Defensive Stats: Texas Longhorns @ Oklahoma State Cowboys

“Think of football as intercourse. Time of possession matters to women, but guys don’t care no matter what they say publicly. If you can ’score’ in under two minutes, it still counts. And it counts more than ‘driving’ six minutes and coming up with nothing.

Thoughts?"

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Your girlfriend/boyfriend? is either miserable, or has a large supply of batteries stashed bedside.

Huckleberry may have a stat that reflects this, but like everyone else I don’t read his stuff.

That’s funny. I admit I am in the group whose eyes glaze over 2 sentences into a Huckleberry post. I hated statistics class.

Talking to him in person is even worse.

This is all crap. Echeese just revealed that the offense “bailed out the D.” The O “set the tone early” and “forced OSU out its gameplan.”

Then he chided an unbeliever, telling him, “Try being objective and giving credit where it’s due.”

I think he was talking to you, HenryJames.

That’s all fine well and good, but how many laughing emoticons did he use?

That dude has zero self-awareness.

“That’s all fine well and good, but how many laughing emoticons did he use?”

He used them sparingly, but he came in above his averages on references to “intellectual dishonesty” and straw man arguments.

"When you have followed football for awhile, you will know DC’s love it when they get a 3 score lead, it forces the other team to throw constantly and makes playing D fairly easy.

One of the reasons TT’s D does well statistically most years, their high powered O forces teams to try and win shootouts with them giving them easy INT opportunities.

You lack the intellectual honesty to give credit where it is due but then I noticed on another thread, you do love your myths."

A debate with echeese is a war of wits against an unarmed man.

I thought we had a rule against quoting echeese on this website. If we don’t, we need to implement one before every rational person here experiences his brain imploding.

What makes the rushing stats even more impressive for this game is that that 3.1 ypc was compiled without benefit of sacks making it artificially lower. That’s a hard 3.1.

Hook ’em!!!

Come on, y’all. I come here to get away from echeese. You quoting him all the time isn’t gonna pay my light bill.

One of the reasons TT’s D does well statistically most years, their high powered O forces teams to try and win shootouts with them giving them easy INT opportunities.

Texas Tech’s national ranking in total defense under Mike Leach:

2009: #59
2008: #79
2007: #45
2006: #58
2005: #30
2004: #46
2003: #106
2002: #85
2001: #50
2000: #24

That’s a hard 3.1.

That’s what she said.

Please note that that highest ranked Tech Defense occurred when Spike Dykes was still their head coach.

Hook ’em!!!

That’s crazy that they had statistically their best year under Leach the first year he was there.

I thought Leach took over in 2000.

Never mind.

Huck has an application that pits HenryJames against minor American humorists.

So far, HJ beats Bobcat Goldthwait at home, but loses out to Ruth Buzzi at a neutral site.

That’s crazy that they had statistically their best year under Leach the first year he was there.

What’s really crazy is that there’s someone out there who is so fucking stupid that he would actually base an argument on the premise that Texas Tech’s defense “does well statistically most years.” Then again, every time I think there’s an argument too stupid for any human to make, echeese comes along and takes up the challenge.

Oops, my bad. Leach did go to Tech in 2000. Sorry about that.

That said, I fully endorse Brickhorn’s last post.

Hook ’em!!!

I’ve abandoned at least a couple of different sites because of him.

You think sports is bad, I once threw a stapler across my office because of a politics argument with him. It’s like trying to hold sand. I suppose he figured out if you cheeriful quote inanity and falsehoods, you can’t actually lose an argument in your own mind.

Earl Thomas was ridiculously good. Having the ability to move into the slot like he did is a luxury for a DC.

Our defense has sucked balls for pretty much a decade. I don’t know what the stats are, but any year-to-year improvement is probably attributable to scheduling.

Good point, Eyes. Last year’s good rush defense stats were artificially improved by the whopping number of sacks added in. Then Beany Wells reminded us how the big boys run the ball.
This year, we ARE the big boys in stopping the run. I honestly think this is the best defense overall I’ve ever seen from a Texas team in nearly 40 years of following them.

The other side of the equation is with our offense. We only had 99 yards rushing (113 without two sacks), but they were mostly effective runs until the game was out of reach. Not impressive numbers, but important to the efficient functioning of the offense. Of Texas’ 275 total yards, fully 270 of them were gained on scoring drives amassing 27 points. 85 of the rushing yards (which includes a 10-yd loss on a sack) came on those scoring drives. THAT is efficiency.

lurker: good points all, and where the offense is concerned, we have to remember that all the defensive scoring and putting them in short field situations limited them to 52 plays for the game. That’s 20 or so plays less than they average. When you take that 5.3 per play average and apply it to another 20 plays, you’d add 106 total yards, getting it to a very respectable 381 yard game.

Our offense was very efficient and productive in this game. That said, our defense was freaking awesome. And that pretty much describes the state of the team.

Hook ’em!!!

You think sports is bad, I once threw a stapler across my office because of a politics argument with him.

Really? Wow. I’ve never gotten genuinely frustrated by echeese. Although I have sometimes been annoyed by my inability to underestimate his intellect.

Environmentally conscious suggestion: go with the rechargeable batteries.

Think of football as intercourse. Time of possession matters to women, but guys don’t care no matter what they say publicly. If you can ’score’ in under two minutes, it still counts. And it counts more than ‘driving’ six minutes and coming up with nothing.

Hating on the cheezz is akin to killing a mockingbird.

I finally learned not to argue with him, but it took me a while to realize that you can’t argue with somebody who doesn’t or won’t work with basic facts (or intelligence).

That’s a hard 3.1.

That’s what she said.
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HJ: Are you really sure you want to brag about that?

Hook ’em!!!

Echeese just revealed that the offense "bailed out the D." The O "set the tone early" and "forced OSU out its gameplan."***

One positive outcome of Gerry and Bobby throwing in the towel is that cheeseboy is back at OB full-time, where I don’t have to read his shit.

Strawman. Intellectual dishonesty.

Where are the emoticons? Where’s my stapler?

HenryJames is a cult of one.

“ChrisApplewhite texted me (in tears) that our inability to stop OSU’s big 4 yard runs would lead to our defeat. But I wasn’t worried because 1) someone on our defense seems to always come through if you have to drive on them and 2) one incompletion will kill the drive.”

Oh that is just hilarious. I should charge you for my thoughts since they always end up in the internet anyway. $9.99 a month.

I thought this site was safe for me?

“Our defense has sucked balls for pretty much a decade. I don’t know what the stats are, but any year-to-year improvement is probably attributable to scheduling.”

The light has gone out of dedfischer’s eyes. Somebody, QUICK! Pop in the tape of the 2008 Texas game in Lubbock! NOW! Trips, give him mouth-to-mout. You know you want to! Hold on, ded! Hold!

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Slap hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two pick-sixes and a muffed punt pretty much guarantees you won’t dominate in possession time.

Ha. After I saw this yesterday, I did a little homework and it’s funny how we consistently got worse as Spike’s defensive recruits graduated. Our starting OLBs in 2000? John Norman and Dorian Pitts, two guys that showed up in Lubbock as oversized safeties. 2007 you ask? Chad Hill and Kellen Tillman. We’ve managed to get slower in time on that side of the ball due to our shitty JUCO recruiting policy and bingo-calling DCs. No player development on that side of the ball and your depth turns over every 2 years. You can’t reload like that at Tech. What I do appreciate about Ruff is that he is getting much better athletes on that side of the ball on the recruiting trail. 2009 was his first full class and when we have Will Ford on the field, or D.J. Johnson in Kansas’ case, then we’re a much better defense than what we’ve been in the past Leach years. Ruff still has my support at this point and I hope the Kansas gameplan was a step in the right direction long-term as a means to getting faster on that side of the ball. In the games we’ve been exposed the last 2 seasons under Ruff, team speed has killed us.

They more than doubled our per game average in rushing yards allowed, but they couldn’t run the ball effectively. They ended up going 43-134, 3.1 ypc. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.

I’ll see your “median analysis” and raise you with this: When Texas went up 34-7 midway through the 3rd quarter, Gundy packed it in and started running the ball to roll the clock. I noticed it when I finally re-watched the game last night, but seeing that they had 43 RUSHING ATTEMPTS in a game in which they were being blown out just confirms it. If he could’ve taken his ball and gone home at that point in the 2nd half, he would’ve. Instead, they churned up some meaningless rushing yards that skewed our rushing defense numbers. (The exact opposite of most blow-outs). So, in addition to the median analysis, factor that in and you get an even more impressive performance.