Interesting News On Two Conference Foes

Don’t think for a second that details like this are going to loosen the maroon stranglehold on the Big 12 South Division Title.

skyrocketing Jerrod Johnson copays

A great phrase, and the name of my grunge band after I acquire some musical talent.

Trips, I’ve heard more than one voice predict a loss in Lincoln followed by a resounding victory in the conference championship game. Not sure where this high regard for Nebraska is coming from. They’ll be lucky to score 10 points on the Texas defense, imo.

We are going to skull fuck aggy.

Other sites are reporting that a third Cornhusker defender, Anthony Blue has suffered a serious injury as well.

I’ll admit a certain degree of trepidation over starting three true fish on the O-line. Any sane man should.

However, we’ve known for a couple of years this season would be our O-line low water mark. That being said, it’s not like they beat me out for the positions – they beat out guys who were older and received significant PT last year.

If these guys are better – and Coach Sherman was an O-line coach in the National fucking Football League, so he should know if they are – then they deserve to start and we’ll be all the better for it.

I am almost doing Koolaid-bong shots here………

OL Mike Smith was going to be a back-up this year, apparently.
 
Anthony Blue looked to be Nebraska’s #3 CB.
 
Sean Fisher was a starter.
 
So one bad loss, one medium loss, and one depth loss.

ag said:

“However, we’ve known for a couple of years this season would be our O-line low water mark.”

Ouch. You’re screwed.

Now the Huskers will have to rely on a player with even less experience to direct traffic in Pellini’s difficult scheme.

No worries. It’s my understanding from talking to many Nebraska fans that when losing such a key player, your defense can perhaps be better going forward.

Scip, that’s interesting on Mike Smith. The two left tackles vying for that spot have zero career starts between them. That can’t be good.

btw – Jake Matthews and Cedric Ogbuehi were both still running 2nd team as of this morning’s practice. Just sayin’….

If they’re good enough to beat out last year’s starter, it can’t be too bad.

They gave Smith’s LT spot to 0 experience and moved him to center where he was having difficulty beating out a 5’6" walk-on. Fisher is a bigger loss since the LB spot is lacking experience, but it might be the deepest position talent-wise, so there is a ray of hope there.

Perhaps Bo’s decision to have open challenges in that Octagon in the SW corner of Sapp Fieldhouse after practice was questionable.

Smith didn’t hurt a knee it was also a broken leg for him.

I’m starting to feel better about Oct 16th with every passing day, regardless of injuries.

There is more pressure on Nebraska to win than Texas.

27-10ish type game.

Just like there was in the 1999 Conference Championship game

BLUE WAS MY BOY!!!

GG will be lucky to get out of Lincoln County without a pinched nerve in his neck / shoulder / hip / ankle / whatever.

He just blue himself.

I don’t think Garrett plans on getting laid up in Lincoln.

I haven’t seen or heard anything about Cedric being a starter although he’s definitely in the 2 deep. I think it is only a matter of time before Matthews takes the RT or Center spot however. We also signed a guy after signing day named Jarvis Harrison who has also looked good so far. I think the Rhontae Scales experiment at NT is about over and he’ll move back to the OL somewhere. Arkansas destroyed our LT last year, so we’ll probably know after we play them this year how we’ll stack up against B12-2 foes. We play Okie lite 1st but I’m not sure what they have coming back on the DL. On the bright side Jerrod got a lot of practice ducking and dodging guys early last year so it’s in his skillset now.

Don’t y’all have the ability to get rid of fucksticks like Whistling now?

I am not the sharpest tool in Lincoln County

But I will be, if Coach Pelini accepts me into the Lawrence Phillips Anger Management Program this fall!

Holy shit – now I am nervous. Here is out two deep right now, left to right:

• = Starter last year
  • = In the two deep last year
    • = True freshman

1. Joeckel***, Eike*, Allen**, Lewis*, Thomas**
2. Matthews***, Harrison***, Baker**, Klinke***, Ogbuehi***

OMFG

I’m sure the Aggie coaches are trying to perfect the 3 step drop passing game.

1. Joeckel***, Eike*, Allen**, Lewis*, Thomas**
2. Matthews***, Harrison***, Baker**, Klinke***, Ogbuehi***

If I’m Jerrod Johnson I’d ask to be cryogenically frozen for a year or two while those guys take their lumps.

I don’t think Gilbert will be going anywhere near Lincoln County.

Sherman might want to implement the Leach O. WRs get open quickly, QB passes the ball quickly, wide spits for the OL and they start back pedaling at the snap, TB runs mostly after initial passing fake, and lots of draws and screens. Add in non Leach touch of Jerrod running whenever the opportunity pops up and he can avoid contact.

I’m not saying that I want the aggies to do it or that they will or even that it will succeed but it would be interesting and might work. How much could Leach make as an O consultant while he is out of coaching? Maybe $25k to $50k per day (for the non stream of consciousness version of his presentation)?

Even more than usual, Big 12-2 South OCs are going to need to focus on keeping their QBs healthy.

I’m not saying that I want the aggies to do it or that they will or even that it will succeed

Maybe we could save some time by focusing instead on what you are saying.

Come on guys, don’t you read any beergut? A direct quote from his little blog. “I didn’t mention our offensive line in my preview because our offensive line isn’t a concern for me. We return both of our starting guards, and in a conference where 10 of the 12 teams run an even front, talent and experience at the guard position is what matters.” http://www.iamthe12thman.com/2010/7/16/1573828/bias-in-preseason-rankings

If beergut is not concerned about their offensive line, I’m sure they’ll be fine. Beergut is like 95% of Aggie fans, that actually think they are going to be better replacing 3 SR’s with multiple freshman.

Nebraska fans think they’ll be better now that Suh is gone, and Aggies think they’ll be better with freshman offensive linemen. Season can’t get here fast enough.

For once I agree with Tim.

RC said he’d rather have an inexperienced offensive line and a good senior quarterback than visa versa (statement made prior to Bucky’s senior season). RC won conference that year and more games than all the rest of us put together.

I’ll take my chances with these fish and Jerrod. (Not like I have another choice but I’m an optimist)

Ogbuehi will redshirt. Matthews in all likelihood will be the swing tackle if he doesn’t take over the starting RT. He’s technically perfect, but really needs that redshirt year to get another 10-15 pounds on him. Sadly he won’t get it.

Joeckl is already north of 300 and will be as good as anything we had at LT last year. We’ll be able to scheme around everything except C. Matt Allen sucks. Really bad. And is our best option by miles.

RC also fielded a defense that was more athletic than the woman’s equestrian team.

Joeckl could be as physically gifted as Orlando Pace and he’d still struggle because he’s a true freshman trying to play one of the two toughest positions on the field.

Hide Joeckel?

“RC said he’d rather have an inexperienced offensive line and a good senior quarterback than visa versa (statement made prior to Bucky’s senior season). RC won conference that year and more games than all the rest of us put together.”

Doesn’t Colt’s entire career refute this. He looked awesome in his freshman year behind a senior line and much worse his sophomore year behind a less experience line. I don’t think anyone would call Colt a bad quarterback (insert aggie trolls here) but when his line let him down (see championship game) he looked like crap.

On a side note it turms out my new coworker is an aggie. He’s completely convinced that they will destroy us this year. He was dumb enough to bet a c-note on it… In front of our boss…

Good point Bob, small quibble, I don’t think Colt’s line let him down in the championship game.

Don’t get me wrong, I firmly believe they would have failed him as they frequently failed Gilbert, but he made a bad read on the speed option (as he did virtually every time) and the injury was pretty fluky.

Muschamp should be quite eager to avenge last year’s game. Joeckl I imagine won’t be much worse than most of the left tackles in this league but other spots on that line are going to be very vulnerable. Allen vs. Randall is a promising one for the good guys.

Texas’ overall pass-rushing talent might actually be something that really punishes the Aggies more than other teams. Pass protection is physically and mentally much more draining for OL than run blocking. Having to face Okafor, EJ, Acho, Jeffcoat, Johnson, mini-Acho, etc over the course of a game will be beyond most of the tackles in this league and should be far beyond a freshman’s physical stamina.

Especially if they no-huddle.

“RC also fielded a defense that was more athletic than the woman’s equestrian team.”
More athletic than the riders, or their mounts? Because if it’s the latter, I don’t think you’re giving Dan Buckner nearly enough credit.

It’s really hard for me to dislike Jerrod Johnson. He doesn’t come across as a prima donna or gangsta. I’ve read on the aggy boards he’s a good Catholic kid. I’ll light a candle for him and say a prayer to St. Sebastian (patron saint of athletes) for his well-being. I’ll chip in a prayer to St. Giles as well; he’s the patron saint of the lame, which Jerrod may well wind up being. (Sorry, aggy, I couldn’t find a patron saint for people who are running for their lives.)

Fisher would be a big loss.

“Having to face Okafor, EJ, Acho, Jeffcoat, Johnson, mini-Acho, etc over the course of a game will be beyond most of the tackles in this league”

You forgot Wilson and Mims. :-)

Joeckel, Matthews and Ogbuehi are all Tackles so not sure how all 3 of them are going to start and Matthews and Ogbuehi are still running with the second team.

No problem. If the Ags need experience on their offensive line they can simply move a couple of back-up defensive linemen over since we all know they depth in the offensive line is really the Ags biggest worries along their lines.

Scipio nailed it early – if they can beat out the existing players then they deserve to play. The existing roster lists plenty of OL who have been in the program for at least a year (including 4 upperclassmen):

70 Allen, Matt OL 6-2 295 SR-1L Spring, Texas/Klein Collins/LSU
72 Ayers, Josh OL 6-4 270 SO-SQ Euless, Texas/Trinity
74 Baker, Danny OL 6-5 306 JR-2L Sugar Land, Texas/Elkins
64 Barrera, Stephen OL 6-5 290 SO-1L Clear Lake, Texas/Clear Lake
65 Eike, Evan OL 6-4 304 JR-2L Bryan, Texas/Bryan
62 Hyde, Jeffrey OL 6-5 310 SO-1L Colleyville, Texas/Covenant Christian
61 Lewis, Patrick OL 6-2 303 SO-1L LaPlace, La./East St. John
73 Scales, Rhontae OL 6-6 317 FR-RS Killeen, Texas/Killeen
71 Thomas, Brian OL 6-3 303 SO-SQ Pearland, Texas/Pearland
67 Villavisencio, Joseph OL 6-4 308 JR-2L Jacksonville, Texas/Jacksonville

I don’t necessarily buy the “Sherm was an O-line coach, they will be fine” argument – but I do get the Sherm will make this work because JJ needs to put up big numbers (along with a reasonable improvement on the D side of the ball) in order to keep A+M’s momentum from last year.

Frankly I am more worried about our OL and their commitment to standing around and hanging their heads the last few years. Here is to hoping culture is changing.

The lack of Josh Ayers and Joseph Villasencio stepping up are what bother me the most. If those guys are getting pushed down the depth chart by true fish, something is wrong. Or, perhaps those fish are just really that good, but that flies inthe face of conventional wisdom about that position. Sept. 4 cannot get here soon enough.

its really really terrible,plz be stronger Japanese.