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The one glaring part of their recruiting strategy has been Front 7 guys. They found a diamond in the rough w/ James Lynch as a 1-Gap DL, but they have massively, massively struggled to find the linebackers and the SDE type guys you have to have to be successful w/ an even front in the league. Now they are going to a 50 front and just recruiting two-gappers + 1 or 2 undersized pure pass rushers per class. That's gonna work out better for them in the long run, but it's gonna take awhile for those guys to mature into what they need ( if Rhule is even still there in 3 years, which I would be shocked by, he seems like the type of guy that will take the first 10 win season he can at Baylor and springboard into a better job ).

Your play calling was so conservative because your Guards couldn't handle the Iowa LBs in space, and your Tackles had to have help during obvious passing situations.

You're expecting leaps and bounds improvement from an OL that doesn't have any new players, it's just a year older. Yes, there are natural strength gains made for guys on the line, and it's important to not discount that. But I didn't see any significant improvement against an Iowa front that isn't as good as 3 or 4 teams in the Big XII, I saw a gameplan that relied heavily on Brock Purdy in the run game to create an extra gap ( something they wouldn't do against NIU until the Q4 when the offense couldn't get anything going ), and an OL the really struggled in space against athleticism. Iowa's Front is not as good as TCU's or UT's, and I don't think it's that much better than OU or K-State. I should be clear that I think ISU has the best Front in the Big XII and that I think Campbell is one of the 3 elite coaches in the league. I just think the OL is a massive, massive problem that the Cyclones can't overcome this year like they could last year w/ skill position freaks.

OU - sure they suck, but they're already really fucking good GAP Following teams could be in Tier 1, but have one major flaw. UT - the secondary is bad. not, "is bad for their talent". just bad. I think they can get much better over the course of the season, but there as enough question marks there, particularly at CB, when I can't see them in the top tier. Baylor - mediocre front. They moved to a 3 -2 -5, but they only have one LB on the roster that isn't terrible, and they only have one plus guy on their DL who isn't a good fit for the two gapping stuff they want to do now. People seem confused how Baylor got good again, but it turns out just taking NFL quality athletes regardless of whether they can play football and hoping you can turn them into players has a higher hit rate then a guy that knows where to be, but runs a 4.9. TCU - QB GAP OSU ISU - That OL is awful. They ran duos at one point in the 3rd quarter against NIU, and somehow ISU couldn't move a single NIU DL even though they doubled two of the DL. Without Butler and Montgomery, I don't see how that offense can generate enough points. KSU GAP Tech WVU GAP Kansas

I'm hoping someone on here can give me some help ..... I grew up going to my granddaddy's place on Goose Island every summer and learning to fish down there. He sold his place about 15 years ago and I just started going back down to Rockport, only now I'm taking my son and nephew and it's pretty surreal. The one thing my granddad never taught me though was much about boating. He drove it and handled it and we mostly went wading down there. While I know how to back down a ramp and do the absolute most basic shit imaginable, I don't actually know how to drive/pilot/handle a smaller 20~foot boat, and I'd like to learn because my my family loves going down there and we'd like to go down there more. I can remember a bunch of places on St. Charles Bay and Aransas Bay like I was there yesterday, but I don't actually know how to handle the boat correctly to get there. Should I be taking a class from someone for a couple of days? Is it worth doing some of the Sea Classes where I learn Marine Radio / Navigation? I know these are probably embarrassing questions to ask, but I don't know how to get started and my damn granddad (RIP) never taught me lol. Would like to be in the Corpus / Port A / Rockport area, but would go anywhere on the gulf coast to learn.

ISU's RT #74 is getting obliterated. They are trying option him off and have the RT put his thumb up his ass. ISU's OL better be all kinds of injured or they aren't going to sniff 10 wins.

He was near the top of college football in yards after contact, and PFF had him graded extremely highly, you're 100% right.

Disagree w/ this. I thought it was a genuine 50 / 50 call, and in that case I prefer going w/ the ruling on the field.

ISU's RT #74 got incinerated on a speed rush outside. They look reallllly bad.

Yeah, that's a fumble returned for a touchdown.

I suck.

First play of this drive ISU's center can't move NIU's NT, they have to double the guy at the 4i to get him moved. ISU is gonna win this game unless they have some really bad fumble luck, but they are gonna have to get much better to win against Iowa or Baylor.

As recently as 3 hours ago I would have defended ISU in the Big XII title game. But I may have overestimated how much better ISU's OL could get in a year without major personnel changes. They look really bad. NIU is just running a pretty straightforward 30 Front and ISU can't get any of NIU's DL moved in the first half w/ some Gap concepts. They had to run some outside zone on their scoring drive to generate any consistent. If you're ISU and you can't move NIU around, how are they going to score 30 points literally any team with a good DL? Their defense is extremely legit and could get them 9 wins, but something is going to have to change for them to breakthrough into the title game IMO.

10 - 2 Loss to either LSU or OUsux, loss to one of ISU / Baylor.

The most important Big XII game in September might be ISU @ Baylor. I'm really high on ISU, because I think they will have their OL issues, if not solved, then significantly improved. The Cyclones have TCU, OSU, and Texas at home this year, with OU / Baylor / Tech on the road. If ISU wins that game they, they have a really good chance at making the Championship game. If Baylor were to somehow pull that upset off however, then they would most likely be 7 - 1 or 8 - 0 ( depending on the OSU game ) going in to their brutal 3 week stretch of @ TCU, OU, UT. One of those two teams is gonna have the inside track to the Championship game because of easy scheduling. With the news that Delton is is gonna be TCU's starter, it's just hard for me to think that team is getting over 8 wins.

This team is so fucked. No first round next season and they are wedded to Dak. They are gonna overlay that worthless fucker and Dallas won’t see the playoffs for 5 years. im so fucking depressed

Good Lotd that’s the 4th 50 / 50 call that gone our way. Badly need points in this drive because that won’t hold up in the second half.

And this is where I disagree, I think it's the other way round. S&P+ has their offense at 22 overall, but their defense is an abysmal 107 ( again, the linebackers for them are walk on quality ). The UT defense hasn't shown me anything this year to make me think Baylor is going to be held under the mid~20s. For this to be a 2 TD+ spanking, Texas is gonna need to get into the 40s. I think they can pretty easily do that, and that's most likely what will happen!

You know S&P+ has this as a 10 point game right? 37 - 27?

this is correct

The more I've thought about this game the more nervous I get. UT won't go turnover~less forever, and the offense is due for one of those games where Sam tosses a pick + the ball gets put on the ground twice and by bad luck the defense picks it up. Turnovers, ( fumbles especially ) as one of those things that tends to revert back to the mean "suddenly", as in you might go 4 games without putting the ball on the ground, then have one game where you do it 4 times. Baylor's linebackers are so bad that it just might keeping them from being able to compete at all, and that is certainly the most likely outcome here. Their front 7 couldn't hold up against Duke so I don't think they can hold up tomorrow. The most likely result is UT just breaking off ~5 big plays and pulling away late as they have to abandon the run game and the defense can T off on the pass. I also think there is a real chance (~33%) Baylor goes +2 in turnovers and we are shitting bricks on Saturday with a one score game with 5 minutes left.

Hurd is a better WR than Mims. Mims is still a mediocre route runner and has a bad tendency to drop easy balls. Hurd is already a much better route runner and is more consistent catching the ball, but he isn't as explosive as Mims.

Last year was a complete mirage as their offensive line was so unbelievably bad that the only offense they could muster was the 4th and 18 Madden Hail Mary. When the only way you can score is to just throw it deep and hope something happens, your big plays are artificially inflated in ways that don't reflect your offensive output. Baylor doesn't really run much Power run game in 2018 outside of 3rd / 4th and short, where they go with a 23 / 22 package and an I formation w/ Hurd as the HB ( they are really good in those situations ). Their OL is not fixed yet and they can't execute the zone scheme that Rhule clearly prefers yet, but it is much much better than 2017. That's the reason for their offensive inconsistencies. In terms of pure scheme, Rhule / Nixon clearly want to be "multiple" and game plan for the opponent, which could not be more different than the Briles approach of running the same ~12 plays against literally everyone in literally every situation. So against Duke and their quality front 7 they spent the entire game on rollouts and runs the stretch the defense horizontally. If their WRs could catch, they would have put up a lot more points / yards. Against K-State they pulled the TE off the field, spread them out, then pulled their OL constantly into the Boundary to get an OL matched up against a Safety ( KState ran a lot of Sky in that game ). Baylor ran for something like 260 yards and over 5.0 YPC without getting Brewer involved in the run game. Against Texas, you can be assured they will try to scheme against whatever they consider the weakness of the defense and avoid whatever they consider the strengths. The problem for Baylor is that I don't think they have the weapons yet to really take advantage of that ( stretch vertically, Brewer doesn't have a strong arm, play with 12 / 21 packages against the Lightening Package, they don't have the TE depth, hold up on long developing pass plays, their OTs are still a work in progress ).

Bad throw, bad catch. i hate this team so much.

I don't know how any Cowboys fan thought they would get a stop. I'm honestly happy it wasn't at the 50 second mark. Dallas drive the length, missed FG w/out Bailey. That's my call.