Defensive Line

[Neonmoon 38130]

Our DL is a god damn joke. Hager is a one play wonder. Does Omnihue still start? I wouldn’t know since he disappears during games. Can the complete farce of “Giles can’t recruit but is a great coach” story finally die? People keep repeating it but it’s not true. He is a waste of space. 

[bigcigar 1164]

I miss poona

[BigHorn'13 3385]

Skipper is still in the pocket making reads. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

Hager is a one play wonder. 

[ClubWhatever 12154]

Huge disappointment.  Complete non factor against one B1G bottom dweller and one American conference also-ran.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2738]

All the misses over the last few years are starting to come to fruition.

[Blotto 23560]

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Hager is a one play wonder. 

Have you heard about his hair? Great story. Epitomizes everything that is great about college athletics. 

[Dixie Normous 22]

No talent

[millhouse 2616]

They are weak, can't tackle, over pursue and are a huge disappointment 

[naija 2869]

Roach should be on it. Not playing LB

[Coach pop a bitch 5489]

[CurlyDumps 4477]

0 sacks through 2 games?  Did I hear that right?

[TexArcher 37999]

I don't think I've ever seen a worse Texas pass rush.  But I've only been watching since about 1982.

[Elmer_Fudd 22309]

32 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

Hager sucks.  He plays the DE position so poorly.  He doesn't contain and is constantly streaking upfield for the sack.  Totally out of position and the edge is always open to a run on him.  He sucks.

Purple Wizard will run plays at him all game.

[LonghornGoodfella 114]

1 hour ago, bigcigar said:

I miss poona

I miss Hampton and Rogers. Real motherfucking war daddy's on the D-Line. 

[victory88 5669]

1 hour ago, CurlyDumps said:

0 sacks through 2 games?  Did I hear that right?

I’m sure Oscar Giles can convince elite DL prospects to come here!

[Longboard Horn 40419]

1 minute ago, LonghornGoodfella said:

I miss Hampton and Rogers. Real motherfucking war daddy's on the D-Line. 

This!

[Longboard Horn 40419]

I wish we had Ed Oliver.

[crash_davis 23114]

here's the amazing thing.  hager is such a god in practice that our coaching staff and team voted him as one of the team leaders.  which begs the question, how fucking bad are the rest of the guys he's competing against?  and what the fuck are they coaching in practice?

[Stunns38 3538]

Charles O and Hager are garbage. Replace them with Roach and Graham.

[GhostofDanJones 336]

38 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

here's the amazing thing.  hager is such a god in practice that our coaching staff and team voted him as one of the team leaders.  which begs the question, how fucking bad are the rest of the guys he's competing against?  and what the fuck are they coaching in practice?

They aren't coaching apparently

[LonghornGoodfella 114]

41 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

here's the amazing thing.  hager is such a god in practice that our coaching staff and team voted him as one of the team leaders.  which begs the question, how fucking bad are the rest of the guys he's competing against?  and what the fuck are they coaching in practice?

Not to dog on Hager but didn't he just tell us fans to shut up over the Maryland loss and that we would see a true performance of what this Texas team would have for the season in this Tulsa game? What a season to look forward to

[thepop 4409]

Forget Hampton and Rogers, heck I miss Okafor and Jeffcoat.

[Tailleur17 361]

3 hours ago, LonghornGoodfella said:

Not to dog on Hager but didn't he just tell us fans to shut up over the Maryland loss and that we would see a true performance of what this Texas team would have for the season in this Tulsa game? What a season to look forward to

Hager is such a douchebag. There, I said it.

[LTtxfan 49327]

Totally agree that D-Line sucks so far.

Orlando's Defense is getting a pass from criticism from a lot of fans/press because the continued ineptitude of Offense is more ridiculous.

Time to get this defensive SHIT  performance fixed ORLANDO.....

[Post Oak 20255]

7 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

I wish we had Ed Oliver.

I'd settle for his brother Jed

[Dbeasy 15077]

The most important positions on a team after QB are the lines. Our lines are terrible. I never thought we had much talent on either line, but because Mensa was so effusive in his praise for the DL, I figured I didn’t know squat. I may not know squat, but our lines suck.

[phdhorn 6224]

Well, there was a hostile environment in DKR that hurt their play.  See, it's like in LIttle Women, when Meg feels bad after...

[futureman 22517]

3 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

The most important positions on a team after QB are the lines. Our lines are terrible. I never thought we had much talent on either line, but because Mensa was so effusive in his praise for the DL, I figured I didn’t know squat. I may not know squat, but our lines suck.

we are poor in the trenches. 

[FloridaHorn 4769]

Hager is one of the lowest football IQ players I have ever seen. He is good for 1 tackle and 1 personal fouls a game.....he is also good for about 8-10 misreads.

[futureman 22517]

2 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

Hager is one of the lowest football IQ players I have ever seen. He is good for 1 tackle and 1 personal fouls a game.....he is also good for about 8-10 misreads.

but his dad made all those tackles. 

[deadshank 24653]

10 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

Hager is one of the lowest football IQ players I have ever seen. He is good for 1 tackle and 1 personal fouls a game.....he is also good for about 8-10 misreads.

But he has a thread on Surly about his hair. 

[Skipper 6173]

Good thread.  Everyone focuses on the offense but this is by far the biggest unit weakness on the team right now.   LB's probably a close 2nd but how much of that is a result of zero push from the front 4?    We knew there would be a dropoff in the front 7 with Poona and Malik playing on Sundays but it's shocking how poorly we've played considering these were still supposed to be team strengths.    

Good news is USC's OL looked horrible last night from what I saw of that game.  Of course they will probably look like world beaters against us next Saturday unless we figure something out.

[Laga4 1270]

8 hours ago, naija said:

Roach should be on it. Not playing LB

Agree.

[hookem48 4702]

9 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Our DL is a god damn joke. Hager is a one play wonder. Does Omnihue still start? I wouldn’t know since he disappears during games. Can the complete farce of “Giles can’t recruit but is a great coach” story finally die? People keep repeating it but it’s not true. He is a waste of space. 

I'm so sick and tired of reading posts that are just flat out bullshit. When the fuck did Hager make a play?

[Slade 263]

8 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

I was laughing when they said Roach weighs 270 lbs and is playing MLB.  That's a disaster waiting to happen in coverage.  Muthafucka looks like and plays like a DE.  Why isn't he?

Roach is so out of position. It's going to get ugly in Big 12 play with the way these offenses can march up the field, but we're not the ones being paid 5 mil a year to make those decisions so I don't know...

[llanoflash 151]

looking at this bunch stand around and stare at each other is an amazing thing to behold.

gross.

[Dbeasy 15077]

I don’t like the new trend in playing three down linemen with a hybrid playing either down in a stance or up as an LB. OU, Texas and several other schools do this, but I don’t like it because you are basically putting a suboptimal player on the field for either a DE or an LB. I like the four man front where you have two thick DT’s and two quick, taller, lighter DE’s. With the three man front you can’t easily put Roach down in the dirt because he gets manhandled by large OT’s. Obviously since so many teams are doing it, I must be missing something.

[Steel Shank 9430]

shit sandwich > our defense > our offense

[hookem48 4702]

6 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

I don’t like the new trend in playing three down linemen with a hybrid playing either down in a stance or up as an LB. OU, Texas and several other schools do this, but I don’t like it because you are basically putting a suboptimal player on the field for either a DE or an LB. I like the four man front where you have two thick DT’s and two quick, taller, lighter DE’s. With the three man front you can’t easily put Roach down in the dirt because he gets manhandled by large OT’s. Obviously since so many teams are doing it, I must be missing something.

If you can put Hager down in the dirt you could damn sure put Roach there, at least Roach seems to play with his eyes open.

Edited September 9, 2018 by hookem48

[MirrOlure 14812]

They are weak, can't tackle, over pursue and are a huge disappointment 

You left out “slow” for the pentfacta.

 

And has Coburn played a single snap yet? Or can he not be trusted yet?