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28 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

 

Outside of Josh Pate, I haven’t seen a single talking head pick Texas. All of XM 84 has gone with Georgia. SEC Radio is giving it the nonsensical “Georgia is going to welcome Texas to the SEC the hard way!!”, especially from Doering, who of course picked Texas 6th in the SEC for the same dumb fucking SEC honk reasons. 

The cool pick this week is that whatever the “real” Georgia is, that group is showing up this weekend and they’re going to run boss in Austin. I’m guessing everyone but Scheffler picks Georgia on Gameday tomorrow. Get Nick Saban going with the self-serving trope of “someone besides Bama is going to have to beat Georgia before I pick against them.” Right. 


 

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The thing I’m most interested to see is Sark’s opening script

It’s traditionally horizontal to get the defense thinking and tired. UGA’s LB discipline issues would encourage that. 

Last week, Sark switched up that tendency. He dialed up intermediate throws and deep shots for Quinn early, and they all worked. Quinn hesitated on some and missed on others. If he wants to go after their corners, he could go back to this (side note: I don’t want to bag on Quinn, but it’s a shame that Sark won’t get his due for pantsing Venables in their head-to-head). 

I can also see the logic in testing their run defense early with stretch zone and counter. It’s possible we just straight up win in the trenches, and I think it’s game over if that is the case and we figure it out early. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

The thing I’m most interested to see is Sark’s opening script

It’s traditionally horizontal to get the defense thinking and tired. UGA’s LB discipline issues would encourage that. 

Last week, Sark switched up that tendency. He dialed up intermediate throws and deep shots for Quinn early, and they all worked. Quinn hesitated on some and missed on others. If he wants to go after their corners, he could go back to this (side note: I don’t want to bag on Quinn, but it’s a shame that Sark won’t get his due for pantsing Venables in their head-to-head). 

I can also see the logic in testing their run defense early with stretch zone and counter. It’s possible we just straight up win in the trenches, and I think it’s game over if that is the case and we figure it out early. 

 

I haven't seen is straight up win in the run game until after tiring the defense out a bit. I wouldn't expect to start tomorrow. 

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4 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

The thing I’m most interested to see is Sark’s opening script

It’s traditionally horizontal to get the defense thinking and tired. UGA’s LB discipline issues would encourage that. 

Last week, Sark switched up that tendency. He dialed up intermediate throws and deep shots for Quinn early, and they all worked. Quinn hesitated on some and missed on others. If he wants to go after their corners, he could go back to this (side note: I don’t want to bag on Quinn, but it’s a shame that Sark won’t get his due for pantsing Venables in their head-to-head). 

I can also see the logic in testing their run defense early with stretch zone and counter. It’s possible we just straight up win in the trenches, and I think it’s game over if that is the case and we figure it out early. 

 

I think he should hand the ball to Hodges Mitchell up the middle on the first play.

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He'll wear down the interior line like he did Michigan and go from there. The horizontal game works really well if you do it correctly., which Sark does. Even Georgia does t have enough bodies to keep up, and their secondary is shit. I expect Bond, Golden. Wingo., and Bolden to be big parts of thid game. And Wisner will show up and move the pocket. He's too slippery to be brought down and lose yards. Blue might have a great game as long as he doesn't fumble. I've heard on several YouTube channels from Georgia and they all say Georgia is worried about Helm. I can see him being big time as well. He's a big bodied dude who will truck their corners and safety, KJ Bolden.

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2 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I haven't seen is straight up win in the run game until after tiring the defense out a bit. I wouldn't expect to start tomorrow. 

A couple pops on Michigan early, then winning the 2nd half run game on OU against two defenses that might have started with a more disciplined DL and LB group than UGA's [to this point].

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All the talking heads picking Georgia is great for Sark and Co- no one thinks we're SEC ready, everyone thinks we are pretenders, time to prove them wrong. 

Great bulletin board materials.  Georgia may come in cocky as fuck - we are the SEC big dawgs, everyone thinks we will win.  Bam, punched in the mouth like we did to Michigan.

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Texas will have short to intermediate stuff open all day. Run off that. UGA will play soft coverage. 

I love 60 yard bombs but I am also a fan of 15-20 yard chunks all day too. If UGA gets sexy and blitzes Ewers they are gonna get gashed. 

Tire out their big guys and then hammer them second half. Of course that only works if we can get some stops. Going to be a high scoring game. 

DKR will be rocking at the start. Gotta keep it that way all night. 

And you know Sark has something special for the mouth breathers. They have to be expecting something. 

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5 minutes ago, bullzak said:

Texas will have short to intermediate stuff open all day. Run off that. UGA will play soft coverage. 

I love 60 yard bombs but I am also a fan of 15-20 yard chunks all day too. If UGA gets sexy and blitzes Ewers they are gonna get gashed. 

Tire out their big guys and then hammer them second half. Of course that only works if we can get some stops. Going to be a high scoring game. 

DKR will be rocking at the start. Gotta keep it that way all night. 

And you know Sark has something special for the mouth breathers. They have to be expecting something. 

They are. A beatdown. 

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1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

You dont have to believe me but think of the context. Its 27-3 with under 6 minutes to play. There is no chance for an OU win. The game is over. This is when most coaches would look to protect their QB before a top 5 match-up. Sark calls Quinn's number on the goal line. Play he very rarely calls. It was either an incredibly stupid thing to do or he had a specific reason. Perhaps I am giving sark too much credit, but think it was brilliant

I wouldn't have phrased it as getting hit; rather, he called the run to get Quinn's juices flowing and regain some confidence. But I think your main point is correct because he was definitely playing scared. I don't buy that the early disguised schemes by Venables explains that away. Sure, it could cause him some confusion, but he wasn't trusting his protection and fled the pocket prematurely several times. Good disguises shouldn't affect his footwork and pocket presence, but could certainly cause some delays in making his reads.

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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

 

Texas has had inept offensive lines pretty much ever since Mackovic's recruits left other than the 2005-ish group with Lyle Sendlein. A lot of it started at center. We constantly fielded multiyear starters who wore roller skates. But all it takes is one weakness among the 5 and the whole group looks ineffective. It didn't have to be center on any particular play.

I remember my Dad ran these analyses back in the 90s examining great OLs around the country. His conclusions weren't necessarily dramatic. It feels intuitive. What he found is that the two dominant factors for excellent offensive lines were lots of upper classmen from year to year (prodigies excepted), and...here's the kicker...plus 15 OL on the roster on a consistent basis. 

Until Flood got here with Sarkisian's complete and utter buy in, we simply weren't doing a good enough job getting big humans who could move in space, and even if we did, we didn't get enough of them. Coaches with good recruiting staffs - and I'm looking specifically at Mack Brown - do not want to fill up a lot of space with OL because if they don't work out they can't be spun anywhere else. A defensive lineman who isn't quite quick enough to beat the block can be moved to the OL and become a quality player a lot easier than the other way around. There's virtually no offensive linemen I know of that were highly recruited, but when they didn't pan out on that side of the ball they were moved over to defensive tackle where they became a terror. But it does work the other way. Rarely, I'll admit. But it's possible. 

I'll also say Flood/Sarkisian finally have schemes that give the OL a chance to be successful. Yes, they're recruiting big guys who can move remarkably well in space, and then they're recruiting a bunch of them, because not everyone works out. And then they keep bringing in a bunch with every recruiting class. All of that is fundamental. That's where the success comes from.

But then you add to it the blocking schemes and offensive philosophy we're using. It's fundamentally sound. The schemes build off of one another from one play to the next. We run a TON of zone blocking. But we also run a lot of pulling action. And what we're doing with the pulling action is not even remotely obvious. Many times we're literally pulling players in both directions. So for defenders trying to follow the flow of the play, Texas will get them moving in one direction, and then the ball goes in the other. 

My point is the scheme is constantly allowing the OL to get leverage on the defender they're matched up against. And if they can't conceivably get leverage because they're moving two spots down to punch a defender in the earhole, the success of the running play isn't predicated on getting a complete seal on that defender. 

So much of past staffs seemed to just demand the OL get tougher and more physical, without giving them any schematic tools to ensure success. 

I guess the proof is in the pudding in terms of whether the OL excellence we're seeing is repeatable year after year, but it feels like we're FINALLY doing all the things programs with great offensive lines have always done. Recruit big bodies who move well in space. Recruit some guys who may not have big bodies but have the frames to carry more weight and let them season. Recruit a lot of them every year rather than getting so enamored with freak athletes that you're loading up with skill position players and defensive studs that you're running on the bare minimum of bodies for the OL. And then scheme in ways that give your OL their best chance to be successful. 

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but of all the things going on in this program, the emphasis in every way of being effective in the trenches has me most excited about our long term future. And there's a lot that has me excited about our long term future right now. 

So, Cory Redding to right guard?

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

 

Outside of Josh Pate, I haven’t seen a single talking head pick Texas. All of XM 84 has gone with Georgia. SEC Radio is giving it the nonsensical “Georgia is going to welcome Texas to the SEC the hard way!!”, especially from Doering, who of course picked Texas 6th in the SEC for the same dumb fucking SEC honk reasons. 

The cool pick this week is that whatever the “real” Georgia is, that group is showing up this weekend and they’re going to run boss in Austin. I’m guessing everyone but Scheffler picks Georgia on Gameday tomorrow. Get Nick Saban going with the self-serving trope of “someone besides Bama is going to have to beat Georgia before I pick against them.” Right. 

Finebaum picked Texas.

 

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I keep hearing that Texas hasn't faced a competent passing offense yet. That ou, and Michigan, and others are all among the worst passing offenses in the country. You think *maybe* that Texas had something to do with that? Of course those passing offenses are ranked low -- those bitches played Texas, and we totally fucked them up. 

Of course Georgia will be the best opposing passing offense we've faced. I say "opposing" because the best passing offense our defense has faced is the one they face during practice. We'll be ready. 

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I’ll drink to 

It's for all day tomorrow. It's around 1100 cans, and a few boxes of liquor. 

 

UT has security out there overnight to watch the alcohol and what not. There were actually a lot of other folks unloading drinks and tvs. Tomorrow is going to be a madhouse. Might be why they said we could do it a day early. 

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3 hours ago, UncleSonny said:

The OU game last year is a great example why it would have been fucking stupid to pull Quinn after a rough start. 

After starting really badly with two picks and a fumble he finished 31-37 for 346 yards. His last real drive he got points and left the field with a lead. 

 

And the 2nd INT was a deflected ball off of Sander's hands.

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