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Katfid54

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  1. Cook is out for the 1st half of the La Tech game due to the targeting penalty from Georgia. Boyce "starting" week 1 doesn't necessarily indicate anything about Boyce vs. Cook.
  2. Looks more like Jamaal Charles to me.
  3. Don't want any of my comments to come across as putting Fillinger down or saying that I don't think he's a good prospect. I'm super excited about him. With his size and aggression, I think he's going to be what everyone thought Fitzgerald could turn into.
  4. Gifing one more play, because it's gorgeous. Here's a beautiful run blitz, where Fillinger stunts inside, then uses his leverage to fight back outside to bust through and stop an inside zone.
  5. Maybe. Although I can't tell much height difference between the dude in clip 1 vs. the dude in clip 2. One thing that I'll throw out is that in the second clip, Fillinger has an assignment--he's run a "TE" stunt with DE lined up outside him. Because of that, he knows his first move is a press, and his second move is to disengage and loop outside the end, who is crashing inside the tackle. I could hypothesize from the highlight video that Fillinger is really good when he has a specific job/stunt to perform. In times that he's asked to read and react, he is a step slower to respond, losing the benefit of his length. Examples: On the first clip, there's no stunt or assignment--he appears to just have B gap responsibility and, once he sees pass, he begins to pass rush. In the time he uses to react to the play, though, he stands up and runs into the guard, who he then has to press back off of himself as he makes a pass rush move. The second clip is the TE stunt. He knows exactly what to do, and he executes it violently: Here's some other plays from his highlights where he clearly has a rushing assignment--to show how well he plays when Here's him running the T portion of an NT twist. Watch how well he uses his hands here to ward off OL who try to lay a hand on him: Here, he's running a pretty simple "Blood" stunt from the B gap into the A gap. Look at how well he uses his hands here (although his pad level leaves something to be desired as he's splitting the Center/Guard): And here are two other plays where has no obvious assignment other than to play the B-gap: This one is against the same guy as the TE stunt. It's quintessential high school talent domination, where he runs up on the kid and presses him back.
  6. One thing Fillinger will have to work on is consistently using his good length to keep OL at bay. There are several highlights in that clip where he lets the OL get into his pads before pressing them off. That's all well and good when you're massively stronger and bigger than everyone else, but it doesn't translate to the next level. But compare this clip, where he lets an OL get all the way into his chest: With this clip, where he keeps his arms fully extended, then rips past the OL (and enjoy the hell out of seeing the OL get shucked to the ground): There's a caveat here that this is a common problem among high school D-lineman, so this isn't a huge concern with Fillinger. Some coaches/evaluators describe it as DL who "catch" the OL before making a move, which is what Fillinger does sometimes.
  7. Honey, I'm home:
  8. I wish I was Eaton her out.
  9. Candi walked away from Jimbo. I thought that was known?
  10. Pretty sure Alderaan got blown up a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
  11. My words were:
  12. Can't wait to see them after an offseason with Yancy.
  13. i dunked my balls in your mom's basket last night
  14. True, although this version of the play gets to the edge faster than the version used in that 2015 offense. In 2015, the offense relied almost exclusively on jet motion to counter off of. That requires the ball to be snapped while the jet action is still on the opposite side of the football from the where he's ultimately going to end up. See below (although there's no GT motion by the OL; they just block inside zone): In fact, the ball gets snapped while Marcus Johnson is only just getting to the tackle box. Then, once the ball is snapped, there's still the mesh point of the handoff. What's the import of all those additional steps? It gives the defenders more time to recover from false steps (although there aren't many made by OU here) while still being able to defend both the QB run and the jet motion. Compare that to how Luke Brockermeyer's two false steps cost him the ability to make it to the hole to defend against the QB GT RPO. And even if the play is defended perfectly, an LB with less athleticism than Kirk Johnson won't be able to beat Johnson to the flat before his is already turning upfield: But here's the pre-snap box count and blocking assignments against OU: They've got six in the box, PLUS an overhang defender and safety with clear run responsibilities. We run the play right into the teeth of the defense, where they have numbers advantage and speed advantage. On paper, that play probably should have been a loss of two yards. But the two defenders who get to Johnson happen to be shitstain Sooners, so they obviously blow the tackle, and Johnson waltzes into the end zone. There is even an unblocked safety from the field side who has a better angle to the sideline than Johnson does, because our formation has kept the box count high and not spread the defense out. Compare that to what the box looks like when we run Herman's QB GT against UGa in the Sugar Bowl: A huge part of the difference in those defensive alignments is obviously the competence of our passing game in 2018 vs. 2015. But another big part of it is that we are putting less of our players near the football and spreading the defense out more, making them account for more grass on the football field.
  15. Between that, the empty set QB power package we ran against TCU last year, and our QB sweep/QB draw/etc. plays, yes, there's a lot we could do with Thompson to just make sure we can (in Herman's words) "get out of a game" if we needed him. With that said, all reports on Thompson are that he's progresses sufficiently that we won't have to rely on a limited package of plays with him if he's needed.
  16. Thread got me like:
  17. I think there will be a lot more 10 and 20 personnel than last year.
  18. Watching the UGa gif Machinator posted even demonstrates that out of 11 personnel. Watch #30 clearly lining up over Beck. It's obvious that he's in man. Based on the alignment of the rest of the defense, its pretty clear they're either in a man 2 or cover 4 look. So, yes, I agree that this look and some presnap motioning can make pretty clear what the "right" RPO read is going to be.
  19. That does it, mom! I'm moving to Tomball and never coming back!!!
  20. And a hearty handshake.
  21. One more clip of Braun from Clemson, where Braun basically dumpsterfucks Clemson's backup NG:
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