The year before Lincoln Riley took over the Oklahoma offense the Sooners were a primarily 21 personnel team, putting FB Aaron Ripkowski and TE Blake Bell on the field in order to help their massive OL plow the road for Samaje Perine. Riley took his Air Raid background and diversified the Sooner attack without going … [Read more…]
The good folks at Pistol’s Firing did some nice media interviews recently with the OSU staff. If you’re an OSU fan you should consider supporting them because they offer a lot of really good, free content. The site’s owner, Kyle Porter, is also a guy that met me for coffee one morning in Dallas back … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I talked about their return to the 4-3 Under defense which they showed in the spring. As I noted there, the biggest key to a successful transition is the play of 3-technique Neville Gallimore. They don’t have a ton behind him since they’ve been recruiting 3-4 DEs for a few … [Read more…]
Over at Pistols Firing they’re talking about the increasing prevalence of the 3-3-5 in their defensive package. I’ve mentioned this myself as an explainer for what they’re up to moving Ramon Richards to the free safety position that has normally been handled by bigger thumpers like Jordan Sterns and Daytawion Lowe. What’d I’d be curious … [Read more…]
I took the time to break down a couple of Port Neches-Groves games for Inside Texas to break down Herman’s new QB commit Roschon Johnson. You can read my thoughts here. I think this may be intriguing for Texas and non-Texas fans alike as I discuss the nature of evaluating sophomores, the design of high … [Read more…]
There’s a lot to this story that’s pretty fun and interesting beyond the “FCS champions/powerhouse upset P5 blueblood on their own field!” if that wasn’t enough to make this one of the more compelling games in history. I broke it all down with some help from then QB coach and current App State head coach … [Read more…]
Justin was out of commission this week so I recorded an Inside Texas podcast with Allen Kenney of Blatant Homerism and we talked about the new coaches at Texas and Oklahoma as well as our favorite frontrunners in the 2017 Big 12 race. Let me know what you think, maybe I’ll try to make more … [Read more…]
Dino Babers branched out from Art Briles relatively early and has been developing his own version of the offense in locales far from Briles’ realm in Texas. Of course now Briles is gone and there are two major branches of the offense running through Philip Montgomery and then Dino Babers. The version Babers used at … [Read more…]
Big 12 media days are continuing and I’ve been watching what I can from back home. Yesterday we talked about the big questions for the defense, here are my big questions for the offenses across the Big 12. The offenses often carry the weight for winning games in this league, because few teams can count … [Read more…]
I thought I’d do a quick hitter on my major schematic question for every Big 12 team. I’d have gone to Big 12 media days and asked the coaches these questions myself but we’re expecting baby no. 2 soon so I’m currently tied down in Michigan. Anyways, here we go: Oklahoma Sooners: How are they … [Read more…]