Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 7)

[Valmy77 13122]

14 hours ago, 6th Street said:

When you keep running the same plays over and over again it becomes easy to scheme for and stop. 

The playbook is essentially:

1) run up the middle for 1 yard

2) swing pass to Duvernay for 2 yards

3) badly underthrown heave downfield that falls incomplete

occasionally we fall to 3rd and 12 or some shit and are forced to throw over the middle to Duvernay. Otherwise the defense doesn't need to cover the middle of the field. 

WTF? We run the ball much better than that. I wish we would run the ball up the middle once a series. The problem recently has been not enough running not too much of it.

Our RBs are averaging 5.8 and 4.7 yards per carry, so how are we only getting 1 yard per rush according to you?

Edited October 16, 2019 by Valmy77

[jinx 2635]

2 hours ago, NoName said:

he had two rushing attempts and two catches, how in the hell do you make a decision on a guy based on four touches?

if anything, abandoning the run entirely (10 RB touches? come on!) is a failure in every way. 

It just, like... my opinion man.  But it wasn't based on those four touches, it was based on 10 rushes for 29 yards against LSU and 11 rushes for 18 yards against WVU.  Keontay simply isn't getting it done, aside from one good game against OSU. 

I was hopeful he would break out this year, but he hasn't come close.  Our true freshman QB that volunteered to help at RB should be our starting RB at this point.

[CurlyDumps 4441]

Jeff Howe was pretty fired up on the Longhorn Blitz podcast.  He rightly felt like Herman and his staff got embarrassed on Saturday.

•Herman's game plan on offense was arrogant. Thought we could just impose our will, and had no counter moves when it didn't work.

•Not physical, not prepared - very un-Herman like for a big game

•Frustrated with uncreative personnel schemes and play calls. Too in love with 11 personnel.  Coaches aren't adjusting personnel to current talent, not putting players in position to succeed. 

•Same issues on defense - uncreative, not adjusting personnel, play calls to fit talent and put players in position to succeed

 

Feels like this is a pretty big fork in the road moment for Herman and friends.  Herman flat out got pantsed. Will he adjust and evolve and like Saban, Meyer, etc? Like  Riley did after last year? Or is the change talk lip service, and will he stubbornly stay the course?

 

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2019 by CurlyDumps

[Burt Macklin 19000]

20 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

Jeff Howe was pretty fired up on the Longhorn Blitz podcast.  He rightly felt like Herman and his staff got embarrassed on Saturday.

•Herman's game plan on offense was arrogant. Thought we could just impose our will, and had no counter moves when it didn't work.

•Not physical, not prepared - very un-Herman like for a big game

•Frustrated with uncreative personnel schemes and play calls. Too in love with 11 personnel.  Coaches aren't adjusting personnel to current talent, not putting players in position to succeed. 

•Same issues on defense - uncreative, not adjusting personnel, play calls to fit talent and put players in position to succeed

 

Feels like this is a pretty big fork in the road moment for Herman and friends.  Herman flat out got pantsed. Will he adjust and evolve and like Saban, Meyer, etc? Like  Riley did after last year? Or is the change talk lip service, and will he stubbornly stay the course?

 

 

 

 

Our offensive game plans have definitely been arrogant. Running QB power against LSU on the second 4th and goal series was one of the dumbest calls/non-audibles I’ve ever seen. We were arrogant against OSU and WVU too. There’s really no excuse for it. 

Last year, we had a great game plan for OU in the RRS and we did a good job of using RB flares and creative runs to challenge UGA outside in the Sugar Bowl rather than try to go straight up the the teeth of the UGA defense. It really does seem like Herman thought he didn’t have to be creative in his schemes now that the talent level of the offense has been raised. Hopefully he learned his lesson against OU. It’s not something he’s done his whole career.

 

Unlike his rigidity to his system regardless of personnel. He did the same thing in 2017 by trotting Garret Gray out there against Maryland, even though we all knew he was dogshit. Herman’s given quotes about how he ran his system in 2017 so the players would learn it and it did appear to pay off for us in 2018, but he can’t continue to keep doing that. He needs to be more like Kyle Shanahan and less like Sean McVay. If you use the same personnel all the time, teams will figure you out. The one upside for next year is that Even if Herman doesn’t change, guys like Liebrock and Wiley should be ready to play, and they will make our 11 personnel  much more effective (and hopefully open the door for some 21 personnel). 

[torre 1284]

17 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

 

Necessary Change for This Season | Defense
– Super K

 

People can say what they want about Orlando but he kept Texas in that game. And, it was his squad that gave up those yards in the first half but it was also his squad that had those key turnovers. There is something about the way he coaches that leads to these turnovers. Four INTs against WVU and then two key turnovers against Oklahoma. Once is luck. Twice is skill.

 

 

Normally agree with Super K,  but C'mon Man  !

OU ran at will and scored 24 points in the 2nd half.    There is no greater defender in the red zone than the  boundary of the endzone (Hurts' ill advised pass).   We do have 10 interceptions for the season,  but last in pass defense.   We will continue to say what we want about Orlando.

https://big12sports.com/stats.aspx?path=football&year=2019

Edited October 16, 2019 by torre

[Nowhichski 32]

On 10/16/2019 at 11:29 AM, CurlyDumps said:

Jeff Howe was pretty fired up on the Longhorn Blitz podcast.  He rightly felt like Herman and his staff got embarrassed on Saturday.

•Herman's game plan on offense was arrogant. Thought we could just impose our will, and had no counter moves when it didn't work.

•Not physical, not prepared - very un-Herman like for a big game

•Frustrated with uncreative personnel schemes and play calls. Too in love with 11 personnel.  Coaches aren't adjusting personnel to current talent, not putting players in position to succeed. 

•Same issues on defense - uncreative, not adjusting personnel, play calls to fit talent and put players in position to succeed

 

Feels like this is a pretty big fork in the road moment for Herman and friends.  Herman flat out got pantsed. Will he adjust and evolve and like Saban, Meyer, etc? Like  Riley did after last year? Or is the change talk lip service, and will he stubbornly stay the course?

 

 

 

 

Agree with all of this, and the more I think about it, the angrier I get. For a supposedly MENSA guy, Herman has shown none of the mental flexibility to creatively address problems. Rather, he seems more and more a classic, closed-minded, set-in-his-ways, circle the wagons coach who builds an insular culture and don't react to the outside. What's the point of bringing in all these so-called consulting head coaches if he's just going to trot out the same arrogant, simple-minded, unreactive schemes and gameplans?