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Final thoughts from a Longhorn sportswriter (with harsh words for the Texas DC)
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:23 pm
By Scipio Tex
The Longhorns didn’t lack for competitiveness, effort, or a phenomenal crowd. Rallying from a 20-7 deficit took belief, guts and fitness in brutal conditions. And the offensive brain trust delivered, particularly in the 2nd half.
There was one glaring outlier to the Texas effort and he is to defensive coordinators against the hurry up spread as his namesake is to the rankings of great American cities.
Marrying a bag of pressures doesn’t constitute a coherent defense. Football players are more than mindless Xs running to spots. They have to be taught the game - from the position up. Not from the whiteboard down.
You cannot stop modern offenses without individual player agency and basic fundamentals. That begins at the position level.
It’s called the Call Matching Fallacy and if you read the 2019 Thinking Texas Football guide, you learned all about it. I thought experience in the system would give Texas the chance to improve on last year’s failed performance against comparable offenses (Tech, OSU, WVU, OU) as we could concentrate less on mindless call execution and lining up right and more on player positional development, but when you accept that there really is no system, just a bunch of calls on a play sheet, you have some sobering conclusions to consider.
After an entire game of getting out-coached by a 29 year old passing game coordinator and singlehandedly propelling LSU QB Joe Burrow into the Heisman race, that 3rd and 17 call was the piece de resistance.
There are layers of incompetence in that crap cake call so sticky that they are almost impossible to tease out. It defies Football 101. It defies basic probability analysis. It defies game situation: the success of the Texas offense, the time on the clock. It defies the reality of what LSU had been doing in the passing game. It defied the individual strengths of our players. A six man blitz with a safety mirror is zero coverage. 4 men in man coverage on LSU’s 4 excellent WR’s. Our weakest link vs. their team strength. On 3rd and 17. 2:38 on the clock. With the Texas offense dominating.
It’s indefensible football.
Props to Longhorn Nation, the Longhorn players, and several Longhorn coaches for showing up. Including Yancy McKnight. It was clear who the better conditioned team was.
There was a game right there to be stolen away.
On to Rice.
The Longhorns didn’t lack for competitiveness, effort, or a phenomenal crowd. Rallying from a 20-7 deficit took belief, guts and fitness in brutal conditions. And the offensive brain trust delivered, particularly in the 2nd half.
There was one glaring outlier to the Texas effort and he is to defensive coordinators against the hurry up spread as his namesake is to the rankings of great American cities.
Marrying a bag of pressures doesn’t constitute a coherent defense. Football players are more than mindless Xs running to spots. They have to be taught the game - from the position up. Not from the whiteboard down.
You cannot stop modern offenses without individual player agency and basic fundamentals. That begins at the position level.
It’s called the Call Matching Fallacy and if you read the 2019 Thinking Texas Football guide, you learned all about it. I thought experience in the system would give Texas the chance to improve on last year’s failed performance against comparable offenses (Tech, OSU, WVU, OU) as we could concentrate less on mindless call execution and lining up right and more on player positional development, but when you accept that there really is no system, just a bunch of calls on a play sheet, you have some sobering conclusions to consider.
After an entire game of getting out-coached by a 29 year old passing game coordinator and singlehandedly propelling LSU QB Joe Burrow into the Heisman race, that 3rd and 17 call was the piece de resistance.
There are layers of incompetence in that crap cake call so sticky that they are almost impossible to tease out. It defies Football 101. It defies basic probability analysis. It defies game situation: the success of the Texas offense, the time on the clock. It defies the reality of what LSU had been doing in the passing game. It defied the individual strengths of our players. A six man blitz with a safety mirror is zero coverage. 4 men in man coverage on LSU’s 4 excellent WR’s. Our weakest link vs. their team strength. On 3rd and 17. 2:38 on the clock. With the Texas offense dominating.
It’s indefensible football.
Props to Longhorn Nation, the Longhorn players, and several Longhorn coaches for showing up. Including Yancy McKnight. It was clear who the better conditioned team was.
There was a game right there to be stolen away.
On to Rice.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:25 pm to NorthTiger
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comparable offenses (Tech, OSU, WVU, OU)
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Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:31 pm to NorthTiger
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individual player agency
Player agency. OK, so they do not recognize that the players are individuals in a team sense, each of whom has to "complete his assignment"? I think he is just a pedant who wants to talk above the level of the average UT fan (which does not sound difficult). Maybe he can coach the defense with his individual journalist agency.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:46 pm to NorthTiger
He sho is angry ..
Here is a frick to be given. You can have it.
Wait, all out my friend. Sucks to be you bitch.
Here is a frick to be given. You can have it.
Wait, all out my friend. Sucks to be you bitch.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:48 pm to NorthTiger
These writers think they know more than the Coaches.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:48 pm to NorthTiger
Eh, that blitz call wasn’t necessarily bad, Burrow just made an unbelievably great play. It was well disguised and it was within a hair of working.
As accurate as Joe was last night if you sit back in zone he’s gonna beat you there too.
Last night was execution by some damn good receivers and a badass quarterback.
As accurate as Joe was last night if you sit back in zone he’s gonna beat you there too.
Last night was execution by some damn good receivers and a badass quarterback.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:48 pm to NorthTiger
Some Texas writers and fans are more delusional than LSU fans. Burrow was so accurate and put so many balls into places where only his wide receiver can get to them sometimes you just admit a team might be better than you. Our DC is a consensus number one or number to DC in the country and he was having problems, offenses are just getting too good and with the right personnel they become very hard to stop
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:50 pm to NorthTiger
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that 3rd and 17 call was the piece de resistance.
The “call” had nothing to do with it...that was just a big time improvised play by Burrow after the pressure broke the pocket down.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 2:53 pm to NorthTiger
Dumb. That call had Burrow moving in the pocket and forced to make a hell of a throw while on the move and under pressure.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:00 pm to kemowasabi
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These writers think they know more than the Coaches.
They belong on the Rant.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:08 pm to NorthTiger
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It was clear who the better conditioned team was.
He's right.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:09 pm to NorthTiger
Ugh this dude is more overwrought than Wright Thompson
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:21 pm to NorthTiger
Don’t worry Aranda did the same all night, only the win masks it a little bit.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:26 pm to NorthTiger
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that 3rd and 17 call was the piece de resistance.
There are layers of incompetence in that crap cake call so sticky that they are almost impossible to tease out. It defies Football 101.
The blitz actually worked. Burrow was in the grasp of the D and overwhelmed but got the ball out for a great play.
49/50 times, that blitz works.
That is football.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:31 pm to kemowasabi
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These writers think they know more than the Coaches.
Always, and it’s hilarious.
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:33 pm to NorthTiger
quote:Writer has no clue what he’s talking about just sayin. Just idle complaints cuz they lost.
we could concentrate less on mindless call execution and lining up right and more on player positional development,
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:36 pm to NorthTiger
quote:maybe just maybe they were trying to get a sack since their secondary wasn’t holding up.
A six man blitz with a safety mirror is zero coverage. 4 men in man coverage on LSU’s 4 excellent WR’s. Our weakest link vs. their team strength
Posted on 9/8/19 at 3:42 pm to NorthTiger
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There was a game right there to be stolen away.
We beat you fair and square, no excuse, baw!
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