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Posts posted by Had Enough
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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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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.
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. -
Runs in the family. So does your mom.
Now this is on a level I can appreciate. Not funny, but the effort was there. -
Get Schooler and BJ off the field... DAMN
Bro, if we’re going that route, you’re forgetting one.
Thompson’s an idea. Better to have Cook back there than on the sideline. -
Bleeding scratch on his face?
We can only hope.
I do appreciate a little unhinged intensity from time to time. -
That would be good for everyone but Tech.
I like Muschamp, but this is likely true. It’s not entirely certain what he’d bring as a DC at this point. -
I hate Herman. Legitimately like Charlie more. Charlie was a bad coach, a bad recruiter and your post is absolutely terrible.
It was not necessarily my intention to infer you liking Herman in a personal sense, but you obviously stated a preference. Said you were similar in ways to Herman. You know, arrogant. Maybe a bit of a mouthy Jack wagon.
Maybe Charlie is a bad recruiter. Never claimed one way or another. Made no claim about his coaching but more so in a not so fast my friend way said I’m not sure Herman was a coaching god relative to Strong. We’re on to Sark for reasons. none of which are winning too many games the last 10 years.
When you’re admiring your genius in the mirror next time, re-read my post and ask yourself which of those points are definitely wrong.
And I will state that Herman not retaining Traylor was beyond stupid. That should have been a gift that kept on giving. That would have significant for recruiting. And likely coaching.-
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Tom’s recruiting was significantly better than Charlie’s. I don’t know where this myth that Charlie could recruit comes from. If you were to stack our last four coaches in their prime up, it’s go Mack, Sark, Herman and Charlie. Charlie would be a distant distant 4th. Just because he got lucky with one class that took him from 10 to 7 in the wake of the Briles situation doesn’t mean shit. And, that class was bolstered by Patrick Hudson, who never played, and was a really weak #7. Herman was better.
Hate to tell you bro, but from 5-7 to 7-6 with a considerable amount of now upper class talent ain’t exactly coaching circles around nobody. Ehlinger/Beuchele combo was better than Swoopes/Beuchele combo.
I don’t know enough of the inner workings on recruiting to know all those dynamics. But the final output is probably in Strongs favor especially when he had 1 less year and less time and fewer local connections in the first year than Hermie did.
LJH/Duvernay/Collin was better than whoever you wanna include. The DBs have done a reasonable job in the NFL. Herman’s DB recruits are TBD. His WR recruits, um well, I like Whittington.
Hermie did better on the Oline I think although he left last years class in the toilet. Poona Ford was awesome and was generally under appreciated. We’d probably be top 10 with 1 loss if that dude were here.
Strong brought in Hermans Texas Bowl MVP. Michael Dickson.
Now we roll into Sark who basically has to win out for this year to be considered a betterment of last year. I wasn’t a fan of Herman but he could have produced this years results to date.
What is understated is the miserable talent level Mack left. There was some first team talent on defense, much of it seniors. Strong improved the talent. Then Herman improved it from there.
At this point Strongs not part of the equation.
I just think you like hyping Herman cause the two of you share similarities.-
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all college games include sacks in the run total. why would we adjust for the games that year?
I’m just partly jacking around. But the argument
would be that our pass rush this year is no good so an adjustment for Joe Ossai is necessary.
My guess is there would not be substantial differences due to sacks from last year to this year.
From a stats perspective, I would lean to netting them against passing stats. -
You're not fooling anyone.
4.5 ypc for TCU. 3.8 ypc for blOU. 2.5 ypc for Okie Lite. 6 ypc for KSU. 4.0 ypc for Colorado. Other than K-State which was a complete blowout those games range from decent to excellent in terms of run defense.
Now maybe adjust for sacks. Do it like the nfl. -
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Much less than 5
Now ask that same question about every other team in the country.
But to make it fair all our dudes would have needed to grow up in that same system. All of our dudes have been in this system less than a year. Our guys have had 3 DCs and 3 OCs in the past 3 seasons. That does make a difference.
Yet Bama gave up 41 points to anm. Same personnel for anm that were fortunate to beat Colorado. And Bama defense collapsed in the last 5 minutes. -
In high school halftimes are long enough to install an entirely different offense and get a few practices in. Feels like they’re 3 or 4 hours long. Damn bands have too much power.
With this I agree. It was quite some time between my youth and watching high school games again. I was amazed at how long halftimes have become. And in blow outs, it’s misery staying for any part of the 2nd half because you’re beat down by halftime events. -
updating this to DFEI (overall ranking) which makes a huge fucking difference all the way around.
- 2014 - 12
- 2015 - 41
- 2016 - 44
- 2017 - 7
- 2018 - 30
- 2019 - 45
- 2020 - 40
- 2021 YTD - 36
I am too lazy to do the rank among B12, but all the way around, don't use unadjusted stats in 2021. we have way better options and choices now.
they tell far from the whole story, especially when considering how much offense the b12 has had in the last 10ish years. normalized stast are great, plus who gives a fuck about garbage time.
So is this saying we aren’t quite as poor defensively statistically specifically as one might think? -
I think halftime in the NFL is 12 minutes and in college it's 18 or 20. I agree though that there should be more in-game tweaks than halftime adjustments. Halftime is really just meant to be a quick break and to catch your breath. Especially considering that the first 10 minutes or so of halftime is probably only the coaches meeting with each other to discuss what quick changes they want, and then they quickly go meet with their position group and by that point there's only 5 or 6 minutes left and you have to get ready to run back on the field.
Quick look shows the NFL is 12 minutes. Every time I’ve noticed the halftime clock at our games it’s 20 minutes. -
On offense at this point, it’s not really adjustments, but we are not exhausting all our resources.
For one, Brewer and Wiley share 10 catches, 3 of which were TDs. There haven’t been many incompletions their way. Usage outside the red zone is virtually non-existent. 78 yards for the year. The OSU TE/HB/FB got 30 yards just last week on two easy throws. Roschon has 6 catches to add to that mix.
Wildcat. Haven’t seen it lately.
Jet sweeps. Not much the last two weeks.
QB run game. Think we actually did it in some form about twice last week. But that 3rd and 2 last week with the end crashing. Perfect time to pull it and walk around the end for a first. Instead we expect Brewer to come across the formation and get the end before he’s in Bijans face. Dumb.
Any of that could slow the defense down a step. And much of it is more about catching the defense off guard than blowing them off the ball. When we start falling apart, we just need to get a first down. Simple stuff that could get us 5-7 yards on 1st.
Your TEs, Roschon, Keilan (when healthy) are all underutilized all weapons. There’s probably a use for Dixon at or around the LOS too. -
For those who don't want to look it up, Peyton and Eli both said there really aren't "halftime adjustments" in football. By the time the team gets into the locker room, the coaches get down from the coaching box and everyone is settled, it's almost time to go back out.
I remember seeing on twitter where a former NFL player said the majority of halftime is 80 players waiting in line to use the urinals.
NFL is a different animal. Halftime is toughly twice as long in college. Ain’t much time for adjustments.
In game tweaks n such should be occurring. Well unless there’s lot of 3 and outs happening. Then there ain’t no time for much there.-
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Nebraska is not a top 5 up-to-halftime team like us though.
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If consistent means bad, I am with you. At least the offense, outside of Arkansas, has had moments of greatness. Defense was wretched vs OU and Ark pretty much the entire game. I believe both teams were well over 6 yards per play in the first half of both games.
I suppose our definitions of wretched are a little different.
I did a little quick calc. Pig was less than 6 per in the first half. 16 points, 3 of which possession started at the 14. Our 14.
4 of our 6 possessions were 3 and outs. Another was 5 plays, and the other resulted in no points. Then we open the 2nd half with a 3 and out. The wheels completely came off when the offense lost it downs then turned it over. Not saying the defense was championship caliber, but the offense was the primary culprit for the loss.
OU you can point to primarily defense. Then OSU primarily offense.
Our best player is on offense, which has nothing to do with the staff and scheme or play calling.
In those 3 games, our defense forced 11 3 and outs. The offense had 18. I included it as one if there was a turnover in the first 3 plays or if there was a 4th down attempt that didn’t convert and no first downs were achieved.
We’re simply not playing well enough on either side to finish and win. I’d put more of the blame on the offense.-
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And Nebraska outgained em by 200 yards and found a way to lose.
Nebraska and us are similar in that way. Find a way to lose against the odds.-
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Agree that was ugly.
I still think there are defensible reasons for optimism about the offense.
The defense is a mess though. It needs a lot of work.
This is at least one of two aspects of this team I’m on an island of few.
There are reasons for optimism across the board including defense. The crappy performance was OU. But they were aided by the officials and good fortune including a couple of huge lower percentage pass completions. Six inches here (Washington out of bounds), six inches there (Mims in bounds). Two very near fumbles that we recovered. And we lost our best pass rusher in game right after the bs non illegal touching that led to a TD. Two big rushes should have come back 10 yards the other way. Then there was Tech 2nd half, but we put up 70 so it’s not surprising we lost a little intensity. Then you’ve got 4th quarter Pig and OSU.
In our 3 losses, the offense has had 4, maybe 5 quarters of good football. The defense has been more consistent on those game but still not good in the 4th.
We’re not dominant anywhere but damn near all our guys have played some quality football. But many have been consistently inconsistent leading to some poor play too. I’m of the opinion that if you do it occasionally you are capable of repeating it more often. Offense and defense. That’s where we are. Repeat the good shit. Our 22 are capable of winning out. That’s not to say we’ve got all Americans all over the field. We’ve given up on average one deep pass per game. That’s not bad. A better pass rush would help (who wouldn’t say that though), but the defense needs better safety play and largely in the run game. You get more consistency there, you’ll see considerable improvement from a numbers standpoint and likely winning football.
Just find a way to win from here on out. That’s the objective. -
Does Sarkisian know something I don’t? I’ve been to a lot of games in Waco over the years, and loud crowd has never been my takeaway.
They pipe a lot of loud music in. I’m not sure how loud it would be with crowd noise. -
There’s several things at work here.
One, Anderson and Braun were graduate transfers. They were transferring for different reasons. Both coming from solid academic institutions. Both mature, both experienced and neither transferring due to lack of playing or disputes with coaches or other potential character considerations. That’s very different than a mass exodus including an OT from Tennessee. Morris hasn’t exactly set the world on fire either. That’s also different than some Wisconsin dude hitting the portal mid-season.
Now Saban May have been the brains of the operation, but that does not preclude Flood and our offensive staff from gaining an understanding on the physical and mental traits necessary and whether in their opinion the current guys meet their standard.
So maybe they were justified standing firm with what they have.
Cohesion and continuity are important. Not only from a personnel but a scheme standpoint. We’re still somewhat young in spots. And we’re not 5 stars across the board, but our guys aren’t drooling and rubbing shit in their hair either. We were improving then Okafor went down. We’ve been moving guys around ever since which just happens to coincide with two solid opponents.
There also might be a culture consideration. Every portal guy we brought in had some ties to our staff. Worthy was simply a recruit so I’d consider him a different situation than guys typically available in the portal. This staff likely wants to win now, but they also are concerned with building a culture.
When we were putting up points versus OU and OSU, the Oline was very much on point. And at times, they’ve been very not so good too. Vs Tech and Rice they were damn good for much of the game. And here’s a screenshot of a 3 and out in which it was very much not their fault that we didn’t convert on this particular play. It’s not the QBs fault we lost to OU, but I don’t think Thompson made a single off schedule play. That’s pretty uncommon.
So as we roll into this final part of the season I think we’ll have a good indication of where we’re headed. The bye week should allow us to regroup and potentially get some more consistency. They’re capable of being a solid unit. But y’all go ahead and focus on the 5 (maybe it’s 1 or 2 more) really shitty plays they have each game and act as though they don’t do much worth a damn. And no, those 5 plays are not acceptable, but they do some damn good stuff and do it often. -
Do you mean a replay review, or just a replay for the sake of showing that the refs suck? Because PI isn't reviewable
Just a replay for showing the refs suck.-
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Game Week: Baylor
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This may be the most brilliant suggestion yet.