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Professor Chesney

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  1. This would be weird because the one knock on Hudson coming out was speed. As good as he is/was, he’s not a burner and actually went out of his way to avoid running 40s at camps and events. If anything he’s like a smaller, more polished Kaliq Lockett
  2. USC came out in a Bear front against Michigan for a lot of the second half and Bear only played 21 snaps for the entire game. There is a joke to be made here, but thinking of one is too much effort so I’m just going to quit halfway and enter the portal,
  3. There has been a lot of chatter about how our DL, and specifically Trey Moore, do not have enough sacks and have generally been underwhelming in the pass rush. I don’t think people realize just how few true sack opportunities there have been so far this season. Opposing offenses, because of a combination of lack of passing ability and the sound defensive play of our back 7, are avoiding lengthy drop backs and instead scheming up quick passes or rollouts that do not give our line traditional sack opportunities. Looking at Trey Moore’s snaps in the ULM game as an example, there was arguably just one play where he could have been in position to make a sack or a pressure (2:00 left in second quarter). On all other passing plays: he was double teamed (1 time on the A. Hill sack), the pocket rolled or QB scrambled away from his side (3), the pass was out in <1 sec (3), or he was in coverage responsibility and not rushing (2 times). Everything else was a run play. I don’t think we can truly gauge our pass rush ability until probably the OU game. That said, Simmons and Vasek do look far more dynamic in the pass rush than Moore in a limited sample size.
  4. Exited to see folks. Bringing some normies as well
  5. Is Kevin Wynn still a possibility? Or has something has come out about him not being interested? People only care about Zion Williams because he is a top DL in Texas during a super down-year at the position. If Zion played high school ball in Colorado, no one would even know his name.
  6. Good point. Fixed
  7. All the more impressive when you realize: 1) UT played #10 Michigan 2) Miami played FCS Florida A&M 3) Clemson played Aggie nemesis App State 4) UF played FCS Samford 5) A&M played FCS Mcneese state
  8. While I’d love you to be right, I’d tap the brakes a little bit on these results. From what I understand this staff heavily dedicates practice time and game planning to future significant opponents with the thought that their basic offensive and defensive systems will get them past lesser opponents. Last year they were allegedly using a portion of every other practice to prepare for the Texas game. I’d be shocked if they weren’t doing the same thing this year to some extent (although they probably should be spending time prepping for Tennessee). Pushing out Gabriel for Arnold is still laughable and completely indefensible.
  9. I mean, Lagway committed to Florida without any proof they can both train and utilize a QB in some meaningful way. It is not a stretch to think he’d go to A&M for seven figures a year.
  10. Those picks (from the LSU mods and then Fong) appear to be from early-mid August, before Texas and other teams began emerging and applying pressure, and his recent quotes seem to show he is open to taking visits in the fall. LSU, fwiw, has already used their OV. https://www.on3.com/db/walter-mathis-jr-158154/
  11. Neither of those hold a candle to one of the most hallowed SEC rivalries of the last decade: Texas A&M vs South Carolina. If it wasn’t so important, why would TexAgs insist that annual game be protected and continued? it just means more.
  12. This is the most amazing part: he had every opportunity to succeed, ostensibly gave it his best effort, and still busted purely through his own merits. At least some busts can point to off the field shenanigans, not taking the game seriously enough, or coaching turmoil. None of that applies here, dude just sucks and wasted the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on him by Clemson/FSU. You couldn’t ask for a better situation to develop, either. Clemson had developed two first round QBs in row (Watson & Lawrence) and was as stable and talented an environment as anywhere in CFB. He couldn’t hack it there, and then was fortunate enough to land at a phenomenal situation at OSU. Even with all of that, he stayed a below-average college QB. There’s no “what if” for DJU. If you randomly played out his career 10 times, this is probably the best version of himself.
  13. That is particularly interesting because a favorite compensation to average or tired D-Line play is to blitz, a tendency we are all too unfortunately familiar with during the Todd Orlando years. And Martindale has a fetish for blitzing. Martindale historically called blitzes at the highest rate in the NFL, with some years as high as >50%! For context, the average NFL blitz rate is typically in the 20s, which is probably why John Harbaugh gave him the boot. Even when you have a franchise with a stellar front office like the Ravens, who can acquire and develop talent better than most, that high of a blitz rate just doesn’t make sense. Michigan shouldn’t need to blitz week 1 to win. If they do, then you know Martindale can’t help himself and Quinn will be seeing 5-6 coming at him every other play in week 2.
  14. If you have to piggyback off of someone’s early evaluations, Matt Rhule is a pretty good choice. Still, 255lbs is far lighter than the other prospects we’ve been looking at. Would be interested to see the DL board after all of these offers.
  15. But for real, is it possible or do I have to log into a pc browser to do it? This Spyder2Y spam is unbearable
  16. If anyone else was curious, these are indeed true freshmen and true sophomores. Not a great recipe for success, but they did beat out more senior backups.
  17. Maybe Miami can use some of that NIL to pay more fans to attend their games.
  18. This will be interesting because each of the LSU, A&M and Texas sites frame themselves in the top two, if not the slight outright favorite (with A&M $9.95ers being the most egregious). I think the LSU and A&M sites have a habit of this in general—LSU out of arrogance born from historical success and A&M for some unknown reason, maybe fear of letting down their masses? But for Williams it seems like each group legitimately believes they will win out. I wonder if the family is telling each camp what they want to hear.
  19. What’s more important: (A) giving the Tuscaloosa Times reporter one of the best seats in the stadium, or (B) generating tens of millions of new dollars that help fund scholarships for outstanding academic students, pay professor salaries, and IMPROVE THE ACTUAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM YOU ARE WATCHING? Come on man.
  20. I’m optimistically taking this to mean that Guillette is developing nicely at LB and they don’t want to stunt that development unless they truly have to.
  21. Is it possible to put posters on ignore from a mobile? Can’t for the life of me figure out how
  22. I think you picked up on something but might be reaching the wrong conclusion. It looks to be more of a 50/50 than last month, but Gerry might not think that is ultimately a good thing for Texas. Reading between the lines, it sounds like there are some concerns about Fasusi’s work ethic/mindset that Gerry cannot come out and say in the open because (a) his business requires maintaining positive relationships and (b) it would look really bad if he does indeed commit to Texas. He compared Fasusi to Laremy Tunsil, but followed with something along the lines of “without the same can’t miss frame and athletic ability.” Which makes it an interesting comparison. or I could be reading into it too much.
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