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IT Live (10/30): Breaking Down the Texas Offensive Line Issues (Film Study)
Tex Somer here with Ian Boyd. We're actually gonna do some film study today like we did a little bit of yesterday. We're gonna talk Tex's offensive line. We're gonna look at some of the sacks as well as some of the run protections. We can kind of see some issues there in the Vandy game. So it's gonna be pretty fun. I always enjoy doing the film studies. AR, what's up? Drew, what's up? Roaster, what's up? - Lakeland is, that's like in Central Florida, right? It's like around Orlando. Is that right? - Let him know, Drew. - Drew, correct geography, if it's wrong. - Yeah, just say it is, Drew, no matter what. Just say he's correct. Alright, so Ian had a good article on the offensive line and it had some good insight, as usual. Let me pull that up first, before we look. - Yeah, I was waiting on all 22 and then somebody pointed out, yep, down the I-4 corridor. Somebody pointed out that Texas is runs. If you look at them run by run in the second half, they had all these like negative or unsuccessful runs. And so I was like, well, while I'm waiting for all 22, I don't need that to look at the O line. - Yep. - And it was pretty interesting. - Yes, second half, right? - In a bad way. - Yep. - Alright, so this is what I thought was important to this chart. So our most common run all year has been outside zone. And is this for 17 yards, 1.9 for the total game? Or second half? - Entire game. - Wow, that's crazy. Let's see, small gift for Ian, seeing a fund. - Thank you. - Thank you, Roster. So 1.9 yards per carrying outside zone. We had inside zone for 3 carries, 2.7. Counter was good for us. There was a couple of plays where like, Helm was just open with no one to block on those counters. That was pretty weird. - Well, well. - Like carries for 51. - Yeah, well, we should, we have to point out at least one of those long, like 23 yards of counter came on a third and nine run. - Okay. - So they caught him, you know, they caught him back off. - Yeah. - Look at this, I'm making us all kinds of money today. - They're rich, man. I think, dude, $7. - Wow. - So, what were your biggest things? Kind of giving them a breakdown of the article. You talk about the holding penalties and also a good thing to note too, was you said the holding penalties were on the point of action. I hear a lot of times, just fans or even commentators will be like, they had nine million yards rushing. If it wasn't for the holding calls, it's like, yeah, but a lot of those yards of rushing are because of holding calls. So kind of what's your thought there with our holds? Were they, did they affect the run or do they not? - So I have somewhere, if you scroll up just a little bit, let's see here. Five runs were taken off the board, which produced 42 yards at 8.4 yards per carry. - So all the holdings runs were very good. - Yeah. - And part of the reason they were good was because they were holding. - Exactly, that's what always cracks me up when people are like, man, we would've had all those yards. It wasn't for the holding, it's like, yeah, 'cause we were holding, that's why we got the yards. - Now, I still feel like I feel mixed after watching them more closely, like Monday night, I was like, you know, if you wanted the point spread to remain in a certain range, then you would call holding exactly when they call holding to kill drives before they could start, right? If you look back and watch them all, there is something that you could definitely call holding, I think, on each one of them. - Yeah. - And they're all very tight whistle, I would call them. Like, if they were not called, I don't think you would hear that much about it, you would. But here's my conspiracy, right? Texas embarrassed the refs with the throwing the bottles on the field thing, and then the refs turning it around. So my theory, my conspiracy, the unprovable thing is that they're gonna end up being a little tighter with us, not necessarily like faking penalties, but calling us tighter because we did kind of embarrass them nationally. And clearly, SEC front office was not happy about that when they called down their edicts and we have to go find the bottle throwers and all that kind of stuff. But I just assumed games after that, the refs are not gonna be super favorable towards us. - Could be. Or maybe they had some Vandy plus 16 and a half action or something. - I'll go with it. - Of the conspiracies, I'll go with the less grandiose. - I think the gambling one is probably actually more likely. (laughing) - But they are all like. - And then go basketball. - Like the helm one, he hits this guy good. His guy is trying to get up and helm hits him like from the side and basically takes him to the ground. I would never call that holding, but you can understand why they're like, "Yeah, you can't tackle somebody in pursuit, right?" - No. - Well, it's the same concept of a hold. You're stopping from them from getting to the play without blocking them. - Yeah, well, he was kind of blocking him. (laughing) It's tough, I felt like that one was tough, but you can understand. - Do you think a lot of the holding calls were because Wiesner likes to bounce it outside? So I don't know, I would have to look specifically on the holding call place. But Drew, you know that other Drew, Drew Kelson, said that as a linebacker outside zone is where you can get most of your holds. And that defensive box guys are trying to get holds on outside zone, 'cause the horizontal nature, the refs can see them throw their hands more and that kind of stuff. So yeah, I'm sure there's some type of schematic component here that will draw more. You're gonna get more holding calls on outside zone than inside zone is my belief. - Yep, it's not Wiesner's fault. - Yeah, good morning. You guys think Texas O line would be better run blockers, would be better run blockers, considering they had been playing together for more than three years. Yeah, just 'cause of experience, but also this has never been like a great run blocking team under Sarcore flood. So I'm not like like super shocked by it, but the lack of coordination on some of these things, but also you'll see like there's some laziness like getting up to double teams you'll see, but also like a lot of these are just like guys are getting beat one on one as well. So it's not like a whole unit thing. It's like personally they're having trouble with one guy or something. So what are you thinking? - I mean, they should be better than they are right now, better than they've been the last two weeks, for sure. I mean, last week like Campbell was getting mauled. Campbell's a five star player in his third year. - There were some Georgia plays where he was getting absolutely like stack and thrown to the side like he was a. - Yeah, and the 1.9 per carry on outside zone versus Vanderbilt is pretty bad. We'll talk a lot more about that in what caused that. I kind of think that blood and Sarc, they do two things that I think don't predisposed their teams to being amazing at run blocking. One is that they carry a ton, that's some accrual. They carry a ton of run blocking schemes. - So you never get great at what you're one or two? - It's really hard to get great at one or two of them. And like most outside zone teams, like in the NFL even McVay is like 50% of their play calls or some kind of outside zone or something. It's like you're going to do this so well that you can do it all the time no matter what. And that's not how flood and Sarc operate. And at the college level, you can imagine the impact of that. And then the other thing is that I think that they put a really big emphasis on protection and being really good in protection. Like you'll see a lot of college teams like back in the big 12, Kansas state or Oklahoma state would have like these great running attacks, right? And when they were good. But if you could get them in like third and nine, then these offensive lines they had that would be like the toast of the league would look garbage because they were, for one they didn't really have NFL caliber pass protectors. But for another, they just were all in on, we're going to run block. And then when we need to throw big, we're going to use like play action or quick hitting spread stuff. So we're not going to, our strategy is not going to be around holding up in protection. Sarcin flood have been different, I think. So I think both of those. So even if you watch like the 2020 Alabama, they were better run blocking than this team for sure. But they weren't like, they were not, that's not what made them dominant was their own blocking. - No, not as a Harris. - Yeah. - And this also kind of goes into this point. We were spoiled by Bijon Roshan and Jonathan Brooks. Wisener solid, but really is a more of a change of pace back at this stage. Blue runs with his eyes closed. That's my opinion. - I don't think that's it. I think, I don't, if you added Jonathan Brooks to this team and replaced Wisener with Brooks, I don't know if it would be, well, it probably be a little better. But I mean, some of these issues that we're going to go over in a minute, you're going to see that it's like, you put Brooks in there and it's not any better. Right? - Yeah, the only difference I would say with a Brooks is whenever they do, whenever he does get an open field, he's going to score and we don't have that with our backs. We're 108th in the country in explosivity, you know. - Well, Wisener had to accept, to be notable exceptions to what you just said against Oklahoma and blue has as much breakaway speed as anybody. - Yeah, but we haven't seen it. And he had two explosive runs in what, eight games? That's not moving the needle for me. And then blue being fast, I agree, he is, but once again, we're still not seeing it. - I think it's the context. - I don't think every run is so bad we can't hit a 40 yarder. I don't think your blocking is not going to be that bad on every single play. - The opponents can be a lot better though. - Like what versus UTSA and that kind of stuff? - Yeah, versus the big 12, which is who Brooks feasted on. - Yeah, I just, the lack we're in the hundreds for explosivity. So some of that is going to be our site. And I can look up, I'll look up to second level yards, which literally is showing you the backs of explosivity and getting rid of the offensive line and we can see. But that's the difference. I don't think we have the home run hitting because we've never been successful kind of down to down in the run game, really ever. The difference was we would hit an open gap and go for 80 or whatever. And that would make up all of our yards that we would bang our head against the wall on. - Last year especially, but it's interesting. A bulk of our yards would be Jonathan Brooks getting loose. Let's see. Not to jump ahead, but the holding calls on special teams is out of control. I don't blame that on the refs. Our special teams is taking a step back this year because of it. I think and cross the board. I mean, special teams has kind of been sketchier in every phase of special teams. We're not punting as well. Our kick coverage is not hitting guys like at the five. We're not blocking punts. We're holding guys on kick returns. Bert Auburn hasn't got a much run, but when he came in, he missed those field goals. Like, this kind of seems across the board special teams is struggling. - So they were third in special teams FBI last year in the country at the end of the year. Right now for this year, they're 57th. - Yeah. - So they don't seem bad. 57th seems so bad, doesn't it? - Yeah, still of average. - It doesn't seem like they're even that bad. It's just that they don't, where we've become accustomed to a certain lifestyle. - Mm-hmm, yeah. - That's why it feels so weird. You know, almost we don't even know what to do with it. Like, what do you mean? Our special teams isn't making plays, but they literally aren't making plays for us. Like, I cute. - You wondered when it was like, well, I got to replace Keelan Robinson. And then originally it was like, Trey Wisener is gonna be a big part of the special teams. - Yeah, he has to go play running back. - And now he's the main running back. Derek Williams, special teams ace, he's gone. - I feel like there was even another one too. I don't know, obviously Michael Kern has been hurt. I, watching live, I started in my five quick thoughts after Georgia to just be like, Ratliff was so bad for Texas. And then I looked up the stats and they didn't look anywhere near as bad as I expected. So I had to type in some edits on my phone and the parking garage. - Yeah. - It still felt like, every time if he was credited with a good average and a couple of long kicks, but live, it felt like his long kicks only came when it was like a chance to pin them inside the 10 or the 20 and then it kicks it into the end zone. - Yeah, it's been tricky. Cam and Campbell got to come back next year. I agree with that statement. - Yes. - Yes, they both have, they should both be aiming for high rounds that they could achieve if they came back and got a lot better. - Yeah. - But. - Do you think they would switch them to the left side together or keep them over there on the right? - I don't know, I'd have to see with Goosby. I sometimes don't like them on the same side. Like, I don't know if you get what I'm saying 'cause they're like, they can both be kind of high ceiling but busty and I almost don't like them on the same side. So we'll just have to see. All right guys, before we keep going, first let's hear a word from our sponsor. - I'm just gonna say it guys. You probably need a fiduciary financial advisor and I've got the guy for you. His name is David McClellan with Forum Financial. He works broadly and deeply with his clients as a financial life coach. And he should know something about coaches because he won several national championships as a swimmer for the University of Texas. He specializes in financial planning and has contributed numerous articles to Kipling on the topic of retirement tax bombs. So contact David today to be your fiduciary financial planner and schedule a one hour consultation to assess your financial situations. The free consultation is available so just give him a call. The number is 312-933-8823. That's 312-933-8823. His email is also in the description below. - You have my call guys. All right, let's pull up the tape. All righty, let me move you over to this window here Ian. Okay, so the thesis here is Texas runs a lot of outside zone, which is a lateral zone scheme, meaning the offensive line is gonna step to the play side where the runner is going. And instead of trying to penetrate up and go vertical to displace guys, they're gonna try to create gaps that the running back in theory can kind of cut through several different options. So the play doesn't always hit at the same point, like kind of like a gap scheme would. But it's a super efficient play if people run it well because it provides so many options and iterations versus fronts. But you'll see here that we're also showing you guys not the best versions of these runs. So here we go. - Oh, there it is, okay. - It'll be funny if I just talked for the whole hour and didn't show you guys. Okay, Ian, break it down as I kind of go through it here. - Okay, first of all, this slot motion that they do is kind of hurting them on outside zone, in my opinion. They've been doing this a ton this season and there was a couple of plays where like people were saying like, "Hey, Georgia knows what's coming on these run plays and they're stuffing it." A lot of times it was because they used the slot motion. And the idea is that you move your slot receiver from one side to another and then the defense has to change their assignments at the last minute. And in this case, like the nickel slides inside into the box and the backside linebacker is supposed to slide out theoretically to cover the receiver. There's two things are bad about this on this play, maybe three things. One is that this brought the nickel into the box but it didn't take the weak side linebacker out of the box because the boundary safety is dropping down to match the slot. - Yeah, so up top here guys, this is the nickel at the top of the screen. Here's your backside linebacker and then here is your safety that's gonna end up coming down and getting into the run action here. - Well, and he covers the slot. Like he's dropping down to match the slot. So you don't have, you have not removed the weak side linebacker from the box. All you've done is bring in one player closer to the action, the nickel. Now it's the nickel, so not the worst thing in the world but you haven't helped at all. Second, when you do this motion teams know you're gonna run it, the ball. Like you're not throwing from this motion very much. So it's like you've added a guy to the box, you've tipped off the defense about what's coming. And then if you play it a little more, you can see it. - Well, what's funny here, right? It's like, he might just, this linebacker's just on a blitz but what is, I mean, even before the snap, he knows exactly what's up. - Yes. - So they got Cole Hudson in a guard on this play. - Cole Hudson is here. - The left-hand side. - Right guard. - Yeah. So let's run it. - This may have even been an auto blitz, check to the motion. So that guy. - Hudson gets completely demolished by a linebacker here, somebody like half of his size. - In fairness to Hudson, the linebacker lines up. How far are we off the ball initially? - About five. - Five yards, almost. - Four. - Four, five yards off the ball. They motion that may be triggering the blitz. It almost definitely is if you watch it. So Hudson is thinking like, I'm gonna climb up to the weak side linebacker. That's my job on this play. Instead, the Mike linebacker, who's not even in Hudson's mind as somebody who's worried about is just bam in his face at the snap, basically. And that goes poorly. Then that's the main reason why this play was destroyed. So you could see this against Georgia too. When they do that slot motion from 11 personnel, right before they run outside zone, it just, you're tipping people off. - Teams usually, teams do that for inside zone all the time, but inside zone is a very different play. It's tighter, you're hitting faster. And-- - You're going forward as well. - You're going forward, you're not going lateral. I just don't, I don't like it. - Forgive me if this doesn't make sense, but if the motion is necessary, but it's tipping our hand, wouldn't it fit for you to turn this into an RPO with Quinn reading the linebacker? - Yeah, well, you would just not do motion. And an RPO would be, an RPO would be better, for sure. But even if you're running an RPO, Vanderbilt was playing single high match for almost the entire game. - Yep. - So you'd be throwing to basically covered people a lot of times against something like this. I mean, they hit a lot of RPOs early, so obviously they figured it out, but-- - Have you seen the fan narrative that we can't pass 'cause they're keeping two high safeties constantly? It's just not correct. They were in cover three, match three, almost the whole game. - Yep. - And if you see here, guys, fans are getting confused. Yes, we see two high safeties here. They're also not playing deep, by the way. We see two high safeties, but post snap, it's cover three. - Yep. - So fans, just be aware of that. Quit repeating the nonsense that we can't throw the ball 'cause everybody's so far back. All right, then we have two corners and two safeties back 'cause that's just not true. All right, cool. You ready for the next one? - Yep. Two high safeties is kind of the thing in football now, right? Like you got Mel Kuiper saying that we should be-- - Everyone does it. Yeah, it's a whole thing. And so it's, yeah, Sark mentioned that as well and his press are about high safeties. Yeah, when Sark said they can't deep pass because the safeties are too far back. If Sarkisian can't beat cover three, what are we doing? And the answer is he can beat cover three. So that was disingenuous to be like, well, they're too far back for us to pass. Well, then pass in front of them and intermediate. - I will note that on the All 22, there was nothing open deep all game. - Yeah, but that's got to be conceptually. I mean, we got to get stuff open deep. Or make them come back or play in the intermediate. 'Cause we're not punishing. Say the safety does go super high like NFL style and he's pretty far back. That's all good. You have the leverage here with Golden, like on a concept, right? They're bailing out, they're funneling towards the first. You have a Golden hit the dig. If he's dropping this far back, hit the dig. There's like other options, you know? - That all the normal over post stuff, the Yankee stuff was not there. But it wasn't there versus Georgia. We have to change it. They figured it out. - It was more there. The intermediate stuff was more there against Georgia than it was against Vanderbilt, believe it or not. What's the check downs? The check downs were wide open. - So what do you do? To completely break Sarkeesian's offense, you play cover three match and you have athletes rally down to the auto checks. That's how easy it is to beat Sark now, you know? - That's confusing me. - If Sark doesn't call different past plays, then yes, it can be that easy. He did not call very much that would have exploited what Vanderbilt was doing. - Why do you think that is? Do you think he was just trying to get into the buy? - Yeah. Also, they were winning. It was pretty comfortable even without a better game plan. And I think they just, whatever. They mixed it in a couple of plays that would have, that helped make a difference. I'm gonna get into it more in a today and tomorrow in some articles. - All right, outside zone left again. Usually when somebody's running free in the backfield, outside zone has issues. - Yeah. So let's watch 96. This is on banks and tight in Gunnar Helm. So it's a trade block. These guys are supposed to work together and probably working to that end to who's that to the nickel, most dangerous man. You'll see that they lack communication here, right? Like Kelvin Banks clearly thinks he's getting more help. So like Helm, shoulder checks this end. Like he's trying to bump him into banks to help him out, but neither one pick him up. And Banks immediately realizes he's in and reaches for him, but he's able to then kind of swat at his legs, trip him up, turn him back inside for a second. And then I think that was that a safety or the backside linebacker? - The safety. - The safety. - Yeah, the two high safety rotates down and he's able to come clean it up. - Yep. - So, yeah, it's. - Something that I think gave Texas trouble on this game, if you go back to like the start of the play, like before it snapped, is that they're defensive line less obvious here, but they were often a little more off the ball. And they would let things develop a little bit and then come downhill with a little, with some angles to try to cut off those outside zone blocks. - Yeah, and then I also go. They go bare too on the next couple of plays to try to force one on ones, which is interesting. - Yep. And the Texas is timing and on the combos was just bad. Just throughout, we'll see, we'll see more. I think all of them probably have a bad combo block on them that we have drawn up. - Yeah. So if we look on the backside here, Majors, Center, Campbell, Gard, Williams, that end, that three technique that Campbell would be blocking in this situation, it goes outside, which is fine. The play's going the opposite way, who cares. And then, Cam like tries to look for work, but he's really not looking for work. So it's just kind of a wasted rep there. And then, Campbell and Majors get double team that guy, but then they have to work, I guess they're trying to work to that safety and Majors doesn't have the leverage there to catch him. - Campbell's not picking him up either. He's not, they're not trading him from Majors to Campbell. That trade does not happen. - Correct. So it's like, you want Majors helmets already on the other side. And so he's able to deliver, ideally, ideally give him to Campbell. Campbell's not even in a position to take him. Majors tries to give him away and go help out on the safety, but he'll still do that. - He's even now a few. - Yeah. You'll see a lot of times, like Campbell is being very lazy on these double teams and kind of letting Majors do like a majority of the work. - Majors, even that was a blitzing linebacker that Majors popped to hand over to him. - Yeah. - Which meant that Connor didn't get any help on his guy. - Yeah, so Connor's stuck in a solo block right here. - Which just means less lateral push. Like you get no lateral push 'cause you don't get the combo on the three tech. And you don't get anything on the play side end at all. So he's boxing the play in and then you're not able to wash out the three technique because he didn't get a combo there. - And he's not really able at this point to even turn a three technique, you know, sort of like kind of create that lane. They're both still square. So Wiesner kind of has like a question of which way he's gonna go. He chooses to go outside, but at that point, but really the, so Helm and Banks, they blew that, whatever, whoever's responsibility, that gets blown. He is able to turn it back inside and smack at his legs. And then this safety is able to come down and make the final play and clean it up because Majors tries to pass off this double team and the Campbell, Campbell doesn't overtake it. Also, that guy's way faster than Majors and he's out leverage. So that's a really hard thing for Majors to even get to in the first place. - You also see the angles are clear because the edge boxed it in so tight before they kick it to the other hash. When that safety and that nickel are taking their pursuit angles, it's like it's just on a table for them. It's really easy. - Nope. - They're not having to adjust on the run based on the trajectory of the back. They're able to run to a predetermined spot. - Yeah. Ready for the next one? - Yeah. This is gonna be a beating. Just play after play like this. - This is Connor getting beat again. All right. - So Helm is gonna bear? - Yeah, they're in bear. I mean, they're, let me see. - Yeah. - No, so everybody noticed they're yard off the football. - Yeah, it's given them ability. So Gunnar Helm is gonna come take the end or whoever is gonna be the most dangerous man off the end and split flow. They're gonna zone left. So the offensive line is all gonna be stepping to their left laterally. This is once again, Campbell's being lazy and letting Majors do all the work. So Cam Sky has leverage and goes inside. It kind of restricts Campbell's ability to climb here. But notice he's just putting his hand on Majors back here and doing absolutely nothing like, and this totally runs around. And so Majors once again is trying to hand him this block but he can't. And so the, I guess the backer here, right? The backer, the front sideline backer beats Majors, right there, he's able to come down into the box and then Connor gets beat to his left and he's able to make the tackle here. - Normally you would have seen Banks put a shoulder back into that three technique to help Connor because Banks dude is so far out. - Right, and he has really easy to maintain that lane. If you just bump the three technique and make sure that Connor has a good, but he doesn't. - Yeah, but I also think Banks is so concerned 'cause 10 is way out there. - Yeah, but that's fine 'cause if you control the three technique, you can just run through so easily. You know what I mean? - The 10's gonna have to come to Banks if you can control the three. - You can kick him out or drive him up the old and then just blow that hole wide open, which is what happens anyway, right? - Yeah. - Like Banks, that hole is so easy but the three technique is not under control so it goes awry. - Yeah. - So just gettin' beat and then final outside zone run. - This is bare. - Yeah. - They don't fire on this motion here. - They're already in a bare, I guess so. - So they don't care about fire and the match up with the center. - And then once again, it does nothing 'cause it gets that backside linebacker out but then this just gets replaced by the dropping safety. - Yep. - Whom they actually block? - Yeah. - Bad out, what went wrong here? - So Cam's out leveraged again. - Can't reach the three. - He can't reach him, luckily he misses him but he does kind of slow down tray. Cam will just go solo straight to the backside linebacker here. Majors has a tough block but he's able to get it. Connor turns his guy and Banks turns his guy. So theoretically you would be able to get the fold between the center and the B gap, the move to B gap theoretically because you have Bolden come out here and do his thing too. Bolden comes and blocks the safety. - This again, if Campbell had gotten a better bump on the guy that Williams picks up, then the cutback is wide, wide open. - Yep. But they're soloing a lot of these and not helping each other. - Yeah. - Finally gets beat at the end there and Trey goes, I have to bump it outside and he runs out of real estate pretty much. - They may have even gotten a holding on Banks here at the end too, I don't remember. - I don't remember either. Well, what's your prognosis here, man? 'Cause a lot of, my thing is we're not helping each other, even when we're doing solo blocks, you can still help each other. I know outside zone is kind of quick hitting and you have to, it's elfin on parades and you want to run. But if you can help somebody on a solo block when they're out leveraged, then do it. And then the other ones are just us getting kind of beat up one on one. So what do you think? - Yeah, I think Vanderbilt playing off helped hurt a little bit. They gave them better angles attacking downhill. I think Texas's trades were sloppy and ugly. They were so good at this against Oklahoma and now it looks like a mirage. Like, do you guys know how to do this against four down? Or are you guys only good at abusing three down flyover teams? - Yeah. All right, before we keep going, we're actually gonna look at some answers that Sarkeesian and Flood tried to introduce into the run game right after it worked from our sponsor. - This video is brought to you by Luxe Kitchen and Bath. 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And who is, is 21 Niblet? - Yeah. - Niblet's gonna play the role of a gunner helm here. Getting a backside end, which is interesting. So they're in bear again. - Yep. - And then here we go. So they're gonna pull both guards, Campbell and Connor are gonna pull out to the front side. And it's a power run style where you can get more guys on the front side than they have. - Student body left, right, kind of deal. - Yep. So the first pulling guard, the one that's closest to the play side, and he's gonna take out the end here, which is number 10. And then the second pulling guard is going to wrap around to most dangerous man. It could be a safety, it could be a corner, whoever ends up getting out there. And they do this well. And I think that's an advantage too. I think we have athletic guards. I think that, I like our stuff and counter and some power and stuff like that 'cause I think we can move pretty well at the guard position. What do you think? - Yeah, and majors. Sometimes they pull majors depending on who's covered and who's not. - Yep. - And majors is awesome at it. They pull him all the time. Usually what gets them is whether or not Gunnar Helm gets the down block. Like they tried to run this against Georgia and Oklahoma a few times and Gunnar Helm wasn't always able to, if you don't get push at the point of attack with the tight end, then when your guards pull around, they just find a big mess and they can't get to anybody. But on this one, Helm's not even covered up. - Nope. - Nobody has probably got straight. He's able to go straight to that front-side linebacker. - So easy, easy mode. - So remember when we were talking about like helping out your guys, Helm doesn't do a great job here, but just look, he puts his hand on that guy at least to help with his left tackle and trying to deliver him a little bit. That's what we mean when helping out on your solos. Have you noticed this and I would need to develop this more? Have teams become more agnostic to our emotions in a elastic, non-responsive? 'Cause it feels like so much of that is designed to get you moving to do something. And of course, in a passing situation, it can be as it manners, as it's own. But even versus Georgia, like I felt like they just didn't let it affect them. They didn't get out of place for it, but I would need to look harder. But it seems like teams are, like you saw in the runs earlier wherever running out, they're not moving anyone out of the box. They're not doing that kind of stuff, so. - Watch the safeties, watch the safeties on this one when they motion. - Oh, is this a rare too high play? - Yeah, there's actually a too high play. - Oh, and then wonder the run was so successful. (laughing) - Usually, yeah, so they pull a linebacker out. - They pull to you? - Usually Georgia and Vanderbilt, emotion, and then the safeties just adjust to it after the snap. - Yeah, they're rock and roll. - And so it's not that big a deal for them. Now, maybe they're a little soft against the perimeter screen in Vanderbilt's case. And then you, Quinn goes 17 for 19 or whatever in the first half, throwing perimeter screens. But yeah, this one would be more what you want, which is the linebacker, leaves the box. Something interesting about this play is that they have split flow and they block back with Niblet. - Yeah. - Which is fine, 'cause I mean, he does his job. It's not that hard. It's just like, hey, screen them on the back end, right? - You're more of a speed bump. - Yeah, that split action makes it a little harder for teams to key your runs when you have like, when you're running back, doesn't take them to the ball. Like Niblet's in motion and they're not throwing it to him or he's not trying to run into the flat. Well, that's different, you know? If you're king or running back and he takes you one way, but then the guards are pulling in the opposite direction, then that'll freeze you up a little bit, maybe. They had another one that I may have included or I may not have, where they did the same thing with Niblet, where they had Niblet block back across the formation, but then they pulled guards to the other end. - Do we run a lot of GTO? I see a lot of GH. - Yeah, not very much, very seldom. - So GT counters, guard tackle counter for fans that don't pay attention a lot of scheme, but we use a lot of our counters with Gunnar Helm, Hback. So GH, most of them. - If you run GT counter, you have to block the backside guy somehow. - Yeah. - The backside end that's across from the tackle, that's an athletic dude. And if your tackle is pulling, who blocks him? - Exactly, he can run down the play. - So you either need a tight end that can get inside and block him reliably, or you gotta read him with the quarterback on like his own retight play. And Texas is not necessarily like super disposed to either of those two things, so. - Is this a hold on Helm? - Where is Helm? - He's right. - No, he's inside, he's inside. But it wasn't called if that's what you're asking. - No, I'm just asking, is that a hold? - Okay, let me play a little more. - Look for the separation here that the backer tries to get, and his hand is outside. (chuckling) - See the backer's gonna try to get separation right now. - Yeah. - I think the fact that Helm is, he might have grabbed him, right? I think that I think Helm being in position and cutting him off, let him have leeway. It's like a classic thing, people are always like, oh, these big 12 offensive linemen always hold. And it's like, well, if you hold in a certain way, you're never gonna get called for it. - Yeah, there's an art to it. But also here, like Helm doesn't run his feet, man. Like whenever you make contact, why do you stop here, man? Run through this guy, connect, and then keep running. But it's like he gets to him and pauses, and then that creates the whole issue. You have to keep your feet moving on these blocks. 'Cause he could totally take him out of the play if he runs into him right here, but instead he lets him get his head around and everything and get a hand on Weisner. But it's a better run, but also, too, like we said, it's one of the few actual two high safety plays. Let's look at the next one. - Okay, this is the same thing. But like I said, Nye Black is blocking across the formation. - Yep, and this one should have been good, Connor. This one was all drawn up. You notice they drop the safety down this time? - Yeah, they bring the safety. The safety up here, they bring them. - And pull the guards. The first guard pulling is able to take out that end. - Great. - Now Hayden, Connor should be good here, right? Except Golden struggles to get this safety block. But if you look at the schematic, right, they're not accounting for this guy to come firing down. They're kind of thinking Golden's gonna be able to run up and beat him here or something like that. So he fires too quick. Golden's not able to get to him in time. It ends up taking out Hayden, Connor's legs pretty much and he makes the play on Weisner. - Yep. - So a little bit of wide receiver blocking issues there, But also, man, that's a tough lock.
The Texas OL has had some trouble recently. Let's see where things could be getting mixed up.