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It's the Athletic, a property of NYT, but if we want to talk journalism, we can go. Out of respect to @Bobby Burton, I'll wait. @Gerry Hamilton told us over and over this would happen and here we are.

Check the running game scheme.

Tbf, I don’t think the NYT has ever actually done “journalism.” They just wrote puff pieces about how the last president had a functioning brain.

Can’t wait for them to be singing his praises and back to kissing his ass when he STILL finds a way to go first overall in a couple of years.

When reading about this great sport, the ex-Deadspin schmucks like Leitch shouldn’t be near anyone’s author list.

One thing to add too - how the hell did flood literally miss on the only day 1 starter in the 24 class? All he had to do was match and he chose wrong.

I saw all I needed to see last game to know Arch is going to be great. That kid fought his heart out and carried his team with toughness and shear will power. I can guarantee you that if his teammates didn’t believe in him they do now.

Campbell will be a day 3 pick. Baker could develop into one. But the current prognosis is correct.

Awesome.

I completely agree on Jake Majors. He was a much bigger loss as a leader/communicator/blocker/player than most people gave him credit for.

If John Mills was our starting LG and Michael Fasusi was starting at RT, I think our line would then at least match the 3 NFL drafted linemen of 2024 (Banks, Williams, Conner). I'm not sure we have an NFL draft pick on the O-Line outside of Trevor Goosby (unless Nick Brooks develops much quicker).

Not sure I’d slap David Pollack but the synonymous with losing guy for sure would love to whip his a$$ with a heavy chain

I think if you turn it around as a player or a coach (win a conference once championship or national championship), you should get to slap 2 journalist who have wrote or said over 3 negative things about you. I’m here for the violence 🍿

The same publications, websites, and pundits who proclaimed him the Heisman favorite, and future #1 pick are now tearing him down because Arch did not live up to their unrealistic projections. Just as Gerry has said.

I can’t lie i have mentally moved onto being ready for basketball season with how soft the football team looked saturday, But i just hope they play with more passion and toughness then the football squad.

You will be happy with what is coming in regard to X's & O's.....now if they can execute at a high level?!?!?!

IT's Deep Dive today (the best thing they put out) is the best eval I've seen on O-line struggles. In short, it's fundamentally bad practice, players playing robotically and following a scheme that's not working, not actually engaging with the D-tackles and just moving to spots without purpose. I think two things may exacerbate it: 1. losing the longtime center Jake Majors who communicated his defensive reads constantly, and 2. Defensive coordinators picking apart the line scheme, similar to regular season Georgia last year lining up just opposite to the O-line's intended slide protects, and Arizona State picking up our landmarks to stunt the outside zone run. With Arizona State, I thought it was the few Texas transfers that exposed our landmarks. But similar to Georgia, I think Florida might've ripped our playbook for O-line protection. It's a bad bad situation if so.

Fasusi in his starts with OU has graded out highly. Mills would be the best guard on this team as a true freshman.

Arch is fine. The OL and coaching, not so much.

Let’s look up the definition for “click bait” in the dictionary.

Where did you hear that? Curious because I didn’t notice any upgrade in play when Neto was in earlier this year. You’ve made previous references that you’ve studied the all 22, maybe you saw it there and can share the link.

I agree with most of your post, but not that part. Sure, we’ve missed on some OL prospects in past cycles and relied on players down the list, no doubt. But the two you mentioned (Mills and Fasusi) are true freshmen, so they don’t really support the “too much hope in youth” argument for this team. The guys we’re actually playing are older than both. Only one is a second-year player, the rest are third and fourth year guys. This isn’t a young group, they’ve had plenty of time in the program. Also, Neto’s been here four years now, he just hasn’t developed for whatever reason. That’s not a youth problem, it’s a recruiting, evaluation, and development problem, compounded by coaching and scheme issues.

This is just pathetic journalism. “Synonymous with failure” give me a break. The same people who hyped him up can’t wait to see him fall.

He played better in games than Stroh, Stroh practiced better. Staff valued practice over games and benched hiM because of that. My guess is Neto vented about being screwed over when game performance proved he should be starting but he’s not in this lame “circle of trust”

Any more insight on Neto, like did something specifically happen or just didn’t cut it?