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  1. I will just say this. This roster lacks talent and has major holes. The coaches have also made plenty of mistakes. My biggest issue is the team is 4-4 after 8 weeks and I believe only 2 starters have been benched. I get it there at depth issues, but there are players showing a lack of effort every week. I would rather see a freshmen run around and make mistakes, than watch upperclassmen loafing. That to me is the biggest error Sark has made 

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  2. 31 minutes ago, JBJ said:

    And various 4-3s were run for decades before Jimmy Johnson.  But Jimmy and Tom Landry invented very different defenses.

    Our 3-4 doesn't come from ancient history.  It's from the early 2010s.  It faced both Mike Leach and David Shawthe year it was created.

    That is a long time ago. The guy you were referencing was Nick Aliotti at Oregon, who was running 3-4 at Oregon staring in 1999. 3-4 defense creation was credited to Bud Wilkerson. Chuck Fairbanks credited for bringing it to the NFL. Like I said Parcells and Belicheck tree have been running it for decades. Not sure why people care about when it was devised. All I care is that it works today. The only real difference is PK runs more cover 4 behind it compared to someone like Carrol, who ran a cover 3 

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  3. 16 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    What? Chip didn’t create any defense. 3-4 had been run for long time. Everyone in the Parcells tree has been running a variation for decades. Pete Carrol ran this in the glory years of USC. 

    Only difference between this and those defenses is PK is running more cover 4 compared to those defenses

  4. 10 hours ago, Gaffords said:

    When your defense struggles to either stop the run or the pass, you are looking at a shit season season with a couple or more losses to teams you should have beat on paper.  But when your team struggles to stop the run and the pass...  Yeah...  trainwreck...

    3rd and 7? run-pass? Flip a coin, because that's what their OC is doing. There's about the same odds of getting a first down either way.  Rush none rush 5, equals to about the same pressure... 

    Blitz? Oh yeah, we've got that fuck!  Dammit the QB  used a two inch hip juke to avoid the fingertips of the blitzing fool that just ran past...  At times I can only picture our would be tacklers sweeping ice in front of their ball carrier...

    But the most infuriating thing of it all is, as inept as the defense has been, if we would have made only half the plays where the defensive call put someone (at times more) in the right spot to make the play, we would be a one loss team with a huge win over a  high ranked OU, and wins over two other ranked opponents with Baylor about to become our 4th ranked bitch...

    I'm not ready to throw this coaching staff down the disposal yet, but there is zero excuse to be had for allowing either blowhoma schools back into the game just to make it close, and almost unforgivable to let them actually pull out wins...

    It all starts and stops with the defensive line and I'm not sure we have any combination of players to fix that this year...  Maybe-hopefully stop the bleed, but this isn't an issue that can be fixed "overnight".  It'll take some serious portal voodoo, juco magic, and possibly the sacrifice of a virgin or ten to the recruitment gods to get the bodies in next year who can make an impact right out of the gate.

     

    I have 0 issues with this defense. I just commenting that it is funny to see it coming back. I have said they need to stop the run first and foremost. Not to mention QB play is generally poor in the Big 12 this year, so it fits 

  5. 13 hours ago, JBJ said:

    Chip Kelly created this defense.  That was such a long time ago, though.

    What? Chip didn’t create any defense. 3-4 had been run for long time. Everyone in the Parcells tree has been running a variation for decades. Pete Carrol ran this in the glory years of USC. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

    This is a perfectly good defense against run heavy teams like most we’ll play the rest of this year. Modern offense is shifting back to running heavier packages now that defenses have caught up to the spread. Defenses have to react. 

    Good QB would carve up a 3-4. I am not saying it isn’t useful vs certain teams, but there is a reason nickel has become the predominant base defense. It’s just feels like going back in time. 

  7. 57 minutes ago, Yesh said:

    Does the 5-2 ever require one of the OLBs to cover a slot WR or RB out of the backfield?

    This is literally an out dated defense that PK has dusted off. Don’t tell the general public, but the Big 12 doesn’t have great offenses. QB play is pretty bad. A solid passing team would shred this defense up 

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  8. 35 minutes ago, taybo20 said:

    I think the pass rush sucks regardless of who is on the field, so for many of us we’d rather take the heavier 4 man front to stop getting absolutely destroyed on the ground. It’s incredibly demoralizing to just get run on. I’m sure the other side is true if they just pass for 500 yards lol. But at least there is the chance of an incompletion, or interception.  

    PK went to a base 3-4 vs OSU. That is a solid run front. Put 5 guys on the LOS, like it was 2010. I am guessing K is going to go deeper in that look this week. 

  9. 3 hours ago, D3zii said:

    I could see this on D-Line…instead of Dunn at SS leave him at CB. I would like to see Adimora and Coffey get some snaps at that FS position and put Josh at SS. He seems like the more physical player. 

    I think this is backwards. If you move Thompson to safety, you put him at FS. His speed and ability to cover ground could allow PK to go back to his preferred cover 3 shell. 

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  10. 4 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    A Luke Fickell/Saban/Meyer/Beard type personality  is the kind of guy Texas needs it seems that can overcome the dog shit. 

    This is a worry of mine. The staff has a lot of nice people on it. I wonder where the asshole of the staff is that is the bad cop. Strong was good coach when Clint Hurt was on his staff keeping people in line. He fell apart after that. Feel like Sark needs that on this staff. 

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  11. 44 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    I’m assuming you’re proposing a 4 man  DL. If so, you can’t play Ovie there. He’s small, weak, and never keeps contain. He’s get tucking murdered. Right now, he can only play Sam or when covered by a DE, which is the problem. You then have to sacrifice a ton of pass rush with a 4 man line. There’s really no good options right now. 
     

    I think the best is playing the 5-2-4 we rolled out against Okie State since remaining teams like Baylor and KSU are very run heavy. If you do that though, you have to move cook to safety. You can’t have your best player on the bench while playing BJ Foster or Schooler. Moving Josh Thompson to Safety would also be interesting. 

    I was going to say the best look was the pure 3-4 that they rolled out vs OSU. The only issue I had with that look was Cook is on the sideline. I was proposing that Cook go to FS in that look, might be possible if they worked on him there during the bye week. Probably to big a move to be accomplished in a week. To the original poster, Barron needs to find more time on the field. 

  12. 1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:


    Derrick Johnson used to run around blocks too. Not sure I’d consider him soft.

    Plenty of athletic guys get away with poor fundamental play like that, but it is not what they do all the time. If you ran ISO at DJ he wouldnt Ole the play. Time and a place for everything. DJ would bring the wood when it was called for, especially as he grew into being a LB. 

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  13. 13 hours ago, Nivek said:


    Meh, Mack won with “soft” players.

    The problem isn’t that the are soft. It is that they are shitty. They are also fine with getting shafted by officials, seeing their QB get hit and standing around or getting a sweet tackle on air.

    Poona Ford is one of those soft players. Justin Tucker is as well. Sam, Shane, Bijan, Roshon, etc.

    Problem is not whether they ride the bus to practice, but vacating their spot to block air, or spin around and fall down with no contact, or worse take out a teammate.

    Offensive line should be watched with yakety sax

    What?? Justin Tucker is a soft kicker? What the hell does "soft" Kicker even mean. Sam is lot of things, but soft is not one. Soft is watching Overshown go around blocks. Watching Brockmeyer get thrown to the ground by a 160 pound WR in RRS. Foster try to go around Stoops' block on counter. You literally through out players that were not soft. 

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  14. 10 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    I knew this would get a rise out of you and it made me laugh. You have been pretty consistent the whole way through, I am just not quite as down on Sarkisian as you are to this point. I feel like multiple years under Saban and the NFL have taught him a few things about being a HC and you can see he is far more mature than his previous coaching stints. That said, results are results and we need to see some. Even if we muddle our way through the rest of the year but then take a chainsaw to the roster in the offseason and close strong in the portal and in recruiting, I will still be on the wagon and optimistic. If we relive this shit again next year without discernible improvement, then I will gladly join the firing squad. 

    Texas football is that crazy bitch you just can’t give up

  15. 2 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    The coaches are in a Catch-22 at the moment. The biggest problem is lack of execution. This is a highly respected staff, they have done great things at other locations. They didn't come to Texas and magically forget how to coach. I respect the staff for not throwing the players under the bus, and taking the heat for their players. Sark puts it eloquently, as mental issues, and psyche, but if you were in a one on one conversation with him, he would probably say the same things Michael Griffin, and Brian Jones are saying.

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    He has started to call it out. Called the team fragile. The culture/attitude of the team  is the one thing that seems to have surprised the last 3 coaches. All have come in and been shocked by the culture they have inherited 

  16. Just now, NoName said:

    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

    average of 31.875

    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.

    why I used total defense. That is easy to see where Texas ranks inside the conference. No way I was going to search out the information for all 10 teams the last decade. 

  17. 7 minutes ago, NoName said:

    PK has a long record of pretty great results when his stats were normalized using things like FEI and SP+. people that think highly of him were talking about THAT, not his results using shit like PPG or yards allowed.

    ...and of course you think S&C makes no difference lolololol

    S&C is at least the 3rd most important position on a staff. I dont think Becton is quite the negative that people make him out to be, I am in the camp that he is a JAG. This is one position that I have wished Texas would go out and money whip someone with an established great reputation. 

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  18. 1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

    this.  I believe Mr CDC himself said he required our programs to be top 10.  then he hired 7 win steve who hired a PAC 12 DC, not to mention a S&C coach from the football factory known as Cal. I wonder how much it will pain CDC to allow his HC to fire his DC, pay the buyout, and hire a new guy at a higher rate only to shit the bed again.

    You need to rest yourself. Sark is going no where this year. You have to wait until at least this time next year before calling for heads to roll. Sadly, Sark is right on pace to to hit the average Longhorn win total of 7.3 game the past decade. At least wait to see what Sark does in the offseason before losing it. 

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  19. 3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Poor to horrible front 7 talent and play will do it....hard to play defense if you can't stop run or get to QB.

    Fuck. I am a masochist. I just looked at the total offense numbers. Its identical .So for the last decade Texas has averaged being the  5.5 in both total offense and defense in the Big 12. Never had a top 5 offense and defense in the same year. 3 times had an offense and defense ranked in the back half of the Big 12 in the last decade.

     

     

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  20. 6 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Now do Texas Pass Defense for those years because it will answer why the run defense "looked" so good.

    It is as if Big 12 OCs know what they are doing.

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    2017: #108

    2018: #110

    2019: #125

    2020: #106

     

    2021: #69

     

    Defense has generally been an issue for a decade

    Big 12 total defense (not the best stat, but the easiest to find)

    2021: 8th. 106 nationally

    2020: 7th.. 64

    2019: 8th...97

    2018: 3rd...67

    2017: 2nd..41

    2016: 7th...94

    2015; 7th..107

    2014: 2nd..26

    2013: 6th...69

    2014: 5th...68

    Average is 5.5 in the Big 12 and 73.9 nationally. . Just embarrassing that over the last decade the  average Texas defensive finish was not even top 50% of the Big 12. 

  21. 8 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Might have been true. I have a feeling the defense would have taken a large step backwards under Ash this year considering his lone pass rushing position on the DL was occupied by Jett Bush and Reese Leitao in the bowl game. 

    Ossai, Graham and Brown covered up for a lot of issues the defense had and even with them, we still got shredded against competent rushing attacks. 

    I would agree with this. I think the defense would definitely would have been worse. I dont think quite this bad, but a step backward would have happened. I think PK has made mistakes that has exacerbated the situation, so it really hard to say where it would have been. 

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