🏈 🔎 - Looking ahead to South Carolina...

Definitely OU
Perhaps, by the eye test.

When I add statistical measurements in this, and specifically the strength of offenses they've faced, OU is middle of the pack in the NCAA (59th) vs Bama having faced top five.

Overall, you are right. If we look at the pure numbers OU leads almost everywhere. As soon as things like garbage time are removed? There's very little difference found except SOR.
 


I hope 56 has a better game 😳


LOL at these Johnny Film Breakdown Bros.

First off, I hope he didn't spend too much time in his "film review" to uncover that. It was literally the first 3 plays of the game, and mentioned in the G,B, and U thread immediately after the game...

Bad- I was worried about VanDeMark early... The first 2 or 3 plays of the game he got abused. But to his credit, he recalibrated and played better after that. He still got replaced by Dewberry late in the 1st quarter, but for a minute there, it wasn't looking good for him at all.

Secondly, why did he stop there? What about his other 32 game snaps? The snaps where he played on both the left and right side and yielded zero further QB hurries (much less a sack?). Weird to leave that out since this will apparently be Carolina's point of exploitation on Saturday.
 
LOL at these Johnny Film Breakdown Bros.

First off, I hope he didn't spend too much time in his "film review" to uncover that. It was literally the first 3 plays of the game, and mentioned in the G,B, and U thread immediately after the game...



Secondly, why did he stop there? What about his other 32 game snaps? The snaps where he played on both the left and right side and yielded zero further QB hurries (much less a sack?). Weird to leave that out since this will apparently be Carolina's point of exploitation on Saturday.
If it ain’t @Scrape&Search1032 then I don’t trust any of the film breakdowns
 
LOL at these Johnny Film Breakdown Bros.
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LOL at these Johnny Film Breakdown Bros.

First off, I hope he didn't spend too much time in his "film review" to uncover that. It was literally the first 3 plays of the game, and mentioned in the G,B, and U thread immediately after the game...



Secondly, why did he stop there? What about his other 32 game snaps? The snaps where he played on both the left and right side and yielded zero further QB hurries (much less a sack?). Weird to leave that out since this will apparently be Carolina's point of exploitation on Saturday.
Ive seen a bunch of film breakdown channels popping up within the last year or so, some don't know what the hell they're talking about, and some have a basic understanding of X's & O's where they're able to pass that off to people. Like Clint Lamb, I've seen him post films breakdowns, and then Christian Miller quoting him about stuff he got wrong schematically in his breakdowns. And I believe he's taking it in stride each time and learned from it(I hope), so good on him for that.

What I don't want people to think is you have to have played, or coached to post film breakdowns on the Internet, that's not what I'm trying to convey. It certainly helps to have a background in it, but it's not the end all be all. But people just posting shit and blatantly getting shit wrong, or not understanding what they're seeing on tape and then posting it.... is what I have a problem with.
 
LOL at these Johnny Film Breakdown Bros.

First off, I hope he didn't spend too much time in his "film review" to uncover that. It was literally the first 3 plays of the game, and mentioned in the G,B, and U thread immediately after the game...



Secondly, why did he stop there? What about his other 32 game snaps? The snaps where he played on both the left and right side and yielded zero further QB hurries (much less a sack?). Weird to leave that out since this will apparently be Carolina's point of exploitation on Saturday.
Probably the more egregious example of this is Carter Bryant, I believe he covers LSU. But, just go watch him if you haven't already, and you'll see what I mean.
 
Ive seen a bunch of film breakdown channels popping up within the last year or so, some don't know what the hell they're talking about, and some have a basic understanding of X's & O's where they're able to pass that off to people. Like Clint Lamb, I've seen him post films breakdowns, and then Christian Miller quoting him about stuff he got wrong schematically in his breakdowns. And I believe he's taking it in stride each time and learned from it(I hope), so good on him for that.

What I don't want people to think is you have to have played, or coached to post film breakdowns on the Internet, that's not what I'm trying to convey. It certainly helps to have a background in it, but it's not the end all be all. But people just posting shit and blatantly getting shit wrong, or not understanding what they're seeing on tape and then posting it.... is what I have a problem with.

To me,it's like the podcast boom. Type in Alabama football podcast on YouTube and you're gong to get a ton of hits.... it's way oversaturate with people trying to fight for real estate.... hoping to get followers and monetize (some I think just think don't care about the money, the just think it's cool). Whatever, more power to all of them. Same with this exploding industry of Breakdown Bros. It's more niche, so that markey hasn't been as crowded. That Brooks guys has taken off... saw a clip on Twitter that he was even on Finebaum this week. People see that and think they too can do it (grow a brand out of it). Maybe so. I just don't get where fans have all this extra time to sit down and watch all this stuff. Seems every time I start a podcast, I get 15 minutes into it, have to stop for some reason, then never go back to it.. and those are ones that don't require visual attention like film breakdowns.

And I agree that one doesn't need to have played football to be successful at it breaking it down. There's (at least) one current NFL coach who never played college or pro football. One of the smarter scouts I know never played college football. Another guy I know who makes a nice living covering CFB and the NFL never played college football.
 
Jumping back a bit to the defensive comparison - Okie’s defense has looked good. I haven’t seen them enough to know what their pass rush looks like.

The thing is, if you’re looking at our defense from the beginning of the year to now, there’s a huge gap of improvement. Pierre gives us an element that wasn’t there at the beginning of the year - or last year for that matter.

The addition of Lee to the starting rotation also brings an element we haven’t had in a while…kid’s a stud. Not saying he would shut down a Jeremiah Smith caliber guy, but he makes me feel a whole lot better about going up against big WR’s like that.

And something that doesn’t get talked about enough are our halftime adjustments. We’ve leaked a bit in a couple of first halfs only to come out in second half and shut down some good offenses.
 
There's (at least) one current NFL coach who never played college or pro football.
You're talking about Mike McDaniel, right? I do think he knows his shit(obviously) regarding understanding offensive schemes and calling plays. But that guy is a goof to me in a whole lot of areas as a head coach. Regardless of that, he'll land on his feet somewhere as an offensive coordinator with someone. Because again, he's a really good play caller. And I do think he's one of these guys that are best suited as a coordinator, instead of being the head coach.
 
Jumping back a bit to the defensive comparison - Okie’s defense has looked good. I haven’t seen them enough to know what their pass rush looks like.
Whenever Oklahoma week gets here, I'll end up watching more film on them that whole week leading up to the game. I'll probably post some thoughts on here about them as well. But from the small sample size I've seen, they're really good. One thing about them is they're multiple in how draw up their blitz packages, and where they bring them from. They also do a great job disguising everything presnap as well. They completey fooled Arnold in that Auburn game a few times, same with last week against sellers.

But Venables defenses have always been really good at that aspect in their game. I remember them completely fooling Tua in that national championship game where they took it back for 6.
 
Whenever Oklahoma week gets here, I'll end up watching more film on them that whole week leading up to the game. I'll probably post some thoughts on here about them as well. But from the small sample size I've seen, they're really good. One thing about them is they're multiple in how draw up their blitz packages, and where they bring them from. They also do a great job disguising everything presnap as well. They completey fooled Arnold in that Auburn game a few times, same with last week against sellers.

But Venables defenses have always been really good at that aspect in their game. I remember them completely fooling Tua in that national championship game where they took it back for 6.
They've also got some absolute units up front, especially that stone kid. He has been a game wrecker all year.
 
You're talking about Mike McDaniel, right? I do think he knows his shit(obviously) regarding understanding offensive schemes and calling plays. But that guy is a goof to me in a whole lot of areas as a head coach. Regardless of that, he'll land on his feet somewhere as an offensive coordinator with someone. Because again, he's a really good play caller. And I do think he's one of these guys that are best suited as a coordinator, instead of being the head coach.

Was talking about Mike Macdonald (Seattle) but yes, Mike McDaniel will land on his feet. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up with DeMeco in Houston. He played in the Ivy League though.
 
I don’t know the answer this question, I’m just asking it. And before I do so, I’ll preface it by saying I do think Venables is a good coach and coordinator. But, how much of his overall success is a result of his ability to decipher signals? And that’s part of it, as long as he is doing so above board (and there are arguments about that both ways… again, I don’t have a definitive answer on that either… just “rumors”).

And if you believe Kiffin, the helmet communications haven’t really slowed him down in that element. Anyway, just a thought.
 
I don’t know the answer this question, I’m just asking it. And before I do so, I’ll preface it by saying I do think Venables is a good coach and coordinator. But, how much of his overall success is a result of his ability to decipher signals? And that’s part of it, as long as he is doing so above board (and there are arguments about that both ways… again, I don’t have a definitive answer on that either… just “rumors”).

And if you believe Kiffin, the helmet communications haven’t really slowed him down in that element. Anyway, just a thought.
I'll just say this, if you're using the same signals enough to where a coach is picking up on it. Then thats on you. You can't do that at that level of football and expect a coach not use it to his advantage. All these guys do is watch film and look for any advantage they can to win the game. That goes for the hand signals, the terminology, and those pictures cards they'll use for the play call.

Remember in 2018 vs Mississippi State where their defense was calling out our plays presnap? Tua had to kill the play and call something completely different. And if memory serves me correct, Saban corrected that very quickly. If I'm wrong on that, then someone let me know. But I'm pretty sure Saban changed all our signals after that.
 
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