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  1. 52 minutes ago, MontereyMX said:

    any news on his rehab status?  will he be able to play this year or next?

    Should be able to at some point, but the Panthers also have Chuba Hubbard and Miles Sanders so they shouldn’t be pressured to rush him back.

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  2. On 4/25/2024 at 12:27 PM, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Here are Alex Dunlap's deep digs for the spring game

    Offense

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    OL Grades (Spring Game)

    LT Kelvin Banks - 28 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 81

    LT Trevor Goosby - 31 snaps

    1 sack, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.58

    LT Jayden Chatman - 27 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.85

    LG/C Hayden Conner - 47 snaps

    2 run-stuffs allowed
    1 false start penalty
    1 knockdown
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.28

    LG Cole Hutson - 23 snaps

    1 run-stuff, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 73.83

    LG Malik Agbo - 21 snaps

    1 QB hit, 1 run-stuff allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.05

    C Jake Majors - 28 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.5

    C Conner Roberston - 34 snaps

    1 QB hit, 1 pressure, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.41

    C Daniel Cruz - 17 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A

    RG DJ Campbell - 44 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.18

    RG Neto Umeozulu - 23 snaps

    2 TFLs, 1 run-stuff, 1 QB hit, 1 sack allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 70.22

    RG/LG Connor Stroh - 15 snaps

    1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A

    RT Cam Williams - 46 snaps

    1 sack allowed
    1 knockdown, 1 pin
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.57

    RT/RG Andre Cojoe - 44 snaps

    1 sack, 1 TFL, 1 pressure allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.68

    RT Brandon Baker - 36 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.89

    Hayden Conner played in this game about like he played in the 2023 season, which isn't exactly encouraging. 2023 was a down year for Conner because of the constant run-stuffs allowed (18 allowed in the 2023 regular season versus only 5 allowed for the entirety of 2022). The hope is that 2023 was a one-year-type of outlier for Conner who could have been playing hurt or simply ended up on the wrong side of variance. That could still be the case, but he'll need to play better this fall than he did in the spring game in order to match the level of play we'll see from the other four guys. It's pretty clear at this point that Conner is the weakest link of the Texas starting OL.

    You can take that however you'd like, but we'd suggest that it should be encouraging that a player of Conner's level (who scored perfectly fine in the Deep Dig grading) is the weak link of the Texas OL. Heck, in recent years, scoring a 76-ish score on the week might have landed a guy at the top of that week's best-graded players. Things were bad and Texas didn't get back to the position it is currently in by playing at that level. Clearly the OL has come a long way.

    And as Texas fans, you wonder how it can be improved even further and you'll ask about Neto Umeozulu who worked in with the first group at LG during some of spring ball. To that we'd say that Neto seems to be working (based on the spring game) exclusively at RG for now. And that shouldn't matter if a player needed to step in and replace Conner for any reason -- guards can easily move from side to side. That's the least of any issues anyone might have with Neto entering into the starting lineup any time soon. The biggest issue is that he doesn't look ready and never has. He had trouble moving laterally in the spring game, gave up leverage in the run game constantly, got his body weight out over the balls of his feet in pass protection and he still needs to really work on his punch placement.

    There are some things to really like about Neto, but he doesn't look that much different in the spring of 2024 than he did in the fall of 2023 where he played 47 snaps in mop-up duty and allowed four run stuffs and committed one penalty. That's disruption allowed at a once-per-every-9.4-snap clip. Over the course of an entire season, that would be the most disruption allowed per snap ever charted in the Deep Dig out of 76 total Texas OL who played at least 100 snaps in a season. It would have been nice to see a spring game out of Neto that led you to believe he had worked his way through a lot of that stuff, but it isn't the case. We're going to have to keep waiting on him to come around, and if anything were to happen to one of the starting guards, Cole Hutson, at this time, would likely be the better option to step in.

    And we've already seen one player who's showing he's the better option at a key position on the two-deep: Brandon Baker. He wasn't the second-team RT behind Cam Williams to start the spring game (he was working at RT3 all spring), but through the game, it felt like Baker simply morphed into the primary backup at right tackle. Andre Cojoe moved inside to right guard early in the scrimmage, and that's likely where he'll stay, taking over the role of Payton Kirkland who has transferred to Colorado. Cojoe's foot speed is better suited to play at guard for now. Once he moved inside, he didn't allow any more disruption -- and coupled with Baker over there (who played a very clean game and really looked the part technique-wise for a player who some thought was a little "raw" to start spring ball), it made for a much more stable unit.

    It's going to be tough losing Kelvin Banks after the 2024 season, but with guys like Trevor Goosby and Brandon Baker looking like they are taking the kinds of steps forward that they are, the offensive line should continue to have bedrock pieces to lean on, even in a time coming soon when guys like Kelvin Banks and DJ Campbell are playing in the NFL.

    Defense

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    Quick Hits and Thoughts

    - When Alfred Collins scores a pick-six on one of his 4 defensive snaps in the ball game, of course he's likely to be the team leader in production and his snaps-per-production caused is going to be absolutely wild, being such a small sample, there's not much we can take from it except that Collins was Johnny on the Spot and capitalized on a monster play during his limited playing time.

    - The opposite side of variance can be applied to Barryn Sorrell, who also didn't play much in the game, but in so doing, had a missed tackle to pair with one assist which left him in the negative-production tier. Sorrell is one of the best players on the Texas defense, of course, so his bad score here in the system should be taken with a grain of salt. Anthony Hill didn't play much, either nor David Gbenda. Through the course of a real game, we know that Hill, and to a lesser degree, Gbenda, will be more productive and efficient than what we saw in the scrimmage.

    - The real story of the spring game was the edge-rush play across both squads, even in the absence of stud transfer Trey Moore, who did not play. Collin Simmons (who was technically on the white team at the BUCK end, but played virtually all his snaps with the ones) and Colton Vasek (who played the JACK DE role for the white team more than any other player) were major standouts both volume and efficiency wise. Simmons was slightly better efficiency-wise and proved to be a guy who looks like he'll simply have to play this year, and possibly a lot. Simmons had a sack on Cam Williams with a speed rush as well as two separate QB "hits" that could have fairly easily been called as sacks as well as an additional QB pressure to tack on to one run-stuff, one solo tackle and two assists. He was everywhere, and it wasn't always against backup OLs. Vasek had his own coming out party with two sacks (he was only credited with one by the staff, but definitely did touch the QB before the ball left his hands on another play), 2 TFLs and one additional solo tackle.

    - On top of this, Tausili Akana is a name we don't mention much, but he showed some real zip off the edge getting one sack on his own and getting in on another played blown dead with Wardell Mack in the backfield. Zina Omeozulu (who played at both the JACK and the BUCK through the scrimmage) had a TFL, a run-stuff, a PBU and an assisted tackle on just 28 snaps and would have been more in the total production tier of Akana had he not committed two penalties (one illegal hands to the face against Trevor Goosby on the Thatcher Milton TD and one facemask deep in the second half).

    - Jelani McDonald had one horrible open-field whiff on Ky Woods that you may remember, but was largely solid and downright impressive at times other than that. He tattooed Amari Niblack on one play and had three solo tackles in total as well as the game-ending INT which, admittedly, did juice his score a good bit.

    - Michael Taaffe, Xavier Filsaime, Wardell Mack, Gavin Holmes and Terrence Brooks all had coverage burns. Anyone who watched the spring game was thrilled with the QB play of Arch Manning and Trey Owens, but it came with some trouble on the back end. But it wasn't all miscommunications and screw-ups like we saw with Brooks early on in the Manning bomb to Deandre Moore or the Wardell Mack botched assignment with Jordon Johnson-Rubell on the red-zone TD to Ryan Wingo out of the slot (BTW-WINGO IN THE SLOT, GUYS?!) Sometimes guys just got run by and burned the old-fashioned way.

    - Kobe Black was a definite bright spot. He was targeted in coverage 4 times and only allowed one completion while also getting a nice pick. We should be on the lookout for Black to get on a Manny Muhammad-like path to heavy run during his freshman season. Terrence Brooks was not horrible in the spring game, but the same issues we saw in 2023 continue: he's good until he's not. In this game, he was bad at first and then pretty good the rest of the way. He, as usual, had one of the more impressive completion percentages allowed when clearly targeted in the spring game (25% - tied for best among outside CBs with Black) just like he did in the 2023 regular season (41% - team-best among outside CBs). But it's the coverage burns that got him last year and he needs to be more consistent in 2024 about giving up these huge chunk plays. He was burned once every 81 snaps in the 2023 season which was second-worst only behind Ryan Watts (74) among outside CBs, whereas Manny Muhammad (362) and Gavin Holmes (281) were much less prone to the big blowups.

    - With the addition of Trey Moore and the emergence of pass-rushers of all stripes and positions on the depth chart (along with a full summer and fall camp to get things cleaned up on the back end - including time to develop for guys like Black), one lesson the spring game may have taught us on defense is that we may actually see pressure on the opposing QB that acts as a crutch in helping out the secondary in its coverage schemes. It's been a while since we could say something like that about the edge-rush at Texas.

    Onward to the offense.

    I like the OL notes and the commentary on Terrance Brooks, which was written before he entered the portal. 

    Hutson didn’t get any snaps at C?

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  3. 8 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:


    If it’s “out of hand,” is he really playing with the 1’s? Only talking one series. Could be 3-out, TD, FG, INT, fumble or punt.

    Playing meaningful snaps with the 1’s vs the opponents’ 1’s isn’t seen at practice, especially in a “hostile” environment.

    Hook’em!!!

    It can be with the 1s if we want it to be, happens all the time all across the country.

  4. 10 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

    We’re talking one pre-planned series. Games aren’t won or lost on one offensive series. But just letting him hand off to the 4th RB and then taking a knee to kill the clock is NOT “experience.”

    Hook’em!!!

    The plan is to have games in hand by midway through the 3rd quarter, so Arch will get plenty of snaps. You’re overthinking this.

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  5. 31 minutes ago, Texasborn91 said:

    Sydir Mitchell looked like shit. Saw one pass rush that he tripped on his own dick and Hayden Connor just laid on him. There was also an instance down on the goal line where he got both shoulders flat on the ground at the same time pancaked. No pass rush. Hope he drops 15-20 before camp.  

    Mitchell’s snaps were just a dose of reassurance for the guys we have portalling in

  6. 13 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    This image from today's scrimmage made me realize how much Arch's body has filed out. Of course that pic of him and ewers and maalik flexing went viral last year, but this is the first time I'm noticing how tall Arch is. He's basically Vince Young's height, and VY's height let him gallop through tackles.

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    He’s the exact same height and weight as Brady was in the league. Imagine if Brady had his wheels.

  7. 1 minute ago, Red Five said:

    God damn he looked good. I know, we talkin' bout practice, but still. 

    And I'm not going to say it, but we're all thinking it. Good problem to have, I suppose.

    Fun tape to show recruits for sure

  8. 4 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Outside of the "friend" excuse, which would involve him having to give a name, that would still fall under the reported stolen umbrella, no?

    But it was his car that rear ended Sweat. So even if Burrell was a passenger in either vehicle, he would've presumably known who was driving his vehicle. 

    He could feasibly have been too drunk to remember which friend he let drive him home, but then you have the underaged drinking factor.

  9. 1 hour ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    How the fuck has Burrell ducked an arrest? Not wish casting one on him, just think that fleeing the scene of an accident is an arrest able crime, right?

    As a driver, yes, but not necessarily if he alleged to have been a passenger.

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