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I had the chance to talk to a buddy who has been to multiple practices and every person on this thread except the clown that thinks NFL scouts make a bunch of money would trust this buddy's unvarnishe

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1 hour ago, SarkAfterDark said:

Lol at Sark losing the fan base. Maybe he has lost the message board portion of the fan base. In particular Surly, where some of the most whiniest bunch of cunts of dumbass fans exist, a group apparently led by the site owner. I don't understand how some of you can be so fucking negative all the fucking time for a team you supposedly root for. Has to be a beating.

Come back after you’ve won a bowl game Steve

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8 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

I went back a year and looked at the fall camp thread last year to see what was being said during the open practice for comparison to this year

 

 

Then there was this

 

Holy shit this was brutal to read. If Scipio’s “insider/knowledgeable” intel was so fucking useless then why am I even reading all this crap like I can take anything from it? 

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4 hours ago, squeegeedegg said:

Perhaps, but there's not a lot in his premise that I take issue with.  Getting Coburn replaced is something I've wanted for years.  A defense with DTD, if reports are to be believed that he is legit, instead of Luke Brock is already miles better.  Cherry on top being a secondary without BJ Foster and how can you not improve at least 10 spots in the national defensive rankings?

You are forgetting, as bad as Foster was, Schooler was worse.

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1 hour ago, SarkAfterDark said:

Lol at Sark losing the fan base. Maybe he has lost the message board portion of the fan base. In particular Surly, where some of the most whiniest bunch of cunts of dumbass fans exist, a group apparently led by the site owner. I don't understand how some of you can be so fucking negative all the fucking time for a team you supposedly root for. Has to be a beating.

it's basically the dumb shits that predicted 10 wins last year and are pissed at Sark when they should be pissed at themselves for being dumb shits and thinking that was a 10 win team.

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22 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

I think he could get to 260 pretty easy and still keep his agility. That won’t take a year or two. IMO. 

We're not doctors, gentlemen. The NCAA has testing programs for this. Let's let them worry about it. Besides, it's not that hard to put on 35 pounds in a summer, if you really hit the gym.

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3 hours ago, Codaxx said:

You generally want to go 1 gap with players that are quick. Those are the guys that shoot gaps well. Rams ask their DL to 2 gap, but they will  move Donalson around and let him shoot gaps. You generally want big strong guys to 2 gap. Guy like Gilbert "grave digger" Brown is a good example. 

Christ guys:

2-gap DL: Long but not necessarily tall and not overally big. There's usually not much difference between the DEs and NT.  Have to be able to strike and destroy blocks like a middle linebacker would be expected to.  Have to have a motor and be agile.  Hovering near 300 lbs. Nose tackle needs to be bigger if he's required to play in multiple fronts. Counter to what ignorami have been posting, 2-gap DL are often stat monsters: Aaron Donald, Cameron Heyward, Christian Wilkins, AShawn Robinson led the NFL in tackles among all DL. Desmond Jackson is a good longhorn example who played both types of NT during his tenure.

1-gap DTs: Heavier, allowed to be shorter but it is still not a plus.  Must hold up double teams and push OL to close gaps.  DTs need to be taller/slimmer or at least have a higher motor if they are expected to generate any pass rush.  Not uncommon to require your DT player to be a part time 2-gapper.  NTs typically get doubled pass downs anyway so and bigger is better, push always beats speed here.  Frank Okam (in college - he slimmed down for NFL) is a good Longhorn example.

Third down specialist: Speed kills.  Doesn't care about blockers except as obstacles to get around.  Uses speed and shiftiness to get through gaps, because he doesn't care if he opens a hole for an easy run.  See young Trey Flowers being used at NT for New England.  Or Malcolm Roach as a Longhorn.  I feel like most of you guys are confusing this for 1-gapping.

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13 minutes ago, NoRagrets said:

I respect Scipio but man he can be an insufferable know-it-all douche bag.

I've always wondered just why people give him so much credibility about football.  Best I can tell he's some dude that used to post a lot on the early days of message boards and parlayed it into columns, radio spots, etc...  Maybe he has some football cred beyond message board poster/average fan but it's doesn't seem like it most of the time.  A couple of the local afternoon radio douchebags trip all over themselves about him though.  

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1 hour ago, ChickenNuggets said:

This kind of post is so cringy... It's some hasbeen or neverwas telling all of us what a billy-badass he'd be. 

Why do you have to be so obtuse? You know that was not what I was going for. That was not what I was trying to communicate at all. Just that I have zero to do with how the Bama vs Texas goes and neither does anybody on this board.

For people who do have something to do with it, I am sure they aren't conceding. I am sure they are fired up and are deluding themselves that they can win, because that is generally what you do if you are a big competitor in major college football. That was all I was trying to say. I only put myself in there for illustrative purposes: a situation where I would be in a position to concede or not concede. I don't mean to imply that I was or would be some big badass under any circumstances. I am sure I would think I was badass until I got my ass kicked.

 

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31 minutes ago, JBJ said:

Christ guys:

2-gap DL: Long but not necessarily tall and not overally big. There's usually not much difference between the DEs and NT.  Have to be able to strike and destroy blocks like a middle linebacker would be expected to.  Have to have a motor and be agile.  Hovering near 300 lbs. Nose tackle needs to be bigger if he's required to play in multiple fronts. Counter to what ignorami have been posting, 2-gap DL are often stat monsters: Aaron Donald, Cameron Heyward, Christian Wilkins, AShawn Robinson led the NFL in tackles among all DL. Desmond Jackson is a good longhorn example who played both types of NT during his tenure.

1-gap DTs: Heavier, allowed to be shorter but it is still not a plus.  Must hold up double teams and push OL to close gaps.  DTs need to be taller/slimmer or at least have a higher motor if they are expected to generate any pass rush.  Not uncommon to require your DT player to be a part time 2-gapper.  NTs typically get doubled pass downs anyway so and bigger is better, push always beats speed here.  Frank Okam (in college - he slimmed down for NFL) is a good Longhorn example.

Third down specialist: Speed kills.  Doesn't care about blockers except as obstacles to get around.  Uses speed and shiftiness to get through gaps, because he doesn't care if he opens a hole for an easy run.  See young Trey Flowers being used at NT for New England.  Or Malcolm Roach as a Longhorn.  I feel like most of you guys are confusing this for 1-gapping.

I 2-gapped South Austin's mom last night. 

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From Espn. Seems like a decision on QB is close

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Steve Sarkisian says Texas Longhorns better positioned to compete after weeding out 'some of the warts' from last year

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Wednesday he's closing in on naming a starting quarterback and feels like the Longhorns are better equipped as a team than they were a year ago to face whatever trials come their way in 2022.

Texas, in Sarkisian's first season as coach, finished 5-7 and lost six straight games, marking the Longhorns' longest losing streak since 1956.

"The kids knew not everybody in that locker room was all-in last year," Sarkisian told ESPN. "I think they could feel it, and they wanted to weed out some of the warts, some of the bad apples. I think they got a sense of reality about some of the things we were talking about and trying to instill last offseason. I don't know how much they gave credence to it, and then those same things reared their ugly head in-season.

"They came back in January with this mindset of, "We've got to take these things to heart because they will show up again.' They've made that investment and bought into every aspect of it, and you can feel it amongst our team."

Similar to a year ago, the Longhorns again have a quarterback battle this preseason. Redshirt sophomore Hudson Card and redshirt freshman Quinn Ewers, a former five-star prospect who spent the 2021 season at Ohio State, are vying for the starting job. A year ago, it was Casey Thompson and Card battling for the job. Card earned the start in the first two games, but Thompson replaced him late in the 40-21 loss to Arkansas in Week 2 and remained the starter the rest of the way. Thompson has since transferred to Nebraska.

"Last year was difficult in having two players that were new to the (offensive) system, and that's always hard, especially when one of them isn't a returning starter who had really been in the fire," Sarkisian said. "This year, even though they're new, Hudson's got a little experience, and Quinn is coming in from another program. The reality is Quinn should really be a freshman in college. He re-classified after preseason camp had started. It was kind of a wash of a season for him."

Sarkisian is heartened by the relationship between his two quarterbacks despite the intense competition and the fact that they "aren't consumed with what the other guy is doing."

Sarkisian said both players have made some plays this preseason, while "both of them have growing pains, but that's camp."

He added that he thinks he "has an idea" who's going to be the starter and doesn't want to wait too much longer before telling the team. Texas opens its season on Sept. 3 at home against Louisiana-Monroe and then faces No. 1 Alabama the following week at home.

One thing Sarkisian doesn't want to do is get into a situation this season where he's rotating quarterbacks.

"I think it's hard for a quarterback to get into rhythm that way, and I think you play differently knowing, 'Hey, I don't know how many throws I'm going to get,' and you take too many chances," Sarkisian said. "I just don't think the decision-making is very good."

A year ago, Sarkisian said Card unfairly bore the brunt of the Arkansas loss when the Hogs jumped out to a 16-0 halftime lead and led 33-7 late in the third quarter when Thompson entered the game.

"The reality is that we didn't play very well as a team, and I'm not sure we ever recovered from that loss," said Sarkisian, who stuck with Thompson as the starter because the Longhorns had more success finishing drives those first three games when he was on the field.

"But it never got comfortable. It was back and forth throughout the year, and we never found our rhythm. I'm a big believer that position is the most important position in sports for a reason, because that person instills belief in everybody else in the organization, the offense, the defense, the coaching staff, the fans, everybody. ... And we never got that last year. We just never got that mojo the right way."

During the Longhorns' six-game losing streak, they lost three of those games by eight or fewer points to nationally ranked teams. There was also a fourth loss in overtime to Kansas, with the Jayhawks winning in Austin for the first time ever.

"The (quarterback situation) is a much bigger deal to people outside the program," said Texas junior running back Bijan Robinson, who rushed for 1,127 yards and 11 touchdowns last season and also caught four touchdown passes. "It's on us around the quarterback to make him comfortable, make plays for him and be there for him the whole season and not just parts of the season. The thing we've got to do this season is finish games, and that's not just on the quarterback."

As the losses mounted a year ago, Sarkisian was careful to remind himself how important it was for him "in the midst of a lot of storms going on" to maintain a level of consistency with the team, media, donors and fans.

"We were going to stay the course with what we believe in and how we're going to do it over time, not panic, and we were going to pop out on the other side where there's that ray of sunshine," Sarkisian said.

A big part of that sunshine can be found in a 2023 recruiting class ranked No. 3 nationally by ESPN, one that includes the country's top quarterback prospect in Arch Manning. It's the kind of recruiting momentum that hasn't been lost on Texas' current players.

"You see the players jumping onboard, and it's important for us this year to keep that momentum going on the field and put this program back where it's supposed to be," Robinson said. "You can see it, and you can feel it."

 

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1 hour ago, Longhornlove said:

Schooler had one thing Foster didn't......effort.

This.  What bothers me the most about this staff (other than our record last year) is that they allowed Foster to play as much as they did.  Somebody should have pointed out his absolute lack of effort and demanded they bench his ass.  He was embarrassing.

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22 hours ago, PanchoChancho said:

It’s gonna be funny when the defense is solid after so many of y’all talked shit about kwiatkowski after one season

No, it's not. It's going to be about fucking time.

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22 hours ago, Zeus said:

Looked like he's trying to take some of it off the ball on the mid throws too. Effortless.

Need to be sure he keeps putting in all that extra work and pray he's got the balls to stand in there and throw dimes when the box is loaded and the PA is called on first down. 

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What the fuck do you do with these guys? Jet sweeps? Pull guards and trap? Cut block and dink and dunk? 

I hope Sark has a lot up his sleeve.

block them. t's football.

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