Excellent Play-by-Play Analysis of the Texas O and D

thanks for ruining my lunch

So the kesys to success in the Carnival are:

1) Hating on GD.

2) Pointing out that Gideon is white.

Gotcha.

The above analysis is absurd. The reason this play did not work is because we didn’t run a bubble screen right before it to set them up. /GD

Seriously though, I suspect that we could have scored three touchdowns on this package if we had ever considered a counter version, actually giving it to Goodwin (legitimizing the fake), and running play action off of it. Instead, we ran the same play 4 or 5 times, hoping that changing direction would be enough to confuse them.

The frustrating thing about all of this is that the concepts required to transform GD from abysmal to adequate are so rudimentary. We don’t need Mack to fire GD. GD has the requisite football knowledge to be at least serviceable. However, he seems to refuse to implement complementary plays, packages, and personnel. Those aren’t hard concepts. But with the level of parity in college football these days, they’re essential.

dood is right that the GD hate campaign here is over the top, but the bashing of GD and Gideon has nothing to do with their race. It is purely a performance issue in both cases.

Sundance, nonono. GD is saving the “counter” plays for the bowl game. Where have you been??

I hate admitting this as it’s really really sad. But it just shows how much this moron has beaten me down. Family tickets since the early 70’s and I gave mine up 2 years ago. No matter how good we were, his game planning with our talent crushed me. Greatest players in the nation, and he wet blankets them. Some poster recently made a good point about Finley excelling in the League. Many players move on and either can’t catch up due to 4 years of dumbdum, or their talent alone allows them to couple their pro level coaching into Hall of Fame potential.

I still watch the games and support the Horns heavily, but GD f’in w/ Mack’s record of multiple championships and titles, f’in w/ our players who commit, f’in w/ our recruiters 2-3 years of work on certain individuals, then f’in w/ the fans on gameday isn’t funny anymore. I was pissed, then rid of the season tickets. I then decided to laugh this guy off to make the games a bit more enjoyable. But I can’t laugh anymore.

He’s a human and I do have sympathy for those in tough positions. But if he’s a true friend of our Hero Mack, then he should step the F down.

dood -

Obviously you have already received your tote bag or do not care to get one. Either way, don’t screw it up for the rest of us.

Thanks!

the bashing of GD and Gideon has nothing to do with their race.

Absolutely! Personally, I am deeply offended that anyone would insinuate that I harbor any anti-white prejudice. I have a very close friend who is white. Well, he’s more like an acquaintance or co-worker who I sometimes nod to and exchange “Hey!”s with if we ever pass each other in the hall. And, honestly, I think he’s part Mexican or Lebanese or Apache or something.

The next time we run that reverse Tony Jeffrey is going to throw it.

He was a HS quarterback you know.

Is Sailor Ripley already using his $300/hr executive recruiting firm to get P into the FanTake network? The SB posters seem more concerned with race relations than actual film analysis. Mind-numbing.

wait one damn minute here. blake gideon is white???

blake gideon is white???

Approximately.

Those shaggy threads quickly turned into abortions. TTom is historically stupid.

Wrong on both counts. On touchdown, same play was:

1. Run to the short side of the field.

2. Set up with strength of formation to the short side (yes, on the touchdown we motioned Goodwin to the wide side on the fake but the defense did not adjust at all on motion).

Also, running that play to the wide side makes no sense b/c then you are faking a jet sweep to the short side of the field. Running from the middle is obviously ideal but you can’t always wait around until you find yourself in the middle.

Sundance – I’m pretty sure we did give it to Goodwin once, and he went nowhere. I didn’t look at this on tape, just going by what I saw when I was there, but it didn’t seem like flashing Goodwin in motion across the formation did anything to create a flow of OU players in his direction. Since when our future olympian did get the ball they were able to chase him down with linebackers, I guess they really don’t respect that package of plays?

I did rewind the Monroe touchdown a few times when the highlights came on TV. We had two guys each block two of their guys, and one of the defenders in pursuit pulled up with a hammy. That’s all it takes to get the quickest running back in the conference some room, so quit complaining about Greg Davis.

The most painfull thing was seeing the OU safeties jumping that jet sweep before the handoff. 100% committed without any fear of a play fake and pass to the wide out who now had a 1 on 1 with no safety help.

It doesn’t matter all the damning evidence you produce. You won’t ever convince the judge & jury (i.e., Mack) that GD GD deserves to be convicted of malfeasance. His DNA is all over the crime scene, but he’ll walk away scot-free.

We should run that play where we score a touchdown more often.

“the bashing of GD and Gideon has nothing to do with their race”

Really? Perhaps you should Google the word melanin, as in “our melanin-deficient starting safety”.

Classy.

God dammit Brickhorn, I am sick and fucking tired of your maniacal racist tirades!

"our melanin-deficient starting safety".

That’s the most racist statement EVAR! Nevermind the fact that Gideon doesn’t have melanin (he’s deficient in that dept. afterall). It’s the fact that he starts over Christian Scott or Kenny Vaccaro.

dood, by being totally fucking off, you were really on to something. Well done, sir!!

What do you mean, “you people”.

Call him slow, call him weak, call him dumb. I just don’t see how his skin color is relevant. Maybe you can explain it to me.

“It’s the fact that he starts over Christian Scott or Kenny Vaccaro.” Damn you, Greg Davis! [shakes fist]

“But if he’s a true friend of our Hero Mack, then he should step the F down.”

Word. The only person who can fire Greg Davis is Greg Davis. Mack ain’t gonna do it.

It is the world in which we find ourselves. Deal.

I would consider Gideon melanin-free and Vacarro-melanin deficient.

Blake Gideon would be all Big 12 if he were a) mexican, and b) talented.

He’s white?!? You see, I never really notice color. But if you say he’s white, I guess he’s white.

“Blake Gideon would be all Big 12 if he were a) mexican, and b) talented.”

Es un entrenador real en el campo.

If Gideon were Asian, not only would he still suck, he’d have high car insurance rates too.

As a white former FCS college free safety, I even think Gideon can be a major liability and takes horrible angles at the point of attack…and I’ve been rooting for him ever since he broke the glass ceiling like Eminem. I bet he can’t dance well either.

Enough with this Gideon shit. It’s tired. Move along.

racialist.

“Enough with this Gideon shit. It’s tired. Move along”

Agreed. Lets talk about Greg Davis.

As a former small slow Junior High white safety, I was terrible. I was better at Jet back. Unfortunately since I was on the “C” team they gave me a number 54 jersey. I would have been better but my football pants and pads were too big and it was hard to play when you always had to pick your pants up

I think they made up a song about me

Call him slow, call him weak, call him dumb. I just don’t see how his skin color is relevant. Maybe you can explain it to me.

White people run slower.

Great post farmer Ted. I only got to play for a few weeks one offseason. I was 1 of 3 white guys on the team at that time, and since I showed up late that spring, they had run out of yellow offense jerseys and purple defense jerseys. So I had white pants, a white helmet, and the only one with a white jersey. And I was white. I stood out pretty big time on film. I think somebody called me ghost once or twice. But I remember being called “crisco” more often.

dood = Francis

I ’ve decided to hang my hopes on the fact that money trumps loyalty in big time sports. Longhorn football is the biggest ATM of them all and the only thing that can screw that up is a falloff in winning (e.g. GD)

Mack may love GD but if start costing us $$$$ other people are going to have a say. It might cost us Mack too but if we don’t get this sucker back on track the Longhorn network, our leverage in the next realignment, and all those payments for the construction bonds also go poof.

B-

We made the play work through sheer luck, IMO.

I suggested running the play to the short side of the field, but with the strength of the formation on the other. I think you are gonna run that play for negative yards 10 times before you pop one. We will hit it for a big gainer in 4 more games. Tune in to watch how many times it fails until then.

Call him slow, call him weak, call him dumb. I just don’t see how his skin color is relevant. Maybe you can explain it to me.

This is the way i described it before CBS fired me for being a racist:

“The black is a better athlete to begin with because he’s been bred to be that way — because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. This goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trading, the owner — the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid.”

As far as Gideon goes, I didn’t start out picking on him specifically. The thread got out of hand. Marcus Griffin was the same way. I was all over him to, but it’s funny that no one remembers those things. LOL

B’s comments made me take another look at the two plays. On the TD OU starts off outnumbering the Horns at the point of attack, but they bit on the misdirection to Goodwin. The second time OU is more balanced in formation, so they don’t bite on the fake to Goodwin and the LBs are free to make a play without first thinking about Goodwin. The second play looks like it should have been an audible to a quick out to Malcolm for four or five yards.

llogg-

To take a word from Roger Clemens, I think I “misremembered” that. I thought the play was countered wide side initially, when it was to the short side. All in all, the play design is faulty at best. I am just trying to give people a look at what we do a second time. I am not perfect, and don’t claim to be. People can take what they want from it. It is just something to pass the time.

P – It does not really matter with regards to whether you have it right or not. What is obvious what Greg Davis is doing is not working. it is his responsibility to get the right play and the right players to run those plays. Our recruiting says we have those players……he needs to get them in the right spots

Definition of RACISM
1
: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

That’s not my definition, that’s Merriam-Webster’s. One should have the courage to not run shrieking away from the consequences of one’s views, no?

Hey racist – I’m a racist too. I drive a Chevy Impala for Hendrick’s Motorsports. Whachu drive?

speaking of Gideon, I fully expect him to take great angles against nebraska’s “white” qb Martinez and contain him with ease. totally. That might get ugly.

"our melanin-deficient starting safety".

I must admit that I saw nothing racist in this. If it had said simply “starting safety” I wouldn’t have been sure of who was meant, since I don’t pay close attention to the roster—not being a nuts-and-bolts, X-and-O savvy fan. But “melanin-deficient” nailed it down for me. I knew who he meant. I thought it was clever.
Am I evil?

On another note:
I liked the post that was linked to with all the pictures.
Knowing HOW we’re fucked makes it so much more bearable while BEING fucked.