Kyle Flood has got to go

[AusMOJO]

1 minute ago, MrWytee said:

There is a whole lot of yall that grade out poorly as fans.... At some point, the constant bitching about winning has got to stop..... hook'em 

Yet you came in here to talk trash yourself on people sharing their opinions on a forum for Texas fans. Maybe people telling others that they aren't allowed to share their opinions on a forum, should stop?

 

[Here for the Wins]

11 minutes ago, AusMOJO said:

Yet we're not talking about Ohio State, are we? We're talking about teams that defensively, aren't very good. Why would I watch anyone else as intently or with fervor? I only care about Texas. The fact is, when watching them, you can see the problems. It's that simple. 

 

Evaluate to a theoretical standard that doesn’t exist.  How do you develop a baseline of what is poor, average or great line play?  Yeah, I get it, the eye test.

The reference to Ohio State was that some teams have played 3 games, some 4.  We are top 3rd in pass blocking, top half in run blocking  per PFF.  Each player is graded to a standard.  I’m not sure that is measured relative to opponents strength but I’d assume not.

Now mix this with some FEI rankings.  The relative strength of the defenses we’ve played to date says that’s the 32rd toughest defensive schedule.  Our OFEI is 22nd.  There are exactly two offenses higher than ours currently that have faced a tougher defensive schedule.  Those two are Ohio State and Miami.

Obviously, all this will play out over time.  This early in the season the problems vary from week to week and won’t necessarily correlate to the next game. Some of those could be more inexperience than lasting problems.  And some may be simply a bad game from a guy here, a guy there.  I feel confident in saying the UTEP game for example was a gameplan you won’t see any other game with Baxter being a big part of that.  Then he went out after one play.

There’s data and enough available to say we’re ok and there are rational reasons to explain whatever shortcomings thus far.  Problems?  It’s  still early to make that declaration.

[Hashtag]

5 hours ago, Here for the Wins said:

Evaluate to a theoretical standard that doesn’t exist.  How do you develop a baseline of what is poor, average or great line play?  Yeah, I get it, the eye test.

The reference to Ohio State was that some teams have played 3 games, some 4.  We are top 3rd in pass blocking, top half in run blocking  per PFF.  Each player is graded to a standard.  I’m not sure that is measured relative to opponents strength but I’d assume not.

Now mix this with some FEI rankings.  The relative strength of the defenses we’ve played to date says that’s the 32rd toughest defensive schedule.  Our OFEI is 22nd.  There are exactly two offenses higher than ours currently that have faced a tougher defensive schedule.  Those two are Ohio State and Miami.

Obviously, all this will play out over time.  This early in the season the problems vary from week to week and won’t necessarily correlate to the next game. Some of those could be more inexperience than lasting problems.  And some may be simply a bad game from a guy here, a guy there.  I feel confident in saying the UTEP game for example was a gameplan you won’t see any other game with Baxter being a big part of that.  Then he went out after one play.

There’s data and enough available to say we’re ok and there are rational reasons to explain whatever shortcomings thus far.  Problems?  It’s  still early to make that declaration.

The problems that currently exist with the OL existed last year, the year before, and the year before that. 
 

stroh isn’t magically going to get athletic, DJ Campbell isn’t going to magically stop committing penalties, Hutson isn’t going to magically get significantly better. 
 

The center and lg is somehow a worse combination than Majors and Conner. 

[HudGar1922]

1 hour ago, Hashtag said:

The problems that currently exist with the OL existed last year, the year before, and the year before that. 
 

stroh isn’t magically going to get athletic, DJ Campbell isn’t going to magically stop committing penalties, Hutson isn’t going to magically get significantly better. 
 

The center and lg is somehow a worse combination than Majors and Conner. 

somehow shocking didn’t think it got much worse 

[Here for the Wins]

3 hours ago, Hashtag said:

The problems that currently exist with the OL existed last year, the year before, and the year before that. 
 

stroh isn’t magically going to get athletic, DJ Campbell isn’t going to magically stop committing penalties, Hutson isn’t going to magically get significantly better. 
 

The center and lg is somehow a worse combination than Majors and Conner. 

Yet somehow that C, in spite of being injured, was picked up by the defending Super Bowl champs.  The team whose starting crew is considered by some to be the best unit in the NFL.

That problem at G was so terrible he was drafted.

For two years running, Texas had a top 3-5 ish pass blocking unit.  I’d challenge you to find me any OL, but provide some support for you claim,  that could claim to be top 5 in both pass protection and run blocking.  I’d bet you can’t find one.  And you sure as hell won’t find one in which all 5 members are equally adept at pass protection and run blocking.

And even in spite of this major “problem” two of the plays on our final important drive last year were off the edges.

All teams have strengths and weaknesses.  And that’s for certain in every teams Oline so it’s really more about playing into your strengths.  But sure let’s harp on it as a problem that probably doesn’t have a solution to satisfy you.

Its still early so we don’t fully know what we do best.  Funny too that message board warriors had themselves convinced that our interior run game would be improved because the “problems” were now gone.

 

 

[Hashtag]

1 hour ago, Here for the Wins said:

Yet somehow that C, in spite of being injured, was picked up by the defending Super Bowl champs.  The team whose starting crew is considered by some to be the best unit in the NFL.

That problem at G was so terrible he was drafted.

For two years running, Texas had a top 3-5 ish pass blocking unit.  I’d challenge you to find me any OL, but provide some support for you claim,  that could claim to be top 5 in both pass protection and run blocking.  I’d bet you can’t find one.  And you sure as hell won’t find one in which all 5 members are equally adept at pass protection and run blocking.

And even in spite of this major “problem” two of the plays on our final important drive last year were off the edges.

All teams have strengths and weaknesses.  And that’s for certain in every teams Oline so it’s really more about playing into your strengths.  But sure let’s harp on it as a problem that probably doesn’t have a solution to satisfy you.

Its still early so we don’t fully know what we do best.  Funny too that message board warriors had themselves convinced that our interior run game would be improved because the “problems” were now gone.

 

 

You’re right. We definitely are great in short yardage and redzone with our incredible offensive line! We move defenders off the line of scrimmage and things are amazing. Go team go!