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For those who like to use PFF as a bible, here's an example of the various services that NFL writers/analysts use that varies at a ridiculous degree for a metric 

And PFF's NFL stuff has much more money and eyes put on it than their college stuff

 

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On 9/11/2025 at 8:32 AM, MuellerHorn said:

Thursday: Bobby

Very interested to see how our Oline performs against UTEP. They lost to Utah State and beat Tennessee Martin. This is not a team we should struggle with, sack and TFL stats notwithstanding. 

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First and foremost, the last couple of days, there has been some arguing on this message board that has gone too far.

Name-calling, baiting, overly aggressive tones, etc.

The bottom line is this:

Good people can disagree WITHOUT hurling insults.

 

 

I agree—who would want to be a member of a place like that, overrun with a bunch of assholes?

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7 hours ago, Hermanator said:

On Wednesday's OTF Coffee and Football they had Tony Hills talk about the Oline and he was asked what he thought of Stroh vs Neto. He said Stroh is obviously ahead ans has been playing well. 

I don't think he's watched a minute of film review. 

Some of you may not understand film. 

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3 minutes ago, Blackcat00 said:

Some of you may not understand film. 

yeah, perhaps Stroh was always supposed to let his man beat him across his face while he fell on the ground.  Just like coach drew it up!

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7 hours ago, Hermanator said:

On Wednesday's OTF Coffee and Football they had Tony Hills talk about the Oline and he was asked what he thought of Stroh vs Neto. He said Stroh is obviously ahead ans has been playing well. 

I don't think he's watched a minute of film review. 

I thought Hutson was at least as bad as Stroh against SJSU. Hutson looks more coordinated, but they were similarly effective. I still don't even understand what Hutson and Stroh were doing on the play where Campbell was called for holding on the pass to Livingstone. 

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On 9/11/2025 at 10:27 AM, DaysOff said:


Come to the game threads.

I feel like game threads are their own animal. 

Part of the reason to participate in something like that as a collective is to have an avenue for cathartic release instead of simply screaming into the ether. The cray crays on those things also provide a benefit to the rest of us by allowing us to realize as emotionally unstable as we are when the team isn't meeting our expectations, "at least I'm not as bad as THAT guy," whoever it is. 

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Friday: Bobby

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OTF Premium Friday

 

Bobby Burton

By Bobby Burton

  • 3 hours ago
 

Steve Sarkisian said he didn’t think any of the players that will miss tomorrow’s game will have long stays on the injured list.

But it’s still quite the list, especially at the skill positions on offense.

Tre Wisner and DeAndre Moore are expected out. Portal transfer Emmett Mosley V, who we’ve yet to see, remains sidelined, too. That’s your no. 1 running back and two of your top four receivers.

No wonder Sark spent a lot of yesterday talking up true freshman Daylan McCutcheon.

Here at OTF, we’ve talked about one of the categories of improvement we want to see in this Texas offense is its explosiveness. Well, it’s hard to be explosive when all of your TNT may not even have a fuse ready to light.

We’ll see what happens tomorrow. Parker Livingstone seems to be a consistent playmaker. So does Jack Endries. Will Ryan Wingo join them? What about another running back outside of Cedric Baxter?

This game is tailor-made for someone new to step up and add a layer of explosiveness to the Texas offense. We just don’t know who it will be.

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Defensive lineman Alex January is expected to miss tomorrow’s game. January may not be able to go next week either, but he should be fine by SEC play.

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This is an offensive line game in many respects.

Sark said the OL was perhaps caught a little off guard by how much movement (pre- and post-snap) San Jose State deployed a week ago. UTEP should be very similar.

So will the Texas OL improve week over week?

As much as we want to see Arch improve every week, we need to see the OL do the same just as much.

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We saw the first senior season recruiting offer go out on Wednesday to Braylon Hodge of Cherry Creek High School in suburban Denver. That’s the same high school as former Longhorn Gunnar Helm.

Hodge is committed to Michigan State. But he recently picked up an offer from not only Texas but also Michigan.

It’ll be interesting to monitor just how interested Hodge is in the Longhorns and how firm he is in his pledge to the Spartans. Hodge has already scheduled an unofficial visit to Austin so that is a very promising sign for the Horns.

 

 

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Something I've been kicking around in the noggin

I wonder if Sark wants an offense that scales up to being able to hit the highest notes of game-planning against the best competition. He wants to be able to run just about every run play possible. Different runs require different techniques not limited to steps, rules, and angles, and there's a reason some coaches prefer to major in one type of run (whether it's IZ, OZ, counter, duo, etc). Because of the time and practice constraints in college, and because you're dealing with college kids, there's a true give-take between the quality of blocking for a given scheme and the number of schemes you're implementing. Also it's possible that working on a variety of runs in college leads to more of a focus on just getting your assignment right and "shield blocking" rather than aggressively displacing your man 

To start the season you're probably looking at being surface-level at a lot of schemes while hoping you have a couple of runs to hang your hat on; looking at a jack of all runs, master of some (or none). When defenses show unexpected wrinkles that you didn't rep that week, but you know that you've taught it in practice at some point, OL is a weakest link position, and it only takes one OL fuck up the play.

To start the season, you're hoping that experience or young-but-bright OL grok it as much as possible, but as the season goes on your level of understanding goes up across the board. It's a process. You'd love to know which players get it in fall camp if not spring camp so you can start the building up process as soon as possible, but sometimes that just doesn't in the cards, or injuries happen. Sometimes your game-planning for week one and a player keeps fucking up his assignment against the expected fronts/stunts. 

Anyway, this is just a theory, but I'm hoping the OL individually and collectively gets better at the various runs as the season goes on. I think the passing game will eventually click at a high level that scales up, but I'm hoping the run get will get to the point to where it truly punishes defenses rather than just jabs them 

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1 hour ago, Fud said:

For those who like to use PFF as a bible, here's an example of the various services that NFL writers/analysts use that varies at a ridiculous degree for a metric 

And PFF's NFL stuff has much more money and eyes put on it than their college stuff

 

 

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.... let's see ChatGPT's PFF scores.

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