Texas Longhorns In The NFL Draft

If you’re an interesting, smart guy with some interests beyond the game, football men are very suspicious of you. Maybe they should be. Part of the reason traditional football hierarchy works on grown men is that these players don’t have a lot of lucrative of fulfilling options. Emmanuel Acho can get a job on any firm in Wall Street tomorrow.

Football establishment types should be grateful that the dynamics of the game don’t lend itself to the easy measurements and calculations of baseball because Moneyball applied to the gridiron would reveal that at least half of the GMs in the league are platitude-spouting chimpanzees.

Your point is that the 2005 recruiting class wasn’t actually eligible for the draft until 2008. OK, so there have been 4 NFL drafts since then. That still sucks something awful. Then you turn right around and hold up 1 NFL draft (the most recent one) as evidence that our defense has been slipping. Check the 2010 and 2011 drafts and get back to us. Also, pay attention to the next 2 while we are at it.

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3 guys drafted. The rest were underclassmen or Gideon.

I’m trying to illustrate when the decay began. This started even while on field results were fantastic. Most fans tend to think the health of the program is directly related to that year’s W-L total. I’ve tried to look at our behaviors. Eventually, they catch up to us. And generally with a vengeance.

Sobering point on Illinois. I guess we’re coaching ’em up better than Ron Zook does.

and the CoJo that may be are not always the same. He could show up to camp weighing 271 or he may show up svelte and kick ass. I think he has a ton of hidden value as a fullback, a short yardage back, even an emergency running back, but he has to want it.

It was hilarious watching him hit the hole to see his helmet gradually inching forwards until he got past whatever line he was trying to get before letting the pile collapse.

Though it was much more authoritative and technically sound in the second half of the season, so that’s a good sign. As Scip said, want-to in all aspects will be key for CoJo to keep the dream alive.

I kind of wish he’d landed some place like Philly, Detroit, Miami or Indy where his short-yardage skills could have carried more value, rather than in Tampa where they already have a hammer in Blount.

I think it’s a referendum on pass rushing. Maybe the NFL thinks they can find run stoppers wherever. But precisely because the passing game rules pretty much force teams to defend the LOS with honest or undermanned fronts and concentrate on coverage, the ability to stop the run with outnumbered DL is a huge asset.

I hope Manny Diaz makes this case to Chris Whaley.

that a player who has put what Randall has on film could go that late. I agree with Scipio that a correction will be coming and that having interior difference makers against the run actually enables the defense to do more in term of pressure concepts.

pre-injury of course and now he’s going to have to share the backfield. He is a homerun threat out of the backfield. he can break a long run, or take a short pass and house it. Hope he fully comes back from his injury.

1. Charles
2. Finley
3. Blalock
4. Benson

Has he fallen off? I don’t watch the NFL that much. Injured? Moved to team with lesser o-line?

To know that Baylor was more talented than we were. It just doesn’t compute in our Longhorn brains when we see guys in Green N Gold kicking ass. The draft was a good reminder.

In the sense that he’s a white safety?

in any 3-4 defense when your ILBs can cover. No doubt. It’s also a nice bonus if they’re good blitzers, which Keenan is. But job #1 of any ILB is to stuff the run between the tackles.