Comments on: Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard

By: kafka

kafka — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:56:40 +0000

Mizzou was giving the big buffer to the UT WRs because the Mizzou DBs were not fast enough to stay with the speedy UT WRs. The Mizzou safeties were also between a rock and a hard place: they had to respect the UT running game and be ready to provide run support while still needing to provide over the top help on UT’s WRs.

The group of teams that can defend UT like OU did is very small. Unfortunately, Alabama and Florida are in that group.

The reason that play action was effective was because UT had a viable running attack so the fake run had to be respected. UT running has been effective ever since UT started playing a real TE fulltime.

There was a number 7 playing for UT who was so elusive and fast that he got wide open behind the entire Mizzou defense for a TD but it must have been Beasley, not Chiles. My reasoning is that Scipio has pronounced Chiles to be irrelevant, so that could not have been Chiles making the big play.

Speaking of Scipio, we may not see a Mizzou-UT writeup from him. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.

By: ransomstoddard

ransomstoddard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:04:55 +0000

Playcalling and strategy stuff is hard if you were born without a brain.

By: spider

spider — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:27:35 +0000

I'm still wondering what Davis' fat little girlfriend thinks.

By: UPS driver

UPS driver — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:54:30 +0000

Waiting on Clipper’s thoughts as well–there are some nice golf courses near Stillwater

By: bighornfan32

bighornfan32 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:23:57 +0000

By the way, where the hell is Scipio’s thoughts? I’m a crackhead without the crack.

By: Woody Bombay

Woody Bombay — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:09:12 +0000

Can we move the Texas State Fair up so the OU game is the first of the season?

By: HenryJames

HenryJames — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:38:33 +0000

Yep.

By: srr50

srr50 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:34:27 +0000

Funny how the run game works better when you have a fullback who can actually block.

The weakside defensive end crashes at the snap of the ball, but McCoy fakes it and rolls out instead with Antwan Cobb blocking. Easy first down.

That play is actually designed to be a flare to Cobb, but when the LB picked him up, they did a nice job of adjusting to the defense and got an easy first down.

By: Levander Williams

Levander Williams — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:21:39 +0000

Play action, like the pump fake, represents unsound football.

Or so I’ve heard.

By: CrazyJoeDavola

CrazyJoeDavola — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:23:25 +0000

I’m waiting for HJ’s treatise on cosplay action.