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32 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Damn that's brutal - wasn't Baxter's injury last year non contact as well? 

Christian Clark's was non contact. Baxter's was a contact injury.

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pretty good

Some Manniing stats: 

8-19 beyond 20 yards 41 yards per comp

1-10 yards: 42-48 384 yards

vs blitz 22-33 350 yards 5 TDs and 0 int

vs Pressure 7-16 160 (10 yards per attempt)

Hits on Wisner, Endries, Mosley, Goosby (319 snaps, 5 pressures, 1 penalty, 0 Qb hits)

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2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Bobby said this morning on OTF that from 1-85 this is as talented as a roster as he's seen in his 36 years following Texas. Said basically everyone position group has NFL caliber players.

 

2 hours ago, Helobious said:

There’s no way he said that. Someone definitely would’ve pasted it in this thread 2 hours ago if he had said that. 

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1 hour ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

I checked out the tOSU board and one of the posters said they saw the video of it and it was non-contact.

That thread consists of some posters some posters saying it's a sprained ankle and others saying it looks like a non-contact knee. Sounds about right. 

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4 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

It’s hard to tell. 
 

 

 

I'm shocked that the same twitter link that was posted an hour ago in this thread, a handful of posts before this one, hasn't somehow become clearer to tell the source of the injury.

Tell me, good sir, have you ever considered reading to the end of a thread before posting?

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After leaning on outside zone in 2024, Texas wants to see 2025's go-to running game concept surface in training camp - Jeff Howe

Spoiler

After leaning on outside zone in 2024, Texas wants to see 2025's go-to running game concept surface in training camp

 

Jeff Howe

By Jeff Howe

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AUSTIN, Texas — The biscuit that was the Texas running game last season was buttered with the outside zone.

Considering how Georgia and Ohio State stymied a Longhorn ground attack lacking diversity in the team’s three losses, the offense might’ve been better served by Steve Sarkisian not pulling so many stretch plays from the well. Regardless, the body of work put together by the offensive line and running backs over a 16-game season revealed that wider was better for Texas in 2024.

According to Pro Football Focus, 243 — more than 45 percent — of the offense’s non-sack rushing attempts were from the C gap (between the tackle and the tight end) to the sideline. It was that portion of the line of scrimmage where the Longhorns racked up more than 51 percent of their non-sack rushing yardage (1,415 yards and 5.82 yards per attempt), 64 percent of their rushing touchdowns (16), more than half of their total yards after contact (924 yards and 3.81 yards after contact per attempt) and more than 48 percent of their rushing attempts that gained at least 10 yards (33).

The 75 missed tackles Texas ball carriers forced on wide runs accounted for more than 67 percent of the missed tackles forced by the Longhorns on their non-sack rushing attempts.

Furthermore, Quintrevion Wisner is the returning leading rusher in the SEC (1,064 yards, 4.7 yards per attempt and five rushing touchdowns) and was most effective on wide runs as a sophomore. The data collected by PFF shows Wisner gained 448 yards, scored all of his rushing touchdowns, recorded 10 of his 27 gains that went for 10 or more yards and forced 27 missed tackles on C-gap-to-sideline rushing attempts, even though those runs accounted for only 45 percent of his total carries (226).

So, which concept will be the focal point of the Texas running game in 2025?

According to offensive line coach Kyle Flood, who met with reporters on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s first training camp practice, the Longhorns haven’t settled on one.

This will be the ninth consecutive season Flood has worked alongside Sarkisian, which dates back to their time together in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons. Flood said the go-to scheme is subject to change from year to year, pointing out that, in 2024, the outside zone "was very productive for us over the course of the season.”

“I don’t know what that’s going to look like this year yet,” Flood said. “I think we’ll have a much better vision of that as we go through training camp and we allow these linemen and tight ends to work together.”

Based on how the Texas running game has evolved since Sarkisian’s first season on the Forty Acres, Flood isn’t being coy when discussing what the running game will hang its hat on in the current regime’s fifth season.

The Longhorns relied heavily on inside zone runs in 2021 (according to PFF, Bijan Robinson had 138 rushing attempts on zone-based plays and just 57 carries on gap-based runs), preferring zone concepts 66 percent of the time. The percentage of zone runs dropped to 57 in 2022, with Roschon Johnson splitting his carries almost equally between zone (47 attempts) and gap-based runs (44).

In 2023, with the addition of CJ Baxter, who had more attempted gap runs (69) than zone runs, the 2023 running game, and Jonathon Brooks closing the margin between his zone (101) and gap (86) runs, Texas won the Big 12 and reached the College Football Playoff behind a running game operating on a 54/46 percentage split between zone and gap runs. Last season, even with outside zone being the dominant concept, the Longhorns had a 52/48 percentage split favoring zone runs, their most balanced running game under Sarkisian.

What must the coaches consider when establishing which concepts could best help Texas reach the national championship game for the first time since the Longhorns played for the BCS title in 2009?

It starts with Flood replacing four starters along the offensive line.

And the strongest parts of the line are just as important as determining the schemes in which the retooled group might be most proficient.

Last season, the A gap between Jake Majors and Hayden Conner (89 attempts) and the C gap between Kelvin Banks Jr. (87 attempts) and the tight end were the most popular gaps for running plays according to PFF. Those three players are gone. Still, Trevor Goosby was the left tackle for Wisner’s 186-yard performance in the regular-season finale against Texas A&M, and Neto Umeozulu could offer a better, more consistent push in the running game as he takes over for Conner at left guard.

Baxter was back on the practice field Wednesday, less than a year after a preseason knee injury wiped out his sophomore season. With Christian Clark showing no signs of slowing down while going through his remarkable recovery from an Achilles injury, and Jerrick Gibson trying to prove he’s worthy of carries after an up-and-down debut, the running back room is a lot more crowded than it was when Baxter was leading the way last summer.

“Ultimately, as coaches, we’ll figure out what schemes are going to allow us to utilize that personnel in the best way,” Flood said. “It may be outside the zone again, but I don’t go into it saying, ‘This is what we’re going to be exclusively,’ or, ‘This is what we’re going to do more than anything else.’ I think I want to see that in training camp to really be sure what we feel like is the best thing for this football team, and assume that just because outside zone might’ve been best last year, that it’s going to be best for us again.”

 

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Posted
14 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'm shocked that the same twitter link that was posted an hour ago in this thread, a handful of posts before this one, hasn't somehow become clearer to tell the source of the injury.

Tell me, good sir, have you ever considered reading to the end of a thread before posting?

When I refreshed the last page and was moved to the new page, I didn’t catch it. My sincerest apologies.

Posted
2 hours ago, Ben Ficus said:

In the Bobby and Gerry post-practice show, Bobby talked about Josiah Sharma more than any other player.  They probably could have talked for 30 minutes on the DL alone.  Bobby's comp for Sharma was Shaun Rodgers and T'Vondre Sweat, except Sharma is more developed than Sweat and has longer arms (and Gerry mentioned his ankles).

Pretty ankles, beefy ankles, bones ankles, an anklet? 

Posted
2 hours ago, Foosters said:

Not really fall camp related, but OSU DT Eddrick Houston just went down in practice with an apparent lower leg injury. Couch pyros already losing their shit as he's arguable the most irreplaceable part of their D.

I would argue that Downs and maybe even Styles are more or less as important. The big deal with the DL is that they have almost zero depth and, without Houston, pretty much no experience. 

2 hours ago, 6th Street said:

Damn that's brutal - wasn't Baxter's injury last year non contact as well? 

Without naming names, a try-hard newcomer on the defensive side hit Baxter late on a meaningless play. Pretty much altered the entire course of the season by being an idiot. 

47 minutes ago, Fud said:

That thread consists of some posters some posters saying it's a sprained ankle and others saying it looks like a non-contact knee. Sounds about right. 

I don’t think it matters now. That dude, with the way he went down and being carted off the field, he ain’t making it back for the opener. I was really hoping to play them at full strength, too. 

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2 hours ago, squeegeedegg said:

The ankles comment was about someone else, Myron Charles I believe 

Are you saying Josiah Sharma only has regular ankles?

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3 hours ago, futureman said:

I had to look into that and damn.  burke and blue, maybe guilbeau, and the OL.  everything else was shit.  

So, you're saying the class we signed after going 5-7 wasn't great?

Shocking.

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13 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

So, you're saying the class we signed after going 5-7 wasn't great?

Shocking.

Ostensibly, it should have been. It was the fifth-ranked recruiting class. 5-7 didn’t have much to do with it. It just busted for a myriad of reasons.

Although, omitted of note from the OP (not you), Quinn and Watts were part of the transfer class. The other transfers are laughable to look back on.  

The 2021 class was ranked 15th and produced some high-quality players and NFL drafts picks from top to bottom in terms of individual rank (Sanders, Worthy, Murphy, Brooks, Connor, Sorrell, Helm, and then K. Rob in the transfer class).

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4 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

If Baxter is cutting in a brace, his surgeon has most likely assessed that:

1. His ligamentous reconstruction was successful and has matured all that it needs

2. His brace wear is likely primarily for his confidence on the knee

3. He is medically safe to do everything he can push himself to do

Please continue this. It helps knock down the swirl. Your experience here can help fill the voids left in practice reports and temper expectations of surprises.   What in your knowledge is the impact during the first contact drill gonna be like?. Is he gonna feel it?  Is the brace a perm fixture or are there other smaller more agile braces to give support?  In your experience I know everyone’s diff but mentally how much does that hold someone back in this situation with being risk averse or timid that could cause injury by the very nature of being too careful and unnatural 

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Reading all the $9.95'ers.......

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I can only get so erect.  It's a long time until our first game.

It sounds like the $9.95'ers who were worried about replacing what lost at DT or safety are feeling confident in both.  It also sounds like they don't feel the same way about the O-line that they do about some of the defensive replacements.   I guess we shall see as camp progresses and I expect we will get some identification as to who looks like the starters with our offensive line moving forward.

 

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On 7/27/2025 at 1:28 PM, BurntEyes said:

This is Surly, semantic arguments are part and parcel of the foundations upon which we exist. The more nuanced and trivial the more critical. 

Don't tell me what to do!!!

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, deech said:

It sounds like the $9.95'ers who were worried about replacing what lost at DT or safety are feeling confident in both. 

To the point to where Gerry said yesterday that the D-Line is now the strength of the team. Pretty crazy considering that our DT room consisted of January and Hills not that long ago.

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Just now, Red Five said:

To the point to where Gerry said yesterday that the D-Line is now the strength of the team. Pretty crazy considering that our DT room consisted of January and Hills not that long ago.

Gerry’s been the leading voice across even the national $9.95ers on Sharma as potential college gamechanger at DT. Even he is surprised by how that guy looks.  He wasn’t penciled in to be in the 3 deep rotation but he may force his way in. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, BERT said:

A full go? Where do you get this from? 

CJ and Nahlin both said he was a full participant in practice. 

It'll come together when the pads are on, but remember he went down in practice 1 last season. They wouldn't have him out there if he wasn't physically ready to start camp. 

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11 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

CJ and Nahlin both said he was a full participant in practice. 

It'll come together when the pads are on, but remember he went down in practice 1 last season. They wouldn't have him out there if he wasn't physically ready to start camp. 

They always have guys out there going through drills even when not fully ready to start camp.

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8 minutes ago, Laguna said:

 

I’d never heard that before. I laughed as hard as I have in months, through the entire segment. When Rome was like that, he was as good as anyone. 

In the late 90’s, one of the Austin stations picked up a syndicated show called “The Don and Mike Show”  It was two irreverent guys talking shit about anything and everything and they were often hit and miss.

They had a segment where they’d just rapid fire phone calls and people would voice their hot takes, the guys might interact, and then they’d go to the next call. I’m listening while driving one day and they flip to a call and it sounds like dead air but you can faintly hear something. One of them stops the phone guy from flipping and says “turn it up, there’s something there”. They turn it up and you can hear it clearly - cheeks clapping.  That brought the house down on the show for the rest of the day. I was swerving in my car I was laughing so hard listening to their commentary from there, once they recognized the noise.

 

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19 minutes ago, deech said:

Reading all the $9.95'ers.......

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I can only get so erect.  It's a long time until our first game.

 

Revised thread title suggestion:

2025 Texas Football Fall Camp: Rampant Priapism

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Posted
1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

Without naming names, a try-hard newcomer on the defensive side hit Baxter late on a meaningless play. Pretty much altered the entire course of CJ's life by being an idiot. 

Wow, I didn't know it was a contact thing. Horrible. PCL injury is very difficult to predict, but he could never be the same.

14 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I’d never heard that before. I laughed as hard as I have in months, through the entire segment. When Rome was like that, he was as good as anyone. 

In the late 90’s, one of the Austin stations picked up a syndicated show called “The Don and Mike Show”  It was two irreverent guys talking shit about anything and everything and they were often hit and miss.

They had a segment where they’d just rapid fire phone calls and people would voice their hot takes, the guys might interact, and then they’d go to the next call. I’m listening while driving one day and they flip to a call and it sounds like dead air but you can faintly hear something. One of them stops the phone guy from flipping and says “turn it up, there’s something there”. They turn it up and you can hear it clearly - cheeks clapping.  That brought the house down on the show for the rest of the day. I was swerving in my car I was laughing so hard listening to their commentary from there, once they recognized the noise.

 

Yeah, it's great stuff. Who knows, maybe Toby from Houston is a poster here?

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19 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I’d never heard that before. I laughed as hard as I have in months, through the entire segment. When Rome was like that, he was as good as anyone. 

In the late 90’s, one of the Austin stations picked up a syndicated show called “The Don and Mike Show”  It was two irreverent guys talking shit about anything and everything and they were often hit and miss.

They had a segment where they’d just rapid fire phone calls and people would voice their hot takes, the guys might interact, and then they’d go to the next call. I’m listening while driving one day and they flip to a call and it sounds like dead air but you can faintly hear something. One of them stops the phone guy from flipping and says “turn it up, there’s something there”. They turn it up and you can hear it clearly - cheeks clapping.  That brought the house down on the show for the rest of the day. I was swerving in my car I was laughing so hard listening to their commentary from there, once they recognized the noise.

 

Don and Mike were shock jocks out of DC that eventually got picked up nationwide. 

Posted
43 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Please continue this. It helps knock down the swirl. Your experience here can help fill the voids left in practice reports and temper expectations of surprises.   What in your knowledge is the impact during the first contact drill gonna be like?. Is he gonna feel it? Pain from contact should be largely unaffected by having been through the old injury and the surgery. It will probably feel good to get hit and see for real that he doesn't explode into shards. Is the brace a perm fixture or are there other smaller more agile braces to give support?  He probably already has a high-end functional brace. Bracing regimens are very surgeon-specific. I usually put guys in them initially and discontinue them when I release to cutting/pivoting unless the player is happier in them. In your experience I know everyone’s diff but mentally how much does that hold someone back in this situation with being risk averse or timid that could cause injury by the very nature of being too careful and unnatural Wide spectrum. I have had players successfully return to full-go before they were cleared for unrestricted practice because of the nature of their league. He will have more stiffness than average, so I would not hold my breath after a big injury like his.

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On 7/30/2025 at 10:25 PM, TreatyOak said:

Let's hope Texas football is fueled for the 2025-2026 season with motivation for the University of Texas Ultimate Frisbee team's 2025 D1 Playoff loss to hated Oregon State. With the game tied at 14-14, Oregon State took advantage of an untimely Texas turnover to pull out the win. Here is the emotionally crushing final three minutes, including the 'Horn's Down' sign from the Beavers following the loss. 

 

I've got a friend who I played Ultimate with in Houston whose son is on the team and was getting some chatter for national player of the year. /csb

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19 hours ago, satyanash said:

RB room is now looking like a real weak spot.

Wisner is a known quantity - great vision and patience, but slow and undersized. He only made hay when our O-line dominated the opposing D-line, and we've lost a lot of experience there. Gibson needs to stop fumbling and develop some vision. And everyone else is unproven and inexperienced.

Blue couldn't stop fumbling but he was also the only RB who could do anything when our O-line was getting dominated (see Georgia and Ohio State). He scored 14 of the RB room's combined 24 TDs and led all our backs in YPC. And now we have no one who can replace him. We needed a back with top-end speed who can be a threat running routes out of the backfield.

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Quick hitters from Thursday's practice (3:50 p.m.) - Jeff Howe

We're done with today's open practice window for the media.

— Ryan Wingo and DJ Campbell weren't at practice.

— Jonah Williams and Kade Phillips were held out again today.

— Lavon Johnson is still limited with a heavily taped left ankle/foot.

— Jaime Ffrench caught the eyes of the OTF staff today.

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On 7/30/2025 at 9:15 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

He said Spence moved to edge b/c of how crowded the LBer room is.  The edge room seems more crowded, to me.

EDGE

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

When Rome was like that, he was as good as anyone. 

Agreed, his schtick where he’d pretend to admonish the listeners for their sophomoric and crude humor as a means of perpetuating the jokes was his best stuff.

Posted
18 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'm agnostic on Livingstone, but exactly how was that a "sick catch"?

Bro, you don't recognize the sick toe tap? Even got both feet in, he's ready for the NFL!

I think he won't get a ton of targets, but will have decent numbers because he and Wingo are the only 2 who can hit vertical at an above average level and also have height. He'll have his niche if he can prove he can get open deep and catch them when it counts. Something like 2  receptions for 65 yds and a TD type numbers. 

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