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TX_Krötenechse

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Reagor definitely bears some blame for his lazy routes and lack of overall effort, but Cumbie also deserves to be criticized for his lack of creativity. Reagor lines up wide right every single play. Two or three times a game he’ll go in motion for no reason, sometimes he’ll start in the slot and then motion back outside, and of course we all saw that one play where he took a direct snap.

CeeDee Lamb lines up all over the field and OU stacks their receivers in interesting ways to confuse the coverage. Lamb gets a lot of mismatches, especially over the middle of the field, as a result. Cumbie doesn’t do any of that.
 

Mean Purple

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Fun listen......


Says Max Duggan is a better, younger Brewer. Believes he is going to be a problem for the league for a long time.

Thinks Sewo could hurt OU because of how physical a runner he is. OU has been soft defensively

Reagor made a mistake choosing TCU as he is a rare talent that could have been a top 5 pick under Riley

Cumbie is a trash coordinator and should be fired immediately

Cumbie should go to jail for how is under utilized Reagor.

Barber is a really nice player

Rarely here anything nice about TCU out of Ok Sports Radio..

Ikard can EABOD
 

Mean Purple

Active Member
Reagor definitely bears some blame for his lazy routes and lack of overall effort, but Cumbie also deserves to be criticized for his lack of creativity. Reagor lines up wide right every single play. Two or three times a game he’ll go in motion for no reason, sometimes he’ll start in the slot and then motion back outside, and of course we all saw that one play where he took a direct snap.

CeeDee Lamb lines up all over the field and OU stacks their receivers in interesting ways to confuse the coverage. Lamb gets a lot of mismatches, especially over the middle of the field, as a result. Cumbie doesn’t do any of that.
Lamb also cuts/digs on his routes at about the same point and does not leave his qb guessing. the kid is legit.
 

TRF51

Active Member
Fun listen......


Says Max Duggan is a better, younger Brewer. Believes he is going to be a problem for the league for a long time.

Thinks Sewo could hurt OU because of how physical a runner he is. OU has been soft defensively

Reagor made a mistake choosing TCU as he is a rare talent that could have been a top 5 pick under Riley

Cumbie is a trash coordinator and should be fired immediately

Cumbie should go to jail for how is under utilized Reagor.

Barber is a really nice player

Rarely here anything nice about TCU out of Ok Sports Radio..

I think I agree with just about everything he said aside from Sewo.
 

Ron Swanson

Full Member
Darius was an absolute beast the first half of the season. He was running hard as ship and looked like a sure-fire NFL back.

The last Halfnof the season though, Sewo has outplayed him. Sewo always seems to find a hole where Darius doesn’t. I don’t know if Sewo is getting lucky and he just happens to be in the game on the plays where the OL blocks better or if he’s finding the holes better than Darius, but he consistently finds the gap and gets more yards lately.
 

Purp

Active Member
Darius was an absolute beast the first half of the season. He was running hard as ship and looked like a sure-fire NFL back.

The last Halfnof the season though, Sewo has outplayed him. Sewo always seems to find a hole where Darius doesn’t. I don’t know if Sewo is getting lucky and he just happens to be in the game on the plays where the OL blocks better or if he’s finding the holes better than Darius, but he consistently finds the gap and gets more yards lately.
I think it has to do with DA's pass blocking. Opponents figured out midway through the season that when DA was on the field we were running bc he can't pass block well. Sewo, on the other hand, can pass block. He can also run and catch out of the backfield. The result is a defense that crowds the box less for Sewo than against DA, which results in more holes.
 
Some of the comments on Reagor are way beyond what is reasonable criticism and are just gratuitous nonsense . We've seen what he can do when the OC decided to actually use him as a weapon--he practically beat Baylor and OSU by himself last year. Could his route running and effort be better on some plays? Probably, but the entire year the OC has repeatedly sent him into what is pre-snap readable double and triple coverage with VERY little effort to find him some mismatches and make him a focus of the offense. If he feels like some of his talents are being wasted, he's right and there isn't an argument that can be made against that. It has hurt him and hurt the team that OC is unable or unwilling to utilize him all over the field. If we had made the effort to do that and he was still unproductive, then maybe this level of criticism would be warranted but we haven't and it's not.
 

Baja Frog

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Darius was an absolute beast the first half of the season. He was running hard as ship and looked like a sure-fire NFL back.

The last Halfnof the season though, Sewo has outplayed him. Sewo always seems to find a hole where Darius doesn’t. I don’t know if Sewo is getting lucky and he just happens to be in the game on the plays where the OL blocks better or if he’s finding the holes better than Darius, but he consistently finds the gap and gets more yards lately.
Agree. IMO the issue is that Darius is a patient runner and is waiting for a hole to develop. With our offensive line, that never happens. With Sewo he just barrels forward immediately and hits the hole and carries a few defenders with him for a few extra yards.
 
Lamb also cuts/digs on his routes at about the same point and does not leave his qb guessing. the kid is legit.
So who is coaching and teaching Lamb and Reagor? Any experience difference between them such as multiple years as a receivers coach at the P5 level vs. someone who was a grad assistant for one year, an analyst for one year and is in their first ever actual coaching job?

OU Receivers Coach Dennis Simmons bio on their site:

• Named Oklahoma’s outside receivers coach on Feb. 9, 2015 and added title of associate head coach in spring 2019.

• One of Rivals’ top-25 recruiters of 2019. • OU’s offense has been the country’s most prolific since his arrival in Norman, ranking fourth nationally in scoring in 2015 (43.5 ppg), third in 2016 (43.9), third in 2017 (45.1) and first in 2018 (48.4). The Sooners also rank first nationally in total offense (559.3 ypg), completion percentage (69.2), passing efficiency rating (189.5) and yards per pass attempt (10.7) over that four-year period.

• Pupils Marquise Brown (1,318 yards and 10 touchdowns) and CeeDee Lamb (1,158 yards and 11 TDs) combined for 2,476 receiving yards and 21 scores in 2018. Brown earned AP first-team All-America honors.

• One of two coaches to mentor two different Biletnikoff Award winners, the most recent pupil being Dede Westbrook in 2016, who caught 80 passes for 1,524 yards (19.1 per catch) and 17 TDs. A Heisman Trophy finalist, he was also OU’s first unanimous All-American since 2004.

• Joined the Sooners after spending the previous three seasons coaching outside receivers for Mike Leach at Washington State. Was originally indocrinated in Leach’s highly successful offensive approach while on his staff at Texas Tech.

• In 2014, Washington State led all FBS schools in passing, averaging 477.7 yards per game, more than 100 more than the next closest squad as the Cougars shattered the Pac-12 record with 5,732 passing yards.

• Washington State also ranked seventh in the nation in total offense and was ninth in completion percentage in 2014. Simmons’ top pupil was Vince Mayle, a former basketball player who tied for fourth in the nation with 106 receptions, while his 1,483 receiving yards ranked fifth among FBS players.

• During the 2013 campaign, Washington State set a Pac-12 record with 470 completions as the Cougars ranked fourth in the nation by averaging 368.0 passing ypg after coming in 10th in the nation in that department in 2012 (330.4 ypg).

• Worked with OU head coach Lincoln Riley at both Texas Tech (2008-09) and East Carolina (2010-11).

• Propelled East Carolina WR Lance Lewis to a record-setting 2010 campaign. Lewis became only the third player in school history to register a 1,000-yard receiving season as the All-Conference USA performer caught 89 passes for 1,116 yards with 14 scores.

• His initial assignment working with Leach and Riley came at Texas Tech, where he helped Michael Crabtree earn the Biletnikoff Award and consensus All-America honors in 2007 and ’08.

• Crabtree was the 10th overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft after accumulating 97 receptions for 1,165 yards and 19 touchdowns during his final campaign for the Red Raiders.

• In 2009, Simmons and Riley helped develop walk-on receiver Alex Torres into a freshman All-American who led the Red Raiders in receiving. • Spent 10 years working with Leach at Texas Tech. Prior to his coaching assignment with the Red Raiders, he served as Leach’s chief of staff from 2005-07.

• Originally joined the Texas Tech program as the assistant athletics director/quality control for the football program, coordinating recruiting visits, player personnel issues, community service initiatives and other responsibilities.

• Coached running backs at Cornell University in 1999, where also held the title of assistant athletics director and chief of staff.

• A three-year starting outside linebacker at BYU, Simmons began his coaching career at his alma mater in 1997, working with the offensive line and special teams.

• Simmons, who earned a degree in broadcast communications, was a member of teams that claimed four straight Western Athletic Conference titles and made four bowl appearances.

• Served as an NFL Minority Fellowship intern with the Buffalo Bills during the summer of 1999.

• Earned his master’s degree in educational leadership in August 1999 from BYU.

TCU Receivers Coach Malcolm Kelly's Bio on GoFrogs:

Malcolm Kelly joined the TCU football staff as outside receivers coach in March 2019.

Kelly came to the Horned Frogs after spending the previous two seasons at the University of Houston. He was a graduate assistant in 2017 before being elevated into an analyst position for the 2018 campaign. He began his path towards becoming a collegiate coach when he worked in a quality control role at Texas A&M-Commerce in 2016.

A two-time first-team All-Big 12 honoree and a 2005 Freshman All-American at Oklahoma, Kelly totaled 144 receptions for 2,285 yards and 21 touchdowns in just three seasons. When he left Norman, Kelly ranked second all-time at Oklahoma with his 21 touchdown catches and nine career 100-yard receiving games. He tied a school record with 11 receptions as a sophomore versus Texas Tech in 2006.

Kelly was selected in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft by Washington and was with the Redskins for three seasons. He made 10 starts in 2009 and had 25 receptions for 347 yards. After concluding his NFL career, Kelly worked in private business before arriving at Texas A&M-Commerce.

A native of Longview, Texas, Kelly was a two-time first-team all-state selection at Longview High School.

Now Malcolm Kelly isn't some guy off the street-- he played in the NFL and I'm sure he knows about how to be a receiver himself but to say he was a proven, accomplished coach would be inaccurate. Maybe Lamb is just better or maybe he gets better instruction or it's some combination of the two but to compare the accomplishments of the guy running his offense and the experience of his position coach to ours reveals some disparity that any reasonable observer would say likely favors Lamb.
 

Wexahu

Full Member
Agree. IMO the issue is that Darius is a patient runner and is waiting for a hole to develop. With our offensive line, that never happens. With Sewo he just barrels forward immediately and hits the hole and carries a few defenders with him for a few extra yards.

I don’t think this describes Sewo at all. I find myself yelling at him to do exactly as you describe but way too often he decides to dance around and tries bouncing everything outside. He should be a one-cut, downhill runner but he isn’t.
 

tetonfrog

Active Member
The thing that baffles me about our scheme is how clueless we are as a team dealing with blitzes. When the QB sees blitz, why not have Reagor or someone else simply adjust to a slant or a quick out or just a flat out fly route is so puzzling/infuriating? This is something we were taught in junior high...................in Oklahoma no less with such simple play calls as Red 88 pass on one Break!

Amazing how we can't do the simple things like that at the D1 level.
 
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