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I think the Brooks experiment started off well in the OU game. He did pretty well against probably the best DLine we faced all year.

Welcome! Good choices on choosing this site (it’s the best) and for hating OU more than TAMU (they deserve it more!). Hook em!

I think we’re kicking butt this year. Just play our game and the offense will hum along. Almost time to sit back and enjoy.

This episode tomorrow is about to be a banger…

I just signed up. I have been watching the OTF staff on youtube for the last year and chose this site because of them. I had been on the free site at Orangebloods for many years, but it got taken down a few months back. I just wanted to briefly introduce myself as I am anxiously awaiting this season and talking Texas sports. Btw, I hate ou more than aggy. Hook'em!

I’ll agree Nick Brooks simply wasn’t ready, full stop. That was a flood disasterclass. Them not moving Cole over was baffling to me. You won’t hear any disagreement on Brooks. The missing blocks thing is interesting because in a nut shell, you’re right. But outside zone versus power gap is so much different in what needs to work. When you’re running zone, you have to beat someone to a spot, that’s the name of the game. If you don’t get there, the play is blown up if DL are attacking upfield. Power gap is pretty much just big on big double teams, trying to push DL into LB with pulling guards coming into the hole sometimes. You have a little more forgiveness on power schemes because of how the blocking shakes out. With zone, if you have one mess up, especially on the interior, you are looking at 3-4 yard losses. Stroh’s problem was he was too slow, which allowed for more athletic, attacking DL to cross his face and get into the backfield. This goes back to, I think, a previous point you’ve made about how sark should have known his personnel better. This is true. At the same time, if someone isn’t built for outside zone, then they’ll fail really spectacularly.

Hire ASU’s OL coach I guess…

While true (about laying groundwork for their own rulebook), you are putting power in congress that doesn't belong there, will be fraught with issues, and too slow to react and adjust to changes... so actually while seems good, think it will ultimately be detrimental and will require the conferences to write their own rulebook... 🤘

I get this, but we should have at least 2 guys who should be in front of him. This goes back to the offseason. I like Siani more than Sprauge, but Guarnera almost felt like he was the piece.

Stroh’s overall grade was 59.7. His pass blocking efficiency was 94.7. Not good but not horrible. And since he hasn’t played in 3 years, I’d expect growth out him. Brooks was 36.6 and sub-90. Drastic differences. And I don’t fault Brooks, but that’s the biggest head scratcher as to why he played. CJ also pointed out in the past week that Brooks allowed pressure on 16% of pass plays whereas all others were 6% or lower. Only one of those was horrible. Basically the same as efficiency just calculated differently. So why am I so adamant in defense? Because the narrative starts off misleading. Some plays yes. Some plays no. Guys miss blocks all the time. I’d guess it’s much closer to 0% of plays than 100% that all 5 make a block on a given play. And you know Arch can dodge one on just about any given play. And versus OSU we had more yards rushing and yards per carry than anyone. So that doesn’t really compute as to how he screwed that all up. Ole Miss. Of their top 5 Olinemen in terms of snap count, two graded lower than Stroh. You do not get sub-60s by winning every play. I’m not arguing Stroh is better but rather all the other points. On any run, that’s at least two guys losing the play. It didn’t destroy their run game.

Wednesday can't get here quick enough 😀

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Yep. It’s a concern until it’s not.

I agree Jeff but I have to keep the fight going you understand that part. But I do agree the OL will be better but people here that see me one way lol

Interesting to see what litigation will come if this passes both Chambers. As it stands now Football gets 75% of Rev Share out of 18 million, or 13.5 million. If the percentage stays the same then almost 17 million in Retention $. Total of 30-31 million. Again percentages could change in the future if this passes. Now MBB gets 15% or 2.7 million. WBB gets 5% 900K, and all others sports 900K in Rev Share. Be interesting to see how it works. And yeah athletes in the future got screwed it seems. No collective bargaining etc. Can still get NIL deals that don't count toward the Rev Share , but seems that will be much harder now. Seems those Learfield, Nike deals etc will count on Rev Share going forward. Will see , because things can definitely change in the House.

Filsaime will be in the mix at safety, yes.

In all seriousness, I don’t think this is something that’s that deep. All I’m saying is that I’m willing to let Seymore get through one practice and figure if/when Hutson will be with the team before concerning myself with scenarios that might not happen.

Jeff you don’t want this let’s both get some sleep deal?!

I get the sentiment, but I don’t think Hutson starting is something to get worked up over right now.

I think last year’s buzzy freshman was Littleton

With the concerns of safety depth and competition behind Derek Williams, does OTF still believe Filsame will compete for the spot next to Jelani? Hard to tell if the move to nickel was for cross training and versatility reasons to be able to shift out Littleton or because the staff thought he wouldn’t compete at safety and nickel is his better position? There had been talk of Bo Mascoe also rotating at nickel so hard to tell how it all works out

I don’t know if anyone has suggested that Hutson will start. I don’t see the point in worrying about something that might not (and probably won’t) happen, barring something unforeseen.

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There’s some truth to this, but Stroh was objectively horrible. This shouldn’t be hard to admit, yet it is for you. Additionally, your description of how the OL works is inaccurate. It’s a “you’re only as strong as your weakest link” type of mentality. You can have 4 studs, but 1 dud ruins it. There were OL problems outside of LG, but the VAST majority was LG.