Spring Game Open Thread

Who was the intended target on that tipped pass?

Lache Seastrunk was there, wearing a Texas hoodie. He needs to come to Texas

Earl Thomas, while he screwed up on the punt return, had a blistering interception return where he came out of nowhere to make the pick. He also prevented a KO return for a TD by crossing back across the field and making the tackle at the 20. Keep in mind it was also windy as hell, there were very few solid kicks, and the punts were extra wobbly today.

It looked like Gideon and Brewster were splitting time at safety.

Our defensive and offensive lines are going to be amazing. Okafor already looks right at home on the defensive end position.

Fozzy Whitaker is going to have a fantastic year, he looked really good out there.

Both the offense and defense had some flashes of brilliance, but ultimately the game was nothing more than a teaser for football season, which is still 4 months and a few weeks away.

Wind wreaked havoc on passing and kicking game. It was definitely a factor, in my opinion.

We need a TE badly. The TE’s dropped at least 3 passes by my count- the Howard drop was then picked off by Nolan Brewster, and Greg Smith had two drops.

A few drops on special teams, but that could be due to the wind. Earl Thomas had a drop that was then recovered by the punting team.

Most impressive player to me was Brandon Collins. He seemed to catch everything, and had a good burst after the catch. Otherwise, I’d like to see the ESPNU coverage to get a better feel for who looked good and who didn’t. I thought Sherrod really struggled, and the running backs looked okay- nothing special.

I thought he was really coming on at the end of last season. Will he have the breakout year I’m hoping for?

I just got back a few minutes ago, and I don’t really know what to talk about. It seems that everything I noticed went the opposite way a few minutes later.

Examples:
Our first, first-team offensive possession (ORANGE team, from here out… had Colt and the second team D) was three shotgun runs, the third being an option pitch that was fumbled for a loss, and a punt. I am about to send an email whining about how the OL was supposed to have learned to block this Spring and the DL was supposed to be horrible, when on the next Orange possession, Fozzy takes two I-form handoffs, one to the outside for a big gain, and another through what appeared to be the last gap on the right (either between TE and OT or OT and OG, didn’t notice) for a TD after squirting through some traffic. The I-form seemed to work pretty well overall as far as running. We still look like the Keystone Cops running from the shotgun.

Colt completes his first pass for I think 15 yards or so and I’m about to say how good we are in the passing game before he throws a pick to Thomas who returns it for a TD. 1.) Our DBs appear to be able to catch, at least in complete silence, and 2.) We know Thomas is hell-on-wheels fast, but I didn’t know that Colt had those kind of wheels. Colt had barely any angle on Thomas and still managed to come within inches of catching him at the corner of the EZ. Weirdly fast.

Examples of things that I thought were pretty clear:
Brandon Collins looks like your Quan Cosby replacement. It will likely take him some time to become more consistent, but he has the freakish good hands and Colt apparently loves throwing it his way.

Our TEs are absolute garbage. I think A. Howard (13) was the TE that took a catchable ball from Harris and turned it into a floating gimme for Brewster, though it may have been Smith… Strangely, Colt still loves to throw it to them, even once on fourth and about the five yard line going in, where he gave Howard the ball and Robinson ran him straight out of bounds for maybe half a yard. Please get better, Irby and Grant, please oh please get better.

I just noticed “WareDaWhiteWomenAt” mention Malcolm Williams. Malcolm obviously has some sick wheels, as evidenced by his great kick return, but Colt is still having trouble giving him a chance to bring the long ball in. I think they went to him twice on the “Limas Sweed” route (You know, the one where Sweed would just burn the crap out of his single coverage like he could do it at will that we only called once a game in 2006?) and both times he had his man just beat enough for an over-the shoulder grab, but the first time Colt gave him the ball just out of bounds, and the on the second Colt overthrew him by a mile (=5 yards in blogger parlance). It may have been the wind, so we’ll have to wait and see.

Overall, I thought our secondary looked like a pack of the “I Am Legend” zombies (vampires?), clinging to the throats of our receivers for much of the afternoon. It’s just sick what we have back there.

I await the Fall to find out if we can actually block anybody and if our DL can hold up.

Plus it looked like we were playing lotta nickle packages…the linebackers were not very impressive at all. Possibly due to our DTs getting manhandled by our OLs…

If that is legit, or just covering for some discipline problem. In recent times, we’ve heard about all disciplinary action, so maybe Muschamp truly wanted to find out what he has, rather than risk his truest weapon that he knows will be a huge part of the defense this year.

this USD/S.Clara rout of a baseball game better not pre-empt the fucking spring game rebroadcast.

Is it on another channel?

Mcgee definately looked the best out there of the running backs…. I remember watching 3 or 4 times where Fozzy lost yards (including 1 run for -8 yards). Also Fozzy trying to punch it into the endzone 3 times was kinda funny… they put McGee in on 4th down to finish the job off and send the crowd home pleased.

Secondary looked good…. wind was bad, but not too bad, disappointed in some of Colts throws

Wow Sherrod, I thought u were better than this… but its just a spring game, thats all it is

O line looks aight right now, but D line looked pretty good…. No play from Sergio

Seriously, other than Colt, Sergio, and Maybe maybe Shipley, Malcom Williams is the best talent on this team… dude looked like a young Kwame Cavil

TE’s…. meh, not suprised… Irby looked good in his jeans, no homo

Someone other than Shipley has to return kicks so that he stays healthy

Beautiful day, cant wait for the next 4 months to fly by

This is awful.

I can’t take this.

I need to move back to Austin. This is horrific.

Didn’t see anything from him, other than a poor block on an outside run, I think.

And i’m eager to see (again) the secondary. Seemed like the coverage was good in person. Time to see if that was the case, or if the qb’s just didn’t perform well.

was suprised to see Luginbill compare him to Michael Crabtree…. Crabtree was wayyyyy bigger. Need to see more of Chiles before making any further judgements myself

people in the stands in Lubbock were literally saying “damn, what a badass punt”

McGee/Johnson
Hills
Whittaker
Newton
Cobb
Ramonce Taylor if he comes back for eligibility

sure would be nice to know what players are on the field.

or, you know, have the broadcast team actually watch and comment on the game.

Aparently ESPNU doesn’t know Jordan and Colt are roommates.

Where have I heard that before?