We all know that one of the keys to our improvement this year is developing a 4-man pass rush and Heupel and staff have noted this a number of times already as we go through spring. It is a heavy point of emphasis.
Roman Harrison gave us a bit of a peak behind the curtain in his recent media appearance. He said in our dime package this year the four guys up front are him, Omari Thomas, Tyler Baron, and Byron Young. From last year that was 131 tackles, 24 TFLs, 11.5 sacks, and 17 QB hurries. He didn’t say where exactly each was lining up, just that they were the four. Hopefully we find at least 4 more guys like that for our rotation up front this year. jmo.
In his post scrimmage media appearance South Carolina’s Shane Beamer was asked how Rattler did. Beamer said he did good and then later in the interview said they had a number of interceptions and a bunch of dumb throws. smh.
Recently I was rewatching our game with South Carolina from last year and on the crawl at the bottom of the screen they were tracking the Texas Oklahoma game, the very game where Rattler lost his job with the Sooners. Ironic.
This tweet from yesterday got quite the reaction from the Carolina message board as you might imagine.