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Anatomy of Stagnation: 'Bama's Second Third-Quarter Drive Vs. Tennessee
Context Throughout the first half, Tennessee was seemingly banging their collective heads against the wall offensively -- lining up in obviously running formations, motioning receivers in towards the formation to into crack-back blocks, then futilely running the football into the strength of the...
Anatomy of Stagnation: 'Bama's First Third-Quarter Drive Vs. Tennessee
Context Throughout the first half, Tennessee was seemingly banging their collective heads against the wall offensively -- lining up in obviously running formations, motioning receivers in towards the formation for crack-back blocks, then futilely running the football into the strength of the...
Anatomy of Stagnation: Second and Short Failures
The Big Picture Even though play-action passing has become a much bigger part of the Longhorn offense since the coaching staff decided to uset the 11 personnel package much more often, Greg Davis continues to eschew play-action passes on second and short. The reasons for this are relatively...
Anatomy of Stagnation: Settling For Field Goals, Again
The Big Picture Two weeks ago, it seemed like over analysis to focus on two stalled drives hidden within the trashing of UTEP. The Longhorns led the nation by converting each of their opportunities inside the red zone. Problem was, and is, that the Texas coaching staff has no idea how to run the...
Anatomy of Stagnation: Settling For Field Goals Against UTEP
The Big Picture It probably seems rather picky to focus in on the two possessions that ended in field goals for the Longhorns on a day when the offense scored seven touchdowns and absolutely blew UTEP out of the water. However, the fact is that the home team probably should have scored 80 and could...
Anatomy of Stagnation: Longhorns Against Iowa State
Context After a 17-5 run against Iowa State in the Big 12 conference opener for both teams to stretch a one-point lead at 12-11 to a 29-16 advantage, the Longhorns went through a period of almost three minutes without scoring points of any kind (from 4:25 to 1:41), sandwiched between a Damion...
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