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  1. 5 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Especially the guy who ran an out that Elam had no feel for. The best part is Elam should've slid towards that receiver, but instead his being out of place combined with Starkel's horrible read resulted in a pick.

    Yeah, I mean Elam ignores Paul. Completely. If StarkleMotion his him instead, Elam is so far inside that he's a non-factor in the play. You'd have 17 yards on the completion and that doesn't take in to account that the CB (that has deep 3rd here) follows the WR across the zone and doesn't stay in his 3rd -- if you look at the 4:08 mark you can see just how far he's taken him, he's actually directly behind Elam by about 12 yards, so if you hit Paul with Elam peeking into the backfield it's a HUGE gain if not 90 to the house, there is NO ONE home from the hash out.  --- also Jimbo's hands at 4:11 needs to be gif'd. 

  2. Tarp has another in the new series of breaking down the spring game, this time to show you that Elko is the genius and that Roney Elam has arrived. 

    my favorite quote from the piece :: 

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    This suggests that A&M is in a form of zone coverage (although we don’t know for sure) 

    It's bland base 3-deep zone Tarp. FFS. Look at the fucking FS's angle at the snap of the fucking ball.  Of course if "He'sAssMyDude" would've made that read he could have thrown to the boundary on either side for a nice easy gain. Instead he stares down Sternberger and throws in an area with 4 defenders to one receiver. (note the wide open WR on the 15 and the RB in the flat at the 3:46 mark. 

    Texas A&M quarterback Nick Starkel is known for his touch downfield but he’s also someone who really likes to work the underneath routes to tight ends and slots. He single handedly reinvigorated Christian Kirk’s 2017 season and in the spring game created the Jace Sternberger monster that opponents have to look forward by hitting him eight times.

    However, Starkel is also young and by attempting to look for certain receivers will tend to lock in on them at times. This happened in the spring game and nickel Roney Elam was savvy enough to look for this aspect of Starkel’s game and take advantage of it.

    First, let’s set the scene at 3:43 of the embedded video: the Maroon team is facing a third and long and comes out in trips to the field or left side of the formation. Sternberger occupies the inside slot position. The White’s defense is in a 4-2-5 look with a true nickel back in the game in Elam as opposed to a Rover in Ikenna Okeke or Buddy Johnson. The safeties are in a two high look ten yards off of the ball while the safeties are in a quarters look some seven yards off of the ball.

    When Starkel begins his drop, notice what the corners do. The corner at the top of the clip basically assumes a cover two role…he bumps the receiver to the inside and passes him off to the safety while maintaining his eyes on the running back who has flared out to the sideline. However, although you can’t see this, the corner to the bottom of the clip is running with the outside receiver to his side on a post route. Either way, the safeties have dropped to a depth of about 15 yards off the ball and the interior second level defenders have dropped to a depth of seven to ten yards off of the ball. Note that the second level defenders are turned at angle towards the quarterback and are watching his eyes as opposed to picking up receivers into their routes. This suggests that A&M is in a form of zone coverage (although we don’t know for sure) with only the field corner having man responsibilities.

    If you want Starkel’s view of the play, go to about 3:55 of the video where it has an elevated view of the field as he drops. He looks left as his read is to that side. He has the outside receiver running a post, the outside slot running an out route, and Sternberger running straight up the field and curling between the backer and nickel.

    The route combination basically takes the safety and corner to that side of the play chasing the outside receiver’s post route. Sternberger has commanded the attention of the backer and he moves laterally to his right to get away from him. However, although the out route at the bottom of the clip has come open, Starkel never really sees him as you can see from the second and third views of the play from behind Starkel. He’s locked on Sternberger and is looking to Sternberger to move away from the backer to provide him with a lane to throw the ball.

    However, Starkel never sees Elam who is watching his eyes and never gravitates much past the hashmark to the outside. He doesn’t follow the slot out there. He settles in his zone and breaks on the ball early after Starkel’s release to step in front of it and take it down inside the five.

    It’s a learning experience for Starkel but it’s also an example of Elam being disciplined, reading the quarterback’s eyes, and making a play on the ball within the confines of the defense.

     

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  3. 1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Is Arkansas no longer even a remote possibility? Because I would place them well above Arizona in my personal list. 

    TSRH. I don't want to root for Piggie ever, but how can you not want to see Gunnell with Chad, just for the Aggy anguish? It would be it's own roller-coaster of agony every season. 

  4. was excited to see some of the replies to the Leal Update thread, some Aggy bravado or anything. Instead only one sad reply after 2 hours of the thread being up and of course it's whining about a Texas writer and the "no visit policy". 

     

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    "Can you get Jeff Howe and co of the article he wrote to admit there is no “no visit policy” in one of their articles?"

     

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  5. 5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    The ole' Drew Mehringer special. 

    While I know it's fun to blame Mehringer this one is a lot more about Higgins not enjoying Tom Herman's brand of honesty. Some guys respond well and some do not. Matters became worse because he expected/wanted a lot more attention after the Wilson commitment and is not happy with where he is in the pecking order. 

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  6. I guess the Center for Misinformation passed down a decree because Tarp is at it again, this time from the same highlight video but a later play where Jimbo shows his incredible acumen for combining spread elements into his offense. "Using Rogers as a TE produces winning score in spring game" 

    Clearly this is something that the AD is pushing right? Got to keep those credentials. I mean, 2 days in a row, 2 plays from the spring game that happened a month ago that focus on the use of the TE, the "innovation", the "adding of spread concepts". Each analyzed to death.  

    This is third and goal from inside the five with less than a minute left. The objective here is to get three points to take the lead but that’s probably not safe with Nick Starkel, Jhamon Ausbon, and Jace Sternberger having produced big plays for the Maroon team. Thus, the White team gets in a run heavy formation but uses wideouts instead of tight ends in an 11 personnel grouping. Three receivers are set to the right side with Camron Buckley (normally a slot) as a in line tight end which provides the possibility of a mismatch with a backer or safety off of play action. However, that’s not the objective here.

    A&M goes pistol and runs outside zone to the three receiver side. You’ll notice the offensive linemen stepping playside in order to attack the outside shoulder of the defenders they’re responsible for which cuts off penetration that would also disrupt a pass. However, there’s a couple of elements to this play that are less noticeable.

    First, Kendrick Rogers is essentially lined up as an extra tight end outside the formation. He doesn’t go playside at the snap like everyone else; instead, he comes back across the formation to the backside of the play. The defenders to the playside that should be responsible for him focus on the run action because hey…the White team is doing the smart thing, running the ball, and kicking the field goal, right?

    Instead, Rogers runs the along the line and his track is deeper than it should because a player gets pushed backwards and he has to avoid him. Nonetheless, quarterback Kellen Mond has done a good job of selling the play fake, keeping his eyes playside until he fakes the handoff and turns the other way. Mond does a good job of adjusting to a deeper depth due to the rush, getting his feet underneath him on the move, and delivering the ball to Rogers some seven yards behind the line of scrimmage. Keep in mind that due to the fact that some defenders got through that it’s unlikely that the play is drawn up so that Rogers gets the ball that deep in the backfield (look back at the A&M-Louisville video to ascertain the depth that the tight end caught the ball on that play).

    Nonetheless, the formation (just one wideout to the open side) and effect of the run action has drawn all of the defenders to the boundary. When Rogers gets the ball, there’s no one outside of him. As our second element, pay attention to left tackle Kellen Diesch. He’s let his man go after initially chipping him and now is on the move to the outside as if he is on a screen. There’s no one there for Diesch to block because the wideout to that side, Hezekiah Jones, has really locked in on his man and turned him to the inside and away from the pylon to provide a running lane for Rogers to the corner. Diesch has to turn back inside to look for someone to block. Linebacker Ikenna Okeke has given his all chasing the play but is too late as Rogers crosses the stripe.

    It’s noteworthy to me that despite the fact that Fisher didn’t have enough tight ends in the spring to use 12 or even 13 personnel on this play the alignment was sufficient to sell the run action and Rogers was a fitting substitute as a pass catcher. Not only that, the play could have been knocked off schedule by the pass rush and yet both Rogers and Mond made adjustments on the fly to get the desired result anyway.

    Overall, the play was a combination of a concept and play call at just the right time in the game that forced the Maroon team to have to drive for a touchdown to tie the game as opposed to attempting a field goal. It’s another example of what Fisher brings to A&M’s offense and how Aggie players make his concepts work even when things don’t go exactly as planned.

    Tarp points how how Louisville used the TE in the first play of this highlight "That’s a 250 pound player generating a Christian Kirk like gain." vs. A&M and how Fisher is using similar concepts to score against? A&M. 

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    Jimbo and his brilliance vs. Aggy (2:37) ::

     

     

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    JFC --- Adimora is a take for anyone in any season. 

     

    Don't forget Jordan Patterson, if anyone looks like a clear Richardson replacement to me, it's him. It looks like he's done a good job of doing a lot of the things the coaches want to see out of him. 

     

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  8. 16 minutes ago, Lobwedgephil said:

    Their defense will seem much improved because of their very slow paced offense, so they will only give up 30ish instead of 50ish. But they also go against powerhouse SEC offenses, so its a wash. 

    I think most of those terrible SEC offenses are better than 84th ranked Boston College was last year. 

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    and FSU's defense was orders of magnitude better than what Aggy will field this season, at least in terms of talent. Now it's true that those guys had quit on Jimbo ... 

  9. Tarp has a post today that is pretty fucking awesome - it's lengthy diatribe about a single play in the Aggy spring game that highlights why "Jimbo Fisher is considered to be a resourceful game planner and play caller" 

    play in question is at the 2:11 mark. Now we don't mention how INCREDIBLY terrible Derrick Tucker is on this play...  but honestly my favorite is the LB who never comes out of his stance as the play happens all around him, including Sternberger releasing right across his face. SEC. DEFENSE.

     

    Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher is considered to be a resourceful game planner and play caller, capable of understanding what his teams can do and then putting them into position to succeed. You saw a lot of this in Texas A&M’s spring game when Aggie quarterbacks were put on the move to help out offensive lines missing two starters and playing multiple walk ons. In the last few years at Florida State, Fisher followed the trend of many college and pro teams and incorporated plays out of the gun and three receiver sets with spread concepts even though he grew up in the West Coast offense with an emphasis on power and throwing the ball down the field.

    In other words, Fisher can be quite innovative and it showed on a couple of occasions in the Aggies’ spring. Today, we’ll look at one of the big plays as an example of what Fisher can do when he puts his mind to it.

    In the 1980’s, Joe Gibbs brought 12 personnel to the NFL with the addition of a second tight end as a versatile player who could act as a tight end, fullback, lead blocker, blitz protector, and third down receiver all in one. However, Gibbs also brought power principles to his offense in the form of the counter trey in which not one but two linemen pull from the opposite side of the formation to lead a back to the playside.

    One of the things that Gibbs did as a counter off of this play was have his the back go one way behind a pulling lineman but have a second linemen pull the opposite direction to provide protection for the quarterback. It was known as a key breaker and in an era when most teams used 3-4 defenses and inside backers watched the guards they would occasionally run into another following their key.

    In the spring game, the Maroon team sprung something akin to this play on the White team for tight Jace Sternberger’s long touchdown reception in the fourth quarter to tie the game. Go 2:12 into the embedded video.

    The Maroon is in 11 personnel with three wideouts while the defense has two high safeties. Quarterback Nick Starkel fakes a handoff to Trayveon Williams coming left which catches the attention of safety Derrick Tucker. Even though the offensive linemen have a high helmet, Tucker is focused on what looks like a running play coming to his side. He vacates the deep half of the field.

    In the meantime, left guard Grayson Reed is pulling to the right. The linebacker to Reed’s side follows him and comes up to fill versus the run. The other inside backer is basically held in place by the run action.

    Sternberger is in line on the right side, starts off vertically, sees the safety vacate the opposite side of the field, and adjusts his route towards the open area. Not only that, Reed’s movement has either brought the linebackers closer to the line of scrimmage or to their left. Finally, safety Donovan Wilson has to take the slot just outside of Sternberger who is running straight at him. All of these items create a throwing lane for Starkel to see Sternberger.

    Sternberger runs to grass and the play action has slowed A&M’s pass rush. Starkel is looking for Sternberger all the way even before he completes the play fake and after it he has him ten yards down the field with a throw coming to him at 15 yards with no one behind him.

    There were a couple of issues on the defensive side of the ball on this play, most notably that not everyone read high hats on the part of the offensive linemen which would indicate a pass and no one got a hand on Sternberger early in his route to slow him up. This allowed him to hit top speed early and quickly clear the second level of the defense.

    Nonetheless, the play set everything up for Sternberger not only to be wide open but also created a throwing lane for the quarterback. In addition, keep in mind that if Tucker stays in place and anticipates a throw, Sternberger can break off the route in front of him and behind the backers for a medium gain.

    Overall, it’s play that uses some disparate elements to create big results. It’s akin to four verticals with play action and a pulling lineman thrown in to make the quarterback’s life easier in getting the ball out. It’s creative and it shows you what Fisher’s mind can bring to the Aggies’ offense.

    play in question is at the 2:11 mark. Now we don't mention how INCREDIBLY terrible Derrick Tucker is on this play...  but honestly my favorite is the LB who never comes out of his stance as the play happens all around him, including Sternberger releasing right across his face. SEC. DEFENSE. 
     

     

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  10. 6 minutes ago, Fud said:

    It's interesting how Perroni keeps talking up how much Bama wants Shepherd, but I'm not sure if he's even a take for them. They already have three OL committed, and are probably the favorites for Webb and Wright 

    Yep.

    Pumping the base up for a "big win" against Bama if they can get him. I think Shepherd likely lost his spot at Bama when he UOV A&M, because Bama wasted no time offering and getting a commit from Bowles on the spot that same weekend. With 3 OTs in the class and 4 in the last class (no SRs and 1 JR) I don't see them going 4 OTs. Anyone they take now is looking at being moved to OG day 1. 

     

     

  11. 6 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Does Lake Travis have a weight room?

    162 is gonna have to change for sure ...   but I think he's just one of those guys at this age that doesn't hold weight yet. 

     

     

     

    oh, and LT does indeed have a weight room. it's ridiculous. 

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Fud said:

    I don't think he or Wolfe are natural corners

    Young despite his speed and build looks a lot better facing the ball than he does trailing, for sure. His bigger issues will be outside the lines. Wolfe has become Deion Sanders at Aggy247, a lot of "lockdown CB" etc... thrown his way. He's going to have to prove that he can cover without holding, grabbing, and ripping and more importantly he's gonna have to prove that he can play without a WR getting in his head and getting him out of his game. I think he has potential to be an ok man cover guy underneath but he's a RS year and A LOT of technique away from that. I know it's a long-standing mystery but I don't know why, even under this new staff, that Aggy targets only these type of guys. Forgetting the guys like Green or Cook --- you'd think that they'd have gone all in guys like Jamison, McKinley, Gordon, or Blaylock in 2018. In 2019 it seems like a guys like Alex Hogan (I expect UT to circle back on him and could see him be a future UT commit late in the process), Ja’corey Benjamin, or Deondre Dansby would be guys that A&M should be all over. Guys that can cover in space. I get that Wolfe and Young have bigger names, longer builds, and Young certainly has more athleticism but how many long athletes that can't cover can one roster handle? they need help immediately at CB. 

     

     

  13. Terrence Frederick (#7) always cracks me up on that play. I mean, it's hard to pull your eyes from the mesmerizing Caseness that is happening but then you watch Frederick and you feel the entire Echo Chamber swell with excitement, despite the horrific angle he takes, as he is about to behead the stupid sip fehg QB and then he somehow not only avoids imminent contact but doesn't even grab and instead seems to push/propel the pinball onward. it's magical. 

  14. 4 minutes ago, OnAComputer said:

    Hey y'all. Sorry to ruin the "Fuck EJ party," but sometimes shit happens. Unlike others, this was obviously not intentional.

    Sure. Except that this is like the 4th or 5th time that he's done this shit. Everyone makes mistakes but at some point you've got to learn, right? 

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