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ULaLa can only play 11 players on defense like everybody else. Sark's offense has a home run built into every play. The reason why these two thing are related is because it limits the amount of "patient" drives we have (in a good way). Now, as much as I'd like Bijan scoring on every scamper, that shit ain't realistic. Certainly, if he's grabbing 10+ yards, let him roll. Since I don't think ULaLa's defensive coaches are morons, they'll certainly want to adjust. That's when things get fun. Picture "trips right" - three receivers to the wide, field side of the OL. Customarily, these receivers run at different "levels" in the defense: shallow (cross), medium (curl or hook), and deep (fly or post). It's almost impossible to cover receivers 1 on 1 for any length of time. Unless they've found 4 "shutdown" corners, there's going to have to be some rotation and help. Our receivers are taught to play routes and concepts instead of positions. You may be lined up inside, but you're still the "deep" route. This prevents the defense from aligning based on formation. They're going to have to play the routes as they develop. As the game moves and the RPO forces more attention to the LOS, the chances are the receivers will encounter misaligned coverage. When the shallow or mid-level guy gets it, that's a nice 8-15 yard gain. Eventually, the "misalignment" will happen to the deep guy. The NB looked into the backfield to see what Bijan was doing. His receiver got 2 steps on him. Now, the receiver encounters the deep safety. That safety will now ALWAYS be wrong. If he attacks inside to the field, the receiver bends his route to the pylon. If he tries to leverage the sideline to help, the route gets bent inside to the goalposts. Either way, the safety will be outside the shoulder of the receiver. The QB just leads him to daylight. The safety is on tape looking like he blew it big-time, but the reality is that pressure from other options put him in an unwinnable situation. Sark stresses seeing the deep route first. If it's covered, fine. Move on to other progressions. However, if the defense is properly respecting a non-predictable offense (!), the deep route will open at some point during every series.
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We won't see a finished product on Saturday. I'm sure there will be plenty of things of film that Card (and likely Thompson too) will be asked to improve on the following week. Remember that Sark just put Mac Jones in the league - in the first round. I know we haven't had anything to do for 8 months, but it's time to stop over thinking this. One of the best (if not the best) quarterback teachers in the business picked Hudson Card. He had a choice, and could have picked the guy who tossed 4 TD passes in essentially one half of a football bowl game. Casey Thompson comes highly recommended - and Sark thinks Card is better than that. He didn't pick Card for a mind game. He did it because playing Husdon Card at QB gives the team the best chance to win the game on Saturday. The unknown is always scary, but a highly rated QB was chosen by a credentialed QB guru to play behind an OL selected and trained by a coach (and colleague of the OC) whose previous unit was recognized as the best in college ball. At that QB's side will be one of the most electrifying backs in the game. We won't see the finished product on Saturday, but there's a reason why donors with a ton of cash paid 8 figures to dismiss the previous staff. There's an outrageous amount of talent on this team, and they weren't using it. Sark got the best in the business (yes, most of them came from Alabama) to manage this talent. Rather than trying to analyze from 4 levels deep, we're going to see true development that we've been missing for 15 years.
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<trigger alert - no bitcha to me> Kai kinda reminds me that Jordy Nelson kid that wasn't overly fast or super athletic. He just seemed to materialize all by himself 8 yards down field on 3rd and 7. Everyone in the stands would just yell, "Why won't someone cover that little fucker?". -
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Charlie played his guts out for Baylor, but he's one hard sneeze away from concussion protocol.
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This is what I've been noticing for a bit. Seems Herman would say, "Here's the plays I want to run. Teach your group to do this.". Sark asks, "What does your group do well? We'll run those plays.". -
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Without tape or anything more concrete than "This is what we heard", it's impossible to know what the truth is in the zero-sum world of Scrimmage #1. Personally, I'm gruntled to hear that the defense is cohesive. PK's defense has a lot of moving parts. It's more philosophical than Orlando's Swiss-Watch designs, so it should be more tolerant of injuries and substitution patterns, but it does require everyone to be on the same page. If the defense was able to compete without major busts, that's a huge step forward. If I recall correctly, neither Sark nor PK are guys that hold back. Other coaches might say, "We want to test <x> of our offense. Stay in base and don't stunt, twist, or blitz". I don't believe either competitor takes that tack. It's likely that the OL and the offense faced every nasty thing Coach K has taught his defense thus far. In that light, it'd be expected that the offense doesn't quite measure up yet. I don't think they were, but even if both QBs were performing at 95% perfect, Sark would still call them out as inadequate. There's still 3 weeks until game time, and he wants every second to be used to improve. There's now tape on this offense against a real defense full of starters. The players that digest the information and bring those lessons to improve their performances will see the field more often. This was rehearsal #1. Everyone's got homework and notes.- 3884 replies
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Ideally, several other receivers should be headed that way to form some sort of block. If they weren't there in "trips" or something, then pulling OL and/or RBs/Motion TEs should try to form up into a diagonal "tube" leading back to the center of the field. The resulting chaos kind of looks like the mesh part of a KO return. There's a decent chance the ball carrier emerges with daylight ahead. That's one kind. The important point is that none of this, especially a straight toss to the sideline, stands a prayer of doing anything but killing a WR if the defense is in press or bump coverage. I suppose you could accidentally catch a CB on a blitz and get somewhere, but largely you have to win a deep battle to make the defenders cheat backwards before throwing short. What looked like a naked sideline pass was really just so poor that the blockers hadn't gotten time to set up. Most of the tape shows sympathetic Texas teammates arriving at the scene of the crime just as the defender gets up to celebrate. -
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Money seems like a guy who runs his route exactly correctly every single time. If he were the only guy on the field, he'd never get open. When the defense is fighting to run with the other receivers and account for the RB, he's going to be standing by himself quite frequently. After that happens, you're basically running a kick return. The defense is trying to turn around and track the guy with the ball. The offense is trying to get in their way. The ball carrier is trying to take advantage of the confusion and wander forward. The WR Screen takes advantage of a defense getting comfortable. If the receivers are regularly beating press coverage, then the DBs start leaning back and "picking up" the receivers as they get into their routes. The screen gets the ball out there quickly (and sort of blindly) to burn the defense's backwards motion. GDGD (and others) got in trouble when they used it off schedule. If the receivers haven't established their deep threat, then the DBs will still be up tight, or even worse, running downhill at the snap. At that point, the receiver is catching the ball flat footed while the DB clocks him in the head (being legal and preferred at that time). Coordinators really are engaged in a kind of chess match. Do the simple things until your opponent proves he can stop them. That's why having Bijan Robinson makes this offense dangerous, and why wealthy men spent 8 figures to remove the person who didn't want to play him all game. -
Joshua Moore's comment that "somebody will always be open, no matter what" is how Sark's offense works. It's dangerous by design. Without ever really considering athletic abilities, if the receivers see what they're supposed to see, understand what that means, and run where they're supposed to run, then the defense will always be wrong in at least one place. It may take a second, such as a Safety deciding to attack Bijan Robinson's wheel route rather than bracketing Moore, thus leaving Joshua to roll his route inside with no help. Perhaps extra defensive help is rolled to that side, but pre-snap motion shows that Worthy is now being covered by a LB. It's the QB's job to see that, know why it happened, know what it means, and have the ball there on time and in the right spot. If the offense is run correctly, QB1 arrives at the post-game conference in a squeaky clean uniform, sipping water, and answering questions about if getting lifted in the 3rd quarter is affecting his Heisman chances.
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It's a foregone conclusion. It's about as suspenseful as the Iranian Presidency election.
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This move has to happen. It was never "if", but "when". After the SCOTUS forced the NCAA to abdicate amateurism rules (of which NIL is only the first domino), the rules of college football are changing. Nothing we can do about it. If we want to play the game at the highest level (I know we haven't in a few years, but that's a different post), then we're going to have to change with it. The SEC is currently the closest thing to the semi-pro game. I think the SEC itself will shortly (in the next 5 years) undergo further change, but again, another post. I wish this weren't the case. The Big 12 plays fascinating (if not always high level) football. The relationships between everyone in the State of Texas makes water-cooler talk passionate. The shared history won't easily be replaced. This isn't about money. It's only mostly about recruiting. The Big 12 was never stable even with Texas anchoring it. ISU getting a different offer or WVU leaving would have also killed it. For all the good things in the Big 12, it was the State of Texas and a couple of states that no one lives in. You can't run a conference on that. The best time to change jobs is when you don't have to. When the "big boys" reconfigure the amateurism rules for college football, the conversation will start with the SEC. The Texas Athletic Department is, like it or not, the most massive star in that particular galaxy. They have to have a seat at the table.
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Most people (well, not many, actually) will encounter it in a liqueur named "Absinthe". Absinthe is created with an infusion of wormwood (a herb) distillate. The drink is a beautiful, clear emerald color in the bottle - giving it the nickname "the green fairy". Usually, before drinking, it's poured into the bottom of a glass, a slotted spoon containing a lump of sugar is placed over the top, and cold water filtered in. When the water mixes with the absinthe, it turns an opalescent cloudy white. Absinthe was favored by your creative types like Baudelaire, Picasso, Oscar Wilde, and such. Aleister Crowley wrote a book called "The Green Goddess". Since the thujone was supposed to be psychoactive, eventually absinthe was mostly banned. It's easily available today, but with most of the thujone filtered out. To me, it's another anise (licorice) flavored liqueur that I don't really care for.
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It was 45 minutes of utterly incompetent football, 12 minutes of a brilliant rally, and 3 minutes of letdown. The halftime score was 22-6 Tech, as Texas had rallied to kick 2 FGs in the last 5:30 of the 1st half. We stopped the opening drive of the 2nd half, returned the punt for a TD, then Colt McCoy promptly threw a pick 6. There's plenty to dissect over that last drive. However, we sucked goat arse for most of that game. With a trip to the MNC on the plate, we failed mentally.
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If this goes the way I think it will, Texas fans are going to have to get used to a couple of new concepts: 1) The ideal QB will be closer to Tom Brady than Vince Young. 2) The OC will have sent the offense onto the field with the tools to beat the defense. All those QB camps that kids go to in middle school and high school teach them how to read a defense. They teach drop technique, arm angles, throwing open a receiver, etc. Hudson Card is a star graduate of all those camps. Sark's offense comes ready to beat a given defense, and it's the QB's job to see the win on every play, and properly execute it. Three months ago, I'd have said the job was almost certainly his. Casey Thompson just looked trained for a different type of game. However, what I've seen out of Thompson this spring and summer told me he understands Sark's vision, and is ready to marry his formidable athletic potential to a clinical understanding of the game. He's gone and found guys that play with Brady and train like Brady build that part of his game. When the pads come on, I expect he'll be very difficult to dismiss.
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I made it sound simple. All you gotta do is see all that stuff by reading the helmets lined up across from you. You don't the the "All-22" view like TV does. But yeah, Mac won as many MNC games as VY did. Strangely, I believe PK's defense functions in about the same way. He asked the offensive coordinators what their offenses were keying off of. He then presents those keys to make the offenses do what he wants them to do. If he shows pressure, then the RB has to stay at home to pick up the blitz. If that blitz never comes, well, that's one less player his defense has to worry about. He presents the opposing offense with the "worst case scenario", forces them to cover it, then doesn't give it to them.
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In Sark's world, the QB is the decision maker. You come to the LOS, and the defense tells you where the play goes. The receivers see it, the OL sees it, the backs see it, and the QB damned well better see it. When the ball is snapped, the QB confirms what he sees. Did the Safety spin down to help with run support? If so, the X receiver is one on one. Throw skinny and let him go get it. If not, was the box light? If so, give to the RB. The other receivers are options (in Sark's words, start with the deep "TD" option and work back to the LOS). A QB who comes to run is limiting the offense. There will ALWAYS be someone in scoring position in his offense. If the defense wins the play or (gasp) the offense doesn't do its job correctly, then a QB run for positive yards is a consolation prize. It would be viewed as an overall offensive failure, however. The QB's job is to get the ball to the right player on time and on target. Sark's offense is functional by design, and not over reliant on super athletic abilities.
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Mrs Milton found him boring too But that doesn't relieve you of your responsibility for this material. Now I'm waiting for reports from some of you... Listen, I'm not joking. This is my job!
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Any time I have a new QB and an unsettled OL, I'm concerned. Those are two things that basically define a football team. As they go, so goes your chances of winning. Bad OL play is just impossible to scheme around. Great OL play makes every other player better. I believe Herman told Hand, "Here's what we're running. Teach your boys to block it.". I believe Sark asks Flood, "What do your boys do well? I'll build my offense on that.". Further, I believe that the Texas roster is better than was shown last season. I believe player skills were misapplied and used incorrectly in haphazard combinations. Having a competent OL and Bijan Robinson on the field makes a defense scheme to stop him first. I'm not predicting unstoppable, Bama style play, but with that threat, an OC who wants to pressure a defense can link plays together that does just that. This can be a formidable offense. First, though, the OL has to be beaten on by an angry defense. I've looked too foolish predicting success by previously well heeled OL coaches.
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Let's pray for boring. Boring, right now, is good. Of course we'll be happy with a couple of grad transfers shortly, but other than that, we need to stay out of the news for the next 9 weeks or so. When I get to work and the "Offseason" thread page count jumps by 6, it's either (a) really bad news or (b) a slap fight about who owns more expensive loafers.
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Sark is emphasizing that he's valuing what's betwixt the QB's ears more than hyper-athletic traits. When the QB comes to the line, there's a correct call for the defense he sees. When the ball is snapped, there's a correct place to go with it. The player who knows the answers to those puzzles most often, while minimizing the absolute wrong answers, will get the football first. He'd be thrilled if the QB never crossed the LOS in a game.
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If you really care, I believe this link -> https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/20-Hour-Rule-Document.pdf spells it out. There's dates involved about when things can occur. However, I understand the NCAA recognized that a lot of kids just won't quit. Being in a major football program means that they'll work whenever they can. Unsupervised workouts without knowledgeable trainers ended up killing some kids. Thus, the NCAA allows training staff to assist with workouts. These workouts have to be "voluntary" in that the athlete has to initiate them. The training staff cannot take attendance, report the results or anything else to the coaching staff, nor instruct any playbook type alignments.
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Your power comes from the ground. If your feet aren't on the ground, you're just another object to be thrown - no matter how much you can lift. Your center of mass has to be over your base. Your base is your feet. If a line from your center of mass to the ground does not stay between your feet, you're off balance and falling. Offensive linemen have all sorts of drilled in footwork and hand placements to keep these principles solid at all times. A defensive player can push, tug, grab, shove in any direction at any time. If it happens when you're not in a solid base, you're out of the play and your man is headed to the ball carrier. Anyone else think that PK doesn't understand the concept of "vanilla defense", and that he's gonna throw his evil genius at the OL in practice every day? I'm pretty sure he and Flood have a "gimmie your best shot!" thing going.
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Bijan jump cuts through a hole in the wide zone. You recover from your FS position and do all you can to chase him down after a 60 yard gain - at which point he spins, you crumple, and get the best seat in the house as he jogs in. Bijan: You hope you can get a hand on him. RoJo: You hope you can't get a hand on him.
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