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Texasrocks

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  1. Seriously? If you consistently fail to execute, it's either a scheme problem or a talent problem. Against Baylor, ISU, and TCU, you can't blame a lack of talent. The defense looks much better since Orlando stopped all the crazy blitzing and we seem to be playing a lot more man coverage. We couldn't hold up in coverage long enough for the blitzers to reach the quarterback. You could call that poor execution, but after it happens over and over it indicates a problem with the play calls. It's gotten better, but we've still got issues. On Baylor's first touchdown drive, they consistently overloaded the left side and we didn't adjust. The ran it 6 straight times, I believe all to the left. I'm not sure why they stopped running it to the left because we didn't stop it. You can't blame a corner for not holding the edge when they have 2 tight ends and a pulling lineman outflanking the d-line and linebackers. At one point they threw a wide receiver screen where we effectively had one DB covering two receivers and what I assume was another DB tasked with covering a receiver and setting the edge. With the wide receivers out near the sideline, there's no way he can do both effectively. Those are play calls targeting the structure of our defense. Similarly, we haven't been able to run the last two weeks and our offense hasn't done much outside of two-minute drills. Yes, we played a couple of good defenses, but the other teams know what we're going to run based on alignment. Last week, one of the only things we did well was outlet passes to the running backs. Baylor was prepared for that and our only effective response was Sam running for his life. As the season goes on, a larger percentage of our offensive success comes from broken plays - the low snap that Sam completed for a first down, the near safety, the long run at the end of the half. That indicates a problem with our scheme.
  2. I think Herman and his staff are really bad a game planning on offense and defense. He seemed legitimately surprised in the post game press conference that we weren't able to move the ball. He said something like, "I think, no, I know we made good some good tweaks to the run game this week..." Then he said they were rushing 3 and dropping 8 and what could do against that? Every week he seems surprised that teams target our weaknesses. It's really bizarre.
  3. There's no way a player punched a coach and wasn't suspended/kicked off the team.
  4. Somewhere, Greg Davis is beaming with pride.
  5. Cowardice and overly confident is a bad combination. He seems surprised when other teams scout him. Against TCU he said he didn't expect them to pass as much as they did. Why not? We suck against the pass. I forget the team (Kansas?), but he said he was surprised they blitzed as much despite a clear pattern of struggling to pick up stunts. This staff doesn't appear to do any self scouting. He gets out coached every week and is still convinced he's the smartest guy in the room. He's the coaching equivalent of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
  6. Neither of them are/were going to get us where we want to be so it's close enough to not matter.
  7. There's got to be some middle ground between "we're 6-4" and "our former tight end was convicted of murder/our receivers coach beats his wife."
  8. It is weird that Herman makes "aggressive" decisions to go for it on 4th down and then makes really conservative calls. He allows Orlando to play a high-risk defense with the constant blitzing from BFE and then goes ultra conservative on offense any time he gets the lead. He must suck at poker.
  9. My gauge for when a coach should be fired is when I'm no longer get mad when we lose. It's hard to get mad when the expected happens. Am I disappointed? Sure. Is the loss acceptable? No. Was I surprised we lost? Not one bit.
  10. Umm, who is worse? No one is clearly worse. I'm not sure about Tech, KU, and WVU are unknowns and Patterson seems to be fading, but I'd say Herman's staff is in the 8 - 10 range in the league. Baylor, ISU, OU, OSU, and KSU are definitely ahead of us.
  11. Baylor's success helps. Herman can't blame it on youth, lack of talent, not having "his" guys, etc. Rhule started in a much worse position and unlike Texas, his team seems to be getting better as the year goes on. That's the most damning part. Our guys get worse the more time they spend with this staff.
  12. Herman seems to believe this shit, which shows a shocking lack of self awareness. We haven't imposed our will on anyone this year. We put up points, at least early in the year, but even then we weren't mashing folks.
  13. I think Herman is done. Now it's just of question of when he'll be gone. I don't see him getting fired this year unless we lose out, but I don't see us showing improvement either.
  14. Speaking of asses, Herman is kinda looking like Harbaugh these days. Not bad, but clearly second tier. And kind of a dick.
  15. I don't understand how we are bad as we are. Defense is supposed to be about trade-offs, yet we seem to fail no matter what. Typically, you bring extra rushers with the goal of getting to the quarterback before he can find an open receiver. You're betting your secondary can hold up longer than their protection. Or you drop extra guys into coverage hoping you can prevent a completion and/or get a turnover. In either case, you want to force them into a bad play or at least a sub-optimal play (e.g. a short completion on third and long). But that's not how it works for us. Even when we have the "right" play call we fail - the two point conversion for example. Dropping 8 guys into coverage from the two yard line should make it tough to complete the pass, but leave you susceptible to a QB run. You know - a trade-off. But we triple teamed one guy and left another wide open. It led to an easy completion AND I'm sure the QB could have run it in if he'd wanted to. We don't force the offense to make choices.
  16. The replay was weird - I couldn't see the ball at all. They weren't going to overturn that no matter what the original call was.
  17. It's all about who wants it less.
  18. You know you don't actually have to read this thread. For the record, Herman is clearly a better coach than Strong and our team is clearly better overall now than it was three years ago. No one is arguing otherwise. That said, I believe the point the OP was making is that we have a fairly active thread on what a retard Strong is nearly three years after he left. Meanwhile, our current coach is putting out a product that is just as bad on one side of the ball (two if we count special teams, notwithstanding the two blocks against Kansas - how are we dead last in punt yards?). When Strong's teams made the same mistakes over and over, it's because he's dumb. When Herman's teams make the same mistakes over and over its because his assistants are letting him down or they are playing down to the competition. So Strong is a retarded moron whereas Herman needs to fire some assistants. And pointing that out is considered carrying Strong's water.
  19. Apparently we are SEC good. Aggy will be devestated.
  20. Still didn't answer.
  21. It's a football blog. Why does any thread on Surly exist? And you didn't answer the question. Who are these black posters who are carrying Strong's water?
  22. Who is carrying Strong's water? Our defense looks like shit. That's not debatable. This defense could easily end up as the worst in school history. We just got our asses handed to us by the lowest scoring team in the conference. We seem to be getting worse each week and that has nothing to do with Strong.
  23. I can't point to a single game this season where we out-coached the other team. Our defense is terrible and our offense is unreliable for stretches of time. Is Herman better than Strong? Sure. Is he better than Les Miles? Not tonight he wasn't. Is he better than Rhule? It doesn't look like it. He doesn't seem to be in Lincoln Riley's league. K State looks like they hired a good coach too. Hell, Gundy does more with less. Is he better than Patterson? I don't know. There are some good coaches in the Big 12, ours looks below average.
  24. La Tech? That's funny. Duvernay trucked LSU players, which is great and all, but those weren't well executed plays.
  25. We suck at WR screens, but you wouldn't know it from the play calling. We couldn't even run them consistently against Rice.
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