Coming Out Of The Shell

Even with offers of free tickets and a ride I shall sit on the couch and get shit housed. I need ready access to whiskey and a toilet.

Nickel, are you suggesting we point our offense towards the endzone rather than sideline to sideline? I mean, our shell is just such a comfortable place to be. It’s warm and dry in there.

I’m all for whatever Muschamp decides, but if I was drawing it up, I’d put Cu. Brown on Broyles. This is a quickness/cover thing, rather than a physical match-up. If it was Malcolm Kelly, I’d match AJ up on him all day. Put Chykie on Stills, and let AJ do his thing. If he’s not spying Murray, let Vaccaro. One of them needs to be at all times.

If we stop the run effectively in Big Nickel, Jones will have a long day.

The same people that said AJ got used by Broyles are as ignorant as the people that say Earl couldn’t tackle becuase he missed that play on Murray. Dumb fucks, imo.

I have no freaking idea what to expect from our offense. I mean, I do, but the gullible side of me expects us to come out and move the ball. For some reason OU seems to be the only team we’ve had success running the ball against the last few years. With OU’s injuries up front and Wort’s barely larger than Nkwopara stature, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Cody be our most effective running back.

I had the same thought about Cody, which means he’ll probably get 4 carries.

As a fun side note of interest, the 3-4 look with Ronnell Lewis at OLB is supposedly making its first appearance this weekend.

i cant wait to see ol’ greg break out the option and zone read packages.

Soundtrack for an deserted campus:

link didn’t take:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VFyBJQTiqE

“Put Chykie on Stills”

So you’re telling me expect Stills to have his breakout performance?

The fact that Oklahoma’s giving up 4.3 yards per carry would make me fell better but for the fact that UCLA’s giving up 4.6. If we can’t run the ball effectively on OU, then BC needs a Malcolm Brown de-commitment clock on the front page a la the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Kick it off at, say, 5 minutes to midnight.

I expect Greg to throw a very limited amount of shit on the wall and I don’t expect any of it to stick.

I suspect we are gonna get creamed tomorrow, but I am going anyway. My grandsons want to ride the roller coaster and I want some fried beer.

Gosh, I hope the D can keep this from being an embarrassment.

uthookem, I know, I cringed as I thought it, and I hesitated to write it knowing I’d get called out for it. Alas, we have to put Chykie somewhere. Chykie needs to utilize his speed to atleast catch up and interfere and take the 15 yards rather than giving up 6. Sad when that’s considered a good play.

Whistling, being an Aggie, why would you go to the game?

Love those roller coasters at the state fair.

I am hopefully optimistic remembering 2007. After losing to K-State, we went to Dallas and made a game of it, albeit losing. Of course, we didn’t stink it up against K-State nearly as bad as we did against UCLA. And we actually had an offense in 2007. Of course, this year we actually have a defense.

God, I’m confused.

I will have Wild Turkey and coke (Coca Cola, I mean) handy, though.

Less-discussed keys for OU’s offense:
1. OU has another weapon that really hasn’t been tested in a game, Millard OR Musil carrying the ball between the tackles.
2. Millard should have at least 2-3 passes thrown his way regardless.
3. OU has TE’s have caught the ball a little this year.
4. De. Miller, our Malcom Williams, has proven a bit more reliable this year. If only he would block in the screen game (6’4" 225), he’d make OU so much better in multiple ways.
5. This is the year the shuffle pass returns to OU too.

RE: OU in the 3-4 on D
Who plays the NT?
Who are the 4 LB’s? (TLewis, RLewis, Jefferson?, ?)

Defensively, OU will not overlook at the Tech and UCLA games as templates.
Tech: 24 points for UT on drives of 7 yds, 80 yds (with 30 yds from penalty; 50 yds in 20 plays otherwise), and 1 real drive.
UCLA: 2 drives of > 40 yds outside of garbage time.
UT really was not that efficient in the red zone in either game.

Don’t give up the big play. Don’t give up field position. UT’s offense will put together 1-2 drives of significance a game. The way you don’t give up the big play is tackle, keep contain. UT will try to run Gilbert. Don’t give him lanes to scramble up the middle. He’s a better runner than given credit for and can get 10-15 yds. UT will turn it over >/= 3 times a game.

Cash those in.

I’m playing in a golf tournament in Deer Park tomorrow morning, wearing a Longhorn golf shirt and a Stanford visor…I hope one of my teams can pull off the upset…

“Love those roller coasters at the state fair.”

Yeah, they’re in back next to the waterpark.

Seriously, just how stupid are you Whistling? You’re an aggie, and it’s cool. Be an Aggie. You’ll find people take you more seriously around here.

Scipio doesn’t know shit because he doesn’t get paid $5 million (or even $425,000) to coach. So says “Scalia” at HornFans. If Scipio did know shit, he would call DeLoss and apply for Greg and Mack’s jobs. Btw, does Scipio sell drugs???

Is it just possible that Brown and Davis know vastly more about how to coach at the college level than “experts” like Scipio on BarkingCarnival.

Mack is making $5 million coaching college football and his record for the last decade has been at the top of all college football; Greg is making $425,000 and his offenses have set countless Texas and national records.

I, like you, wonder why some people don’t get call up DeLoss and apply for Greg and Mack’s jobs? Why does one of the “experts” have to resort to selling drugs for a living if he knows so much about being a college offensive coordinator? You’d think the critics would get into the honorable profession of college football coaching instead of publishing blogs that push a decade+ agenda that has been proved wrong over and over again.

http://forums.hornfans.com/php/wwwthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=football&Number=6264209&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=5&vc=1

Oh and let’s go ahead and lay to rest the hopes for an Aggie Big 12 South title, maybe next year…but probably not…probably never.

Totally agree on the INT’s are acceptable on the deep ball, it’s like a soft punt.

Plus, the old Darrel Royalism of there are three things that can happen when you throw the ball and two of them are bad…….is short by one. You can also get an interference call on the D. So only 4 things can happen, one of them is bad, one is ok, and two are great.

Those odds, are worth exploiting if you can throw 50 yards.

So says "Scalia" at HornFans.

They have HornFans on computers, now?

I love that logic Blueshorn. I use it all the time. For instance, I’m not in politics, so I never criticize a politician. Evar. Also, I don’t make movies, so I love every movie I see. They’re all fucking awesome.

The play action pass off a draw fake was unveiled against Tech. I don’t recall what the outcome was, but given GD’s proclivity to assume that no other team has the ability to watch and breakdown film, I’ll assume it’s the only play off that action we have, and that Venables will have his secondary ready. Maybe we’ll get crazy and change the post to a post corner route for the slot receiver. How’s that for creative game planning?

That assumes that we actually establish the draw play first, and don’t just pull out the random draw play action pass after our randome double reverse pass where the passer isn’t smart enough to throw the ball away loses 14 yards.

I’m curious as to why we don’t have a sprint draw or backside screen available to offset our sprint out pass play. Deep thoughts that only our offensive staff and the pumper brigade can comprehend and explain away.

I was pleasantly surprised to see us run a counter to the fly sweep against UCLA. It didn’t gain much, but it was there. We probably have one other play off that action which will be a short pass completion to the back slipping out to the vacated flat.

I hold little hope for this game, but there is the knowledge that Brent Venables is only slightly smarter than our own albatross, and is as prone to TIA’s in big games as our own press box vegetable. Combine one of those episodes with a feeding frenzy game from our defense, and it’s more than doable.

Oh, man. I am so depressed cuz my gomers lost last night. I just did not realized is showed.

It is funny. As long as there have been internet bbs, the pumpers have always accused the realists / pessimists of being aggy. It will never change.

Actually, my 5 and 6 year old grandsons like the natural history museums, the out door bird show, the aquarium and the swan paddle boats almost as much as they like the kiddie rides at the far end of the mid-way. I like all that and the car shows.

Blueshorn said:

October 1st, 2010 at 8:28 am

I expect Greg to throw a very limited amount of shit on the wall and I don’t expect any of it to stick.

And afterward I expect Mack to tell us that all jobs – except for those on the coaching staff – are up for grabs.

If we win, it’s by a FG or less… We could lose 50-0. I expect us to lose by ~14, so hopefully I’ll be pleasantly surprised. I just want to see the training wheels come off GG.

What Darrell never said was, three things can happen when you run the ball, and two of them are bad.

This year there are three things that can happen when you snap the ball…

Training wheels off GG is right. He had a really good team around him in the NC game and he only looked good for an in-experienced freshman. It has got to take awhile longer to come up to speed if you are playing with turkeys instead of trying to soar with eagles.

“soar with eagles”? Any space left in that dreamwagon?

I had anticipated Ruth Bader Ginsburg being my main critic.

I figured Clarence Thomas would be a big fan of this board after Henry James lent him his Long Dong Silver tape back in the day.

In order to run the ball, you have to actually internalize and decide you are going to run the ball. Trying to run the ball doesn’t cut it.

Commitment to a running game means pounding it even when you get a minimal to no gain. You pound it until the defense begins to tire….usually around 7 or 8 minutes to go in the second quarter. You pound it and punt.

It’s like body blows in boxing. The toll isn’t felt until the later rounds when the hands drop down. You pound it until they put more men in the box, and your starter becomes a gainer. The run opens the pass, never vice versa. Nevah evah. You throw your hook combos after you’ve worked the body.

Davis may say he wants to commit, but those words are as empty as Jeff Conaway saying he’s going back to rehab. We want so bad to believe him, but deep down we know it’s bullshit…….and he does too.

He can’t even decide on a running back. His idea of a running game is something you use to run out the clock at the end of the game. That is the only time he shows proper commitment. On the first two series, he should pretend the 4th quarter just started and we are up by 24, put Cody in and do the right thing coach.

His disrespect for the running game is rationalized, but it’s also a big big case of he just doesn’t want to. Is Davis and asshole?

I actually think he finds a basic running play boring and unimpressive to his peers. Passing is where the glory and complexity is, but passing requires a great quarter back…….a great quarterback that you develop, that HE develops. He’s the quarterback coach…..holy shit, I think I just had a breakthrough.

Davis won’t commit to the running game not only to make Applewhite look like shit (a young uppity punk threat), but more importantly, a running game doesn’t showcase his pet project darling quarterbacks that spend hours and hours and hours on passing plays and reads.

Davis doesn’t commit to a running game…..because of ego. He’s not stupid, just proud.

I can’t believe I just talk therapied myself through this. Thanks guys.

Three things can happen when you have GD as OC, and they’re ALL bad.

Haha, great post saltshaker. Probably a lot of truth in there.

Pride is one possibility. Control is another. The withholding in play calling is active. It feels like a punch in the gut.

But it is TX/OU eve. It’s times like this when I recall games on offense where I swore GD didn’t make the team bus. Right now, I will enjoy my appetite for this game and the anticipation without taint.

Nate, I would be shocked if they didn’t use the 3/4 with Lewis this week. It’s stupid not to attack Texas that way.

For whoever asked, I’m guessing that goes Wort, Lewis, Lewis, and Jefferson as the “linebackers” in much the same way that Vaccaro or AJ is the 4rth backer in our own 3-4.

As far as putting Chykie on Stills, Chykie is still considered an NFL prospect for a reason. He may lapse and give up a big play virtually every game but the rest of the time he is more than capable of locking down freshmen or better. Anyone remember Julio Jones doing much against Chykie in the MNC? He’s a pretty good bet in the important games, if not as strong overall as Curtis and AJ.

Is this part of that taintless diet I’m reading so much about?

Yeah, you can pretty much bet OU will go 3-4 and our O will look like they had no idea it was coming.

Expect delay of game penalties while our lineman are conferring about who to block

Hmm. Just learned that Mike Davis is out. I’d put that under bad news.

Davis is out for the OU game, No, not THAT Davis.

This sucks.

Beyond diet. It’s a violation of the public health that Greg Davis swamp gooch appears on any game watching menu.

Hpslugga’s fisking of GD defenders on that hornfans thread is entertaining, Among his better responses:

“Texas ran the exact same freaking offense from 2005 all the way to the 2007 Holiday Bowl, and it then reinstated the same system until the 2008 OU game. And of course things didn’t work out so well because athletic as Colt was, he wasn’t the superhuman VY was. So Greg and Mack would be absolutely befuddled that, for example, Colt was getting nailed in the 2007 Nebraska game against a defense that VY would have castrated by halftime. The general thinking in the booth was "damn, it worked for Vince, why can’t it work for Colt?" That kind of thinking is stupid.”

“The passing game is particularly easy to scheme against when the staff doesn’t totally trust the QB to run the offense. That lack of trust materializes in an increase of the already predictable runs, an increase in those “sideways” passes everyone’s bitching about, and a simplified downfield game in which the progressions are “primary, check down.”

“But Greg Davis thinks that pump faking is “unsound football” (no lie, that’s a real quote from the post-game interview in the 2002 A&M game). That’s just yet another flaw with the offense. You cannot base your attack on the short pass from the spread formation if you refuse to call pump fakes. That would be like if you wanted to run some classic pro-style offense and refused to run play action. Or if you wanted to run the wishbone and refused to run the counter option. Or if you wanted to run Mouse Davis’ offense and refused to run 90 Switch. You have to contradict your tendencies if you want your offense to succeed."

Well at least Gilbert won’t be staring down Davis anymore. Forcing him to spread it out may not be a bad thing. It’s not like Williams, Kirk, and Goodwill aren’t talented, they just need to catch the damn ball. I’m still excited as hell about what Monroe can do…

“You have to contradict your tendencies if you want your offense to succeed.”

Say this to Greg Davis and he’ll cock his head back and forth at you like a golden retriever.

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