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Game Thread Game Two: Texas 25, Ohio State 22 (final)

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xrayrandy said:
"Last time I checked, 4.46 is faster than 4.47..."

Lehman ran a 4.53 FAT at the combine which if you...

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That tells me that there's only .06 second difference between hand-held and FAT times, not your "standard .24" seconds. :roll1:

Go play with your chemistry sets...
 
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xrayrandy said:
"Last time I checked, 4.46 is faster than 4.47..."

Lehman ran a 4.53 FAT at the combine which if you...

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At any point, will you stop making yourself look dumber? It's really sad that you can't grasp that there is a difference between track speed and football speed.

Just for once, could you please list shuttle times? It is extremely rare that you get to run in a straight line. Shuttle times tell us much more about players. You are infatuated with total defense and 40 times, when scoring defense and shuttle times are usually better gauges of actual performance.

Go read the last few pages, we've had some longhorn fans have some pretty pro-UT previews of the game, but since they were logical they were well received.
 
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I believe 40 times are some of the most overrated parts of scrutinizing a player's game. For a lb, I'm more interested in how he moves from sideline to sideline and how he gets off blocks. Some guys can really fly straightline, but can't change direction or plant and drive to the ball. DJ flat out flies to the ball, and it's obvious the OSU lb's are very quick and really get to the ball. Hawk is a menace and I'm well aware of what he can do to a ball carrier.

On the same note, taking a lb's forty time and translating that to how he will be able to tackle an elusive runner in the open field is not sound. The only way to determine how they can handle a runner is to see how they break down in the open field and square up with the ball carrier. If you lunge, you will more than likely lose. Hawk is a great tackler, and there is no doubt he will make open field tackles, but he won't be able to make every one. You tackle a guy like Vince by containing him on the outside with players with good feet, lateral movement, and funnel him to your ILB, DT's and Safeties. Any D. Coordinator worth a grain of salt will not gameplan making one on one tackles with a player like Vince.

Ex: Ginn/Bush/Vince/ vs. 4.4 LB DJ/Hawk/ = Not sound defense

You put your player's in a position to be successful. I would not feel comfortable expecting any LB to tackle a gamebreaker like any of the above in the open field time and time again. You expect your players to make plays but you have to gameplan to stop gamebreakers.
 
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All will be for naught if VY can sit back of that big O-line and pick apart our db's at random. No cover corner, off-corner, of safeties can cover indefinitely. Hope that's a fact that everyone can kow-tow to. Unless our D-line gets a big push, won't matter how fast our LB's are, they'll be fighting off tu's AA O-line.

If our O-line cannot contain their AA D-line (we are second in a two horse race on both lines), then it doesn't matter a whit which of our QB's is back there. Or which RB is back there, or how fast our wide-outs are. Or maybe it does, as both JZ and TB will be 'deer in the headlights' versus TS scrambling for his life.

Or maybe........we run alot of screens to Ginn and wear out the scoreboard. Damn, I can hardly wait. Both sides will want to win to establish themselves as a NC contender, and one will. Both teams are veteran, with some underclassmen, and each have clear advantages over the other. The one thing CFN didn't rate was the coaches. In my humble opinion, JT is a '10' over MB on game day, but MB is a '10' in February (actually with 22 recruits already verballed, maybe MB is 'Mr. August'). That and the game plan strategy, using our strengths against their weaknesses, and tu vice versa will tell the tale.

Go Bucks!
 
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couldn't agree more jreal and I believe thats what the buckeyes will do. What OSU does very well on Defense IMO is stretching plays out. They're very good in persuite and taking proper angles on the ball. a great example of what I'm talking about is this http://www.cosop.net/OSU/albums/multimedia/umhartnowhere.mpgWatch the pursuit but the one thing OSU can't do is miss the first tackle like our linebacker did. If we can do that to your backs/VY we'll be in good shape.
 
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In Michigan's next drive (or drive after that), they started at nearly the exact same spot, and the geniuses on the Michigan staff decided to run the same play, and this time Carpenter didn't miss the initial tackle (and let the Michigan bench know about it).
 
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Scary thing to me is that Texas is rated as a "10" on both lines. They always say the game is won (or lost) in the trenches, and while our units are not bad by any means, their units look to have an edge on us.
 
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