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2011 Texas Longhorn Defense in Review
Since I've primarily focused on Diaz and the defense this year I thought I would review the year, what we accomplished, and how. I've broken down the review into pieces: the stats of our play, our strategy, and individual performances. The Results We finished first in conference in yards per play...
Manny Diaz versus the Spread Offense
The offenses Diaz faced in the SEC were generally running-oriented and one of our biggest questions for him heading into the season is how he would handle the way Big 12 coordinators fling the ball around. What does a Diaz defense look like vs. the Air Raid? Or the Holgorsen adaptation? While the...
2011 Texas-BYU Post Mortem: Defense/Special Teams
Coming into the game, I didn't see how BYU was going to get downfield in the passing game so our success hinged on minimizing assignment busts, tackling, and annihilating their running game. We answered all of those questions. Ultimately, the defense won the game and that's being overshadowed by...
Bringing the storm clouds: Defense against the run
I'd like to zoom in on our defense's execution of Diaz's mantra of "Stop the run, hit the quarterback" in game 1. At first glance, it would appear that we failed miserably but given that we allowed only 9 points, we need to evaluate the performance more carefully than "they ran the ball and we...
Dream Wagon: Drivers and Horses
Priority one for Mack this fall is obviously determining the Quarterback to hold the reins for the dream wagon. I have an opinion or two on that front but it's important to note that the horses that will drag the wagon to 8 wins and Top 25 relevance will not include a QB this year unless we get...
Friday Scrimmage Report From the Asset
The scrimmage tonight was supposed to be the definitive battle for the starting quarterback position. The Asset tells us it wasn’t. Not to say the QB play was poor, it was actually pretty good, but there wasn’t enough separation in the Asset’s opinion to turn the reins over to Garrett Gilbert...
Thursday’s Practice Tidbits from The Asset
Highwayman here filling in for JS while he and Tips are making their way to Sin City for the Cosm's little field trip this weekend. Luckily, Haysuess was able to phone in some practice tidbits via The Asset before his departure. Enjoy. - Garrett Gilbert had a solid day and remains the frontrunner...
Shoring up the defense
Greetings tote baggers, I'm back from Maui and settled in to Dallas where the Nickel Rover office has relocated and added some permanent staffing. Today I'd like to talk about the defense beyond what I wrote in Peter Bean's "Longhorn Kickoff 2011" which is the best Texas Longhorn football preseason...
Texas Football 2011 Preseason Position By Position: Linebacker
Finally: depth, talent, certainty. And potentially the best LB unit we've had in twenty five years. Of course, that's a relative statement, roughly tantamount to saying toughest guy at Baylor.... "Parker wears cut off Chinos and smokes clove cigarettes on his Vespa! I hope he doesn't TP my...
Thoughts on Texas Longhorns Spring Game
Pro Insipiente: I'm a fan of apologetics with CS Lewis and GK Chesterton numbering amongst my favorite writers, and with that in mind I'd like to make an Apologia for my continued faith in Garrett Gilbert. I left the spring game wondering if perhaps Case McCoy gave the team a better chance to win...
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