About a decade of watching OL coaches fall in love with measurables and potential to the exclusion of production for significant parts of entire seasons has jaded me to the possibility that the current OL coach isn’t doing the same.
There are more than a few UT sports content producers who pleasure themselves to thoughts of a pure meritocracy taking place in the football program while handling their units anew with each staff change, but, without fail, actual humans with coaching titles continue to fall into the patterns of behavior that are associated with being actual humans. Notably, wanting to try large specimens at OT positions who have demonstrated an inability to compete therefor the entirety of their time on the 40 acres.
So Coach Flood has some nice skins on the wall, but any reports of lights suddenly coming on for Imade at tackle are met with more of an “Ok....sure” response than any semblance of optimism. I’ll put those thoughts up there in dubious bin with Angilau picking up a twist, Brewer being a serviceable TE or the goal posts aligning with the South end zone tunnel until I see some more proof during a game against actual competition.