Jefffrog1993
KMA
Does anyone know who wins in starting offensive line versus starting D-line? Good versus good?
This is the year to breakthrough with an 11 win team based on the talent and bodies on this roster- to waste this opportunity only to go back to the alamo bowl or the beloved texas bowl would literally make me abandon my wife and kids. step up
If we play up to our potential, which teams rarely consistently do, I only see 3 toss ups or underdog games on the schedule. That’s ISU, UT, and, OU. We are without a doubt more talented and presumably better coaches then the other 9. We probably lose a game we shouldn’t and we probably win won if the toss ups. To me a successful season is winning the games you should and stealing one you shouldn’t. I think it’s OK to be disappointed if we don’t get to 9 wins.
9-3 would be a great season. We play two preseason top 10 teams this season (OU and Texas). Oklahoma has beat us 5 times in a row and we have not even really been competitive in the past 3 games since Riley become the head coach. With Hurts playing QB, I am not going to hold my breath for a win in Norman. Texas has a great QB this year, and will be a tough game. Not to mention we have to go to Stillwater and Aimes.
9-3 with this schedule and this QB situation would be a really good season.
I know it's a broken record, but UT is overrated. I'm taking the under on their projected 9.5 wins. They are on a hype train, but look at their wins last year:
Tulsa - went 3/14 on 3rd Down and threw 2 picks.
USC - was garbage last year - first losing record since 2000
TCU - we actually put up more yards than they did, but we turned the ball over 4 times to their 0.
KState - beat them by 5 points
OU - +3 turnover margin
BU - won by 6 points
Texas Tech - +3 turnover margin, got beaten in every other metric
Iowa State - put up only 210 yards of total offense, +1 turnover margin
KU - won by 7, +1 turnover margin
The common thread is that their defense won them games they shouldn't have. A lot of them by turnover, which is essentially luck, right time right place.
UT lost 8/11 starters on defense from last year. One of the three starters they got back, Caden Sterns, is batting through an ankle sprain right now. He led the team in interceptions last year.
Another thing they did to win games, that shouldn't be repeatable this year, is rushing TD's by Sam Ehlinger. Sam E led the Big 12 in rushing touchdowns last year with 16. He had 2 rushing TD's the year before that. If anyone wants to place a bet on Sam E. going over 15.5 rushing TD's this year, please let me know. He will have a spy on him the redzone the entire season.
Take care of the football and spy Sam E. in the redzone and we should beat them.
Well now we know what your wife and kids are hoping forThis is the year to breakthrough with an 11 win team based on the talent and bodies on this roster- to waste this opportunity only to go back to the alamo bowl or the beloved texas bowl would literally make me abandon my wife and kids. step up
"as far as offensive identity decide what you want to be, develop the schemes, recruit the talent, and teach it."
Wow, imagine that! Why is that statement so difficult for Sonny to comprehend and put into practice? He's in his 6th. year here and he talks about tight ends every year, yet, we don't have any tight ends but the fans say we do, but he doesn't think so because he never throws the ball to them.
I believe he's doing a makeover of Alex like he did with Boykin and Kenny and we all know how good that turned out. Good for Sonny and TCU. We, as fans, are awaiting the outcome.
i think what gets forgotten about sonny is his career path prior to coming to tcu as well as his staff around him at tcu.
he played arena football for i think 4 years and in the off season he was on the tech radio broadcast. 2009 he became a ga and worked with mike leach for only one year.
most of his time coaching at tech was with neal brown as the oc. brown was/is a spread guy who emphasized the hunh as much as offensive tactic as formations, play design, etc..
sonny did get to work with kingsbury for one year at tech, but being the oc for kliff is much akin to being the dc for gary.
when meachum and sonny came to tcu they did not install a sophisticated offense, it was based upon the hunh, and increasing the number of snaps.
worked well in 2014, didn't work as well in 2015 for a variety of reasons, and when meachum left sonny was given the keys to build his own offense.
up to this point consider he only got to spend a year with leach, brown was a tempo guy, he spent a year with kliff, and meachum was a tempo guy.
i think what he did with the 2016 and 2017 offenses weren't bad in terms of shifting the emphasis to running the ball and working within kenny's skill set.
i also think we have seen some weaknesses such as play calling. brown used the hunh and would run the same play multiple times, same with meachum, and kliff placed an emphasis on calling a formation and signalling in a play after you see the defense line up.
this isn't the bill walsh school of scripting plays or emphasizing an offensive identity and building complimentary plays from that environment. the focus was going to line of scrimmage and basically taking what the defense is offering to you.
additionally, he wasn't surrounded by a staff of great offensive minds. luper is a recruiter first and foremost and i don't you will find him giving many talks at coaches clinics on offensive football.
burns and anderson had their run as oc's and underwhelmed. we know why they were on the staff and if they were able to really build a top notch offense sonny and doug would never have come to ft worth.
meachum wasn't exactly a task master and more of a 10,000 foot concept guy than someone who would build an offense.
sonny has been allowed to make two hires since he has taken over the offense. thomsen has been a home run in terms of recruiting and developing the talent in the offensive line. the offensive line is about where it was back in the late 2000's in terms of depth and talent.
chris also was a successful head coach for several years at acu so he does have experience building staffs. i have no clue on his experience building an offense, but he and sonny had worked together at tech in 2012 so there was some history and i would like to think thomsen has had a positive impact in the frogs looking to develop the run game.
malcolm kelly has had a positive effect in recruiting and hopefully on the play of the receivers. no idea his impact on developing the passing game and i really wish tcu would have considered hiring an experienced offensive coach to be an analyst and work with sonny on building an offense.
Good thoughts and spot on regarding our current situation. Help is not only on the way, it's here, ie. Malcolm Kelly. Have we ever had a receiver run a triple move, much less to perfection as happened recently with Barber.
We are talking some serious [ steaming pile of Orgeron ] here. To my knowledge, this is the first REAL receiver coach we've had under GP.
9-3 would be a disappointment for a TCU team with a veteran O-Line lead by NFL talent Lucas Niang, and other NFL talent like Darius Anderson, Sewo, Jalen Reagor, Ross Blacklock, Innes Gaines, and Jeff Gladney. TCU is always going to be a boom or bust type program due to our level of recruiting. We absolutely cannot waste years where we have lots of NFL type talent. 2019 is NOT a “there’s always next year” type season
If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that the 2020 season will be a down year since we will be breaking in so many new O-linemen. 2020 is going to be another 6/7 win type season, so it’s important that 2019 is a strong year. If 2019 isn’t a good year, it’s going to be 2021 before we can start thinking about double digit wins again.
Good thoughts and spot on regarding our current situation. Help is not only on the way, it's here, ie. Malcolm Kelly. Have we ever had a receiver run a triple move, much less to perfection as happened recently with Barber.
We are talking some serious [ steaming pile of Orgeron ] here. To my knowledge, this is the first REAL receiver coach we've had under GP.
Lol tweet already deleted. If we can see it, Arkansas Pine Bluff can see it.
isn't it amazing what happens when you recruit great talent, teach it, and expect execution.
vernon is in pretty good shape until taye puts that foot in the ground and changes direction on him.
He had a rocket arm, was tough, and could run. His biggest question marks were accuracy and decision making.
It helped that we had about 1,000,000 return yards in that game.Football camp had me watching random highlights on YouTube. Came across 2011 Baylor. Can’t believe we came back in that game to take the lead and still can’t believe RGme held on to that pass across the middle. Fun note about that game, GP had an onside kick called for the kickoff after we took the 48-47 lead and would have worked 99% of the time according to the person that told me about this. The 1% made GP call it off at the last second as the kickoff team took the field to try and win the game with his defense.
It also would require a clean pocket for about 4 seconds.
Can guarantee you that Scott is going to be seeing some double moves