Practice: Day Three

“Remember when coaches didn’t allow you to drink water at practice because it was supposed to make you tougher?”

Yeah, that and the PVC pipe and athletic tape contraption they fashioned to administer water, on the rare occasions that was allowed. A bunch of former PE majors trying to play engineer ain’t a pretty sight.

In addition to testing for sickle cell trait, we run specific tests to determine which young men have more trouble with the heat.

I sure hope they tested “T-Boogie” Graham for Tay-Sachs.

1) looks like Colt still has the 5 yd dink mastered. Come on fat greg, let’s see how he does with 15+ yd passes. You better complete 70%+ when each throw averages about 8 yds. Then again, that is our “running” game as well, so we need to accept that.

2) Harris’s balls looked much tighter, no pun intended.

I figured Kriegel’s 40 time would be better.

Eddie Jones looks already to go. You know, since he isn’t in pads.

Strike that pipe dream.

“2) Harris’s balls looked much tighter”

Surprised HJ didn’t spend some time on this.

SA Express News article also says Kindle is set to graduate in December. Congrats to him.

1) looks like Colt still has the 5 yd dink mastered. Come on fat greg, let’s see how he does with 15+ yd passes. You better complete 70%+ when each throw averages about 8 yds. Then again, that is our "running" game as well, so we need to accept that.

C’mon folks. We are way past this. We were one of the best offenses in the country last year.

National rankings for Texas
Passing Offense: 7
Scoring Offense: 5
Total Offense: 9
All conference players on offense: 1.

“Remember when coaches didn’t allow you to drink water at practice because it was supposed to make you tougher? Yeah, the Nuremberg trials took care of those guys.”

This is why Germany always fades in the 2nd half of the World Wars that they start.

Agreed, PatronSaint. There’s a big difference between a five yard slant and a five yard curl too. I have very few complaints about the current implementation of the passing game… I’d like to see us put a little more pressure on individual matchups with Malcolm Williams and Dan Buckner this year but I think that will be more up to Colt that anyone.

Credit where credit is due… Colt McCoy’s development and this offense that has developed around his abilities are Greg Davis’ crowning achievement in my opinion. That doesn’t change his past of many of the misstep’s that have been made along the way… but it does mean that he is capable of change and maturation beyond what I believed was possible. He still makes occasional game management calls that defy reason, but he’s a net positive for this offense.

I’d like to see someone of Muschamp’s coaching caliber as our OC once he takes over but until then I won’t be calling for Davis’ head.

Davis deserves the vitrol he gets, pre-2004.
Post 2004, there hasn’t been a lot to complain about, and frankly we look pretty stupid doing so.

Nordberg nailed it.

Nordberg – word.

I’m sure the film is edited down for specific reasons with the paranoia machine over at Belmont, but I’m seeing a little too much of Vondrell McGee in the footage. None of Gilbert, which I’m sure was planned.

So whenever he has a Heisman level QB running the offense, GD does a fine job.

Which gets us down to the basic question, did he create Colt, or did he somehow catch lightning in a bottle a second time with Colt?

It has to be a mix of the two. We all know about Colt’s unheralded arrival on campus and how unexpected circumstances lead to his starting for the team. Most remember what a scrawny little kid he was back in 2005. I highly doubt that an average OC/QB’s coach would have helped Colt develop into the robot armed warrior he is now, and he praises “Coach Davis” way too much for it to just be token loyalty to your coach. He obviously buys in.

At the same time, he excelled his freshman year when he was still largely undeveloped, albeit behind an MNC caliber offensive line. To his credit, he proved that he belonged when given the opportunity. And let’s not forget he won the job against Jevan Snead, although he had been in the fold for a year. A definite advantage. It seems to me that Colt’s “lightning in a bottle” comes form his work ethic more than anywhere else. The kid came in humbly, worked his arse off to win the starting job and hasn’t stopped working at it since. He was not exactly considered a blue chip athlete back in 2006, but has made himself into the man he is now with the help of Davis.

And I don’t think I got us any closer to answering the original question.

That’s not me. I’m actually a skinny white guy.

Gilbert looks like a Major Applewhite Pokemon that has graduated to the next level.

“Nordberg

Post 2004, there hasn’t been a lot to complain about, and frankly we look pretty stupid doing so."

So true.

StuckInMN: I think GD and/or MB went through a learning curves themeselves. I think he learned to trust there players, more specifically, his QB’s to make good decesions. This is evident by the saying the coaching staff used…“let Vince be Vince.” Additionally, since 05’ GD adjusted the to the strenghts of the offense each year rather than shove the square peg through the round hole. Go back and watch the 2003 Holiday bowl versus Washington State if you need evidence of the quantam leap the staff made the next year.

From 2000-2003 our offense was what I like to call run, run, pass, punt. This worked great if you had Ricky Williams toting the rock but no so good with Hodges Mitchell, Victor Ike, and Brett Robin. The pass part was a 3 yard out to irregardles of distance. Receivers rarely ran routes over the middle of the field.

We were vanilla on offense and thus extremely predictable. We had absolutely zero misdirection outside of a reverse we ran 5 times a game and a delayed draw we ran another 5 times a game. We refused to play out of the shotgun. I could have scored 90% + playing QB challenge during those years.

A decent defense, or a defense that would sell out on the run on first and second down was our kryptonite.

I also think the entire staff started looking at underclassmen much differently. Pre 2004, they were very cautious about starting them. Now they’ve opened up starting positions to competition every year. I know Mack has stated something to that affect several times, but I’m to lazy to look it up.

“Pre 2004, they were very cautious about starting them. Now they’ve opened up starting positions to competition every year”

right on

Bo knows Silverlight sucks.

Kyle Kriegel is black? Huh.

From 2000-2003 our offense was what I like to call run, run, pass, punt. This worked great if you had Ricky Williams toting the rock

I agree. Our punting was much more effective with Ricky Williams at RB.

greg still has his head up his ass most of the time, I don’t care how many 5 yd curls or 3 colt goaline sneaks in a row he does. How can anyone forget our brilliant goaline playcalling in manahattan. what about last years first call from our own goaline against tech? the fucking I formation? no way they knew we’d be running there.

yeah, davis has gotten a little better post 2004, that is true though.

Did Grant blow out his knee tonight? super. good thing we’re deep at TE.

Yeah, I was at the practice and Grant didn’t look good as he was carted off the field. We were in disbelief. Oddly it happened after he bobbled and dropped a pass and then Earl ‘the Enforcer’ Thomas jacked him good. Thomas walked away casually as if from the scene of a crime.

The ball was thrown behind Grant and he made an awkard adjustment to try and make the catch right when Thomas arrived. It wasn’t a full hit, just enough to break up the play but DJ pivoted awkardly and went down in pain. This was about ten minutes before practice ended and they were just loading him onto the cart when they wrapped it up.

I was just jotting down a note that Grant looked great all night and did well finding the soft spot in the seam.

Hopefully it’s a sprain but given our luck at that position, I’m assuming the worst.

I’ll have a full write-up later on some other guys that stood out. Kirkendoll was lights out.

No worries, we’ve got Eric “Stumpy Joe” Childs behind DJ.

Childs? I thought his surname was Peeps?

Davis deserves credit for the development of our past two quarterbacks no doubt.

That said, I rewatched the Fiesta Bowl last night and the lack of running game is due to design and can be blamed on no one but Davis. To let Davis off the hook post 2004 is absurd in my humble opinion.

It is always something with Davis, and right now it is the abysmal running game.

yeah, Chris Applewhite has some good points on davis’ continued ineptness, I don’t give a shit how good VY made him look in 2005 and Colt last year completing 80% of his passes. The guy is a complete tard and had some all world performances to cover his fat ass.

That sucks regarding Grant. really sucks.

Seriously y’all, before the season starts, go watch tape from 2000-2003. It almost doesn’t even matter, just pick any random games. You’ll really appreciate what we’re doing now.

And thank Christ for VY, because without him we’d still be running an offense where we always have Greg Smith, Ian Harris, and Antwaan Cobb on the field.

“Seriously y’all, before the season starts, go watch tape from 2000-2003. It almost doesn’t even matter, just pick any random games. You’ll really appreciate what we’re doing now.”

Amen Nordberg! I posted my take under the psuedonym Master P in the Regresion Analysis comments.