Barking BON Roundtable

scip’s offensive breakthrough prediction pleases me much. that said, i just heard geoff ketchum [genuflect-knock on wood-cross fingers and toes] say that john chiles had the camp he wished malcolm williams had had. he said he’s expecting john to be a factor this year.

i’ve not been hearing that. anybody know more about that?

I’ve been reading that Chiles is down to 206 from 220 and that he is the 5th option with Williams being 4th. They’ve been using Chiles on some trick passing plays along with Fozzy. Some of the db’s have been saying that Chiles is real strong and uses his body well. I’d guess we see him used mostly in the screen game. One thing that I never hear anyone mention is that Chiles has had trouble holding on to the ball in games. I’m not worried about him catching the ball, I’m worried about him protecting the ball after the catch. We’ll see. The whole 1st through 5th wr power ranking is pretty lame. Colt will hit the open guy and they’ll all play a lot.

yes, mag, that’s about the same i’ve been hearing. no word that he’s tearing it up.

I’m almost completely convinced that Mal Williams is going to be one of these guys, that if he reaches his potential, it won’t be until he’s in the league.

I will bet the cost of Trips Right’s vasectomy reversal surgery that Malcolm Williams has twice as many yards as Chiles at the end of the season.

On half as many catches.

Vasher: that may not be a very impressive number. Some of us are not surprised that Williams has been the disappointment of camp thus far.

Gilbert will end the year having thrown 11 passes, 8 of them against ULA Monroe.

i’m a little confused. what does gilbert learn from throwing against monroe and wyoming that he doesn’t learn from throwing against our defense?

is it clock management that he would gain? or learning to ignore the crowd? i could see that. when i started school i wasn’t a football fan at all. never went to a game my first year. one saturday i was walking across campus during a game and heard something that made my hair stand on end. it was the stadium and the horns had made a big play. i had never heard anything remotely similar. my whole town of 1800 couldn’t all shoot guns at the same time and make that much noise.

of course, garrett doesn’t come from a background like i did or like colt did, but he has never yet had to take a snap in front of 100 thousand people.

Chiles actually got up to 230+. I think he’ll be a useful possession guy that can move the chains but he’s nowhere near having his wiggle back.
 
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Games are real, man. Practice is practice. If practice was the sole determinant of play, James Brown would have never started a down at Texas.

i hear you, scip, but i can’t imagine anybody on our schedule who could hone his talents like blood’s assassins can.

one huge question i had for john moving to receiver was regarding his hands. i realize he played wideout in high school, but lots of high school wideouts don’t have the hands for the college game. i’m guessing he must be pretty good or we’d hear about it.

hope he continue to segue into receiver shape and get back some of what he had. he was pretty slick.

What’s with the animosity for Briles? Did he turn in a douchy ballot last year?

Final 2008 Poll Coaches’ Ballots

His hands are solid glenn. He catches the ball like a receiver, which is somewhat surprising for a guy who’s not really trained in that area. The problem is separation from the defensive backs, route running, and hanging on to the ball after catching it…

His hands are solid glenn. He catches the ball like a receiver, which is somewhat surprising for a guy who’s not really trained in that area. The problem is separation from the defensive backs, route running, and hanging on to the ball after catching it…

Whoops posted this as the wrong person :)

thanks, ghg. good to hear he has that going for him. though the troubles you mention seem pretty daunting. pretty much an uphill fight.

I’d like to squash the fallacy that Williams has been the disappointment of camp. It just so happens he dropped a few balls during one open practice and the inconsistency buzz caught fire. Can’t a dude have a bad day? Collins had one the day
before.

Williams is our fastest, most physical, and most explosive WR on the roster and he’s going to wreck this this year.

Does he have Shipley’s siamese twin-like telekinesis with Colt? No.

Flypaper hands? Not every day. But he does more often than not and he’s a weapon you need to have on the field when the game is on the line a la Tech.

In the closed practice I watched in the bubble he was abusing some very good DBs and had a stellar practice.

This stuff about him being the disappointment of camp is complete garbage, especially as it relates to Chiles.

Just wait.

damn! i just saw this.

that’s what i’ve been wanting to hear, vash. you give me much more optimism than i had. i think malcolm is the piece that makes the puzzle work out. hope he wrecks all kinds of this.

“What’s with the animosity for Briles?”

Briles screwed us in the final coaches poll (an element to determine the BCS championship game). He voted Texas 5th and OU #1. FYI so did the pirate Leach.

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