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We'll be working with Ebay Live and ShopBack, the official rewards partner of the University of Texas, for a memorabilia auction tonight from ~6:30-7:30. Here's the link if you want to participate. https://www.ebay.com/ebaylive/events/kxghj8tIQvIwCBgA Graceson Littleton and Jelani McDonald will be joining us.

What’s crazy is the regression and still taking the position that he can do it better than anyone he could hire. I think he’s a great head coach but facts are facts about how many championship winning head coaches call plays.

I agree, unless you can figure out how to run the ball out of it than it only needs to be utilized a bit more. If you're going to stick with 11/12 personnel, than Bishop needs to see more rotation. The dude's dynamic and has the speed to cause defenses panic.

Regretting something is not an apology, Elmo... Dude looks like the job is getting to him

Split Zone Cooper.mp4 Split zone out of 11 personnel. This is what it should look like in the box (not sure what Coleman is doing, even if it is an RPO).

wanted to add this... the secondary does not communicate well in tight splits, even in man coverage. I bet Texas goes back to a couple WR inserts against UF.

I thought this was interesting, and important given some of the challenges facing the Texas offense. Florida loves to bring pressure. I charted 39 passing plays for South Carolina in their victory in The Swamp a week ago. 12 of those 39 snaps saw Florida bringing 6+ rushers at the snap. Now, keep in my, South Carolina is very RPO heavy. So some of those triggers were the result of keys that RPOs typically bait defenders into. But, the splits between number of blitzers brought on a given pass snap is interesting. 3 or less: 4 snaps 4-man pressure: 21 snaps 5-man pressure: 2 snaps 6-men or more: 12 snaps Texas has been pressured often up the middle with the G–C–G trio being targeted. That will be an area of the game I look for Florida to test from the start. One other note on 6-man pressure packages from the UF defense – 10 of the 12 were in the first half. South Carolina led 17–10 at halftime and after two possessions, it was 24–13. The deficit took away Florida's aggressiveness. Something to keep in mind for Saturday.

Cooper 3 yard run.mp4 Why am I highlighting a 3-yard run? Derrek Cooper. Sikorski gets beat, which is a shame because Goosby and Robertson created an alley. Still, Cooper has the vision, feel, feet and burst to cut it up inside and get what he can. Sometimes, a 3-yard gain is a good play. I might be giving Cooper too much credit here, but he could be the bell cow sooner rather than later, IMO.

Cooper 16 yard run OU.mp4 Cooper's 16-yard zone run out of 11 personnel. Texas has numbers on the left side. It felt like OU was trying to adjust to Texas running more mid or inside zone. The off-tackle run was there in a big way. No split flow needed — Townsend does a great job helping create the crease. This is great execution. (Does it go for more than 16 yards if Wingo gets a better piece of Guillory? This wasn't the best blocking game for the wideouts under Sark. Texas lost the physicality battle on the perimeter.)

I remember the days when all we had was liquid courage. Wait....that's all I have still to this day even tho I still post on msg boards. Lol!

Cooper needs to get upfield on the toss. Sometimes those 3 yards matter. Had a chance for a few more.

Baker Siani OU.mp4 For those of you who don't want me to take up for the offensive line and want me to point out what that group can do better, here you go. @Bobby Burton mentioned this play on Coffee & Football this morning. I don't need to say anything other than to tell you to watch what happens to Brandon Baker and Melvin Siani. That can't happen in short yardage. The play was over before Cooper got the handoff.

bad run 3 OU.mp4 I'm putting up this whole play for one reason: whether Arch needs to check out of this before the snap or Sark has to burn a timeout, you have to get out of a run against an 8-man box. Trying to block eight with six isn't going to turn out well. This was second-and-4 on the drive that ended with Spetic's missed field goal. Instead of checking to a pass or regrouping on the sideline, Smothers never had a chance on a play where he took a 5-yard loss and you're in third-and-10. This type of stuff can't happen, especially inside the last four minutes of regulation.

Crack Toss OU.mp4 This is the ill-fated crack-toss, which is a bad play I put on Sark for a few reasons: 1. I hate toss plays. 2. OU's safeties and linebackers fit the run so well that hitting one of these long-developing runs is a low-percentage play, IMO. 3. That's asking a lot of Robertson to get across Jackson's face and reach/scoop him. Sikorski had two red marks here, one for not getting enough of Jackson to help Robertson and for missing his block at the second level. 4. Asking Ryan Wingo to down-block on an EDGE so Goosby can pull isn't putting him in the best position to win, IMO. He and Mosley fight right here, but add this to the reasons why I'd take this off Sark's call sheet (especially when the offense is coming off the goal line) if I could. 5. I'm not sure if Mosley was supposed to work up to the safety or if that was Goosby guy, but two guys in white jerseys running into each other isn't how Sark drew this up.

Wingo Block OU.mp4 I started this play midway through the sideline view because I want you to watch Ryan Wingo and Hollywood Smothers. — If Wingo gets a clean block on the safety, does Smothers see it and bounce the run off Wingo's outside shoulder? If he does, he only has to deal with the safety and/or the corner. Instead, Smothers hesitates and falls into a 3-yard gain that could've gone for more. — Even then, Smothers probably could've bounced this off Wingo's block and picked up a first down (he might've had a one-on-one with Powers if Coleman had kept Haynes from getting in a position for a potential open-field tackle. Or if he hit his path hard off Nick Townsend's inside shoulder, he might've beaten the safety to the spot and picked up the first down. Regardless, Texas punted two plays later. — This is a bad run because it should've gone for more. This is what I'm talking about when I push back against the running game issues being all on the offensive line. This is on Smothers and/or Wingo, with a little blame assigned to Coleman, IMO.

good run 2 ou.mp4 I mentioned this in the article, but here's one counter Sark called and it hit big. Watch Michael Masunas at around the 7-second mark and again at 25 seconds (I'm showing both all-22 angles from this one because it's that good, IMO). He's the MVP on this play, IMO. If he doesn't get a piece of Lewis, that's a TFL for Oklahoma and the offense is in second-and-long. Instead, it's a 14-yard gain. When Texas can get a hat on a hat, the offensive line moves people. It just doesn't happen often enough.

Cooper Zone Run OU.mp4 This is a good run. It's a zone run from Cooper that I like for several reasons: — If you look at the way OU is aligned to the strength of the formation (nose, 4i, 9-tech edge, Lewis playing over the tight end and Sullivan almost stacked behind the nose, they're positioned to take away the outside zone and make the run bounce back in toward the pursuit. That’s why the aiming point by the running back has to be tighter (think B gap) and he has to hit it hard. — Robertson actually does a good job of walling off Stone. Goosby makes a hellacious reach block to get to the middle linebacker. Sikorski does a great job to run his guy past the hole, clearing space for Cooper to cut it up. — It’s hat-on-hat football and Texas wins, setting up first-and-goal. These blocks aren’t dominating, but they’re effective because everyone did their job. — Watch Cooper stick a foot in the ground and get vertical around the 5-second mark. He’s got some juice.

Kentucky makes it a point to run the football, has a good offensive line and Baxter is healthier now than he was last season.

Is it something relevant that CJ Baxter is now gaining 5.6 yards carry versus having 3.6 while he was at Texas. Is that scheme? Is it the line or a pretty heavy mixture of both? I would assume more heavily waited towards the offensive line not being able to execute. It seems like Texas paints a picture and ask the team to execute it and you look at Alabama or Georgia and they state here’s where we’re gonna run, show us you can stop it. That’s the difference in the physicality. I think we’re not seeing..

Well that’s just mean, Gerry.

I can't see this OL getting more physical overnight. I can't see Cam Coleman wanting to get his nose or fingernails dirty on blocks over night. I can't see Emaree Winston getting push on anyone with a pulse over night. On any given run play, it is almost guaranteed that someone is gonna blow their assignment and the play is gonna go for minimal yards. We can run the ball more, but only after making them fear our passing attack enough to pull guys out of the box. This is a team that thrives in space, not in close quarters.

@JeffHowe the most confusing part to me is that we hit the portal for TE's to help with our running game and we have missed on that so bad. So is that a recruiting error or is our TE coach to blame for not prepping them for each opponent.

SOLD

Tough to say because the upcoming defenses are worse than what we’ve faced so far, but they could genuinely lose every single game remaining on their schedule except Arkansas if they keep playing this way

He has to be trolling 😂😂😂😂