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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. XB-70, B1, B-36 and a 707 in one building or several?
  2. To be fair Texas fans are pretty traumatized by, and quite tired of the one good defense and done DC's in Austin routine.
  3. In my formative years I flew freight into Pampa because it was the UPS sort center for that part of the Panhandle and north. At that time T.Boone was trying to decide between building a hangar at Pampa’s airport or building an airport at his ranch. Obviously he did the latter complete with fuel truck and de ice equipment. Dick Cheney flew in to go hunting with him. The secret service tapped all the phones, and completely updated the phone and computer systems which they graciously left in place when they left. There were two crews on a rotating 24 shift set to go pick up Cheney in a Black Hawk if the shit hit the fan. I just recall the government boys trying to fit in dudded up in Western Wear and driving brand new F150’s with government plates. Saw TB and his plane a fair amount, but never interacted with him. Put a lot of miles on the track around Harvester Field, and found Pampa greatly preferable to Borger and Vernon.
  4. High ankle sprain in fall practice if I recall. He’s not all the way back. Actually , that’s a peeve of mine where coaches at all schools will play their clearly hobbled stars over what is at least in our case very capable back ups. Part of me says that the backups are that far off the starter’s standards, and part of me says that many coaches operate in a scared as F mode. (Insert Mack photo here)
  5. The only things that kept Taysom Hill from being really good in college were his paper mache knees. He’s a helluva athlete even now.
  6. I’m saying more than anything that Hall’s use in the Lightening package is evidence that TO doesn’t identify his best defensive units well, that the best 11 philosophy doesn’t necessarily yield the best defense, and that outside of that 8 or 9 game stretch Orlando's returns have been pretty tepid in Austin. TO would be loathed if not for that personnel revelation.
  7. A couple of things. I completely agree with the notion that we just need to force offenses to execute at a high level for extended periods of time to score, and just try to keep them under 30. Our offense will score on all comers, and should possibly be better next year. But....that’s really not Orlando’s nature. And I’m not sure he can help himself. With regard to the Lightening package you misunderstand me. It’s not the scheme that I was referring to. We had an epiphany with Hall at Joker, and suddenly our defense was a total bitch for everyone for the remainder of the year. But, we definitely didn’t identify that during fall practice. It’s what I mean by falling into it. Up to that point, and for much of 2018 we were pretty average.
  8. Ya know...maybe. He had one really good game. I’ll buy in if he approximates 80% of that production on a game by game basis for the remainder of the season. But frankly, slow down on that stuff. He’s been an entirely average QB before Saturday night. Now suddenly he’s a Heisman contender and Sunday player? Get back to me in 6 weeks on that.
  9. We tried the ISU 3/8 cloud last year for about half a season before it was ditched in favor or Orlando’s more aggressive system. If there is a system. And that bothers me a bit. Why are we trying to force something else on our DC. Doesn’t he have a base philosophy from which we can adapt and derive a viable defense each season? ISU’s defense gives Herman trouble as an OC by his own admission, but that’s no reason to force it on the DC. Lets be honest, we f’ing stumbled into the Lightening package in 2017. Once we found the people to run it our defense was quite good. Before and after it’s been a mixed bag with no shortage general spread administered beatings. With regard to your LB comment it’s been noted that Orlando picks his 3-4 guys at that position each year, and it’s seldom that anyone else sees the field. Thats fine and dandy when you’ve got proven studs, but less so when you’re seeking them. Orlando has some bad habits with regard to that, his random blitz generator and identifying his best personnel on a year to year basis. Part of that is Herman's best 11 philosophy which is flawed in my opinion, and the other part is our infatuation with practice warriors which I also think is flawed. They’re both defensible philosophies on the surface, but I want the best personnel package and game day players on the field against live competition. And that’s not necessarily your best 11 defenders or mid week practicers. I suspect strongly that Brown and Overshown will assert themselves near the LOS with BJ’s absence, and we’ll maybe figure out to let our safeties spend more time being safeties instead of box enforcers while asking our box enforcers to be safeties. Wild shit like that.
  10. Our d line isn’t going to get much of either barring a true freak playing the position because of the alignment we run. Herman references this in his press conference with regard to defensive line stats and what a positive impact from our DL looks like. We’re very much a DL occupy blockers and Skinny dudes apply pressure and clean up the mess behind.
  11. I probably have more time commuting on an AA MD-80 than I do flight time in any given plane.
  12. He’s not talking about basic fundamentals like shoulder placement. He’s talking about having the understanding and flexibility within the context of the defensive call to react and adjust on the fly so that pretty good defensive calls can stop offenses instead of hoping to call just the right defense to stop a play or drive. Instill that and fewer defensive pressures, alignments and coverages are needed to achieve the desired result, because your talented defenders can use their superior athleticism to react , and not just run to a hash or rush a gap mindlessly because the scheme calls for it. Greg Robinson installing his basic cover 3 with 8 in the box post Manny Mormon fuck is a good example. It took about three weeks, and we literally played Ole Miss with only two pressures available on the play sheet, but by OU the defense was playing very, very well.
  13. You know what makes me feel old? I remember when Freddie Kitchens was the QB for Alabama, and now I’m watching his old, fat, bald ass suck as an NFL head coach.
  14. They’re really not. One is the updated version of the old Air Raid. The other has no route trees, or real read progressions for that matter, and is nearly purely RPO. It’s like saying our power spread is the same as the Fun in the Gun. I guess sorta tangentially.
  15. Niiiiiiccceee. Congrats. Squash the C.
  16. It’s interesting, I saw Fedora in Herman's ear multiple times in the first half.
  17. The Air Raid and the Veer and Shoot aren’t close to the same system.
  18. I don’t think Tom can hire himself to be the DC too.
  19. Why not both?
  20. This is correct. Someone take Orlando’s autoblitz button away from him and give Sam the ball back after 3rd and 17, and Sam finishes the game with better stats than Burrow.
  21. WTF is the “Dreadwing”?
  22. The tight front doesn’t do DL a lot of favors in the playmaking department. If they make a play then great. Their job is to occupy 5 with 3 and let the svelte guys behind them wreak havoc and clean up the edges.
  23. Orlando spends too damn much time trying to show how smart he is on a whiteboard. His odd looks, retardedly late, delayed blitzes and general junk defense is getting stale IMOHO. His two minute defense has been pure shit for his entire tenure in Austin, and he’d be pretty loathed if he had not stumbled into the lightening package. We are also absolutely terrible at tipping our blitzes by being unable to hold our water pre snap.
  24. Collin Johnson isn’t an elite WR. He disappears for games at a time, and makes big catches downfield maybe 3 games a year. Duvernay is having the kind of year that exemplifies elite WR play. CJ is great within 15 yards of the LOS, but his best play deep is generally an inaccurate deep ball from Sam leading to a PI.
  25. Part of the easy money between the hashes had to do with the fact that our LB's drop to a spot, and have little feel for what's happening behind. They don't exactly look for work either. It's easy to find a target if the QB isn't flustered during his initial read by whatever junk defense look we're running.
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