Depot for poor personnel choices 2018 season

[alphahorn 1637]

One constant during the tommy herman tenure has been the mysterious personnel choices.  Thought we could use a thread to track our favorites.

Rod Babers on the horn just noted that late in the game we ran 11 personnel with Beck spread out wide.  Rod was understandably laughing at this.

Playing the running back who is fourth team on your depth chart when the game is on the line.  Benching Ingram who showed flashes and a 6 ypc average. 

well that's a start, your turn

[PatSolitanojr 518]

Sam Ehlinger starting

Edited September 3, 2018 by PatSolitanojr

[ClubWhatever 12276]

We should put Nelson or Christmas at MLB because Roach just doesn't have the size.

[Tex Long 4613]

WRs still not blocking. tOSU's former WR coach is available. Dump Mehringer and bring on Zach.

THK5S

[TexasBeta 1274]

Beyond Poona. Defensive line tends to get pushed around. I would prefer a 4-2-5 then his 3-3–5 whatever it is or some 4-3 with a strong safety playing LB.

Edit. I guess that is a 4-2... anyway. I dislike three down lineman.

[Guest]

Roach not playing with a hand in the dirt. And often at that. 

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

WRs still not blocking. tOSU's former WR coach is available. Dump Mehringer and bring on Zach.

THK5S

This is a personnel thread, but I’m getting worn out by CJ’s inability to block or get open, so it might fit. I don’t think you pull him yet, but we have to get more production and blocking out of him. Love his two great catches but we need so much more out of him. 

Porter being in the game at all, the personnel on the last drive, and Ingram’s ghost job, but you already mentioned all those.

Edited September 3, 2018 by Guest

[pepper brooks 580]

Roach was terrible at linebacker all day.  It reading keys, always suckered by any misdirection suckered him, terrible in space and coverage. 

 

That said, porter as a 3rd down back over Watson is beyond stupid.  Porter over anyone is stupid. The guy is not dynamic in any way whatsoever. 

[NowThis 931]

Hager at DE and not LB like his dad 

[Knoxtnhorn 6262]

1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

This is a personnel thread, but I’m getting worn out by CJ’s inability to block or get open, so it might fit. I don’t think you pull him yet, but we have to get more production and blocking out of him. Love his two great catches but we need so much more out of him. 

The fuck can one be unable to block a position player generally 6 inches shorter and 50 lbs lighter?

[BurntOrangeCrush 1028]

3 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

The fuck can one be unable to block a position player generally 6 inches shorter and 50 lbs lighter?

Agreed. And until they have WR's that can block, Texas should never throw that freaking WR screen that always gets negative yardage

[The People’s Elbow 707]

Shelving tempo after seeing success. 

Shelving the TEs in the passing game after a couple brief glimpses of success  

 

 

[Laga4 1270]

He may be the best we've got at his position,  but Charles Omenihu is not very good.  

[TexasBeta 1274]

Hager at DE and not LB like his dad 

Why can’t Hager play MB. He has a nose for the ball. Likes to crack heads.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Laga4 said:

He may be the best we've got at his position,  but Charles Omenihu is not very good.  

Always thought he was overrated. I think we will struggle against the run at times this year because I think our front 6 is overrated. I believe our secondary can be special, if Boyd pulls his head out of his ass, and Davis is merely serviceable / Boyce develops, and quickly. I trust Orlando to scheme around our obvious front 6 weaknesses. 

[longhrnfan 61]

3 hours ago, BurntOrangeCrush said:

Agreed. And until they have WR's that can block, Texas should never throw that freaking WR screen that always gets negative yardage

I feel like this has been our key play for years now. It doesn't. fucking. work. 

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

I’d settle for a QB who can throw to the proper shoulder on a WR screen or swing pass. 

Also, for personnel choice, throwing a quick screen to Jerrod Heard one play after he came up cramping post catch was an interesting choice. 

The funny thing with Porter is you can see Herman wanted someone in who wouldn’t lose the game, but at the expense of someone who might win the game. 

Andrew Beck being split wide like he’s healthy Blaine Irby instead of never made a dent in the passing game in his career Andrew Beck was also nice. 

[Iguana 229]

In general, you would bring in a TE and then split him out hoping the defense "personnels" for it.   You still have to cover the TE.

We did run some 4 dl sets.  Usually when Grahm was in. 

Strong tried Hager at LB. The results were not good.

I agree with others that Roach needs to be at DE.  Not sure they had a choice for this game though. 

Edited September 3, 2018 by Iguana
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[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

The problem with personneling is that Beck isn’t a mismatch as a receiver and we weren’t exactly killling it with him as a run blocker. 

Its very indicative of every play happening in a vacuum in our offensive staff’s mind. 

“We have a TE in the game. Surely they have to adjust.”  

Nobody asks if the TE demands an adjustment. It’s just assumed. 

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

Can a head coach be considered a "personnel" choice?

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

4 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

This is a personnel thread, but I’m getting worn out by CJ’s inability to block or get open, so it might fit. I don’t think you pull him yet, but we have to get more production and blocking out of him. Love his two great catches but we need so much more out of him. 

Porter being in the game at all, the personnel on the last drive, and Ingram’s ghost job, but you already mentioned all those.

He's a wide RECEIVER not a wide blocker.

[Sejjr 3250]

Herman benches Ingram due to inexperience, yet allows J. Moore to play and get targeted on a crucial 3rd down conversion attempt. The WR/TE rotations continue to be a shit-show. And where the fuck was Leitao at TE? I don't recall him being injured. 

[Upgrayedd 5861]

The Avatar was out of town this weekend and I got completely shit-hammered on Saturday night knowing that I to play in a golf tournament Sunday morning.  Hit on one of the Avatar's friends to no avail.  Decided that dinner was over-rated and continued to pound old-fashioned like they were going to be outlawed.  Drunk-texed an old girlfriend looking for a 2 AM booty call.

[ClubWhatever 12276]

And your team won

[TexasEd 8248]

2 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

The problem with personneling is that Beck isn’t a mismatch as a receiver and we weren’t exactly killling it with him as a run blocker. 

Its very indicative of every play happening in a vacuum in our offensive staff’s mind. 

“We have a TE in the game. Surely they have to adjust.”  

Nobody asks if the TE demands an adjustment. It’s just assumed. 

A TE Becomes a matchup problem if he can catch and Block.  Putting him out wide takes away the blocking part unless it's the WR Screen.  Should just use a regular receiver for that.  So stupid.

 

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

Agreed

[Bill Lumbergh 7337]

I honestly don't know, how many times was Duverney targeted after his circus catch?  He burned that defender pretty well the first time out.

Did we ever force them to prove they could stop us sending Duverney and CJ both deep?

[ClubWhatever 12276]

There were several times when we had CJ to one side and LJH and Duvernay to the other and they were doubling CJ with a safety.  The other safety was playing over LJH. Yet I never saw us run LJH on a hard “in” route to draw the safety up and send Duvernay on a deep post.  He could beat that corner on that route 3/4 times.   

[Bill Lumbergh 7337]

Just now, ClubWhatever said:

There were several times when we had CJ to one side and LJH and Duvernay to the other and they were doubling CJ with a safety.  The other safety was playing over LJH. Yet I never saw us run LJH on a hard “in” route to draw the safety up and send Duvernay on a deep post.  He could beat that corner on that route 3/4 times.   

This is kind of what I had in mind. 

Pass pro actually wasn't horrible.  I have trouble believing Maryland's secondary could hold up to well designed route concepts with those three consistently stretching the field.

Maybe they don't trust Sam to hit them often enough to make it hurt, and if that's true, it's pretty sad he's our starter. 

[Ldogg53 514]

He's a wide RECEIVER not a wide blocker.

And yet an OT doesn’t actually tackle, they block. So fuck off with your stupid response.

If it’s a run play a WR blocks. If it’s a pass and it doesn’t go to you then you block. So in reality, a majority of the time a fucking WR should be blocking.

[immamac 44199]

1 minute ago, Ldogg53 said:

And yet an OT doesn’t actually tackle, they block. So fuck off with your stupid response.

If it’s a run play a WR blocks. If it’s a pass and it doesn’t go to you then you block. So in reality, a majority of the time a fucking WR should be blocking.

In general if you don't have the ball you should be blocking or trying to get the ball on offense. 

[wood 11747]

4 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

I’d settle for a QB who can throw to the proper shoulder on a WR screen or swing pass. 

...

Fixed.

[pacman 7485]

8 hours ago, PatSolitanojr said:

Sam Ehlinger starting

I get he is the easy target. That last decision, and its constant reoccurrence is a problem. However, I disagree here and put to Sam's large successes when given the chance to succeed.

Up tempo offense, with Ingram/Watson in the backfield, Sam runs for 45 yards or so and completes 90%.

Ask him to be a pocket passer and pick apart a prevent defense? That's a position he is not often going to succeed at and that has been obvious for over a year. Not to mention coach also put two players (beck, porter) on the field who pose zero threat to a prevent defense.

Sam was essentially asked to run 9v11 prevent and make it work. Every WR had double coverage and Sam had a spy to keep him from running. He made a poor decision and throw. That's on him but 75 to 80 percent, whatever arbitrary number, of the fault lies with the coaches.

Edited September 4, 2018 by pacman

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

2 hours ago, Ldogg53 said:

And yet an OT doesn’t actually tackle, they block. So fuck off with your stupid response.

If it’s a run play a WR blocks. If it’s a pass and it doesn’t go to you then you block. So in reality, a majority of the time a fucking WR should be blocking.

You need to get out of your parents’ basement more often if you think my comment was even the least bit serious. 

[longhrnfan 61]

13 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

Years? Try over a decade. Apparently GDGD made a flat pass with no blocking a permanent staple at Texas.

Covenant running with the OC job. heh, legal joke. 

[pacman 7485]

Hager has to go. He is hurting us at two positions. I feel like the only reason roach is playing LB is to keep from having to bench Hager because Roach should be the clear starter at DE. Graham needs to play more as well.