Posts posted by closetojumping
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1 hour ago, Newy25 said:
We addressed the defensive line with a sense of urgency this offseason that was missing on the offensive line. Presumably because Sark and Flood thought that the players that have been in the program have developed well enough to play at a high level. What is painfully obvious now is that Stroh and Hutson (and by extension Neto since Stroh beat him out) are not anywhere near the standard we are holding our roster management on defense at.That doesn’t mean Flood needs to get fired or that Baker is a bust this early in his career but we failed to recognize that 3rd and 4th year players are not nearly as good as we need them to be. That’s a failure of Flood’s part and pointing that out isn’t wrong IMO.
Comparing OL plug and play from the portal to DTs plugging and playing are two different things. Going and getting a good fit at an OL position to mesh with the rest of the group is one thing, going wholesale into the portal is another. Not only would adding 3-5 guys mean a complete retooling of the starting lineup, but also telling 5-7 guys to hit the fucking road, decimating continuity and development of those on campus.
Everyone on this thread is completely overreacting to the OL play for the first two games. The PFF score might not have been great for some of them against Ohio State, but the unit played well enough to win in that game. They played overall poorly against SJSU, but that's also what this 3 game stint is for - playing up a learning curve. We've seen OL play come together year after year with Flood. Christian Jones and the one giant dude who played for just one year as a 5th or 6th year guy and brags on Flood regularly whose name I forget both showed more in a year under Flood than they had in multiple seasons under prior coaching.
I'm fine with expecting another OT in this class and wish it would be a five person instead of a four person class, so maybe they seek one more guy or two in the portal this cycle, we'll see. Turntine is ready to play from a technique perspective on day one. Is he going to be physically ready? Again, we'll see.
I'm also fine with a bunch of mix and match experimenting at C and LG. I just don't think we're doomed at either spot, nor should not adding a transfer last cycle be viewed as an epic fail.
16 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:Running free from busted coverage doesn’t mean your playing fast or a play concept designed to get you that open doesn’t mean playing fast either. Running shitty routes affects your game speed.
Wingo looks plenty fast on the field. He's gripping and trying to make plays before the ball is secured. If he settles down, he's going to have a big year. The plays are there. That all said, you sound like a fucking idiot with your whines about the guy's speed.
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59 minutes ago, Hard Times said:
What are the OL grades for their OL? It could be better than our experienced OL. I expect it to be like the OSU game, but with them having more downfield passing game. Again, the team with the fewest turnovers/penalties will likely win and that isn't favoring Texas at this point.
I posted those from an article on one of their sites within the last page, so you can see for yourself. They had 2 decent performances and 3 that were dogshit bad, on Stroh levels.
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On 9/8/2025 at 10:17 AM, closetojumping said:Highlights:
-The OL with new roles and new starters, limited in experience, isn't gelling yet. PFF says that several of them are fucking terrible. This will not get fixed or improve.
-Fire Flood.
-Texas lacks explosive players on offense and will have trouble scoring all year.
-Arch Manning throws too many deep balls.
-Arch Manning is completing 50% of his deep balls.
-The game has caught up and passed the Steve Sarkisian offense by, like it was standing still.
-This is not a championship caliber team because of the QB.
-This is not a championship caliber team because of the lack of explosive players on offense.
-This is not a championship caliber team because of the offensive line and Flood.
-This defense isn't stingy enough and apparently gives up too many points.
-The TEs are terrible blockers.
-Nick Townsend is an awesome blocker.
Update:
-After 2 games, it is high time to write off new starters across the OL, including the 5 star redshirt freshman RT. His PFF scores have him below acceptability, and his ass needs to be cut, right now.
-Based on less than 20 snaps of play, it is clear that Nate Kibble needs to be starting at LG. Meanwhile, Connor Stroh and Neto Umeozulu need to be washing towels and uniforms in the locker room to earn the remainder of their scholarship pay.
-No, we mean it, it is high time to fire Kyle Flood. The guy is not developing talent. It's fucking obvious. Do not ask about the 4 guys that just joined NFL rosters.
-We're clearly going to need to land 5! OLs in the transfer portal. What we mean by that is the roster just needs to be fucking flushed, folks.
-It is time to consider that Torre Becton may also be a problem. There's got to be a reason players are not developing on this roster.
-Steve Sarkisian has lost the plot and we're being publicly lampooned for his restroom grimace commentary.
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4 minutes ago, statsman said:
Big 12 crew suspended a week for fucking up Missouri Kansas game
Referee Mike McCabe leads the crew, which also includes Kelly Deterding, Rick Ockey, Brandon Wood, Daniel Young, Matt Burks, and Dion Spenard
Deterding is the asshole that bumped String and then threw a flag.I had that game on, but was focused more on the other 4 I was watching. What was controversial in that game?
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47 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:
Good sir, I will have you know that Massachussetts is in the MAC. They are FBS G5. OU should fucking pummel Temple, but they should have fucking pummeled that FCS team they played in week one as well.
I know that. For some reason, I thought they opened against Bryant. Can't say it changes my POV much, but good catch.
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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Neto seems significantly better than Stroh.
I don't usually go back and watch games again, so this might be off, but I think the first offensive play for Texas featured some absolutely hilarious failure from that tree trunk. He basically just fell forward and touched no one as the played unfolded around him.
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9 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:
I don’t know about him, but I find it good sport.
All of the shit you idiots dismissed is now a factor for your conference.
1) Worrying over the monies and begging for fucking congress to do something so you guys can get access to the same pool of money as the SEC and Big 10.
2) Pressure to schedule better from your media partners because otherwise no one fucking cares about putting you on the major channels until league play. “no one cares about the non-con and we’ll be just fine! right. “
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7 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:
In all seriousness, has anyone checked in on @'stache?
Talk about darkness:
"My message to the fans is to stay with us," Gundy said. "I mean, that's what we do. You know, it's in our alma mater. It's loyal and true. The one thing I can say is I understand we get frustrated. Fans get frustrated. People get frustrated. I don't get frustrated, but I don't like it okay. So there's different ways to handle adversity. People outside the program get frustrated. I get that. I understand. It's just part of competitive athletics."
Tell us more about darkness, because this is all lightness.
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4 hours ago, Skipper said:
Looks like Fasusi graded out ok and looked pretty solid the handful of snaps I focused on him. That's a recruiting loss really going to bite us next year if/when Goosby goes prop.
To be clear, Texas did everything any of us could ask as fans. The NIL matched OU. The guy’s mom wanted him at OU and he preferred OU’s social scene. Texas and recruiting gurus questioned whether he loved football, and how long it would take to get him on the field, but Texas went all-in on him anyway.
Maybe we regret the loss over time, but don’t let anyone revise history. He chose OU because he wanted to play at OU.
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36 minutes ago, Rimbo said:Speak for yourself.
As soon as I started hearing everyone saying "Best team ever?" comments, when we're replacing nearly our entire offense, my bullshit detector went off.
The question y'all need to be asking yourselves is: Why didn't YOURS go off, too?
Name a time when a title contender had to replace most of one side of the ball, and immediately got better.
That’s just a dated way to look at things. Outside of PSU and Clemson, anyone worth reviewing as a title contender had to replace numerous players on one or both sides of the ball. Ohio State? 15 starters. Georgia? 17 starters. The list goes on. LSU? 4 of 5 starting OL, the TE, multiple guys on the front 4, etc.
The portal and NIL have made parity greater and mobility an issue for roster stacking.
This is also why I’m not despondent and declaring the season over. You fucking people should watch other teams play every now and then. Damned near all of the powers and pretenders struggled with weak programs. Texas didn’t look great, but they didn’t look nearly as ugly as some other big names.
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5 minutes ago, texifornia said:
Not that we don't have flaws (oh boy do we), but I'm curious which team out there everyone is eying as "wow they look like swaggering national champs" every single game. Oregon looks good, although they played maybe the most demoralized team in the P4 with a lame duck coach and no QB. UGA and PSU played with their food. Ohio State pummelled an HBCU, which is just sad. I trust LSU, Miami, and FSU to put together a full season not one bit.
Hey, man, what the fuck?
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3 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:
@closetojumping we need an updated response to this news!
What’s to add here? Cream rises to the top. If Moore can’t show progress this season, you can bet your sweet ass that Biff will be in the chair from 2026 until he gets too old to do the work.
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28 minutes ago, Zeus said:
I will immediately regret this, I’m sure, but who is this?
10 minutes ago, locodos said:Unlike posters here, I only speak for myself. Anecdotally, most of the Gators I know don't like Kiffen at all, nevermind as a good fit at UF. I won't pretend to know who the best available coach is, but I keep hearing fans talk about wanting Matt Campbell.
I remember pining for Matt Campbell. It would be interesting experiment. He seems really suited for ISU, but maybe he could kill it in the big time.
@Al_4_ISU will be by here shortly to tell you why he’s not a fit at Florida and you guys should just forget about him.
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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:
How do we take this response
This shoulder injury shit is being manufactured out of whole cloth and a bunch of you are falling for it. Anyone doing the “Arch’s Injury *They* Don’t Want You To Know About” article clickthroughs is making some fatass writer money.
Anyone giving Brooks Austin “The Film Guy” credence for this kind of conspiracy shit hasn’t followed him long enough. He got ratioed on Twitter for doing this with some other major player that happened to be on Georgia’s schedule last year or the year before.
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13 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:
Barnes is a good back. Hard to tackle. It’s dumb that he’s not the starter. Probably will be by Texas.
Huh? He’s been average and overrated for years. He’s not fast enough to get to the edge and not tough enough to run well up the middle. He had a couple of good carries against Michigan and that’s it. He’s had a chance to lock down the starting role for years.
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Defensive grades and snap counts spoilered below.
Highlights:
-Guillory looks really good so far. They don't play legitimate WRs until Auburn, so everyone should pause on anointing him a king, but I doubt anyone in the media will.
-They are struggling to get home in the pass rush.
-The vaunted DL isn't scoring as well as the hype would suggest.
-They're keeping things really tight on who they're letting on the field now. They played 21 guys and the majority of that rotation came with the front 4.
SpoilerOverall defensive grades
(Photo: Stacy Revere/Getty Images, Getty)
Owen Heinecke: 75.2
David Stone: 72.0
Kip Lewis: 70.2
Jayden Jackson: 69.7
Adepoju Adebawore: 69.4
Gracen Halton: 67.4
Courtland Guillory: 65.8
Robert Spears-Jennings: 65.7
Reggie Powers III: 64.9
Sammy Omosigho: 64.3
Kobie McKinzie: 63.6
R Mason Thomas: 63.5
Peyton Bowen: 62.9
Devon Jordan: 62.7
Michael Boganowski: 60.0
Kendal Daniels: 59.6
Marvin Jones Jr.: 58.1
Taylor Wein: 57.7
Damonic Williams: 50.9
Markus Strong: 48.7
Gentry Williams: 47.6
SNAP COUNTS (59 defensive plays)
(Photo: BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, USA TODAY Sports)
Defensive end/edge
R Mason Thomas: 48
Marvin Jones Jr.: 27
Taylor Wein: 24
Adepoju Adebawore: 19
Defensive tackle
Gracen Halton: 24
Damonic Williams: 20
Jayden Jackson: 18
David Stone: 18
Markus Strong: 3
Nose tackle
Damonic Williams: 13
Jayden Jackson: 11
David Stone: 7
Gracen Halton: 2
Markus Strong: 1
Linebacker
Kendal Daniels: 50 (Cheetah)
Kobie McKinzie: 36
Kip Leiws: 36
Owen Heinecke: 23
Reggie Powers III: 16 (Cheetah)
Sammy Omosigho: 16
Cornerback
Courtland Guillory: 59
Gentry Williams: 34
Devon Jordan: 25
Safety
Peyton Bowen: 59
Robert Spears-Jennings: 56
Michael Boganowski: 3
Advanced stats
(Photo: SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, USA TODAY Sports)
Solo stops (individual play that constitutes offensive failure)
Kip Lewis: 5
David Stone: 3
Kobie McKinzie: 3
Sammy Omosigho: 2
Marvin Jones Jr.: 2
Owen Heinecke: 2
Robert Spears-Jennings: 2
Damonic Williams: 2
Kendal Daniels: 2
Devon Jordan: 1
Taylor Wein: 1
Adepoju Adebawore: 1
R Mason Thomas: 1
Gracen Halton: 1
Pressures
Gracen Halton: 3
Jayden Jackson: 2
Sammy Omosigho: 2
R Mason Thomas: 2
Kip Lewis: 2
Courtland Guillory: 1
Kobie McKinzie: 1
Kendal Daniels: 1
Reception rate (catches allowed/targets)
Peyton Bowen: 100% (3/3)
Devon Jordan: 100% (2/2)
Taylor Wein: 100% (1/1)
Robert Spears-Jennings: 100% (1/1)
Gentry Williams: 50% (1/2)
Kendal Daniels: 25% (1/4)
Courtland Guillory: 0% (0/5)
Reggie Powers III: 0% (0/1)
Adepoju Adebawore: 0% (0/1)
Owen Heinecke: 0% (0/1)
Other defensive notes
(Photo: SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, USA TODAY Sports)
-- After playing 29 defensive players in the opener, Oklahoma tightened its rotation to 21 players against Michigan. Two players—Peyton Bowen and Courtland Guillory—played every defensive snap, while two more played at least 50 snaps (Kendal Daniels and Robert Spears-Jennings).
-- Oklahoma had 14 total pressures for the second week in a row but just one sack this time around. Gracen Halton led the team with three pressures, while Jayden Jackson, Sammy Omosigho, R Mason Thomas and Kip Lewis had two apiece.
-- Halton had the best pass-rush grade (72.1) among OU's defensive players. Thomas had the best pass-rush win rate (17.6%), followed by Halton (15.4%), while Omosigho had the highest pass-rush productivity metric (50.0).
-- Oklahoma had a dozen missed tackle against Michigan, with two apiece from Guillory, Daniels and Kobie McKinzie.
-- Spears-Jennings (74.9), David Stone (74.7), Owen Heinecke (74.0), Lewis (73.9) and Adepoju Adebawore (73.8) had the best run defense grades for the Sooners against the Wolverines.
-- Thomas and Heinecke both posted average depth of tackles of minus-2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage in the run game.
-- Guillory was targeted five times in the passing game and did not allow a reception against Michigan. The Wolverines were 0-for-4 when attempting to throw to Donaven McCulley with Guillory in coverage, while they were 0-for-1 on passes intended for Channing Goodwin with Guillory defending. The freshman has allowed one catch for 6 yards on eight targets through two games, as opponents have completed just 12.5% of their passes against him.
-- Brent Venables dialed up blitzes against Michigan freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood on 61.5% of his dropbacks (16-of-26). That's well above the Sooners' average blitz rate (41.4%) since Venables took over as head coach in 2022.
-- Underwood completed just 4-of-14 passes for 71 yards when blitzed. The Sooners got pressure on Underwood on just 10 of his 26 dropbacks (38.5% of the time), but he completed just 1-of-8 passes (12.5%) for 9 yards when under duress. Even when Underwood worked from a clean pocket, Oklahoma limited him to 8-of-16 passing for 133 yards. He was just 3-of-9 passing for 103 yards on throws 10-plus yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
-- Underwood posted an overall grade of 42.9. Since 2014, when PFF began tracking data, only one freshman quarterback has posted an overall grade better than 65.0 against a Venables defense (Wake Forest's Kendall Hinton in 2015).

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Questionable this week for Bama's home game against Wisconsin in which Bama is currently favored by 21.5 points:
-WR Ryan Williams (concussion)
-RB Jam Miller (shoulder) - Deboer said he will probably play this weekend.
-DT Tim Keenan (Ankle/Tightrope Surgery) - unlikely
-OLB Jah-Marien Latham (lowerl leg injury) - unlikely