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    Codaxx

    Posted (edited)

    18 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    I'm honestly more worried about how he plays against counter / pulling guards in the run game. Instead of crashing down on the pulling guard to jam the lane up from the outside, he tries to dip inside the guard to put himself in the lane. It happened at least three times on Saturday. I understand wanting to get in the running back's lane, but when he goes inside he gives up contain. It did not look like Gbenda or Blackwell were prepared to trade jobs, and that shit can bite us on the ass with how bad their run fits have been. Maybe Simmons isn't not big enough to effectively crash down, but we can't give up contain like that.  

    At any rate, it's not a huge issue. Burke struggled with it too back in '22 and figured it out soon enough. I'm just picking nits because he's otherwise so good as a true freshman. 

    Edit: Here's an example of what I'm talking about 

     

    He did that a few times. I was wondering if they were teaching him to wrong shoulder the puller (it looked intentional). He also knifed in a couple plays. I am guessing he went 1 for 3 on those. Got 1 TFL and gave up couple decent runs. 

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    Park Gothic

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    8 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    He did that a few times. I was wondering if they were teaching him to wrong shoulder the puller (it looked intentional). He also knifed in a couple plays. I am guessing he went 1 for 3 on those. Got 1 TFL and gave up couple decent runs. 

    Yeah - at first I thought that it must be something they coached him to do, because that's not how you defend counter as the edge. But the LB's didn't seem prepared to keep contain. 

    Although considering which LBs were in at the time, that may be more on them than Simmons. 

    Bodacious Bevo

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    1 hour ago, Park Gothic said:

    I agree with pretty much every thing you've said, but with one caveat. I've watched a bit of his high school tape and all of his snaps at Texas. I think he is actually a sophisticated pass rusher, but is still working out what he can and can't do as a college freshmen. He used the basic rip move pretty well in high school and was happy to bull rush, but has avoided those at Texas, which is probably smart. He's not strong enough (yet) to bull rush most OTs he'll face and the rip move is really more useful after you've gotten tangled up with the tackle - something he's avoided as much as possible. I've haven't really seen him use the swim move in college or high school, but maybe that's because he doesn't like giving the tackle a chance to get under his pads. I think he's been relying primarily on speed rushing because that's the advantage he has at this point in his game and at this level. 

    But I recommend watching his feet. He very good at playing the "game within the game" against the OT across from him. He'll use a stutter step inside in a series after the OT scene a stunt or two, making the OT pause and lean inside just enough to give Simmons an easy path around. He'll also change his pace up from down to down, making it harder for the OT to get into the same rhythm.

    To be clear, he's still playing like a freshman. But his pass rush is probably a little more developed/sophisticated than it seems so far this season.  

    Just to add to this, I recommend watching his third and longhorn interview for those that haven't seen it. He talks about his bag of rush moves and goes into some detail with Alex Okafor. I think he's a pretty advanced rusher. There's only so much to show in five games. 

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    Funk Doctor Spock

    Posted

    Wisner is just getting better and better after watching that clip. He's a man-child. Dude runs between the tackles, has burst, and is a tough SOB. 

     

    Anyway, Simmons is an athletic freak whose ceiling probably won't be reached until he's in the NFL. He'll be almost unstoppable by the end of next year and his JR year. 

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    Dbeasy

    Posted

    Simmons was a really high profile recruit, has played great as a freshman. But man he’s not very big. I don’t know how he will be able to handle bigger  fast tackles.   

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    VirginiaLonghorn

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

    Simmons was a really high profile recruit, has played great as a freshman. But man he’s not very big. I don’t know how he will be able to handle bigger  fast tackles.   

    I was surprised how much taller than Simmons that UF OL is .. 😳

    texifornia

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Simmons was a really high profile recruit, has played great as a freshman. But man he’s not very big. I don’t know how he will be able to handle bigger  fast tackles.   

    There are so many of those in college football. And he definitely won't grow as an 18/19 year old

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    BurntOrange&White

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Simmons was a really high profile recruit, has played great as a freshman. But man he’s not very big. I don’t know how he will be able to handle bigger  fast tackles.   

    He’s as big as Micah Parsons lol

    Dbeasy

    Posted

    Simmons is right now almost a carbon copy of Micah Parsons. He’s been incredible.  Once in the NFL, whoever drafts him has to understand how to use him effectively. 

    Micah and Simmons are both 6-3 245. Maybe Simmons grows some, which would solidify him on the Edge position and less in LB coverage. At various points Dallas has struggled a bit with how to best use Parsons. 

    In coverage too much and he can’t keep up with speedy receivers on cross routes.  But if you line him up every play on the edge to stop the run, he sometimes wears down because he’s not quite big or heavy enough to go toe to toe for four quarters with a huge OT or TE.  So Dallas will move him around and let him wreak havoc. They will need to do the same with Simmons if he doesn’t grow 2” and 25+ pounds. Either way, he’s a unique highly coveted nfl quality talent. 

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    Lhorn

    Posted

    9 fucking sacks from a true freshman.  Oh My God Wow GIF

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    MuellerHorn

    Posted (edited)

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    I know he’s highly incentivized to be at Texas, but bumping a thread like this during the offseason to post a public stat we are already aware of is neg worthy given we’re on high alert for bad news (injury, arrest, etc.) this time of year. 

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    MuellerHorn

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    No it's not. If everyone would stop being pussies then you would see that posting information about a player on the thread about the player makes perfect sense. 

    But instead "omg I was so scared!" is the thing to do on surly.

    It’s pointless information given it’s not novel nor relevant to anything happening today/recently. I’m not saying threads can’t have purposeful discourse; but that post, imo, was not.

    Josef Pwag

    Posted

     The bassist from Kiss has the last name Simmons. He is also a big guy. I wonder if he is realted to Colin? 

    Katfid54

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

     The bassist from Kiss has the last name Simmons. He is also a big guy. I wonder if he is realted to Colin? 

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    TotallyLegit

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    14 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

     The bassist from Kiss has the last name Simmons. He is also a big guy. I wonder if he is realted to Colin? 

    I'll reserve judgement until I see the NFL combine tongue measurements.

    Teryor

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    1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

    No it's not. If everyone would stop being pussies then you would see that posting information about a player on the thread about the player makes perfect sense. 

    But instead "omg I was so scared!" is the thing to do on surly.

    It's the recruiting forum and he's a sophomore. Take it to the football board

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    Hank_Hill

    Posted

    Y’all will bitch about anything 

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    irishtexan

    Posted

    15 hours ago, Teryor said:

    It's the recruiting forum and he's a sophomore. Take it to the football board

    But the football board sucks ass. 




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