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  1. 5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Lol if you think that

    I'm sorry, what would you call losing recruits to shitty schools?  Bad luck?

    I'm not shouting that the sky is falling, I think we'll get ours.  But I'd like to see something tangible to indicate the coaching staff has a plan at WR.  Excuse me if losing recruits and doing nothing in the portal fails to inspire confidence.

  2. 16 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    There’s no need to fuck around with anything but bluest of the blue HS WR when you can go snag a guy who you know who he is from the portal. I don’t see any reason why we should ever worry about signing any more than 2 high school WR per year when you can go add one or two more ready to play immediately at any time. 

    So why did we ever offer guys like Cozart and Wilson in the first place?  Why offer anyone other than 5 stars?

    This is pure spin.  The staff is having problems recruiting WRs because our passing game sucked this year and we're being effectively recruited against.

    When we take 4 WRs in the next class, the spin will be "only loser programs that need mercenaries rely on the portal.  Everyone knows you build teams through recruiting."

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  3. Yeah, at this point I'm tired of hearing the excuses of why we don't actually need any of these guys we're not getting.  Niblett flipping to Houston?  Recruiting is about the portal now, who cares.  Jalen Hale?  Staff backed off at the end.  Petteway?  Momma never liked us.  Brown?  Always eyed LSU.  Wilson flipped to Houston?  JAG.  Cozart?  Texas offered him, but wasn't in offer with him, you know?  Greathouse?  Sark doesn't like extremely productive WRs, doesn't profile to Texas.  MHP?  Coaching staff backed off again.  Parker?  Totally would have committed, but Sark went a different direction, that direction apparently being "fuck WRs."  Moore?  Looking like a flip to Texas, therefore he was totally our guy all along.  Not to mention how slowly we've been playing the portal right now.

    Fuck this noise.  We dropped a lot of catchable balls last year and that's kind of a problem when your QB doesn't throw a lot of catchable balls.  If the coaching staff doesn't bring in a lot of new faces, it's a failure of roster management at the WR position.

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  4. I’m upset.  We’ve been in the wild west of portal season for twelve whole hours and nothing interesting has happened yet.  I was told there would be chaos.  I want to see Colorado’s entire two-deep enter the portal.  I want A&M’s QB room to transfer to Wyoming.  I want to see some DIII school pay Georgia’s 5th string linebacker a million dollars to destroy lesser players.

    It’s my portal season and I want it NOW!

  5. My biggest worries on the defense for next year are:

    (1).  LB.  After Jaylan Ford, the roster is a smoking crater of JAGs and outright busts.  Choate's development of Jaylan Ford is revelation which gives me some hope that Gbenda or Dorbah can become quality starters, but they haven't flashed anything like Ford did at the end of the 2021 season.  Jett Bush is slow and has poor instincts.  The dude lives to create highlight moments for our opponents.  And everyone else on the roster couldn't even get snaps over Jett Bush, so.....yeah, I'm nervous.  Bring in two transfers, secure Anthony Hill, and process the dead weight.

    (2).  Safety.  After Jerrin Thompson, nobody has shown they can put it all together.  Again, there is hope.  in 2021 we looked completely lost at safety.  Then in 2022, both Jerrin Thompson and Anthony Cook showed fantastic progress and the safety position went from a weakness to a strength on the defense.  So, again, there is precedent for development with this staff and faith is justified.  Kitan Crawford seems athletic enough, but he has trouble with mental lapses.  Morice Blackwell seems like a spin-down linebacker candidate rather than a true safety.  I could be lazy and say Michael Taaffe is white, therefore bad.  But I'll try a little harder and say Taaffe is more Dylan Haines (athletically limited but scrappy player with nice moments counterbalanced with big gaffes) than Blake Gideon (fundamentally sound, quality starter).  If Taaffe is getting more than 10-20 snaps a game next year, we've mismanaged the roster.  Bring in a transfer and hope someone else has a breakout offseason.  

    Between Ryan Watts, Jadae Barron, and Terrence Brooks, I'm comfortable with our starters at corner/nickel.  The depth behind them is a little dicey, but I don't see any need for a transfer there.  Assuming Sweat comes back, I feel like we have an excellent top 4 DT rotation with Sweat/Collins/Murphy/Broughton.  Hot take alert: I don't think we need a transfer at edge.  Between Sorrell and all the young talent we've stacked at edge, I think we'll be fine next year.  If there's a difference-maker in the portal, by all means go get 'em, but that's a luxury more than a need in my mind.  

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  6. I like the list but I would replace Barryn Sorrell with Jerrin Thompson.

    Thompson isn’t a super athletic player and won’t go down in Texas history with the likes of Michael Huff, Michael Griffin, or Earl Thomas, but he’s been a very steady player for Texas this year.  Very solid in run support, lays the wood on hits but always keeps the strike zone below the head and neck area, and hasn’t been a liability in coverage.

    If Thompson can take on the role of getting the defensive backfield lined up next year, he’s going to be the most important player on the field after Jaylan Ford.

    I like Sorrell, but let’s be honest:  he’s not keeping any offensive coordinators up at night.  No one slides protection over to account for him.  I appreciate that he’s the team’s best pass rusher, but that ain’t saying much.

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  7. The most incredible thing to me about Sark's offense is how consistently guys are completely wide open.  Look at how often the receivers catch the ball with nothing but green space around them in these clips.  It's amazing.  And they're almost always moving up field right as the catch happens so as long as the throw is on target you're guaranteed to get 4-5 yards after the catch at minimum.

    I'm so used to Texas receivers getting drilled right after the catch because nearly every route is a hitch with a defender standing right behind them or a shallow cross directly into a linebacker. This offense is a pleasure to watch.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    It was Jamison who was burned for the TD wiped because of illegal procedure.

    My bad, I remembered it being Watts but the point still stands, it was man to man coverage and a corner got burned, can’t blame that on bad safety play.

     

    2 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    Lot of Kool-aid in here and I will simply say, we shall see

     

    Don’t get me wrong, I recognize we have limitations at safety.  Cook doesn’t have recovery speed and Thompson is still undersized for a safety.  But they’re light years ahead of where they were last year in terms of lining up correctly, recognizing motion and assignment hand-offs, positioning, and run support.  And the results reflect that.

  9. 11 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    Not really. A lot of it was game planning and pressure. Like said the secondary was caught on 2 big plays by UTSA, luckily one was wiped out

    Bad take.  First off, we shut down former Heisman winner Bryce Young, arguably the best QB in the nation.  Ford had a sack on a well-called blitz, but the vast majority of the pressure we got on Young was from tight coverage.  The guy had nowhere to go with the ball.  There’s no way we accomplish that without good safety play.

    Both players you’re referring to during UTSA were on Ryan Watts, he clearly got burned man to man on the long completion wiped out by a flag.  On the trick play, he’s the closest guy to the receiver.  There was a safety trailing right behind Watts who may have blown an assignment there, but it’s difficult to tell.

    Through 3 games, our safeties have played very well.  Claiming they are “untested” is bullshit, I don’t know how to test a secondary if going against a former Heisman winner isn’t it.  Claiming they’re doing well because of the pass rush is bullshit because the coverage is creating a lot of the pressure we’re getting, not the other way around.  And claiming it’s just “game planning” is bullshit because no matter how much you game plan, the players still have to execute.  And our safeties have executed.

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  10. Edge was always going to be difficult to recruit after a 5-7 season when our defense looked like dog shit and we couldn’t rush the passer.  What do we even tell these kids?  “We’re gonna use you like we used Ben Davis!  Here’s the tape on all 2.5 of his sacks last year.  He was our sack leader, by the way.”

    It’s honestly a testament to the staff’s effort that we’re hanging around the rim with these guys like we are.  Our game plan at edge should be to maintain contact with everyone we’re interested in regardless of whether they commit elsewhere, produce on the field in 2022, and see who we can reel in after we’ve got something we can sell.

    We’re crushing it on offense and doing way better than we have any right to expect on defense.  Everyone chill.

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