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1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Opponents are blitzing the a gaps and trying not to go past QB depth on the edge to keep Arch in the pocket. So all the cute shit is coming up the middle. 

UK did exactly what I thought OU would do to us. Pummel the A gaps. Lucky for us, Venables tried to get cute with different blitz packages.

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34 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

UK did exactly what I thought OU would do to us. Pummel the A gaps. Lucky for us, Venables tried to get cute with different blitz packages.

Venables fronts are undisciplined. You can bet that everybody we play will be playing contain on the edge and bringing pressure up the middle to prevent Arch from escaping. I dont forsee those LG and C PFF grades changing anytime soon. 

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Cross-posting...    Scipio Tex analysis

OFFENSIVE LINE 

Center and left guard continue to be a massive problem, no matter who starts there. Brooks gave up three sacks and six pressures. Robertson gave up 5 hurries and 5 pressures. Neither run-blocked well. Flood has failed at teaching protections and apparently no one in the building will tell Sark that pull protections are a fail when a defense smells blood.

Below we impressively combine bad pull protection with weak slide protection. This is supposed to be a gotcha play down the sideline to Endries on the fake screen. The pull “deception” in the pass protection proves useless to the play’s success. It just guarantees an immediate sack. 

Amusingly, if we’d actually run this as a screen with Endries leading, it would have gotten 8-10 yards. But we never went back to it, because Sark grab bag. We are just throwing stuff at the wall. “Let’s try a shot play from…a look! Also, is there any way that we can combine the two protections that no one on our team can execute?”

Goosby was average to below average. Baker had a tough penalty and got bullied some in the gap run game. Both tackles did well in outside zone last weekend. So…don’t do it? Take a bow DJ Campbell. You are the only OL who played passable football.

 

 

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I want to interrupt this review of the Texas O-Line shitshow with an example of aggressive, impressive play by Vanderbilt's LG, Cade McConnell. Now, this is how it's done.

 

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14 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Damn. Goosby, wtf are you doing? It's Kentucky, not Georgia. 

I don't know what happened to Goosby this offseason. He was so damn good last year against some tough opponents. He's doing OK this year but nothing like what we saw.

He and Arch have been the biggest headscratchers this year because we saw what they could do and it's just not happening this year so far. The other 3 OL (besides DJ) were always question marks coming into the season, we just didn't expect this level of shittiness.

Neto also a major headscratcher. Idk what he could've possibly done to go from 1st team all offseason to still not seeing snaps behind this LG shitshow.

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22 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

I don't know what happened to Goosby this offseason. He was so damn good last year against some tough opponents. He's doing OK this year but nothing like what we saw.

He and Arch have been the biggest headscratchers this year because we saw what they could do and it's just not happening this year so far. The other 3 OL (besides DJ) were always question marks coming into the season, we just didn't expect this level of shittiness.

Neto also a major headscratcher. Idk what he could've possibly done to go from 1st team all offseason to still not seeing snaps behind this LG shitshow.

Agree about Goosby. It's a complete unknown. As for Neto, just take a look at who they started ahead of him in Stroh. Either Flood is blind or cognitively delayed. It took 4 games and the second half to finally remove him. I refuse to believe Brooks is better than Neto at G. A position Brooks has never played over a guy who has been playing that position at Texas for 3-4 years? Either he's just that bad, which would again reflect on Flood's inability to spot talent, or...I just think Flood is that bad at his job. If nothing else,  just try Kibble. He's a natural G. A RG, but he at least has been moved around in practice, so he should know both sides. Atascocita is an o-line factory, and I can't imagine even Flood screwing that up. 

I lied. Yes I can. He HAS to go. Sark, if he likes money, will have to fire him. And what I mean by "has", I mean CDC will "recommend" it. If Sark is let go/leaves from his third school, he'll be most likely radioactive until he's collecting SSI. I don't care how stubborn someone is, if he's gone by being shown the door, he's an analyst and now a lifetime OC at a bottom tier P4, or a HC at a school like UAB or New Mexico. His "learning" phase won't work anymore because he's already 51, and he ain't Bobby Petrino or Steve Spurrier offensively. His path to being a HC, even at a bottom tier would be the HC at Liberty, and if by pure luck, possibly Bowling Green, Toledo, or SHSU. Even UTEP has some dignity. 

We also don't seem to have a Center, either. We do, he's just a RS-FR, so we have to use Hutson, who, as you don't even have to look at why because of who coaches him, is terrible, Robertson looked terrible, but he hasn't ever seen "real" game action to my knowledge, so I don't know and can't take much away from a first live action game, even if it is against a poor and hapless Kentucky defense that's worse than most 4A Texas High Schools. At the very base level, they have adults who are at least 21 and older. 

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Has there been any more insight on Chatman? People have alluded to an injury and I can't remember seeing him play this year. Seems like he could be a solution at LG if healthy.

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4 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Has there been any more insight on Chatman? People have alluded to an injury and I can't remember seeing him play this year. Seems like he could be a solution at LG if healthy.

He came in at RT against OU for a few plays when Goosby went out and they moved Baker over.

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5 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Agree about Goosby. It's a complete unknown. As for Neto, just take a look at who they started ahead of him in Stroh. Either Flood is blind or cognitively delayed. It took 4 games and the second half to finally remove him. I refuse to believe Brooks is better than Neto at G. A position Brooks has never played over a guy who has been playing that position at Texas for 3-4 years? Either he's just that bad, which would again reflect on Flood's inability to spot talent, or...I just think Flood is that bad at his job. If nothing else,  just try Kibble. He's a natural G. A right G, but he at least has been moved around in practice, so he should know both sides. Atascocita is an o-line factory, and I can't imagine even Flood screwing that up. 

I lied. Yes I can. He has to go. Sark, if he likes getting paid, will have to fire him. If Sark is let go/gone from his fourth school, he'll be radioactive. 

We also don't seem to have a Center, either. Hutson is terrible, Robertson looked terrible, so I guess we have to assume Cruz will be terrible, as well. 

that's the issue l, due to our stupid administration sark gets paid ether way. we guaranteed him generational level money even if never wins another game.

we basically saw what A&M went though with jimbo and thought it was a good idea to do the same 

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9 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

I don't know what happened to Goosby this offseason. He was so damn good last year against some tough opponents. He's doing OK this year but nothing like what we saw.

He and Arch have been the biggest headscratchers this year because we saw what they could do and it's just not happening this year so far. The other 3 OL (besides DJ) were always question marks coming into the season, we just didn't expect this level of shittiness.

Neto also a major headscratcher. Idk what he could've possibly done to go from 1st team all offseason to still not seeing snaps behind this LG shitshow.

Goosby's struggles are directly related to guard and to a lesser extent center play. He has having to be hyper aware when the LG fucks up, which is causing hesitancy. 

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Imagine if our coaches had eyes and could see that Stroh sucks, sucked when he got an offer, and continues to suck, should never have been offered, and we got Brooks more acclimated to the position, or fuck, even Neto. Neto is portaling after the season, anyway, so we will have between 11-13 OL, which is mind boggling. Its not that we're having to move tackles to guard, it's that we have no guards worth a shit outside of Kibble, who plays the same side as Campbell, so we're using all of our tackles. Everyone else is dog shit. I'm not counting those about to depart other than Hutson. 

Goosby (T) Brooks (T) Hutson/Robertson (G playing C) Campbell (true RG) Baker (T)

Bench: Chatman (T injured), J. Christian (3* G probably sucks; Flood special), Cojoe (3* G), D. Coleman (3* G Flood special), J. Coleman (3* G Flood special), Cruz (3* C), Hutson (3* G Flood special playing C); Kibble (FR RG), Stroh (3* G Flood special; Asswater), Neto (4* LG). 

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1 hour ago, futureman said:

Kibble was on the field last season.  is he hurt this season?

He and Neto both are apparently not as good as what we're putting on the field. 

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Damn.. Paul Wadlington is undressing the fuck out of some of blocking schemes we did vs UK.  Don't know who is teaching them but it's straight fucking asswater.

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25 minutes ago, westexhorn said:

Damn.. Paul Wadlington is undressing the fuck out of some of blocking schemes we did vs UK.  Don't know who is teaching them but it's straight fucking asswater.

 

Scipio Tex + Ian Boyd 😬

 

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28 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

What are those numbers for run blocking?  My sense of it is that we've never been that good run blocking.

2025 - 62.9 (6th in SEC, Iowa #1 at 81.6)

2024 - 68.0 (5th in SEC, Army #1 at 90.9 lol)

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Dark Horse said:

2025 - 62.9 (6th in SEC, Iowa #1 at 81.6)

2024 - 68.0 (5th in SEC, Army #1 at 90.9 lol)

 

 

Well, that does ratify my thinking that our line last year wasn't championship quality.  Bet it wasn't so hot in 23 either.

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Damn.. Paul Wadlington is undressing the fuck out of some of blocking schemes we did vs UK.  Don't know who is teaching them but it's straight fucking asswater.
Yeah it is clear that they have way too much going on in their heads on any given play.  Another sign pointing to Sark thinking he can run things like an NFL team when he is working with 19 year olds.  Slide protections, pull protections, half run half pass protections.  Its all too much.  Just run BOB and some half-slide until we can prove we can execute those.  
 
 
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Anybody here know shit about O-line coaches? Unless we rally and win out someone will have to take the fall, and Flood is the one, as others have said.

I honestly can't remember having a great (even good) OL coach. Seems like we could poach the best under present circumstances, but it never seems to happen, so I'm not holding my breath.

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7 minutes ago, OnAComputer said:

I ranted about this if any of yall are interested. 

 

The answer is simple as to why the offense is bad. It is YES. The question does not really matter, because its basically a failure across the board. Fans dont want to admit that, because that has no simple answer

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2 hours ago, mwaadeeb said:

Anybody here know shit about O-line coaches? Unless we rally and win out someone will have to take the fall, and Flood is the one, as others have said.

I honestly can't remember having a great (even good) OL coach. Seems like we could poach the best under present circumstances, but it never seems to happen, so I'm not holding my breath.

Whoever we got would have to assuage Sark's ego daily and pretend his double-reverse pass call on 3rd and 3 is brilliant. It's hard to find high-achieving "yes" men.

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22 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Teh Tony Hills rant...

Echoes my major point to a certain class of clients: "It's already broken, it already doesn't work - how much worse do you think it can be?"

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