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Had Enough

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  1. Every team in the league has at least 2 better LBs than us. It's a problem we've tried but can't hide.

    This is wrong. I’m not even saying the part about better LBers.

    We haven’t tried to hide them.

    We are outnumbered in the box. On defense and on offense. On defense our front 3 are not the largest grouping out there. Our LBers are light. So we’re small and we run light in the box.

    We have been running an extra edge guy in favor of Cook. But as you can in the video above, that dude is so far outside he isn’t affecting much. We were damn nearing playing 11 on 8 at that point.

    As some have mentioned, you gotta try Ojomo-Sweat-Coburn-Collins. Then you do have decent pieces to help in the run game.

    I do believe your LBers will play well if kept clean. But 3 Dline men on 5 won’t do it. At least not out our 5. you need to keep them both relatively clean because the cut back is a killer and the safeties are 15 yards deep.
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  2. I wonder what Will Muschamp would say about that play...
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    General scheme is one thing. But dumbassery with alignment is another.

    On this play, we have 3 dudes wider than their widest guy once the motion clears. That’s terrible. I suppose at least we deterred them from getting outside there.
  3. Just looked at the boxscore and did in my head (so hopefully not to far off), but I counted 44 plays and 302 in the first half vs Texas. That is a bit over 6.8 yards per in the first half. That is fuckin terrible 
     
    TCU 210 yards on 31 plays..little under 6.8 yards per play.. I am not seeing great defense in either of these 1st haves

    Not great defense, but there were positives to be taken. But 3 turnovers. TCU 10 points on 5 possessions (excluding the drive with the return). OU 20 on 8 possessions. 7 of those with a massive gift. Ou had probably 200 yards of offense that could have been called back that game. Two additional turnovers depending on which fan you ask. Imagine how shitty our offense would be if you could tackle worthy off the line. That’s the stuff you go against when playing OU. It’s not legit when you get wrapped up at the point of attack.

    For the full game against TCU, it was a solid effort.
  4. This. Crazy to say this, but stopping the run in the Big 12 is job #1 right now. At this point I would almost be happy watching the defense sell out on the run and seeing a QB throw for 400. Dantonio/Narduzzi made a living on defense daring QBs to hit the deep pass down the side line. It’s death in the NFL, but most college QBs are not great deep ball passers 

    Yes, do this. Challenge our corners some. Certainly should be the game plan vs OSU.
  5. Didn’t OU have 20 pts and like 240 yards in the first half? TCU had 17? Anyone really think those are good numbers? 

    TCUs offense at the time was running at about 500 yards per game. 7 of their points came after an 80 yard kickoff return. So yes that was an acceptable half.

    OU had a 4th and 1 go for 6. The defensive call was not the issue. It really was an issue with 1 guy. They also got 30 yards which lead to a TD drive. Not only that but they don’t get the benefit of refs calling Jack. Comparing any game of OU versus another team is not a valid comp. OU had 10 penalties versus KU.

    So you take those stats, add some context and you could come to the conclusion they did decently well.
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  6. I feel like Sark tells them to never run or something because Card did this same exact thing.  I dont get it.  Take the free yards.

    We likely do over Coach here on this point. Let ‘em play instinctively. Down and distance is important. A first down conversion on 3rd and 10 for 12 yards is more important than getting 25. And getting 8 when it’s 4 down territory is a good move.

    Yes, I assume Card running sideways along the LOS was due to this coaching point.
  7. It’s much more QB than play caller, and I like Casey. It’s also on each line. Our lines are below average for a P5 program. Both of them. It will take Sark and Flood and team more than this season to work this out. Our personnel outside of Bijan and Worthy is average. And I’m talking about every other guy, including crowd favorites like RoJo, Casey, and Jamison. We have no defensive lineman than would sniff most SEC 2-deeps. This is why we get beat in the second half. Our trenches recruiting is absolutely deplorable and affects everything else. 

    In this game, you’re right. There were stretches of odd play calls though. 2nd and 3rd in the red zone on our field scoring drive for example. And no one ever calls a perfect game. We just have less room for error. The pass was there all day. This game was the best use of our role players, but we could still make better use of them.

    There were multiple check downs open for sizeable yards. We took none of them. The screen pass looked to have a chance. I don’t think Bijan chipped and Casey didn’t get depth. QB had open running lanes in pass game but took very few. It would not be surprising if we were over coached here though and making the QBs hesitant to run.

    Overall, we missed quite a few very available opportunities for yards, first downs and TDs.
  8. I hadn’t noticed it much until today, but we are aligned way too wide too often. 3 guys outside their widest guy. I’m a big proponent of positioning a defender so that he can make a play to either side. This alignment negates that prospect.

    Then the safeties.

    It’s hard to blame the players when positioned to fail.

  9. I am not sure what some of you think the defense should be when it has to trot out talent like Schooler and Brock. The talent on that side of the ball is terrible.

    You made me curious about Schooler so I went back to his frosh year at Oregon. They were not good as a team, but he had 4 picks and was 3rd on the team in tackles. Then he moved to WR.

    He’s seen the field at two major colleges at two positions. Must be a horrible athlete.

    That’s not to say he’s kickin butt, but maybe there’s a bit more to it than simply talent.

    Even by the star rankings, we’ve got some talent. Since star rankings are based largely on measuresables, we’d expect to be better tha Baylor. And OSU.

    What do you think they should be?
  10. The most unbelievable thing about that whole sequence was dumb and dumber in the booth trying to tell us that you can’t always see a blocked punt, but if you listen to the wind you can hear it.

    What was odd was the lack of consultation between the two refs back there. The dude on the left took the power role, which maybe he’s the primary, but he was awfully confident.
  11. He hit Josh Moore in between two Baylor defenders on a perfectly thrown ball for a TD at the end of the 1H. Moore dropped it. Moore then made up for it by dropping another pass leading to an INT on the very next play.
    He also hit Marcus Washington in the hands twice in the second half on balls that traveled 30+ yards in the air. Washington dropped both.
    I have never seen a WR group this bad in my life. 
     
    Anyone blaming this on Casey or claiming that Card would do better is a certifiable dumbass.

    I don’t know that Card would do better. Also not sure the ball to Moore was perfectly thrown or that the Int wasn’t poorly thrown.

    Casey could have made many more plays though. Bijan could have had quite a few receiving yards if the ball is thrown his way. He did a terrible job on the screen pass on the last drive, passed up chances to run.

    That said everybody lost it.
  12. Seven Win Steve?

    At some point in the last week, I found it somewhat humorous.

    Now, I think maybe it’s accurate.

    He’s quite creative on offense. I think he’s trying to make it work. But something is off on the offensive side. Maybe it’s just instincts that are lacking.

    Between QB and play caller, we left lots of yards and points on the field in the pass game.

    Baylor’s plan is to stop Bijan. They did leave quite a bit uncovered in the pass game including QB rush yards from the pocket.

    Everybody associated with this team lays a part in the losses.

  13. After that Benny-Hill-style play in which Schooler completely missed the tackle on the OU receiver and then proceeded to knock the fuck out of our cornerback, if that guy wasn’t benched…no, scratch that, not benched but dismissed from the team right then and there, I don’t know what to tell ya.

    You mean Tech right? What other stuff do you not remember correctly in your drunken stupors?

    He was badass when we played Coastal Carolina in game 1.
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  14. Screens are about fooling the D?   Somebody should have explained this to GDGD years back.   If any of his screens ever fooled OU with their 11 + defenders lined up two yards from where everyone knew the screen was going, it was a bad or dropped snap that ended up being a run right into the biggest mass of OU bodies we could find...  for a loss of 6

    Welp off the top of my head, I don’t ever remember Greg with a successful RB screen.

    The go to first play of the game wide receiver hit never seemed to work either. Well until Worthy took one 75 yards to the house vs OU. Imagine the jubilation in Davisville. “I told you that shit was golden,” Greg Davis. giphy.gif

    I did see a Kwame Cavil get a middle screen for 6 on the LHN. Think that was for 1987 or something like that. So maybe I do need to walk back a screen only working when you fool them everytime. If Greg can do it, anyone can.
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