Yeah on the LHN postgame show Lowell Galindo and Michael Griffin were getting into it a little about the approach to Bijan vs. Bama.
Griffin (correctly, because he knows football) believed we need to use Bijan as a decoy some because Alabama is going to sell out to stop him. That could open things up in the passing game. Only once you have Alabama's defenders second guessing themselves will the run game open up.
Lowell Galindo's dumb opinion is that we just need to feed Bijan 29 times per game and live with the results. Griffin was like "He'll end up with 60 yards on the day and we'll lose but okay."
So I think this could cause more competitiveness in the 10 to 25 ranked games, but I'm still on board with keeping it limited to 6 or 8.
12 just seems to be rewarding mediocrity.
He didn't say anything about likeability, though. He said he seems like a great teacher of football.
I think Sark has every skill needed to be a good head coach. He just needs to master the art of in-game coaching/adjustments. All that matters is what happens on that field during those 60 minutes.
This is where I'm at right now. Ewers said he's the even keeled; has the same demeanor whether we're down by 3 touchdowns or up by 3 touchdowns, so I'm hoping last year's trend was a Casey thing.
I love the thought of giving Taaffe a chance to do something the field for us. He's a natural ball hawk.
Quinn probably has flashbacks every time the guy steps on the field.
Equally baffling: why did Jerrin Thompson drive the blocker all the way into the backfield? Why do our players do such weird shit on the field? Just be normal!
I don't get how a kicker could seem good and then immediately not be good once they start kicking at DKR. It's the same shit, just a different place. FFS.
I've noticed a bit of a different approach to these inside sources from the $9.95ers lately. Too often, the sources have been treated like football experts when they're probably just walk-ons or trainers or some shit. Even their "objective observations" (i.e. "Improved quickness off the ball, better job of running to the ball, and the linebackers are doing a better job getting them into the right position.") are judgments. Tell us what happened (i.e. Bijan had a one-handed catch) but I'm not going to trust their judgment calls anymore, if I ever did.
OCs largely coach with other peoples' (the position coaches') players so I think that's where his sweet spot is. He needs to humble himself and go back to being an OC.
OK, for all the weird mfs who apparently don't follow Texas football very closely. We have 5-star talents at QB, RB, and WR. We are about to rip everyone some brand new assholes. Quit your sad soyboy nonsense and get your ass a cup of this fucking koolaid already. Jesus, y'all need to get laid or something.
They have locations all over Houston. Surely they must realize there's no word that inspires LESS confidence in the quality of Mexican food than "Gringos"? Corny white people don't care though. I believe I'm well-qualified on that subject.
This is pretty scary, actually, and a super-good explanation for why we've been sucking on defense. There's arguably no more important position group on defense to have highly rated players than LB. The difference they can make is astounding.
Jordan Hicks is a good example. He had 104 tackles for us in 2014.
The most anyone has had for us the previous few years:
2021 - Demarvion Overshown: 74
2020 - Juwan Mitchell: 62
2019 - Joseph Ossai: 90
2018 - Gary Johnson: 90
2017 - Malik Jefferson: 110
2016 - Breckyn Hager: 65
2015 - Jeter Jinkens: 75
Elite LBs make all the difference. We have had a lot of "coach 'em up" position coaches at LB over the years, but not elite recruiters. That has to change.