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23 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

If the reports that Baker and Cojoe were neck and neck to start were true, I'd think Cojoe would have been the primary backup for RT. Big loss 

We're bound to have injuries and there will be more.  Hell tOSU almost lost their best starter at DT on their first day.  Losing a backup RT isn't the worst thing in the world considering Brooks is capable of pushing to get starter reps at RT.  Chatman can also contribute.  Sucks but I'll be content if we make it to week 1 without losing any starters.

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Team Intel | Monday's Look at Offensive Tackle - CJ

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Team Intel | Monday's Look at Offensive Tackle

 

CJ Vogel

By CJ Vogel

  • 16 minutes ago
 

Texas received some unfortunate injury news over the weekend, as starting right tackle contender Andre Cojoe has been ruled out for the season.

Cojoe had been in the best physical condition of his career and was competing closely with sophomore Brandon Baker for the starting job at right tackle.

With depth already a concern along the offensive line, offensive line coach Kyle Flood now faces the challenge of reshuffling personnel to ensure the unit remains championship caliber heading into the 2025 campaign.

*** A source indicate that freshman offensive tackle Nick Brooks saw time with the first team offense during Monday’s practice in place of Cojoe. Brooks rotated series with Brandon Baker throughout the live session, suggesting a competition is underway to book end the right side of the offensive line.

Another player to watch at right tackle is third-year sophomore Jaydon Chatman, who has cross-trained at both guard and tackle. While Chatman remains in the mix, the coaching staff appears intrigued by the size and upside of the 6-foot-7, 350-pound Brooks.

Monday’s practice, the first in full pads, was held inside the bubble following a brief rain shower in Austin.

 

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1 hour ago, CastHorn said:

I’m surprised someone hasn’t engineered some kind of knee stabilization apparatus. Not a huge brace contraption, but a kind of sleeve that conforms to the shape of the knee to reduce impact forces. Just enough to deplete the percentage of ligament tears in sports. Is that science fiction? 

There isn't really even clear evidence that those huge braces make a real difference, sadly. One key reason is apparently that rotational stresses are frequently a major if not the major factor in failure of the ACL.

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28 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:

Team Intel | Monday's Look at Offensive Tackle - CJ

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Team Intel | Monday's Look at Offensive Tackle

 

CJ Vogel

By CJ Vogel

  • 16 minutes ago
 

Texas received some unfortunate injury news over the weekend, as starting right tackle contender Andre Cojoe has been ruled out for the season.

Cojoe had been in the best physical condition of his career and was competing closely with sophomore Brandon Baker for the starting job at right tackle.

With depth already a concern along the offensive line, offensive line coach Kyle Flood now faces the challenge of reshuffling personnel to ensure the unit remains championship caliber heading into the 2025 campaign.

*** A source indicate that freshman offensive tackle Nick Brooks saw time with the first team offense during Monday’s practice in place of Cojoe. Brooks rotated series with Brandon Baker throughout the live session, suggesting a competition is underway to book end the right side of the offensive line.

Another player to watch at right tackle is third-year sophomore Jaydon Chatman, who has cross-trained at both guard and tackle. While Chatman remains in the mix, the coaching staff appears intrigued by the size and upside of the 6-foot-7, 350-pound Brooks.

Monday’s practice, the first in full pads, was held inside the bubble following a brief rain shower in Austin.

 

Weren't Notre Dame and OSU playing multiple backup OL in the championship game? And I think ND lost a couple of d-linemen during the playoffs. Going forward, winning a championship may come down to who has the least amount of drop-off from their starters to their backups.

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18 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

There isn't really even clear evidence that those huge braces make a real difference, sadly. One key reason is apparently that rotational stresses are frequently a major if not the major factor in failure of the ACL.

Do you think the braces could actually be causing more issues than preventing them?  The limb wants to rotate and the brace prevents that, doesn't it?

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Still confused how Wisner got dinged up when not in full pads. I mean, I know like 99% of sports aren’t full contact and have injuries all the time but this is foobawl dammit.

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43 minutes ago, victory88 said:

We're bound to have injuries and there will be more.  Hell tOSU almost lost their best starter at DT on their first day.  Losing a backup RT isn't the worst thing in the world considering Brooks is capable of pushing to get starter reps at RT.  Chatman can also contribute.  Sucks but I'll be content if we make it to week 1 without losing any starters.

It's not the worst thing in the world (i.e. Arch), but it's pretty fucking bad. RT, and tackle depth in general, was already one of the biggest question marks on the team. Now we have to get through 16 games (hopefully) clean.

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Devastating loss. Offensive tackle was already one of our weakest position groups in terms of depth.

Lack of elite options at RB and the current state of the O-line just makes Manning's job harder.

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The good news is it's only one. Remember last year when we lost two running backs back to back to season ending injuries? It could be worse. 

My hope is that Cojoe returns next year better than ever. 

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5 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Devastating loss. Offensive tackle was already one of our weakest position groups in terms of depth.

Lack of elite options at RB and the current state of the O-line just makes Manning's job harder.

Stop. It hurts the depth of the OL, but he likely was not even going to start. He was not even a lock to be 2nd string by the end of the season. 

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10 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Do you think the braces could actually be causing more issues than preventing them?  The limb wants to rotate and the brace prevents that, doesn't it?

No. We are trying to let very large humans stop, start, and twist very fast and very hard while crashing into each other. Stretching a ligament a few mm too far blows it out. Braces can only do so much, as they are on skin which has subcutaneous fat and muscle between them and the bones they are to brace.

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Devastating loss. Offensive tackle was already one of our weakest position groups in terms of depth.
Lack of elite options at RB and the current state of the O-line just makes Manning's job harder.

Trevor Goosby would be devastating. This is not devastating.
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7 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Devastating loss. Offensive tackle was already one of our weakest position groups in terms of depth.

Lack of elite options at RB and the current state of the O-line just makes Manning's job harder.

Your bait is usually better than this.

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2 minutes ago, Mr. Drummond said:

Your bait is usually better than this.

Yeah this one was too obvious. Needs to work on his changeup - can't throw middle heat every at bat.

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13 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

No. We are trying to let very large humans stop, start, and twist very fast and very hard while crashing into each other. Stretching a ligament a few mm too far blows it out. Braces can only do so much, as they are on skin which has subcutaneous fat and muscle between them and the bones they are to brace.

I like your idea of surgically attaching the brace directly to the bone. 

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Just now, Huckleberry said:

I like your idea of surgically attaching the brace directly to the bone. 

believe it or not, we sometimes leave an "internal brace" to reinforce some ligament surgeries we do, though they look nothing like the braces a normal person would imagine

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I feel like the answer is to perfect the body's ability to heal to practically mutant levels and then surgically enhance the skeletal structure with adamantium. I read about that procedure in a medical journal. 

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2 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I feel like the answer is to perfect the body's ability to heal to practically mutant levels and then surgically enhance the skeletal structure with adamantium. I read about that procedure in a medical journal. 

We are a school with a bajillion dollars. And it ain’t against the rules yet. Let’s do it 

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One key training camp takeaway for every level of the Texas defense - Jeff Howe

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One key training camp takeaway for every level of the Texas defense

 

Jeff Howe

By Jeff Howe

  • 25 minutes ago
 

Even if Arch Manning and the Texas wide receivers aren’t on the same page at the start of the 2025 season, or if the retooled offensive line doesn’t find its footing right out of the gate, the Longhorns can still compete with anyone in the country because of their defense.

Pete Kwiatkowski’s unit is looking for players to step up in training camp to replace five departed NFL draft picks, including a first-rounder and three others selected with the first 71 picks of the 2025 draft. Still, early camp observations and what the OTF staff has heard through the first week of practice point to Texas heading into Steve Sarkisian’s fifth season on the Forty Acres with Kwiatkowski overseeing arguably the nation’s top defense.

For my by-position camp takeaways on defense, what I’ve seen suggests the Longhorns could be better on that side of the ball than they were last season, when the defense played at a national championship-caliber level.

EDGE

How could Texas lose Barryn Sorrell to the NFL and Trey Moore to the linebacker room and be deeper and more talented at EDGE than any position group in the program?

I believe that’s the case because Colton Vasek has looked healthy while going through drills, and Brad Spence can help the Longhorns more by getting up the field and after the quarterback rather than playing in space (the Moore-for-Spence trade looks like a win-win for the defense as a whole and both position groups). With Zina Umeozulu coming off a redshirt season and Moore able to bounce back and forth between EDGE and linebacker (on top of the starting tandem of Ethan Burke and Colin Simmons), there’s enough talent in front of Lance Jackson and Justice Terry for Kwiatkowski and LaAllan Clark to take their time figuring out how to utilize them.

When including Anthony Hill Jr. and any number of the disruptors on the interior who prove they can push the pocket into the mix, the 2025 Texas pass rush has the potential to be the program’s best since the Longhorn defenses under Leon Fuller and David McWilliams terrorized opposing quarterbacks in the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s.

INTERIOR DEFENSIVE LINE

A similar question regarding the EDGE group applies to Kenny Baker’s room: How can Texas lose its top four defensive tackles, including two top-100 draft picks, and be deeper?

Hindsight is 20/20, but nobody knew at this time last year that Vernon Broughton and Alfred Collins would be a dominant duo like the Keondre Coburn/Moro Ojomo and Byron Murphy/T’Vondre Sweat tandems that came before them. While there’s no guarantee the Longhorns will have that kind of 1-2 punch as the tip of the spear in Baker’s second season coaching the Texas tackles, the top five at the position in 2025 (Cole Brevard, Alex January, Hero Kanu, Travis Shaw and Maraad Watson) have combined to prove more at the college level heading at this point compared to what last season’s top five (Broughton, Collins, January, Jermayne Lole and Bill Norton logged the most snaps in 2024, according to Pro Football Focus) had collectively produced heading into the opener.

And the young bodies under Baker's watch (Melvin Hills with a full year under his belt, true freshmen Myron Charles and Josiah Sharma and whatever situational snaps Jackson and/or Terry earn) have looked more capable of making meaningful contributions than last year’s group that filled out the depth chart.

LINEBACKER

This is the toughest position to evaluate based on what we saw during the two open practice windows. It won’t be until Texas goes through a few practices in pads that an idea of what to expect when it comes to the different packages Kwiatkowski can deploy.

With that said, I’m continually impressed with Moore’s position conversion, especially when he's asked to operate in space. If Moore continues to improve in coverage (and playing off the ball in general) throughout camp, his role could evolve into one that helps get the defense to another level.

SECONDARY

Instead of getting granular by examining the cornerback, safety and STAR positions, I’m more intrigued by what can be made of how many different Longhorns are logging snaps in the nickel.

With Jaylon Guilbeau getting an opportunity to prove himself in the cornerback spot opposite Malik Muhammad, and Derek Williams Jr. working his way back from a season-ending knee injury he suffered in last October’s win over Oklahoma, the nickel role is more than just a battle between Graceson Littleton and Wardell Mack. Littleton, Mack, Guilbeau, Jelani McDonald and Michael Taaffe have either spent time at STAR in camp, during spring practice or have game experience at the position.

Whenever Williams gets a clean bill of health and is back on the field in a full-tilt capacity, Kwiatkowski and Duane Akina will get the flexibility needed to let McDonald and/or Taaffe get nickel snaps. If Kobe Black, Warren Roberson or one of the other cornerbacks emerges as one of the five best defensive backs on the roster, the staff could always move Guilbeau back to STAR to maximize depth.

The bottom line is there’s still a lot to be determined on the back end. It doesn’t seem as though the staff has zeroed in on what the starting defensive backfield will look like against Ohio State in 26 days, which isn’t a bad thing, considering the plethora of players who have warranted an extended look at what they bring to the table.

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Posted
2 hours ago, South Austin said:

Shorts are the silent killer the medical establishment does not want you to know about.

The CDC recently mandated that this label be affixed to shorts:

"WARNING: Wearing shorts may cause ACL and MCL ligament damage, concussion, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and acromioclavicular joint sprain. Wearing jorts causes all the foregoing, and additionally, may complicate pregnancy."

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