Comments on: Spring Game Post-Mortem

By: LonghornScott

LonghornScott — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:05:48 +0000

There is plenty of time for one of the younger DTs to develop between now and a bowl game. The bowl practices are probably the best portion of the season for development, in fact.

By: HenryJames

HenryJames — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:51:15 +0000

I certainly think we’ll be in the BCS again, but I have no idea if the team we play will require us to have another DT or not.

By: Nth Handle

Nth Handle — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:58:45 +0000

The rest of the schedule is manageable without [a good second DT]?

So you don’t think we will get to the BCS again.

By: Billy McCaffrey

Billy McCaffrey — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:53:13 +0000

Can Russell Carter be Maurice Gordon? Dude passes the eyeball test.

By: justaguy

justaguy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:28:44 +0000

From what I have been told Jarvis is out for this year recovering with the hope he comes back in 2010.

By: retrobater

retrobater — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:21:34 +0000

What is the status of Jarvis Humphrey? Any remote chance he
can show up by fall drills?

By: justaguy

justaguy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:58:27 +0000

I don’t disagree about Christian being better than Keenan. Just don’t know if Gideon is better than either.

By: Horncasting

Horncasting — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:47:29 +0000

“Nickel allows us to put Christian Scott on the field, and I’ll wager that he will be better against the run that whomever our third linebacker would be.”

I guess I was hoping Scott would be one of the two starting safeties and the tradeoff would be between a 4-3 with Robinson vs. nickel with Gideon.

By: Kafka

Kafka — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:12:04 +0000

Four wide is OK if you have at least a couple of wideouts who can block an LB. It is hard to run without decent blocking. If you can not run well, the D can just play nickel, blitz the passer relentlessly and dare you to run.

If you can’t punish a nickel D by running, then you lose a lot (most?) of the advantage of the hurry up offense.

You can’t always pass effectively. Sometimes the weather does not cooperate (we see the effect of wind on the horns’ passing attack, rain or snow probably does not help much either). Sometimes the opposition will be much better defending the pass than the run.

DT still sounds like a big worry. In addition to OkState, OU usually runs well and UT could easily face a strong running team in the bowl game.

I could see the horns playing a nickel even against running teams. If you DBs like Christian Scott who really hit and tackle well, the nickel may defend the run just as well as a 4-3. One advantage of staying in a nickel all the time (if you have a good run support secondary) is that the hurry up offense becomes much easier to defend.

By: uthookem

uthookem — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:34:19 +0000

As long as we don’t spot Okie State 30 fucking points and free west Texas wind energy, then I say we take ‘em down.

Hook ‘em!