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If everyone gets the joke, how can we know we’re elite?
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They’d have to come up with $$$ for Venables and whoever replaces him.
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Doctor…four hours…etc.
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3-4 man front also risk giving Jeanty an inside crease. Pedo isn’t Iowa St. The don’t need to play 3 high and bring an extra defender from depth.
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Tell me don’t know Hugh Freeze without telling me you don’t know Hugh Freeze.
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I like the 50 front that Pedo is using. Every inside gap is filled by a physically superior defender. Turn the big, powerful runner towards the sideline.
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I wake up to find this thread overrun with slut pics. Thank you guys!
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They were over 80% gap blocking by the last game.
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I alluded to #0 Jordyn Tyson earlier. He was lost for the season against Arizona and it’s hard to overstate his importance to the ASU offense. Prior to his injury Tyson had 75 catches for 1101 yards and 10 TDs. This was over 40% of total receiving yards and 60% of production from the WR position. Troy Omire (3-19 this season) started the CCG in his place. The most productive receiver that will play in the Peach Bowl is speedy #1 Guillory: 19 catches, 320 yards and 5 TDS. On 3rd downs, I expect ASU to look for TE #7 Metayer: 29 catches, 290 yards, 5 TDs. The RBs role in the passing game is mostly around the LOS: screens, swing passes and check downs. Skataboo is 37-506-3. The backup is Lancaster’s Kyson Brown: 12-175-1. Tyson was the only receiver who could plausibly demand double coverage. I don’t think any of the rest can make Texas distort its scheme to account for them. He’s an enormous loss in both production and scheme.
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He’s Klubnick with less experience and fewer weapons downfield.
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ASU fans have every reason to be pleased with this year and optimistic about the future. This team has far exceeded expectations and coaching has made it more than the sum of its parts. Based on class and portal rankings, ASU has talent in the top 30-40 range. Yet here they are in the CFP.
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PFF released their Peach Bowl preview. Major points: Almost a quarter of ASU’s passes are screens. Ant Hill has 92.5 coverage grade against screens. His 13 tackles against screen passes are the most by any LB in the country. ASU’s OL will have pulling in both directions on some plays. Ed note: I’ve seen some of the stuff we see from Sark from Dillingham also. Texas creates early contact, 1.6 yds avg but misses too many initial tackles. ASU DL is #100 in run defense grade. Utah is the only team they’ve seen that runs a lot of OZ and they averaged over 5 YPC. Texas has the best pass blocking grade in the country. ASU has the 3rd worst pass rushing grade, plus they rarely blitz. Ewers is #86 in passing grade from a clean pocket, much worse under pressure. ed note: This is why Texas needs explosive plays or a strong running game. ASU has 16 INTs this year. Texas is the top secondary in stopping downfield throws. Texas may have best overall line play in FBS. The lines for ASU are the weakest part of their O and D.
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Pretty sure I saw this on a float in San Francisco once.
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They are a gape scheme offense.
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The defensive averages seem to mask real vulnerabilities on the ASU defense. The better running teams were able to pile up yards on the ground. UCF was ranked #6 in rushing. They ran for 177 at 4.8 yards per carry. #12 KSU: 154 total, 6.2 YPC #14 KU: 152, 4.6 #16 Texas St: 132, 4.3 #37 Cincinnati: 191, 5.0 The rest of the schedule were mediocre to poor at running the ball: #62, 69, 73, 87, 88, 98, 114 and 119. While Texas is nominally the #49 running teams, that has been compiled against a pretty rugged schedule. I feel comfortable saying the Longhorn running game is at least the equal of KU or Texas State. 😛 AZ St played a very weak schedule overall. 6 conference opponents had losing records, plus they played the worst team in the SEC: winless MSU; then Wyoming and Texas State. I don’t know how much credence to give stats and results when ASU’s opponents have been so poor. They face a huge jump in competition this week
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Basically they are. They do a decent job of pass protection as long as play action is a realistic threat. I’m curious to see what 3rd and long looks like especially against the Texas edge rushers.
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True. SEC linemen tend to be huge on both sides of the ball. ASU’s starting OL are 325, 315, 310, 320 and 315, with a 255 pound TE. While they are smaller than most SEC equivalents, I would not characterize them as undersized at all.
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ASU Defense plays a base 4-2-5 Nickel and the safeties are the strength of the D. Coverage is primarily zone from a cover 2 shell. They try to disguise coverage and gap responsibilities with pre and post snap movement. Small front 6 is built to create pressure on spread passing teams and cover RBs out of the backfield The DL is severely undersized compared to what Texas is used to facing. DTs go about 290 each. DEs are in the 240 range. I expect they will be able to use speed and quickness to compensate for a few drives: run blitzes, slants, stunts. They will slow down with fatigue but Texas OL won’t get any smaller as the game wears on. They don’t have a lot of depth at DT and we can aggravate that by going tempo and preventing substitution within drives. LBs are fast but also undersized. Both starters are 220 lbs. They have the speed to cover Wisner as a receiver but not Blue. Gunnar Helm is going to be a rough assignment for somebody. I expect the LBs to give a good account of themselves early until the Texas OL can get to them consistently on combo blocks. Also if they are running to exchange gap responsibilities, they can muddy up the blocking but have less attention to spare for reading and avoiding the block. Secondary: this is the strength of the D, or half of it is anyway. The corners are undersized (sorry I keep repeating myself): 175 and 185, both 5’11”. They mostly play off the outside receivers in a zone scheme. The safeties have a big job in this defense and Xavion Alford is probably the best player on this side of the ball. He and the other safety have to clean up a lot of the mess created by the planned chaos around the LOS. The 2nd best player on the D is NB Shamari Simmons. He plays near the LOS like an overhang LB much of the time. They blitz him accordingly and he’s the most disruptive defender. He’s frequently asked to support the run. Unfortunately for ASU, he’s out for the 1st half for Targeting in the Big12 CCG. The ASU defense is unorthodox but it’s mostly worked for them this season: #24 pass efficiency, #38 run defense (YPC, #27 per game). But it worked in a league that was down compared to prior years. Also, given the amount of disguise and confusion, this defense creates surprisingly few big plays. They have only 21 sacks and 57 TFLs for the season. It seems they disrupt offenses just enough to keep them somewhat off schedule. I see a few really severe matchup problems for ASU here. Off coverage from the corners creates space for Sark’s screen game and for the Texas athletes to make a man miss. I’m not sure the Sun Devils have the personnel to press even if they wanted to. The Front 4 is giving up 60 pounds per man and our TEs being bigger than their DEs makes it a lot harder for them to set the edge even blocking straight up. The smaller LBs behind the small DL may have really ugly conflicts with RPO. ASU seems unlikely to be able to stop the run from base defense. They didn’t even try that against the Big 12.
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Running Back and OL Lots of hype here. Skataboo feasted on bad run defenses this season. The best was #29 KSU, who gave up 78 yds at 2.9 per carry to Skataboo. After that #31 UCF faced the backup only; #37 Utah: 159 total, 7.2 YPC; #46 BYU: 148, 5.3 YPC; #65 Texas St: 70 total, 2.6 YPC. The rest of their slate was terrible defending the run: #74, 76, 87, 98, 102, 111, 128, 129. It’s hard to know how much is due to ASU strength and how much to opponents weakness. The OL has good size and the scheme is mostly gap blocking: Lead, power and counter. They like to run GT Counter. It’s slow developing yet most opposing defenses have not been able to make them pay. Texas has a much better run defense than anything ASU has faced. QB: Leavitt is a very talented dual-threat. I see him as very similar in talent to Klubnick though with less experience. He has a lot fewer weapons in the passing game. Their TE is solid but the WRs are JAG-ish. Like Klubnick, we will have to account for Leavitt in the running game. The truly outstanding thing about ASU’s offense is ball security. They have turned the ball over only 8 times all season: 5 INTs and 3 of 5 fumbles lost. They don’t create a lot of TOs but they give away so few that their margin is still +14.
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This is strange matchup for the CFP. Like Clemson, ASU doesn’t seem to belong on power ranking. They too emerged from a multi-team pileup to win their conference. There is a large talent gap in this game, most notably on the lines. You can see it in the undersized front 6 for ASU and the lack of standout players on the OL and receiver corps. Without #0 Tyson, I would say Clemson is better at TE and all 3 WR spots. Leavitt is a good, dual threat QB and Skataboo is one of the best RBs in the country this year. They just don’t have a strong supporting cast. The defense is a study in contrasts. They play a 4-2-5 base nickel and the safeties are called on to do a lot. The other 9 defenders are undersized and built to play B12 spread passing teams. D philosophy is bend, don’t break and they use movement and quickness to confuse blocking assignments. The results are decent: 3.82 YPC and #27 nationally per game, #38 per carry. In pass efficiency D, the Devils rank #24. For the second game in a row, Texas should have the advantage on Special Teams. ASU is average at punter and return teams. The FG kicking is a real adventure. They have a miss inside of 30 yards, 2 of 4 30-39 and 3 of 7 40-49 with a long of 47. There are a lot of details to add but I wanted to start with a summary to provide a framework for discussion.
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The big question is can Texas defend the run as well as K-State did. If not… Doomed!
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41-16 Horns 210 rushing yds
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I expected him to be taller…
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Obsession with Horns + Can’t Get It Up
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Not exactly the prototypical DT body type, but he does get shit done. Good eval in the portal. Body by Rick Ross.
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