Marquise Goodwin's Role in 2012: Making Incomplete Dangerous

as in a pretty face on a boy’s body? Those aren’t child-bearing hips.

for high school sports was last weekend at Meyer.

It is truly amazing that five competitors are within inches of each other for those three spots to go to London.

Always felt he would have been better off focusing on track this spring, sitting out the fall, and then being able to focus solely on football next spring, but they didn’t ask me so I wish him the best come June and most in almost every game next year.

player who ran track instead of the other way around.

Too many of the track guys don’t seem to know how to use the speed advantage they have on the field and try to run as fast as possible on every play. Goodwin finally seemed to understand the value of varying the pace and using his acceleration as an advantage and not the reason why he just ran into someone on the field.

Hopefully you’ve learned a valuable lessson.

I would like to agree with you, but I think that Ash’s development as a competent QB will be the only thing that gets DCs out of the box and gives Harsin’s O a chance to operate in space a bit.

1. Every 3rd down and 3+
2. Where match-ups favor it
3. Frequently on 1st and 2nd down if we don’t get good FB play without Berryhill/Johnson

The role of a #3 is also to spell your 1 and 2 a bit, too.

I’d rather have another WR on the field for the running game over a subpar FB any day of the week. Marquise also has some direct value in the running game on his end arounds.

I’d also be surprised if we didn’t play around with some 0 TE formations.

I think he’s focused on track. He doesn’t need turned ankles or missed track work with the Olympics on the line. Maybe he catches a couple of balls here and there, but he’s not getting the consistent work he needs. He’ll have three weeks in August to get up to speed.

Longhorn Scott is paying off some sort of blood debt penning a couple of articles at Inside Texas. He’ll be back.

Oh, I totally Googled. I just felt bad immediately:

Here’s why.

Also, the fact that they have to explain what this “Facebook” thing is acts as an interesting reminder of how fast the world moves.

DeSean Hales would be a prime contender for a senior break out from out of nowhere award. He certainly has a knack for showing up in scrimmages and less so in daily practices.

Harris is a good possession WR and a physical blocker, at minimum. I like him, but he’s a complementary piece.

Cayleb Jones should have a shot at giving us some reps.

The issue is more about football skill.

Great point about Goodwin getting 3-4 games before we may really need him to show up big.

Ball placement is definitely part of it, but when you drift from the snap of the ball and you’re already lined up wide, you’re creating an unduly tight window. The beauty of a go route that turns into a sideline fade is that if you’ve given yourself enough room, it’s a pretty low risk throw and you can use that extra cushion so the QB doesn’t have to make a perfect throw.

Anything we can do to hit him while he’s already on the move and not getting checked at the LOS is a plus.

but no DC is awake at night shivering at the thought of Marquise Goodwin catching 4 balls for 36 yards or honoring his career averages. What Marquise did against Cal effectively scored (or set up) two of our three touchdowns with a 47 yard TD catch against single coverage and a 37 yard end around. Put differently, he accounted for 1/3 of our total yardage output on 2 plays.

A DC catching that on film thinks,“Tell our OLB not to aggressively pursue backside to respect the misdirection and make sure we’ve got a safety back checking Goodwin when we’re in man and Texas loses.”

With two meaningful touches, Goodwin opens up future cutback lanes for our RBs and keeps a safety back. That’s what I’m talking about.

But he may see track in Europe as his ultimate money-making opportunity. A lot easier on the body too.

if I were Marquise. He’s a marginal pro talent and it’s a quick way to short circuit your track career. When you add up sponsorships, prize money, participation fees, and corporate appearance fees, you can make some damn good money and business contacts doing the Euro circuit.

I’m certain Goodwin can’t be a NFL kick returner. For the reasons I cite above.

as I pointed out he is one of five jumpers who are within a few inches of each other. I believe the four other are pro and three are part of pretty high powered track clubs.

This is why I thought he woudl sit out the spring and focus purely on the jumping. We are at a point where this thing could be literally decided by an inch or two and you would think if you don’t make it you want to know you have done everything you could to give it your best shot.

I agree with texitect that red-shirting now is a bygone point. Play it out and see what happens and I do agree that regardless whe will be able to jump for some time making darn good money with a great deal less toil on the body.

since he missed the Big12 Indoor with leg injury.

I was concerned about the type of training he was doing at that time and don’t know if he has really changed things, but there has been a surge in his distance over the past two months.

It is tougher tracking the other jumpers and my one fear is the cliche of trying to peak at the right time. I thought last year he was surprised he one the trials for the World Games, didn’t really perform well in his first international meet of that scale, and actually did not finish with one of the three farthest jumps by an American last year.

The one thing I am looking to see is one of his competitors in the LJ is also a leader in the TJ. I have been too lazy to check schedules and results, but I could have sworn Son of Davey told me the guy is stronger in the TJ than the LJ though I could have imagined it.