I had a lot of fun with this one, I went on Shea in Irving’s podcast and offered some Ianalysis on the Texas spring game. Shea starts by talking some Dallas Cowboy draft options and the agony of giving up Copenhagen. Yours truly comes along at 20:20. My favorite part, “From Charlie Strong’s defense to … [Read more…]
So…I broke down the Texas spring game with careful attention to detail. You can read it at Inside Texas here. Because I’m a Texas fan and alum, no matter how critical I am of the program or the team, any time I suggest that they’ll be very good in some facet people tend to write … [Read more…]
I don’t think most pundits or fans have fully grokked how good the Big 12 might be in 2017. This has almost always been a QB-driven league, at least since Mike Leach transformed it by bringing the Air Raid and Texas HS football became a frontier for spread tactics. There have been some seasons where the Big … [Read more…]
I talked to Allen Kenny of Blatant Homerism about Sooner football last night, now available for listen here. We talked about OU’s place on the spring development curve, trying to field big athletes on defense in a spread league, and a little bit about my own Texas Longhorns. It was fun for me, hopefully a fun … [Read more…]
Later tonight I’m going to go on the Blatant Homerism podcast to talk the Sooner spring game with Allen Kenney but I figured I would offer some notes here. I’ll also do some notes on any other B12 spring games I can get my hands on over the next few weeks. Even Texas Tech…I guess. … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I have a breakdown of star Temple DE/OLB Haason Reddick and many of the ways that Matt Rhule used him last year. His film is exceptional and instructive on some of Rhule’s favorite tricks for dealing with college offenses. It’s amazing to see all of the guys that Rhule and … [Read more…]
Texas may have to make heavy use of empty formations next season in order to A) Make the most of a loaded WR corps B) Overcome the lack of a TE and possibly the lack of a great RB Over at Inside Texas I detail how this could work. Btw, you know who has … [Read more…]
My biggest question about Dave Aranda at LSU was whether an approach that worked with Wisconsin’s versatile farm boys was the best way to unlock the pipeline of NFL talent that flows through Baton Rouge every year. I guess we don’t actually know yet to what extent Aranda’s full blown defensive playbook will look like … [Read more…]
So word on the street is that Oklahoma is looking to play more four-down fronts next season and also that Caleb Kelly is likely to maintain his job as a starting outside LB opposite Obo Okoronkwo. It seems from Bobby’s comments on the matter that he feels that four-down allows Oklahoma a better shot at … [Read more…]
I had Malik Jefferson as preseason DPOY last year based on what I knew about how they were going to deploy him in the Texas defense. Then it turned out that they hadn’t mastered simple stuff that offseason like “how do we play these basic run concepts in our defense?” or “who covers that guy … [Read more…]