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1 minute ago, Codaxx said:

Askigng your guard to get on a 0 tech is a big ask, but impossible without help. If Hutson gets on him and keeps stiff arm on him, there is a chance. Brooks isnt going to reach him probably, but by Hutson stopping the initial penetration there is a chance Brooks washes him out and there is a cut back lane. 

And this is why Wisner is good for this team on OZ now that Stroh has his big stiff ass on the bench. He stretches, finds a lane to cut back as OL are riding them and explodes.

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12 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

For future reference, O/U is shorthand for over/under, which is a proposition bet. I'm glad OU got fewer than 5 sacks.

 

See above, but you're right. I way underestimated the number of QB pressures. Glad Arch was able to escape.

Yeah, me too. Their 1 sack still pisses me off. 

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3 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

Yeah, me too. Their 1 sack still pisses me off. 

We'll take one sack every game. 

As for pressures, it seems Arch throws better on the move when improvising anyway.

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Just now, DFW Horn said:

We'll take one sack every game. 

As for pressures, it seems Arch throws better on the move when improvising anyway.

Agreed. His improv is weirdly a strength, which I'm totally fine with as long as he can keep it up, or we find gold and our line gels and gives him time. 

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2 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

Agreed. His improv is weirdly a strength, which I'm totally fine with as long as he can keep it up, or we find gold and our line gels and gives him time. 

He completed a couple of across-the-body throws back against the grain against OU that kinda worry me. It's difficult to see the backside defenders on those passes, at times. But, it appears he's seeing more of the field, or at least has a better idea of who should be open based on the play's design.

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1 minute ago, DFW Horn said:

He completed a couple of across-the-body throws back against the grain against OU that kinda worry me. It's difficult to see the backside defenders on those passes, at times. But, it appears he's seeing more of the field, or at least has a better idea of who should be open based on the play's design.

This is where I'm at when seeing him. It looks like (as you pointed out) he's seeing more of the field. It looks as though he's getting more and more comfortable, and/or adjusting to what his o-line is giving him (which is shoveled shit, but we'll see how Robertson does and Brooks continues to do), which hopefully means we get better play for him to go through all of his reads, rather than just his first. That was a huge issue early on. 

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21 hours ago, Vertigo said:

I am sure to quite sure that he will get pressured back for the Texas game. The same way Ruben Owens tried to magically heal last year, and the same way Mateer tried to magically unsurgery last week. 

The difference between Moss and Owens is the difference between reading Homer's The Odyssey and Illiad and reading an obituary. Owens is worse than dog shit infected with parvo. 

6 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

How did Stroh get hurt?

I imagine he tried sitting down on a toilet for the first time without being pushed and he pulled his myometrium.

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20 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

He completed a couple of across-the-body throws back against the grain against OU that kinda worry me. It's difficult to see the backside defenders on those passes, at times. But, it appears he's seeing more of the field, or at least has a better idea of who should be open based on the play's design.

To his benefit WRs are also finding the zones and settling in them.

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2 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

It's been nice to see Baker be pretty consistently good since the tOSU game. He's quietly rounded into a solid starter at RT with potential to be much more. DJ Campbell also seems to have taken a small step forward. The back breaking whiffs and holding penalties occur less often from him this year, although he still has a lot to clean up and is extremely underwhelming for a 5 star in year 4 of the program.

 

LG and C continue to be an absolute flaming pile of shit. Brooks has potential as the solution there, but Flood wasted all offseason and the first 4 games, resulting in hundreds of reps at that spot with guys like Neto and Stroh.  Hopefully Brooks can be on a steep trajectory to average or better.  Hutson has been extremely disappointing. He's always been limited physically, but the more disappointing part is his technique and mental part of the game is also terrible, especially for a guy in year 4 of this program. Maybe Connor Robertson is a significant step up from Hutson at C and Flood has just been playing the wrong guy like he did at LG, but we'll have to wait and see on that one.  

Flood and Sark's lack of development with guys on the OL has certainly been disappointing, but the gigantic red flag with them is their complete inability evaluate what they had this offseason. It's clear we never had a guy even come close to being the answer at LG all offseason. It should have been painfully obvious to them we needed at least 1 transfer at LG or C and it really should have been 1 guy at each spot.  I'm not sure how anyone can believe Flood is a UT-quality position coach when he's this bad at evaluating what he has, and it's even worse when you take into account the lack of development of so many guys who've been in the program for a number of years. 

Yeah, for me it's the evaluation piece with Flood, specifically on the interior.

I'm not sure if he's a bad coach/teacher. He got Christian Jones, Jake Majors, Hayden Connor, and Cam Williams all drafted. Each of those guys had their flaws in college (and it would be fair to say Flood never fully rectified them), but none of those guys were the home run prospects that Kelvin Banks was and he got them drafted/on NFL rosters. Can't take that away. But the only evaluation of his there is Cam Williams, and he's OT all the way. Campbell, who I assume will be a late round flyer, was similar to Banks in that he was a 5 star that could have gone anywhere, so I don't think he gets too much credit on that. Beyond that, what we've seen of Flood's evals on the interior has mostly been bad. Hutson, Stroh, Neto (who we haven't really seen that much of, but he's ether worse than those two or Flood can't see that he's better), etc. From a roster management standpoint we're also very thin at OT, one injury away from having a really bad time.

Even if he is a functional teacher of the position in practice he is clearly a failure when it comes to evaluating talent and managing the OL roster.

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5 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Yeah, for me it's the evaluation piece with Flood, specifically on the interior.

I'm not sure if he's a bad coach/teacher. He got Christian Jones, Jake Majors, Hayden Connor, and Cam Williams all drafted. Each of those guys had their flaws in college (and it would be fair to say Flood never fully rectified them), but none of those guys were the home run prospects that Kelvin Banks was and he got them drafted/on NFL rosters. Can't take that away. But the only evaluation of his there is Cam Williams, and he's OT all the way. Campbell, who I assume will be a late round flyer, was similar to Banks in that he was a 5 star that could have gone anywhere, so I don't think he gets too much credit on that. Beyond that, what we've seen of Flood's evals on the interior has mostly been bad. Hutson, Stroh, Neto (who we haven't really seen that much of, but he's ether worse than those two or Flood can't see that he's better), etc. From a roster management standpoint we're also very thin at OT, one injury away from having a really bad time.

Even if he is a functional teacher of the position in practice he is clearly a failure when it comes to evaluating talent and managing the OL roster.

Just go take a gander at our freshmen IOL and tell me with a straight face they will be good and not below average or even worse, like Stroh, who is a Soph he "evaluated". 
 

I wrote a post about our recruits Flood recruited for the interior and almost all of them had offers from the likes of Colorado State, Colorado, USF, Nevada, etc. Not from Bama, Auburn, Michigan, Georgia, Penn State (I think one did from here, but I don't know if it was commitable), etc. It's deeply concerning and saddening. 

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