Texas DB & LB Talk

[LTtxfan 49187]

 

[LTtxfan 49187]

Hope Taaffe wins this...  🤘

 

[LTtxfan 49187]

 

[LTtxfan 49187]

Have a great game today MT !!! 🤘

 

[Tex-19 2872]

Who votes on the Thorpe award? Time to get the Jahdae campaign in full gear

[LTtxfan 49187]

 

[D3zii 3680]

I’ll be the first to eat crow about Barron!! I deeply undervalued his football Smarts, instincts, and  awareness. 
 

I was more so concerned with this speed more than anything and he showed it’s more than that. 
 

im going to miss Barron so much man. What a dawg!!! 
 

[LTtxfan 49187]

 

[LTtxfan 49187]

Thx for this @satyanash

Scipio Tex on Arky game

Linebacker

If there’s a nit to pick with the defense, it’s at LB. All of them struggled with Arkansas doubling our playside bigs in front of them and filling the hole with authority. Even when they met the running back one or two yards into the hole, Arkansas runners added another 2-3 yards of drag. Slow triggering and not bringing enough when they got there. If you read my postmortems, that’s a persistent theme since ULM and Mississippi State.

Lefau got caught in the wash too often and he wasn’t physical enough at the point of contact. He also flat out missed a couple of tackles coming late to the ball. Hill is still slow triggering when it’s coming right at him. As a counterpoint, I thought Hill was great in pass coverage against the talented Arkansas tight end and against the screen game. He’s a special athlete in space.

Defensive Back

Jahdae Barron was terrific.

A nice example of football IQ. Barron sees that he’s accounted for on the blitz outside and also that we’ve got contain handled, so he works inside to where he knows Green will step up and notches the sack. He also has a nice heads up pick playing over the top on a well thrown seam route that a bad Arky receiver bobbled.

 

Being around the ball results in good things and Texas had three defenders in close proximity to worry the receiver. #7 filled up the box score with 7 tackles, 2 tackles for loss (including a terrific 3rd and 3 backfield stop on a screen), a sack, two hurries (including on a 3rd and 10 on our 25) and the aforementioned interception. Barron was targeted 5 times in the passing game and surrendered only 19 yards on 3 catches.

Great timing on a PBU playing through the ball that forced the official to pick up his flag. No defender – other than perhaps Collins – made more WOW plays on Saturday than Barron. He absolutely dominated. Both Jelani McDonald and Guilbeau had some struggles on the edge containing Taylen Green. 6-6 guys with legit acceleration and big strides move differently than you expect at field level.

I think Texas fans have some sympathy for that. They combined for four missed tackles. Guilbeau also got hit for a 20 yard completion and a couple of short balls. Kobe Black got matched up with Andrew Armstrong on his six snaps and lost most of them. Armstrong hit him for 25 yards, Armstrong’s longest gain of the day. Manny Muhammad wasn’t physical enough in run support.

Taaffe was very active from deep safety, notching 8 tackles, including a decent blitz reroute into a tackle for loss. #16 doesn’t get thrown at a lot, in part because he’s so good at anticipating routes and cutting off the option before it materializes. Mukuba had a clutch tackle for loss on a Green keeper.

 

[Dnaguy 11964]

It’s hard to fathom how utterly shit we were in the defensive backfield last year and how stellar we are this year.

Arguably our strongest position group on the team.

[LTtxfan 49187]

 

[LTtxfan 49187]