add a few pages with every re-ranking of the existing commits - especially when the 9.95ers figure out that the Texas staff has picked up players that are taking off, again.  I expect Fillinger to be a consensus 4-star well before NSD1 as one example.  Those numbers can go higher when aggy has a good meltdown over it and starts peddling wild conspiracy theories.

  3. Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

    Someone please explain what his early season metrics are, because I thought the prevailing wisdom was that our biggest issue is with beating bad teams soundly. But we’re 2 for 2 in that measurement so far with a close loss to a top team in between, and yet we hover in the late 20s. 

    Something from last year still dragging us down?

    It's a completely idiotic system.  5 year lookback means we're still dragging 2+ years of Charlie and the transition year around with us in this absurd "rating" system.  I haven't looked at this thread in a while because the sheer stupidity of it makes my BP go up.

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  4. It's actually happening this year.  In the game against UCLA, referee Brandon Cruse and Co. flagged OU 3 times for offensive holding this weekend.  The prior week, Scott Campell's crew actually called four offensive holding penalties on the Sooners - all in the 1st Q.  Only one called in the opener against UH but I'm pretty sure that was an AAC crew.

    I'm hoping this is part of a trend and the Big XII officials will call those POS cheaters regularly when we play them.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Domedriver said:

    I don’t know?  Over under of 42?  First half head in ass,  running around like headless chickens?  Second half head ass ectoplasm  49-42 spasms.  Shit this is OUSUXs Light!  Just because they suc we should haz our panty grippers on!  Fuck!  Just saying.

    42 total?  Is that correct?  Did someone not notice they gave up 21 to Tulsa and 36 to OR State?

  6. Bujcevski has looked pretty solid this year.  43.0 average and 39.2 net.  The offense has been so effective they've only had to call on him 8 times with 4 fair catches called  2 punts returned for 11 yds.  3 kicks inside the 20 and 1 touchback.  The Punter has only had 3 kicks shorter than 40 yards: a 39 yd FC, at 37 yd FC to pin La Tech at their 9 and a 37 yarder downed at the LSU 11.  He's doing everything you can reasonably ask for at the position.

    For the first 6 games last season Bujcevski punted for less than 40 yards average in EVERY contest.  The initial fan reaction makes sense.  After that, he hit it for 40+ in 7 of the next 8 games.  Unfortunately that one was OU in the CCG.  The Punter showed significant improvement during the 2018 season and looks to be good and consistently so at this point.

     

  7. 1 hour ago, BigXII said:

    chili with beans is some northern bullshit

    Texas chili all day. Making a pot right now, in fact.

    Needs to be a law like Germany has with beer.  Water, grain and hops.  If it has anything else in it, it can't be called beer.  Same thing with beans and chili.

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  8. 49 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Okie State ran stretch/outside zone a ton last year and torched us with it.  I don’t think Gundy forgot that’s our vulnerability in the run game.   They also ran the QB on the read option outside a lot, and Sanders is more mobile than Cornelius. 

    We will need our nickel and outside LB to play well.  I agree we can probably handle the inside running game, but Gundy isn’t a moron who is just going to keep sending Hubbard right at Coburn on kamikaze dive plays.

    They didn't run much outside zone - at least not in the critical early phase of the game.  It's a perfectly understandable mistake since the announcers mis-identified the blocking scheme a couple of times.  The outside was available because the edge kept getting caved in - mostly on the side manned by the undersized and injured Hager which furthers the confusion.  Gundy does know how to ID and exploit a defensive weakness.  I don't see either Roach or Graham as that kind of speed bump.

    Watch the OL and the RB.  Linemen take one big step playside then attack upfield.  RB is aiming for the playside OG then makes his cut.  That's classic inside zone.  The inability to hold the edge just enabled OSU to bounce the play off tackle to the front side.  They did run stretch twice in the decisive first 5 drives.  Once at Hager for over 15 yds and once at Omenihu for negative yardage.  They built enough of a lead to win but it was mostly by exploiting the absence of Boyd and Davis in the passing game than anything on the ground.  Outside zone was a minor part of that winning formula.

  9. 12 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Good stuff @sushihorn  

    If Ossai is out, how should Orlando set up the TEXAS Defense for Okie Lite??

    In nearly all of their big runs, the OSU OL were able to get to the 2nd level and pick off multiple LBs to give a clear lane to the RB.  I think Coburn demands a full double team.  He's going to make it difficult for the guard to combo then hit an ILB without giving up penetration that can blow up an inside run - which is most of their ground arsenal.  Even if they are successful single blocking both DEs, that only leaves one O-Lineman than can attack the LBs. 

    Orlando has played the Buck LB off the LOS against the spread quite a bit and a 3-3 stack creates tough angles for blockers looking to seal off pursuit at the 2nd level.  It's a lot harder to block the BLB there than if he gets tangled up with an OT or TE at the LOS.  Also, OSU isn't a team that runs a lot of toss sweep or stretch where you need a C-gap defender from the snap.  They mostly rely on inside zone concepts (esp. tite and split zone) and power/counter.

    I would have said dime but with the injuries to Overshown and BJ Foster I think Texas has to play Nickel with Chris Brown near the LOS where he can set the edge against the run.  There isn't a 2nd DB available with that ability to blow up blocks and hammer the RB.  Setting up in a cover 2 shell then rotating one safety down to the 2nd level is going to create that free hitter in the box against the run.  Doing it late in the clock puts it on the QB to ID the coverage quickly, then make the right read and throw.  I'd love for that extra guy to be BJ but that's not in the cards.

  10. 21 minutes ago, Gravy Train said:

    I still want to think both Texas and LSU played out of their minds for that game and we won't see as much offense production from LSU during their west-division slate.  I wouldn't mind seeing them empty the silos on UF just to seal their coffin in the completely bullshit #9 AP ranking the Gators have been toting.

    One of the really sad thing is that LSU won't be able to get away with the BS excuse for pass protection they used in the second half.  SEC refs won't protect them in conference play.  They won't look as good on offense as a result and the usual mouthbreather crowd will proclaim that is shows how much better SEC defenses are.

    To bring this back to Okie Lite, they've played some weak opponents and their defense has looked weak at best.  6 sacks and 18 TFLs in 3 games against that level of competition isn't much.  The best of those was OR St, where the Pokes produced 1 sack and gave up 4 passing TDs to a below average team. 

    I'm not really sold on the Cowboy's offensive juggernaut narrative yet.  Tulsa and McNeese are obviously lower tier.  Oregon State is P5 but their defense was also poor against Hawai'i (421 yds passing).  There will be a good offense in Stillwater as long as Gundy is HC there but the first few games were like looking hot by standing out in a crowd of Applewhite / VicMackey specials.  The OL and running game (esp Hubbard) have been impressive except against, oddly, McNeese.  Agree with the posters above that Texas needs to focus on stopping the run and force their QB to make secondary reads.

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