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Having a guy who can absorb 2 blockers is just death on the running game. Getting a free defender with the kind of athleticism Texas is putting around the ball is going to result in a lot of short gains and TFLs. It's what Poona did for the 2017 team and I hope Coburn can do for 2019.

Ther might not be any stupid questions but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idoits.

Billy Badass is all I can say after watching video highlights.

12-14% is the normal range IIRC.

There's always an uncle...

Kirby has probably concluded (quite rationally) that it's the only field on which he's likely to beat Tom Herman.

Grinch's 2017 year at WSU is way overplayed. The pass defense was pretty average against bad Pac-12 competition (1-8 bowl record). What made the look good was 2 games against truly terrible teams: FCS Montana State and MWC cellar dweller Nevada. High reps with no time to correct mistakes on defense just gives you lots of practice doing things wrong.

Sure Karic looks great. But that drill is easy when you do this for fun:

LSU has an OL problem but I wouldn't characterize the line as bad per se. They are good run blockers in a straight zone scheme most of the time. But they are recruited for their ability to overpower the man in front of them, not their mobility. They have issues preventing penetration, locating smaller defenders in space and pass protecting - especially against speed rushers off the edge. So they are good at their primary job but have some liabilities in other areas that can cause problems at times.

Should have no trouble handling the blitz(krieg).

They were just trying to match the hair...

Not everybody can be as gracious and humble as Steve Spurrier...

LIke an idiot, I missed a couple of paragraphs while C&P my wall of text to Surly. The running scheme is very basic. LSU uses over 90% zone and the large majority is inside zone. They mix in occasional gap blocking in the form of power and counter but that is very much the exception. The workhorse backs last year (Brossette and Edwards-Hilaire) averaged 4.4 YPC. The QB was a small but important part of the running game with 17% of the carries and both the longest run and highest average (adjusted for sacks) of the significant ball carriers. LSU doesn't seem to go in for a lot of trickery, in keeping with their overall theme of keeping things basic on offense. There was exactly ONE pass thrown by a non-QB last season. The WRs carried the ball a little more than once per game. The RBs collectively caught 2 passer per game - about half the rate of the Texas offense. That's unlikely to go up much since they are replacing a senior starter RB with a pair of true freshmen.

First almost is different than actual. Second Kansas was a pretty solid team and Mangino would take them to the Orange Bowl a few years later. So let's not pretend that there is any comparison to 2016 KU which would never have won a single conference game if not for Strong's incompetence.. You've even had to descend to the old soap opera device, the evil twin to even begin to make a case that Mack Brown is in the same universe as Charlie Strong as a terrible coach. Mack's worst year was better than anything Charlie produced at Texas and Strong did it three years in a row.

You're talking about 7-5 KU in 2005 vs the winless in conference KU* of 2016. * winless except for Charlie

If they can get the ball out of the QB's hands quickly on the RPO the offense can create and advantage for themselves. Run blocking other than on obvious passing downs simplifies execution for the OL also. The obvious issue comes when the defense is able to either muddle the read, fool the QB outright or cover the pass option when it looks open pre-snap. That leaves the QB holding the ball behind the LOS and magnifies the problems that an offense faces when the D is able to diagnose the play action fake. The OL don't know if the QB is going to throw or run so they can't release downfield. They'll have a harder time switching to pass blocking than if it was a called play action pass since they are actually run blocking not simulating. Finally the QB doesn't have a set number of steps and spot that he's dropping to so the tackles can't just try to ride a speed rusher past the pocket. For an O-Line that already has trouble stopping defensive penetration, that is likely to be a bad look.

Just so weird. If this is such a sweet setup, why did aggy run away from it? Why do they crow non-stop about running away from it? Will they ever show the tiniest bit of self awareness? Who invented liquid soap and why?

I believe the preferred nomenclature is "French Press"

Is that like the pathological farce meeting the incomprehensible subject?

Thanks. Do you remember who coined the phrase? It slipped my mind and I'd like to properly credit it.

note: The term Fatball was coined by another poster on Surly. I cannot take credit for it but I can categorically state that it is awesome. Fatball™ isn’t just about personnel. It’s an entire philosophy of comprehensive reactionary incompetence on the offensive side of the LOS. This philosophy is the dominant one in the SEC and very common in the B1G. Heavy doses of unimmaginative rushing attacks are mixed with a steady diet of super-short passing – mostly hitches and screens. Those passes are thrown in the hope rather than expectation that the athletes brought in by the bagmen can get a few extra yards and keep the drive alive. This strategy can work fine when the practitioner has a large talent gap over opponents but bogs down against comparable talent. The quintessential game of Fatball™ in 2018 was the UK-aggy game. Neither team was able to complete a pass to a target more than 10 yards downfield. The average completion was probably 2-3 yds past the LOS with a bunch of screens thrown behind the line. As badly as both O-Lines played you can see why the QBs needed to get rid of the ball quickly. They combined for 7 false starts, 10 sacks given up on 50 pass attempts (17% sack ratio) and 17 TFLs in only 125 offensive snaps. This game was a slap fight in the special ed class. The offenses hit “monkey humping a ball” levels of futility. For two supposedly ranked teams it was an embarrassment. UK punted TEN times. Aggy only punted 5 times because they turned it over 3 times: once each on downs, a fumble and an INT. The last score for each team highlighted the incompetence. Mond tried to hit his WR on a quick slant and it bounced off his hands to the TE 5 yards upfield who then scored. aggy tried to run the clock out with the lead but couldn’t hang on to the ball. UK scoops and scores when their offense couldn’t move the ball at all. But don’t worry there is plenty of Fat in this game of Fatball™ as well. The aggy 5 guard cube OL is world famous. The 2018 edition featured 325-315-315-323-315. In a league filled with slow, space eating DL, aggy somehow managed to rank #102 nationally in sacks allowed and #100 in TFLs given up. A lot of the credit has to go to their O-Line. Kentucky started an OL weighing 316-315-310-320-305. They were only moderately fat but made up for it with their lack of quickness and poor lateral movement. The basic problem is that all of these teams in the SEC want an Offensive Line that LOOKS like Alabama’s. In that they’ve succeeded. But with the possible exception of Georgia, none of them have an O-Line that can PLAY like Bama’s. Yes, they’re big and strong. They’re also slow and often clumsy. There are a strictly limited number of 320 lb HS linemen with good feet that can move well. Alabama gets most of them in the SEC. Georgia gets most of the rest. The rest of the conference still wants that big OL and has to sacrifice athleticism to get him. Fatball™ is the inevitable result.