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Fuck these rankings. Did we make it through the day without one of our players suffering from organ failure or getting cancer?

EuroHorn
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Checks schedule. No Maryland.  

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2 hours ago, satyanash said:

(Chip Brown) Spring practice report: First glimpse at first-team offense

 

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AUSTIN, Texas — The first day of the Texas Longhorns' spring football practice provided an interesting initial glimpse of what coaches are thinking in terms of the first-team offense. There were the obvious first-teamers, such as quarterback Sam Ehlinger, running back Keaontay Ingram, left tackle Samuel Cosmi and center Zach Shackelford. But the first-team offensive line on the first day of spring football saw redshirt junior Denzel Okafor at right tackle (with Christian Jones working second-team right tackle), junior Derek Kerstetter at right guard (with J.P. Urquidez working second-team right guard) and junior Tope Imade at left guard (with redshirt freshman Junior Angilau working second-team left guard).

As expected, redshirt freshman Rafiti Ghirmai worked as the backup center behind Shackelford. Redshirt freshman Reese Moore worked as the second-team backup to Cosmi at left tackle with early enrollee freshman Tyler Johnson working third-team left tackle. Kerstetter also worked some at right tackle. At one point, Okafor was serving as a defensive lineman in a drill against Jones, and the size difference between the two was very evident. Okafor is pushing a healthy 320, while Jones is listed at 305. The way offensive line coach Herb Hand was talking to Okafor, it's clear coaches feel like it's time for Okafor to win the right tackle job. "You're the veteran," Hand said to Okafor. The other guy whose size jumped out on Monday was Imade, who is listed at 340 and looks great at 6-foot-5 carrying that weight.

At tight end, Cade Brewer worked with the first team, while Reese Leitaoworked with the second-team and early enrollee freshman Jared Wiley, who is listed at 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds, worked with the third-team. With Collin Johnson still recovering from off-season knee surgery, Brennan Eagles lined up as the first-team X receiver with early enrollee freshman Bru McCoy working as the second-team X receiver. Josh Moore lined up as the first-team slot with Jordan Pouncey working behind Moore. At the Z receiver, where Devin Duvernay is the starter and John Burt is the likely backup, coaches on Monday took a look at Alvonte Woodard and Malcolm Epps at Z.

For the limited time the media was allowed to watch practice (six periods), all eyes were on No. 5 on offense — McCoy, who definitely passes the eyeball test and looked crisp running routes and snatching the football with ease. Whittington also looked good catching the football in a running back receiving drill.

 

With Spring camp starting I think it's important to remind everyone that Chip Brown is a fraudulent cocksucker who has written blatant falsehoods about the school and its football team in an attempt to damage them.

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20 minutes ago, po elvis said:

We shouldnt have lost any lost year yet we lost three. All depends on Herman improving his gameday chops.

I think it's actually the Sunday-Friday aspect of our coaching is what needs the most improvement. I'm hoping that the addition of all these analysts gets us over the hump.

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1 hour ago, texifornia said:

I don't think this board is prepared for the game when our all-new defensive line, linebackers and corners have their worst, most rock-stupid headless-chicken game. It's going to happen and it's going to suuuuuuck.

Why would we not be prepared? We've done it for 10 straight years.

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57 minutes ago, po elvis said:

All depends on Herman improving his gameday chops. 

Herman maturing as a head coach will be the biggest contributor to improvement next season. No more unnecessary close games or a breakdown in discipline in the 4th quarter please.

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31 minutes ago, lemonandaturd said:

Corch O and his band of bros are not going to beat this Texas team in DKR.  QB play wins this one.   Too many Texas fans are like Mack, just scared to death of the SEC.  We just beat Georgia and LSU is next.  

LSU has historically made a living off of shutting down spread offenses with mobile QBs. Look at what they did to Lamar Jackson's Louisville in the Citrus Bowl, or Mahomes' Texas Tech in the Texas Bowl. It's one thing they do very, very well.

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LSU has historically made a living off of shutting down spread offenses with mobile QBs. Look at what they did to Lamar Jackson's Louisville in the Citrus Bowl, or Mahomes' Texas Tech in the Texas Bowl. It's one thing they do very, very well.

Lamar Jackson played for fucking Louisville and he can't carry Sam Ehlinger's jockstrap.  Texas and Diggs kicked Mahomes' ass too.  LSU is ass, my dude.  

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2 minutes ago, lemonandaturd said:

Lamar Jackson played for fucking Louisville and he can't carry Sam Ehlinger's jockstrap.  Texas and Diggs kicked Mahomes ass too.  LSU is ass my dude.  

Guess who else shut down Jackson?  Todd Orlando.  Not to mention Orlando shuts down these offenses like LSU has.  They gave up bunch of sacks last year.  Orlando will be after Burrow on every obvious passing down.  Another team with a bunch of fat OL that can't move like Georgia.

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4 minutes ago, lemonandaturd said:

Lamar Jackson played for fucking Louisville and he can't carry Sam Ehlinger's jockstrap.  Texas and Diggs kicked Mahomes ass too.  LSU is ass my dude.  

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/5/15/5709380/lsu-defense-john-chavis-spread-offenses

https://www.andthevalleyshook.com/2018/3/21/17134160/lsu-football-2018-film-room-dave-aranda-defense

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45 minutes ago, lemonandaturd said:

Corch O and his band of bros are not going to beat this Texas team in DKR.  QB play wins this one.   Too many Texas fans are like Mack, just scared to death of the SEC.  We just beat Georgia and LSU is next.  

Maybe you mistook my photo - it's a Sad O face. Those fucking turds better not even get close to winning. The Mcelwain Gators take took their heart in 2016.

 

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1 hour ago, satyanash said:

LSU has historically made a living off of shutting down spread offenses with mobile QBs. Look at what they did to Lamar Jackson's Louisville in the Citrus Bowl, or Mahomes' Texas Tech in the Texas Bowl. It's one thing they do very, very well.

If aggy can score on them, we will be able to score on them

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5 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Some of these ^^^^ activities can be hazardous to your health.....

  • a “stress reaction” in his “pubic bone.”
  • second set of kidney problems in 7 months. Said there have been blood tests and biopsies.

stress reaction to the pubic bone is the same injury all my girlfriends had...

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7 hours ago, Machinator said:

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By: Joe Cook

The first day of spring drills was a little chilly and a little overcast, but Texas began its march toward the 2019 season in a helmets only practice.

I was the only one out there from IT, so I tried to get a grasp on the opening day depth chart (that will assuredly change as the spring goes on).

Keondre Coburn, D’Andre Christmas-Giles, and Devin Duvernay weren’t out there for the open session of this morning’s practice. We have a press conference with Tom Herman right after this is getting posted, so I’ll try to get an update then.

Three players had on green “no-touch” jerseys despite the team being in just helmets; Caleb Johnson, De’Gabriel Floyd, and Marqez Bimage.

First offense:
QB: Sam Ehlinger
RB: Keaontay Ingram was first, but in the 11-on-air drill I saw, Daniel Young, Kirk Johnson, and Jordan Whittington all rotated.
XWR: Malcolm Epps (Collin is out)
ZWR: Brennan Eagles (Duvernay was out, Burt still traveling home from NCAA indoor track)
HWR: Josh Moore
TE: Cade Brewer
OL: Sam Cosmi – Tope Imade – Zach Shackelford – Derek Kerstetter – Denzel Okafor

This will all change.

Second offense:
QB: Casey Thompson
RB: Young/K. Johnson/Whittington
XWR: Bru McCoy
ZWR: Al'vonte Woodard
HWR: Jordan Pouncey
TE: Leitao with Wiley rotating some
Reese Moore – Junior Angilau – Rafiti Ghirmai – JP Urquidez – Christian Jones

First defense: 
DL: Malcolm Roach – Gerald Wilbon –Ta'Quon Graham
BLB: Joseph Osssai
Rover: Jeffrey McCulloch
Mac: Ayodele Adeoye
Nickel: Josh Thompson
Field S: Caden Sterns
Boundary S: Chris Brown
Corners: Anthony Cook and Kobe Boyce

Second defense: 
DL: Moro Ojomo-Jamari Chisholm-Marqez Bimage
BLB: Byron Vaughns
Rover: Caleb Johnson
Mac: De'Gabriel Floyd
Nickel: BJ Foster
Field S: Montrell Estell
Boundary S: De'Marvion Overshown
Corners: Jalen Green, Don. Duvernay

When positions go into their individual drills, it’s slightly easier to tell the pecking order. A couple of positions I saw included CB and DL.

CB:
1: Cook and Boyce
2: Don. Duvernay and Green
3: Jamison and Symonds (w-o)

DL:
Graham-Wilbon-Chisholm were the lead trio in DL position drills. Next was Cummins-Ojomo-Roach, then Johnson-walk-on-Bimage, then Mpagi and Carson as the only two scholarship players in the final grouping.

We have another open session on Friday, where the players will have some additional protective equipment like shoulder pads.

This week is for everyone getting on the same page and acclimating the new players. They aren't going to get too much down with next week being spring break.

 

No Jacoby Jones on the DL?

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Chip Brown: What we learned after Day 1 of spring football

AUSTIN, Texas — The start of spring football is the first day to see how coaches are viewing next year’s way-too-early depth chart, how players’ bodies are changing, what the first goals and priorities are, and, quite frankly, who is on the field and who isn’t. We learned Monday receiver Devin Duvernay isn’t likely to start going through spring football until after spring break because these really cool shorts full of sensors worn by Texas' skill guys detected a deficiency in how some of his explosion muscles (glutes, hamstrings, hip flexors) were firing, which led to an MRI that revealed a “stress reaction in his pubic bone.”

Receiver John Burt, the Big 12 60-meter indoor hurdles champion, is focusing on track this spring and is expected back with the football team for fall camp. We learned behemoth offensive guard Patrick Hudson, one of the jewel defections from Baylor after the scandal surrounding the dismissal of Art Briles, has officially retired from football and will now serve as a volunteer in player development and assist UT trainers.

In somewhat alarming news, we learned redshirt freshman nose tackle Keondre Coburn is awaiting test results before being medically cleared for a second “kidney issue” in the past seven months signaled by intense back pain. “There have been blood tests and a piece of muscle has been biopsied,” Herman said of Coburn. “The prognosis is good, because he played for us after the first issue. But it’s a concern to have two of these episodes in the past seven months.” We learned Herman’s top priorities for the spring are:

— Developing leadership, especially on defense

— Settling on the starting five on the offensive line

— Finding ways to get the ball to an explosive group of playmakers

— Settling on a new front seven on defense

We learned Tope Imade, who lined up at first-team left guard on Monday, weighs 340 pounds with only 15 percent body fat and that Denzel Okafor, who lined up at first-team right tackle, is an impressive 320 pounds. Likely starting left tackle Sam Cosmi is up to 295 pounds from 280 at the Sugar Bowl. The first-day, first-team offensive line was: LT Cosmi, LG Imade, C Zach Shackelford, RG Derek Kerstetter and RT Okafor. The second-team OL was: LT Reese Moore, LG Junior Angilau, C Rafiti Ghirmai, RG J.P. Urquidez, RT Christian Jones.

Defensive end Marqez Bimage, the most explosive player on the team (700-pound squat) coming out of summer conditioning last season before a shoulder injury cut his 2018 short, is up to 270 pounds. We learned Herman likes the work ethic of his 10 early enrollee freshmen. When asked specifically about Bru McCoy, Herman said McCoy’s versatility is such he’ll work at the X, H (slot) and Z receiver positions. “Great kid who also happens to be a five-star athlete,” Herman said of McCoy, whose eligibility waiver has yet to be submitted by Texas as UT officials wait for the rulings on a few other high-profile transfer waivers before sending off McCoy’s.

We learned Herman didn’t have any history with former North Carolina coach Larry Fedora before Fedora visited six weeks ago, the two hit it off and Herman hired Fedora as an analyst. Herman is excited for the input of Fedora and new UT analysts Andre Coleman (the former OC at Kansas State) and Paul Williams (a former defensive coach at Houston) during the season when it comes to game-planning and advance scouting.

Former Longhorn defensive back Nathan Vasher is now working as a volunteer coach. Thank heavens, we learned B.J. Foster is “locked into” a position battle at nickel with Josh Thompson, according to Herman when asked if safety Brandon Jones could see time at nickel. (Foster is special, and playing him at nickel is a total game-changer for next year’s defense in my humble opinion).

We learned Herman thinks safety and receiver are going to be the Longhorns' cage match of position battles. “Much like receiver, safety is going to be a battle, because you only have three positions (sometimes four when we’re in a our Lightning stuff),” Herman said. “But there’s some really good players who might merit a rotation of some sort. But usually with defensive players, you like to keep them on the field for most series. The same is going to be true at receiver. There’s going to be some really talented guys duking it out.”

When asked about players who’ve done the best job reshaping their bodies since the end of last season, Herman listed the following players off the top of his head in order: Joseph Ossai, Daniel Carson, Jalen Green, Anthony Cook, Tope Imade, Reese Moore, Junior Angilau, Christian Jones, Sam Cosmi and Derek Kerstetter. We learned Herman isn’t talking about winning the Big 12 as the team’s primary goal at this point. “We’re focused on going 1-0 today and going 1-0 tomorrow,” Herman said.

Perhaps, most importantly, we learned Herman feels good about where his program’s culture is heading into Year 3. “It’s really cool when you have an established culture in your program,” Herman said. “The young guys get immersed in it, and there’s nowhere to hide. You either love football and love to work or you’re going to figure it out real quick. It’s been nice to see the young guys assimilate as quickly as they have.”

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3 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

Guess who else shut down Jackson?  Todd Orlando.  Not to mention Orlando shuts down these offenses like LSU has.  They gave up bunch of sacks last year.  Orlando will be after Burrow on every obvious passing down.  Another team with a bunch of fat OL that can't move like Georgia.

LSU's OL is worse than Georgia's.  They gave up as many sacks and TFL's as aggy.  Let that sink in.  And their QB play is significantly inferior to UGa's as well.

Their defense OTOH hand is better than Georgia.  But they almost always end up in either man coverage or match quarters so it's easier to ID the correct part of the field to attack.

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