Burt Macklin

How can you say this about a guy who’s never attempted a pass? Wright seems to have progressed along enough to where he could be a capable backup if need be in 2023.

Is this sarcasm? He’s god awful at blocking.

Did you tell him he forgot to include the quotation marks?

And a high 4.5 would be very disappointing to scouts for a first round RB, like the OP said.

Any mock draft that has Anthony Richardson as the second QB taken isn’t worth reading.

you have it backwards. They were saying the timeline would mean he could play.

Obviously, but the point was that 80% of the games we've played so far have been against average to be below average offenses, so using unadjusted YPP 5 games into the season isn't very meaningful. On the strength of schedule part, since we're only talking about defense, outside of Bama the best offense we've faced is 37th in the country and ULM is as bad at offense as Bama is good, so those two somewhat cancel each other out. Most of the offenses we have left to face will be better than the ones we've seen (besides Bama). ISU is the only one I can think of off the top of my head that's worse. This is interesting data, but it's still a little early to rely on since most teams have only played two conference games so far. The difference in YPP versus points per drive is pretty huge. I'd have to think it's a big outlier compared to most teams. Normally, I'd expect our 3rd and 4th down conversion rate on defense to come back towards the mean and say the YPP is more predictive, but with our specific DC's penchant for terrible play calling on critical 3rd and 4th downs, I'm skeptical that it will barring a coaching or coaching philosophy change. Basically this. It seems like a situational coaching deficiency, as opposed to bad luck on critical downs this season. We'll see. I'd be very happy to see us stop giving up these plays.

We’ve played ULM, UTSA, WVU, and Tech. We’ve had a very easy schedule so far so unadjusted numbers will be inflated. Plus yards per play isn’t all that meaningful when you can’t get off the field on 3rd and 4th down because of your DC’s scheme choices. If our defensive 3rd and 4th down conversion rates regress to the mean, then our D will be much better, but I don’t think they will barring coaching decisions changing because it hasn’t been bad luck that teams keep converting. It’s playing 2 high and off coverage on 3rd and 4th downs, giving up easy conversions.

The problem between Jimbo and Henson is that one of them knows how to coach and develop a good OL and the other guy is an egomaniac who wants everything done his way despite a mountain of evidence it doesn’t work. I think you might be able to figure out which guy is still at A&M.

Got dam. There were some real gems in this thread. Idk what’s funnier. Picking us to only win 3 games or picking the third win to be TCU.

It’s absolutely wild how much the Ferrari has been chewing through its tyres since summer break. They have the same pace as the first half of the season, but their tyre deg is god awful so they fall off hard at the end of stints. Once again, Ferrari comes out of the box with a fast car and then develops in the wrong way, actually managing to make their car worse throughout the season. Absolutely ridiculous for a team with their resources.

For which team?

I agree that we can live with the level of play we’re getting from each position group right now, especially the DTs overall and our whole front 4 in Run D, from a level of play perspective. The problem is when you combine their level of play with how often we are at a massive schematic disadvantage. Way too often our scheme doesn’t even give our guys a chance to make a play. We’re constantly 7-10 yards deep and bailing on critical 3rd and 4th downs. PK doesn’t even give our defense a chance to get a stop in those situations. Last night, WVU had a critical 3rd and 6 where we did exactly that. Thankfully they ran a draw, but if Daniels had thrown it, they had an easy curl route right at the sticks to the slot receiver with no defender near him. We’ve seen that happen over the last two years. It’s truly inexplicable at this point. Our defensive personnel is good enough for us to win plenty of games this year. Unfortunately, they’re not good enough to make up for all of PK’s dumbassery.

What are you talking about? It wasn’t an overthrow. Card under threw it inside so Roschon had to move to his right to have a chance to catch it. It was a god awful throw with no pressure and a wide open receiver.

Has there ever been a time where Max doesn’t get helped by a safety car? I swear every single one seems to work in his favor.

Charles gets pole in Monaco and Singapore and both races have torrential rain and changing conditions just begging Ferrari to completely fuck up. The man cannot catch a break.

And that is why Kitan Crawford is a backup.

Jamie r Johnson has been getting killed in coverage all year.

And again our DBs are 7 yards off on 4th and 5.

Good Lord, Card. Make the fucking throw.

Yep. Terry Joseph has never been known to be a particularly good coach of the position.

It’s not just that. Our back 7 still doesn’t understand how to play zone and pass guys off even in quarters, which is a base scheme. These are coaching issues, not talent issues.

That would’ve been an easy 3rd down conversion if they threw. We played 10 yards off and bailed. Their slot WR had no one near him on a curl at the first down yardage.