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Posted
48 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

That is man and I am not sure what the hell is going on. Looks like McDonald or Taaffe has the RB. No way McDonald can get there though from his alignment, but he feigns a blitz and takes off immediately after the RB. Taaffe goes but turns when he sees the RB pass him. You would think it is Taaffe's guy but I do not know based on how the 2 safeties reacted. I may lean to this is just a great offensive play call vs the defensive call. 

I think McDonald is a spy here and getting back to the middle and just sees the RB streaking out uncovered. 

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2 minutes ago, Fico said:

I think McDonald is a spy here and getting back to the middle and just sees the RB streaking out uncovered. 

Nah, he isn't watching the QB. He is looking straight at the running back from the beginning. That's his man. I think what was said earlier is correct: we expected the RB to chip Taaffe to buy time for McDonald to get over. 

Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Nah, he isn't watching the QB. He is looking straight at the running back from the beginning. That's his man. I think what was said earlier is correct: we expected the RB to chip Taaffe to buy time for McDonald to get over. 

In no world would he align on the opposite side of the field from his guy….

He may have busted but you don’t take a step forward at full speed on a “pressure” then back track to get to a RB who was aligned on the other side. 

Maybe not a spy, but I can’t think of anything else based on alignment, and his actions post snap.

If that’s on McDonald then I’m going to guess he is significantly misaligned.

Taffe is probably a pressure/add and if the RB peels out he goes with him.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Fico said:

In no world would he align on the opposite side of the field from his guy….

He may have busted but you don’t take 3 steps forward at full speed on a “pressure” then back track to get to a RB who was aligned on the other side. 

Maybe not a spy, but I can’t think of anything else based on alignment, and his actions post snap.

Taffe is probably a pressure/add and if the RB peels out he goes with him.

I think the call was overly complicated. If the RB lined up on the other side, McDonald would have blitzed, and Taaffe would have rotated over. I think we were trying to trick them and then they played us by leaving our edge unblocked. Again, he is tracking the RB immediately. He isn't doing that as a spy. Whether it was just a stupid design or if McDonald busted and was supposed to rotate immediately rather than show blitz, I'm not sure. 

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Posted
10 minutes ago, Fico said:

In no world would he align on the opposite side of the field from his guy….

He may have busted but you don’t take a step forward at full speed on a “pressure” then back track to get to a RB who was aligned on the other side. 

Maybe not a spy, but I can’t think of anything else based on alignment, and his actions post snap.

If that’s on McDonald then I’m going to guess he is significantly misaligned.

Taffe is probably a pressure/add and if the RB peels out he goes with him.

Yep. We were moving the spy around all game. 4 is the spy here and by the time he is peeling off the pressure look the ball is already coming out. In 99% of football if a guy in Taafe's position sees the RB leave the backfield they go with them. We used to call this a green dog blitz back in the day. Not sure what the kids call it now. 

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Posted
14 hours ago, Fico said:

Yeah, well whatever it was, it was stupid.

 

That is the problem with bad coverage, sometimes you cannot figure it out. 

14 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Yep. We were moving the spy around all game. 4 is the spy here and by the time he is peeling off the pressure look the ball is already coming out. In 99% of football if a guy in Taafe's position sees the RB leave the backfield they go with them. We used to call this a green dog blitz back in the day. Not sure what the kids call it now. 

Still called that 

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Posted (edited)

Taafe should be green dog.

McDonald is spy.

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The other one is cover 3 and CB should have seen the TE release.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

That is the problem with bad coverage, sometimes you cannot figure it out. 

Still called that 

A lot of the stuff we used to do has completely different names now. The route tree. Everything. Lol. Sucks getting old. 

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Posted
16 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Yep. We were moving the spy around all game. 4 is the spy here and by the time he is peeling off the pressure look the ball is already coming out. In 99% of football if a guy in Taafe's position sees the RB leave the backfield they go with them. We used to call this a green dog blitz back in the day. Not sure what the kids call it now. 

 

31 minutes ago, JBJ said:

Taafe should be green dog.

McDonald is spy.

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The other one is cover 3 and CB should have seen the TE release.

Thanks for walking this thru.  Taaffes actions were interesting.  At the snap, he’s rushing as though there’s no chance the RB releases even though that’s his intent the entire time.

Pretty great anticipation with the play call.

Posted
9 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

Here's to hoping the new defensive backfield can play a little tighter, play more man, and force Reed to throw to the side, limit easy YAC, make good tackles. 

It all seems so simple now

You gotta be able to play zone these days with all the mesh concepts and man beaters. Right now what;s been killing us is an inability to locate late releases or TEs in general. And to be honest, there is no way Arkansas should have the time to slip a TE out after two mississippi and their QB stay upright long enough to complete that. D-line needs to get home quicker. 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You gotta be able to play zone these days with all the mesh concepts and man beaters. Right now what;s been killing us is an inability to locate late releases or TEs in general. And to be honest, there is no way Arkansas should have the time to slip a TE out after two mississippi and their QB stay upright long enough to complete that. D-line needs to get home quicker. 

That is another issue. Texas does a lot of contain rushes vs mobile guys and even some immobile ones (see Florida game). YOu need guys to stay in their lane, though I may just tell Colin do his thing. He is one of those players that can get away with breaking rules. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Codaxx said:

That is another issue. Texas does a lot of contain rushes vs mobile guys and even some immobile ones (see Florida game). YOu need guys to stay in their lane, though I may just tell Colin do his thing. He is one of those players that can get away with breaking rules. 

Yep, you gotta get creative with pressure while maintaining rush discipline. If I were coach I might sacrifice a couple explosives early just to get licks on Reed and speed up his clock. 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Yep, you gotta get creative with pressure while maintaining rush discipline. If I were coach I might sacrifice a couple explosives early just to get licks on Reed and speed up his clock. 

Got to mix it up. I think Reed is a 1 read QB. If you give him his 1st read and clean pictures, he will throw for 300+

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Posted
42 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

Taaffes actions were interesting.  At the snap, he’s rushing as though there’s no chance the RB releases even though that’s his intent the entire time.

The aggression is fine, but he needs to change his path.  He's gotta be able to peel (and contain outside but he can outmanuever most QBs).

Posted
47 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Got to mix it up. I think Reed is a 1 read QB. If you give him his 1st read and clean pictures, he will throw for 300+

yeah, aggy is in a lot of ways a better version of the arky offense.  Don't give easy throws over the middle, don't lose track of the TEs, and play sound on the edge in the option game.

Posted
3 hours ago, Thatguy said:

You gotta be able to play zone these days with all the mesh concepts and man beaters. Right now what;s been killing us is an inability to locate late releases or TEs in general. And to be honest, there is no way Arkansas should have the time to slip a TE out after two mississippi and their QB stay upright long enough to complete that. D-line needs to get home quicker. 

Feels like the DL is always half a breath slow on many of these late releases. 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

I’m more worried about PK deciding to run man all game and let Reed take off of 100 yards rushing.

I've gotta believe PK will mix up his coverages and change up who spies Reed play-to-play.

It's been said before, but we've gotta play more inside leverage against aggy receivers bc they're killing teams with crossing routes over the middle. 

Posted
2 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Our DBs will provide 7-8 yards of cushion every play and aggy offense will have its way against us

 

prove me wrong, pk

Id be hoping PK is saving tighter coverage looks for big games, but we seemed to do the same damn thing against UGA smh

Posted
47 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

 

So thanks for this Codaxx. I had no idea about this film study at all. Paul and Ian come off as two guys who didn't really play that learned the game later. Plus, you can see there is an agenda when they do theirs that I also do not like. This one, however, they are really talking from a player's view and how a player should be thinking. I like it a lot more. They aren't talking about assignments like the players are robots, and they address the creative freedom in the confines of plays that is the difference between mediocre and great players. 

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Posted (edited)

Paul knows his stuff, but he always has a narrative he's trying to push.  Ian has playbook knowledge, but I don't think he can translate it to the field very well.

It's always nice to have a former player especially a recent one.

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Posted
11 hours ago, Codaxx said:

 

That's what scares the hell out of me. You don't fix all those issues in 6 days. gaggy is pretty equal to pig on offense and their defense ranks higher than Texas. The only hope is they have a let down playing at DKR.

Posted
2 hours ago, Hard Times said:

That's what scares the hell out of me. You don't fix all those issues in 6 days. gaggy is pretty equal to pig on offense and their defense ranks higher than Texas. The only hope is they have a let down playing at DKR.

Aggie Defense is Meh.   Problem is ours went from really good to piss poor once Fla exposed our weaknesses in coverage and scheme.   Littleton goes from Freshman AA against OSU to another guy out there? Our safeties all and i mean all of them turn to suck in mid season?   #5 was picked on all last year is now Revis Island?  Gotta be the coaching and the scheme 

Posted
15 hours ago, Thatguy said:

So thanks for this Codaxx. I had no idea about this film study at all. Paul and Ian come off as two guys who didn't really play that learned the game later. Plus, you can see there is an agenda when they do theirs that I also do not like. This one, however, they are really talking from a player's view and how a player should be thinking. I like it a lot more. They aren't talking about assignments like the players are robots, and they address the creative freedom in the confines of plays that is the difference between mediocre and great players. 

I laughed when they mocked the staff regarding how effective a cheap portal RB can be prior to the Taaffe trucking clip

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Posted
5 hours ago, Hard Times said:

That's what scares the hell out of me. You don't fix all those issues in 6 days. gaggy is pretty equal to pig on offense and their defense ranks higher than Texas. The only hope is they have a let down playing at DKR.

What's funny about football is all it takes is to be lacking at a couple key positions to be bad. Moore still has no idea how to play linebacker. He is only out there to get tape to show he has the physical ability to play OLB in a 3-4 scheme bouncing from edge to OLB from play to play. He is miles from Ant, and so when Ant gets back that shores up that end. The other stuff is just a lack of focus on an every play basis. That can be cleaned up. Sometimes a properly motivated team can get properly locked in and aggy might just be what we need. 

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Posted
15 hours ago, JBJ said:

Paul knows his stuff, but he always has a narrative he's trying to push.  Ian has playbook knowledge, but I don't think he can translate it to the field very well.

It's always nice to have a former player especially a recent one.

I just don't like the intellectual dishonesty to preserve your access. I have it on good authority that Sark was not happy with the early beating up of Arch. You could literally see the talking heads simultaneously shift all on the same week. My thing is, be honest with the fans. Everybody has some blame for sucking shit through a straw. But don't gloss over obvious weaknesses because people like us here in this thread will see it and lose all respect for you. 

 

Posted
2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

I just don't like the intellectual dishonesty to preserve your access.

That isn't happening with Paul. This isn't a thing. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Chooky said:

That isn't happening with Paul. This isn't a thing. 

I am confused here. Are you saying Paul doesn't do this? Or are you saying Paul won't stop doing this? 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I am confused here. Are you saying Paul doesn't do this? Or are you saying Paul won't stop doing this? 

Paul doesn't do that. But he does have his pet theories on whatever is wrong, and he sees nails everywhere that are part of that problem. 

Posted
13 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I am confused here. Are you saying Paul doesn't do this? Or are you saying Paul won't stop doing this? 

He's not carrying water for access. That's dumb and uninformed. 

Posted

We need to play aggressive and go for the win. We have seen what our defense gives up when we sit back and play safe, we give up chunk plays. I would rather go out blitzing and hoping we hold up. We are terrible holding a lead and are so much better when we are being aggressive. Time to create some turnovers. If we lose blitzing, I won’t be mad. Simmons and hill need to constantly hunt 

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