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Ok, this falls in line with my personal feelings as a fan. The O line generally did improve over their play vs OU, but neither me or anyone else can say whether it had to do with personnel, or simply a different set of opponents and challenges, or both. Either way, I felt the game vs OSU was lost at the QB position, and the 2nd half offensive struggles came mainly from Casey not mentally recovering from the pick six. Combined with a very active and veteran linebacker group smelling blood in the water, and good field position play by OSU, we would have needed exceptional play from the line, and that's a tough ask at this point. Also, good tight ends do absolute wonders for an offense in this position. Herman fools gold strikes again

First off, I'm not a big stats guy and I don't pay much attention to PFF. Seems like they're good for adding information to a discussion, and that's it. Some of my comments on what you stated though, as much as we all love Bijan he is average to below average in pass protection. Maybe a lot of it is communication with the QB on protection sets, but bottom line is the starting RB position isn't adding much on passing or play action. He has to see the field though so let's work around all that somehow. Another nitpick is he moves early on nearly every snap and it's starting to get egregious, but I digress. Tight ends are also very spotty across the board... Nothing new there. And the skill players like Moore had bad drops cuz he kinda sucks and Worthy well he got blasted on several screens probably because the OSU corners were way bigger, and older. Idk haven't looked at PFF I'm just posting while sick and should be sleeping As for your 2nd paragraph, OU is flat out superior to OSU on the DL... Doesn't that factor in to why guys are grading out worse vs a better opponent? Or is that supposedly accounted for? Truly not sure what or how PFF arrives at their numbers Lastly, what did the QB get as rating?

Nothing about the quote restricts it to 2022, could be 2021, like Casey Cain

How many 5 stars do you think we have?

Pretty much everyone is right to some degree. Overall the talent and roster holes have hamstrung both sides of the ball because we have system coaches, asking them to not be what they are for their entire careers is folly. Maybe blame the geniuses at the very top that fell for the "3 straight top 10 classes" fools gold that Herman left behind and then hired these guys. As if we have NFL players in the rough lying around and just need a good playcaller to make it all hum. Probably a waste of time. The truth has always been rebuild to win and especially just to compete with the upcoming SEC move. As for the OSU loss, the red zone pick six is FAR and away the biggest reason we lost, and having thrown 2 red zone pick sixes since April is kind of a major deal. Institutional pressure to win at all costs in year one probably fueled a premature QB change and now we're pretty screwed. The best incumbent quarterbacks in the league would get benched with a quickness by their coaches if they threw red zone pick sixes in a critical conference game, at home no less. Will we? Seems as though we are now ride or die with Thompson. I see more 100% to 0% swings for the offense, and a defense that fulfills their individual and collective responsibilities in part and never in full.

I'd love it if he could even have Case's midrange accuracy

Agreed on Weigman, although the Ewers mess convoluted all of that for long enough that Weigman got taken off the table. Plenty of posters on here as well keep bringing up the MLB draft bullshit, but of course, that will prove to be hot air. I do like Murphy, I think he's a better take than the last several Herman takes, but the lack of dominance in HS has to be accounted for. If Devin Brown flips, and the Manning sweepstakes continue to trend well, then I would say he has surpassed 4 years of Herman in the QB front in less than a year

D'shawn Robinson

Welp, time to go drop a log

Not much because Florida lost too

Foster and Coburn were overrated by the services and I firmly believe that, no copium, always have. As for development, yeah it's sucked by and large with some exceptions during Strong and Herman years. We've all known and accepted that yet plenty of chucklefucks think a new coaching staff is fraudulent if they don't take a team full of underdeveloped projects straight to a conference title in year one. Even as bad as the last two losses have felt, there's been notable coaching progress with regards to special teams and penalty accrual, ref fuckery notwithstanding. Hell even the fact we lead at any point over teams that would have us chasing them frantically in the 4th quarter under Herman is progress. As for Tyler Johnson vs Delance, the latter was a Charlie guy and he left when the regime cratered and he saw no future for himself at Texas, good for him. Stability is important, relationships are important, evaluation is important, development is important; let's give Sark a chance rather than be reactionary fucks after 7 games that think we're a proper hire or two away from the playoffs, because that's the easy rationale

Tech, sadly for them, didn't even try to do any of the things this line struggles with. Their defensive gameplan was laughable and they got blown out accordingly

Our only one is Cole Hutson

I believe there are zero guys on the team now that remember Strong or any of his assistants. The roster, and all that comes with them, with the exception of the summer portal arrivals, are guys Herman recruited and coached. If you want to get into the weeds of team psychology or something, maybe there's something to be said about PK being up in the booth and to my knowledge, with Sark and Flood having their hands full on offense and generally being offensive minded, there's no strong sideline presence for the defense to feed off of. This would be less of a problem if we had senior guys who were firm stalwarts and had energy and leadership in spades, but we do not. I would like to see Sark, Flood, add another guy on offense to help them give proper attention to the distinct roles a head coach, offensive coordinator, and line coach, should have. Also would like some sideline accountability for the defensive coaching side until we can turn the roster over with recruiting and the portal.

One of the more consistent trends I see from Herman era recruiting philosophy across all positions is getting guys that exhibit some aspect of their trade well but are glaringly lacking in something else. Because they were clearly god level coaches that would "corch em up!" So we have TEs that look good but spent their time in high school playing QB or receiver, WRs that played RB or can't catch the ball consistently, Safeties that can't tackle, LBs that are safeties but don't know what gap to hit, or in some instances, plain unathletic; QBs that run well but are painfully inaccurate, or not good decision makers, OL that played soccer and somehow that's a positive, mass but no mobility, mobility but no mass, zero fucking balance or desire to blow someone up and on and on... Strong deserves little praise but he stumbled onto some guys that were good at their role on the field. None of the senior leaders on the field right now are commanding presences

If the immediate playing time (specify: in the SEC) pitch isn't front and center, then we're stuck in the driveway

Not a guru by any means. It seems to me though Herman/Hand fucking sucked at recruiting good ready made OL. Not only that but their philosophy for what to develop the line into is very different, if not completely different, from Sark and Floods vision. So Flood has a bunch of fall back scrubs that aren't any good at doing what he's comfortable with. No one in charge seemed to get how much the new regime would have to rebuild from the ground up

Half of your post is on the right track then the stupid shit ruins it.

Speaking of Broughton, he's slouching back on the bench yawning literally seconds before kickoff. Passion for the game is not there for lots of the guys on defense, and very few well rounded players exist on offense

I would've been pulling a Grinch as soon as I got off the plane, if I were Sark and PK

This is exactly why. The entire room has no one you can count on, so the only choice is to play back

He's never ever been a good quarterback. He's a backup tier player that's apparently pretty good at roster politics.

3 straight years.