Gabe Ikard: Texas defense is ‘better than Georgia’s’

[Joe Naural]

11 hours ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

Rat poison

Except …. Texas defense has Will “Booom” Muschsmp on their Ear.   Players on def fear  …. Fear  losin their job…… thats a huge difference than  Texas Offense.   Youd on sidelines if your dT, cb or safety… DE

 

Same cant be said of Texas players on offense.   

[Here for the Wins]

1 hour ago, MikeH said:

And I still think the interior pass rush has another level to get to once Justus Terry is back. A four-man rush of Simmons-Kanu-Terry-Jackson is absolutely nasty.

Could be.  Jackson needs to replicate this effort as we haven’t seen it consistently to date.  He has certainly had a limited number of games to date to prove that consistency though.

[Bunk Moreland]

I feel like this team under Sark knows how much better they are than other teams, and so they coast a bit instead of beating their ass even harder. That’s my one fear about this game: complacency. I think we are going to see OU on film and know that they are gonna be in for an ass whoopin. The two factors that make me think we keep up the intensity are: (1) Muschamp is going to breathe fire into his defense, so I have a hard time seeing them letting up against Mateer, and (2) there has been a lot of smoke about the OU locker room starting to splinter. The bottom might fall out from under them if they get hit in the mouth.

[Clifton]

25 minutes ago, Here for the Wins said:

Could be.  Jackson needs to replicate this effort as we haven’t seen it consistently to date.  He has certainly had a limited number of games to date to prove that consistency though.

TBF, Jackson has been tasked to do alot of the dirty work. Certainly last year. I could be wrong, but it feels like he's played far more of a traditional edge this year than last. 

[Clifton]

I will say this, I like to watch Ikard's podcast because I do enjoy football analysis quite a bit (and him talking about how bad OU's offense is), he's not like a "blow smoke" guy. 

[hookem1014]

Hey Jeff not sure what his sexual or transportation preference has to do with anything hope we can just stick to football here🫣

[4thandFive]

Maybe it’s rat poison. But this defense should also obliterate OU. 

[Jeff Howe]

6 minutes ago, hookem1014 said:

Hey Jeff not sure what his sexual or transportation preference has to do with anything hope we can just stick to football here🫣

Coach Shipley's revelation happened before I joined the OTF team, but that's an all-timer, for sure!

[rgvhorn80]

Listening to Lunch with the coach right now. Pretty bad reflection on Sark as a OC. To me he’s having trouble managing the offense and not doing a good job coaching Arch. We’re my thoughts as well, when former coaches are confirming it, says a lot. 

[ArizonaLonghorn]

12 hours ago, AusMOJO said:

My guy, not everything is rat poison. These are just facts. 

I agree we have a much better team than OU. They looked comically inept at times vs Georgia. 
 

But they hate us and will likely come out against us fully focused, angry and embarrassed, with a few tricks up their sleeves. 
 

if we are overconfident or caught looking ahead to Florida and LSU or a little flat - well it’s hard to imagine us losing but it will take longer to finish them off. 
 

Us old timers remember big games we should have won and didn’t.  My worst memory as a fan was the year we went undefeated in the regular season, ranked unanimous # 1, had the Heisman and Outland Trophy winners plus Coach of the Year. Sports Illustrated posed the question “Is Texas the best college team ever?”

We ate the rat poison and came out flat, fumbled several times and got crushed in the Cotton Bowl.

Edited 27 minutes ago by ArizonaLonghorn

[Here for the Wins]

41 minutes ago, Clifton said:

TBF, Jackson has been tasked to do alot of the dirty work. Certainly last year. I could be wrong, but it feels like he's played far more of a traditional edge this year than last. 

That could be.  I don’t delve into that component too much regarding scheme and what he’s asked to do.  My opinion comes from straight pass sets that he doesn’t have much impact.  They bumped him inside some without much impact. I’ve looked at it as he’s a young, inexperienced guy that we don’t know who he is just yet.

Just looked up his alignments.  Last year he was outside the Tackle 75% of the time, this year around 56%.  Last year Bgap was around 14%, this year 10%.  He’s spent more time over the Tackle this year.

[Clifton]

1 minute ago, Here for the Wins said:

That could be.  I don’t delve into that component too much regarding scheme and what he’s asked to do.  My opinion comes from straight pass sets that he doesn’t have much impact.  They bumped him inside some without much impact. I’ve looked at it as he’s a young, inexperienced guy that we don’t know who he is just yet.

Just looked up his alignments.  Last year he was outside the Tackle 75% of the time, this year around 56%.  Last year Bgap was around 14%, this year 10%.  He’s spent more time over the Tackle this year.

That seems about right. Plus like you said, he's getting far more opportunity this year.