Conviction

I just hate white people. It’s hard to look in the mirror sometimes.

“Is Gideon due to pull a Cedric Griffin?”

Talent was never the issue with Cedric Griffin.

I prefer Derry, or anyone really, over Gideon. He talks shit after every play, even when he gets owned. He lowers his head before he hits people, creating a significant risk of injury each time he does. He almost literally killed one of his own teammates. He picks up tons of pointless and stupid penalties. He has below average physical tools at this level and gets prison raped by every power back he goes against (Mark Ingram says Hi!).

However, he is considered a leader so there’s that.

You’ve made me feel better about Vaccaro but generally shittier overall. Thanks.

“Throwing red meat on a Friday…”

I think your theory is wrong. Fans are not so dumb that they can’t tell who missed assignments or ran themselves out of a play. You picked the worst plays for a player who is not the subject of your article. I assure you you can find much worse plays for the subject.

I think there are a couple of things to consider. One is that Gideon has been lumped in with guys like Scott Derry - guys that were limited physically but justified their PT by always knowing where to be, or something like that. I think you can make the case that safety is a position where you should value consistency and knowingwheretobe-ness more than most. Still, folks have been ready to project venom on to Gideon that stems from Mack’s spilled blood philosophy and that he probably doesn’t deserve.

On the other hand, while physical limitations are irritating at LB, they’re devastating at safety. Gideon isn’t always in the right place, he doesn’t always make the tackle, and he isn’t always a heady player. Celebrating each time you make a tackle on a 30 yard completion will ingratiate you to no one. I don’t think Gideon is consistent enough to justify playing him over a player with a higher ceiling, even if that also introduces more risk.

Which leads me to my last point - who would you replace him with? Gideon wasn’t a recruit you’d expect to be a 4 year starter, and it isn’t like there’s a consensus on who he should be replaced by. He’s a player that was recruited for depth and I’m sure as a hedge bet against missing on some other targets. Disappointment in Gideon’s play might be more accurately aimed at recruiting and development at the safety position.

I’m just worried that we will never, ever be able to line up our defense properly once his eligibility has expired.

Hoya hits it on the head - its not a defense of Gideon to say that a lot of the plays where he is visible were actually errors by other players when a free safety’s job is to be there and make the play if another player doesn’t make the stop.

I thought he was horrible last year - always 2 steps late (whether on runs or passes) and whiffing on tackles. Even where he made plays on receivers for example, he gave way too much cushion, so even if he made the tackle, he could have prevented the completion.

Sometimes the masses are right.

I think I remember something about his dad being a coach. I could be wrong.

The first clip is a good example - he’s off the screen for a second, but you can tell how slow he was diagnosing the run and crossing the field. When the rb hit the hole, Gideon should be getting over there, but when the camera picks him back up you can tell he hesitated/took false steps.

Hoya and Mad Clapper are COMPLETELY right! Can we get these guys some BC totes/bathrobes/potholders?

Playing two years opposite Earl Thomas didn’t solidify anything other than the groundswell - or conviction - of every Texas fan’s ignominy of BG.

Disappointment in Gideon’s play might be more accurately aimed at recruiting and development at the safety position.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

I wasn’t happy to see Jerry Gray go. I think we need new blood coaching the secondary. Sure, Akina had his run, but the unit has seemed stagnant for a while.

On the first play, C. Scott looks like he thinks he’s supposed to be taking on a blocker, intentionally throwing the game, mentally retarded, or a subtle combination of all three. In fact, the whole defense looks like a bad electric football team. Holy crap that was terrible.

Thank you!
I may now be able to retire this user name which was chosen after the Tech game four long years ago.

Outside of Earl, did any of our safeties show any improvement during the Muschamp era?

Help me with this Longhorn Logic Trail
1. Muschamp is brilliant
2. Muschamp named Gideon as a frosh starter
3. Giddeon is a scourge.

Scott teh supposed panacea sucked last year too - not sure how this excuses Gideon who has been pretty much had the same readily identifiable issues for years (bad angles followed by bad tackling, appearing out of position quite a bit)

I’m still trying to figure out the turtle…

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white and slow

A caricature of a player:
SWAGGER Walks with a swagger… after he gets blown up on a play.
CONFIDENT Yells and instructs his own team….after he misses the play.
COMPETITiVE Taunts the other team…. after he gets burned on a play.

He is the little train that can’t. Fearful that GG will become our Gideon and we will not play players like CM or DA with better long-term prospects.

This is somewhat reminiscent of the argument that a shortstop is great because he makes every play 5 feet to his right and 5 feet to his left. While it’s super that Gideon is somewhat sound in the box that his physical limitations put him in it doesn’t mean he’s good. He’s not.

If he was the safety for Baylor than that is one thing. However, when your first option at Texas for 4 years is as limited as Gideon is then we have problems. I don’t blame Gideon for not being that good. I blame Mack Brown for not recruiting someone that can replace him.

On both of Cyrus Gray’s long runs last year vs. Texas, Gideon was not the primary guy responsible. You do see him running behind Gray in both cases, but a couple of other guys whiffed at the 1st and 2nd levels. On one play it seems he was slow to react and took a poor angle. On the other play he was so far away from where the play developed there is no way he could have gotten there in time. We’ll see if the new schemes put him and everyone else in a position to succeed.

Baylor.