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Katfid54

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  1. You guys missed me so much.
  2. The issue is that Tech did that by creating 3rd and manageable and running the ball to convert the 3rd/4th down. Outside of the first quarter or so of the Bama game, those yards just aren't there this year. So, first down, you run the ball and you gain one. It's 2nd and 9, so you try to pass but it's incomplete. Third down, do you try to run to set up 4th and 2 or 3? You need 6 or 7 yards on a run to do that. And I just don't see that from Wyoming's offense against this D. Also, we can pressure Peasley by bringing 3 or 4 and spy him with Hill who can run him down in an instant if/when he wants to pull the football down and run. It's a game-changer.
  3. Yep. The biggest takeaway for me against Bama was that we weren't outmatched in size and speed on the field... against Bama. How many years has it been since that was the case for Texas against elite competition? 2006? With elite size and speed all over the field, a well-coached, hard-nosed Wyoming team doesn't stand a chance. Add on to that the fact that we haven't been heavily penalized or been sloppy with the football? I think it's a slaughter on Saturday. Even with an emotional "let down."
  4. I had the same reaction, Tex. Wyoming is tiny up front. They're not going to be able to handle our DL and they're not going to be able to get through our OL without bringing a significant amount of pressure. Their secondary is similarly small. Tech had wide-open receivers all night; Shough was boom or bust, though. Hell, Tech was killing them with simple WR screens, which we know Sark will spam if they're working. I don't see how this one's close. I frankly don't see how Wyoming scores a TD on this defense, absent a big time bust.
  5. Yeah, we discussed this above. I think I misdiagnosed that play as a Zone Read. Instead, I think it's actually an RPO and Gbenda is getting read there. If he plays run, Milroe pulls the ball and throws the out route.
  6. We have played all these big games for years and have fumbled them away, dropped TDs, missed FGs, etc. We finally won one. We shouldn't just give it away and say the other team lost the game.
  7. Fuck this, dude. Worthy dropped two touchdown passes. Jaylan Ford dropped an INT in the end zone. Watts dropped a pick in the end zone.
  8. This is what I thought, too, and also why I wondered if Barron may have actually bailed on #2 too early. He doesn't even touch #2 and gives him a free release up the sideline. It's all bang-bang given how quick the out route is. And obviously Barron gets a pick on the play, so who the fuck cares. But if Milroe reads it better, the #2 WR probably gets a decent gain down the sideline because the CB is outmatched.
  9. Yep. But it's nothing new. It's just repackaged old school football with nouveau window dressing. "Influence trap" was a thing way back when the Wing T was cutting edge.
  10. Sure: Doink doink doink Ughhhh Huhhhh??? Whaaaaa Yeah!!! Dot gif with Ms paint drawings.
  11. This is the CORNER route to the POST route that I'm actually looking for.
  12. And if anyone has access to All-22 film, I can do some really badass analysis with that....
  13. As always, it's tough to know what's going on without the playcall. But after watching this like 20 more times, I now think this was an RPO and the read is actually of Gbenda. Milroe is obviously reading something here. This is not a fake read. But when you watch the give after Burke's crash, Milroe's head doesn't turn. I think he's actually reading Gbenda to see if he'll bite on the run and, if so, he's going to throw the quick out. Basically Power with a backside OHIO concept? This is my attempt to draw it up: Also explains why Milroe's eyes continue to widen as the out route widens. He's internally checking to make sure he made the right read and to see whether that route was open.
  14. I was probably arguing with myself. On the first watch, I thought we had run the old Tom Herman/Devin Duvernay slot fade (i.e., what Bama did). We haven't had much success with the fade; Quinn doesn't throw it great, in my opinion. So when I re-watched and realized the play was the NCAA concept, I thought it worth noting that it was a concept and not simply a "Yo, Worthy, go deep" play.
  15. One another re-watch, this is probably counter/GT with a fake of a read and leaving Burke unblocked. Given the blocking, there's probably not a real read here, although Milroe fakes as if he's reading Burke.
  16. Great thought/comment. I wondered if the pull was designed to suck in Burke more. I.e., sometimes defensive linemen are taught to follow pulling guards. If you couple a pulling action with ZR, maybe you further incentivize the DE to give a PULL read? Also, it's probably not technically a "zone" read, since the line blocks down and the tackle pulls. It's really a Power Read (although the term "Power Read" in option parlance means something different). So for ease of discussion, it's a ZR-type look. I re-watched this a few times to see if there was no read and it was just Burke misplaying it so badly he makes it look like ZR? But I don't think so. It sure looks like Milroe is reading him.
  17. I know there are a lot of Xs/Os folks out there. So if there was something you saw, happy to discuss it here. I am, however, not going to make a gif-on-request of Jordan Whittington getting called for holding. Also, if there's something you're particularly interested in, let me know here or via DM and I can include it in a future one of these (and let's hope it doesn't take another 5 years for me to do the next one).
  18. Are you talking about this? That's a post route bro. If he had started from the other side of the football and run toward the same corner of the end zone, that would be a corner route. Rule of thumb: Post routes break TOWARD/across the ball: Corner routes break away from the ball:
  19. I think that's right, although I think he would've stayed with the out routeif he's playing it right. It's the LB (Gbenda) who needs to pass off the out route and go find other work. But it's so bang-bang. I had to watch it about 50 times to come to that conclusion. Without knowing the call, it's tough.
  20. Hook ‘em. Hope y’all enjoyed this. Let’s not fuck it up against Wyoming this week.
  21. Part 4: Now to my personal favorite play of the game. But let’s see Sark’s set up first. Here’s the situation. 27-24, Texas is leading. But Bama has Texas backed up at 2nd and 15 in the shadow of their own goalposts. Bama rushes three and drops 8—a look that Quinn struggled mightily against last year. But Quinn stays cool, and the call is (or at least appears to be) 4 verts—a perfect beater for this coverage that just asks folks to run down the field and get open. Whittington “gets open,” Quinn finds him, and Whittington fights his ass off for extra yards. So three plays later, who is the safety worried about? Probably the guy that just made him look like an ass on national TV—Whittington. So what you should you do? I guess you should throw a fucking bomb to Ad Mitchell. It’s a trips formation with Sanders/Whittington/Mitchell. Worthy is the sole receiver isolated at the field side of the formation. Here’s the route combo from Trips: Does it look similar to NCAA? It should (although it’s not identical). This is the O.G. “NCAA” route combo that Steve Spurrier made famous (made perfect) at Florida—the concept is called “Mills”. Like the NCAA/DDP concept above, the key is to put the safety in conflict. Does he take the DIG (a really easy thing to do—especially when the DIG is run RIGHT AT HIM as it was here by Whittington). Or does he stay over the top? It’s like getting a cat to chase movement. The safety can’t help himself from attacking the deep-breaking in-route right in front of him—especially since Whittington had just caught a pass in the exact same spot. But that leaves the post wide open behind him for six. The ball is perfect, and Mitchell does his best Worthy doing his best Willie Mays impression. Ad Mitchell hauling in a 39 yard bomb to prove definitively that our deep attack this year is more than just throwing up prayers to 8 lbs 6 oz. sweet baby Jesus Xavier Worthy. Touchdown Texas. Play the fight song. Make ‘em eat shit.
  22. Part 3: Ethan Burke was a big part of the story of the game for a lot of reasons. But one thing that I noticed early on was that Bama had obviously schemed to attack him with the Zone Read. They ran various plays to put Burke in conflict. But I’m going to try and focus only on ZR. Here’s the first time they ran it against Burke: Burke gives a hard keep read. He’s almost all the way to the center when Milroe pulls the ball: Catalon tries to fill the alley but misses and Burke is fortunately able to get Milroe by the shoe to prevent him from ripping off another 5 or 10 yards. Gain of eleven. The second time they ran zone read was literally the next play: Burke attacks deep and Milroe hands the ball to McClellan. Frankly, I’m not sure he was in a position to make a play on either Milroe or McClellan that play. He chases the RB but his angle is too poor to run him down. Texas pulls Burke after that play for several plays. The next time Bama runs ZR, Sorrell is in at EDGE: Sorrell stays flat, doesn’t chase, and forces a GIVE read. Byron Murphy and Alfred Collins both shitwhip the Bama OL, Jaylon Ford fills the other gap, and the play is snuffed for a loss of 1. That play takes Bama off schedule, Watts breaks up 2nd down in the end zone, Milroe runs for his life on 3rd down, and Texas is able to force a field goal. Bama doesn’t go back to ZR the next drive or for the rest of the first half. The next time they run ZR, it’s 13:16 in the third quarter, and Burke is back at DE: This time, Burke slow-plays it, forcing the GIVE read. Catalon fills from the safety position and slows McClellan, who is then gang-tackled by errbody. Bama runs ZR again against Sorrell in the late 3rd. It doesn’t go great. Here’s the last time they run ZR and the play that stood out to me the most. 2:15 left in the 3rd. 2nd and 9. Bama finally gets the Burke matchup that it has been exploiting all night: Burke plays it perfectly (again). He doesn’t run upfield. He doesn’t crash on the snap. He stays wide, forces the GIVE read, and then attacks straight down the line of scrimmage. Sweat blows up his blocker to force McClellan back to the outside, and Burke is waiting there to make the tackle himself. Turns out, someone is coaching our defensive players on the sideline while the game is ongoing. Weird. For the past 14 years, I was under the impression that wasn’t allowed.
  23. Part 2: Let’s check out Barron’s interception. This early moment in the game was instrumental in giving Texas confidence after a sputtering first drive and Alabama marching down the field to the tune of a workmanlike 38 yards on six plays. In watching this clip, I really struggled with it. Is it an example of a coverage bust? Or is it an unbelievably egregious poor read by Milroe? Here’s why I say that. Bama is in trips to the Field. Texas has four defenders. It looks like Texas is in a cover 4 (MOFO) look. Watch the safety (number 4 in the pic) and corner (number 3 in the pic) bail at the snap. Milroe has his man pegged all the way. He waits for the out route and throws the ball. He very obviously never sees Barron. But watch the All 22. Is that because Barron mis-played the coverage? There are two Bama WRs running up the side (you can see about halfway through the clip), with only the CB over the top of them. The CB is having to try to play both men, and as a result the second WR is wide open. Barron, though, stays in the flat and jumps the out route, securing an easy interception. Based on my review, I think Barron played it right but it’s bang-b-ang. At the very end of the clip, you can see Catalon hauling ass to try and get wide to help with the two WRs running down the sideline. That suggests the look is a cover 4 look with Barron having responsibility for the flat. Maybe something like this? If Barron did play it right, this is really horrific read by MIlroe. If he’d checked, he could’ve hit the next receiver for a decent gain down the sideline. Instead, he simply assumes man coverage and never even checks to make sure Barron has left the area. He telegraphs his pass the whole way, and it’s a free football for Texas.
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