BuffaloChuck
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At the end of the game, NMBuff listed his five points of the game and I'm hoping he'll re-list those here for our continuing debates.
(Thanks for this. I know this was a low-blow tactic to get these listed. Thanks for playing!)
Your #6 "Allow Audibles?" goes back to #4 and, unfortunately, #5, I fear. Not calling anti-blitz plays can ONLY occur at the time of the snap. Only the players can detect the need for this. I have a feeling that Coach Hawkins' refusal to prepare Hansen is a castrating motion to #6, therefore.
When Hansen scrambled, he'd spend 2-3-4 seconds looking for a receiver - ANY receiver, then move again, look again and would finally get sacked. His receivers don't have any clue where his 'default line-of-sight' falls - this should be more logical for them. But with lack of reps and play-time, they cannot sync up with whoever the QB Du Jour is.
This is what Hansen & Co have bred into this team. This is what we get.
I AM certain that, with this coaching staff and these players, and another 7 or 10 years, they'll finally get it right. Maybe 11 years. But by that time, I'm sure.
Well, possibly. Maybe.
Uh. SEC teams have several DCs on the field. Closer to home, that black-shirted fellow jumping up and down, going wild on the Texas sidelines? That's DC Will Muschamp, getting knocked down, head-butted by helmeted players (and stitched up shortly thereafter), etc. He's got staffers in the booth collecting trend-data, but he and his DB Coord are both on the sidelines.Can anyone think of any other team where the DC is not in the booth?
I noted that too.. was really shocked that it took our guys so long to figure out how to delay a blitz package... :huh:Our blitz packages are terrible though. Only against Mizzou did I see us finally hiding them, especially the CB blitzes, before the snap in the 2nd half. I haven't seen a delayed safety blitz this year that shot the gap and worked, to my knowledge. I look at guys like Muschamp and his blitz packages are bounds and leaps ahead of anything we have here...and this is only the 2nd year he's been at Texas.