Sark and Pruitt have "chemistry" with Sark's heart in the college game

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butchna said:
A vast majority of Longhorns fans and still he usual defeatists on our board. Those first couple seasons didn’t help the “won’t settle for mediocrity” lot.
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Folks have a selective memory don’t they? I remember reading many of the negative comments about Rick and thinking ..these guys want us to take them seriously???
 
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KBVol said:
Yes, he owns the offensive line’s failures. Nobody is saying he had great talent to work with. But the OL is not as much about talent as it is about teamwork and fundamentals, each guy doing his job, the 5 guys communicating and working in concert.

Fact is, our OL was as bad fundamentally in week 13 vs Vanderbilt as it was on the first play of the season vs WVa when JG was nearly decapitated due to a missed assignment. Well, the missed OL assignments NEVER stopped all year long, and that’s ultimately 100% on Will Friend’s inability to coach his room up and get his guys to understand and execute their responsibilities.
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Simply disagree. They were under weight and lacked power. They had an OG out of necessity that probably didn't weight 280 lbs. In spite of that, they did get better. Their pass pro vs Vandy wasn't that bad and the missed assignments were reduced. That's before you consider how injuries impacted it all.

Again, I'm not throwing a hedge up around Friend. He may prove to be a "bad" coach. But he has had successful OL's. Jones' history at building and developing OL's speaks LOUDLY for itself.

Where talent and development end and coaching begins isn't something that we can objectively prove. But IMO it tilts heavily toward the former right now.
 
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NUMBER1VOLFAN said:
Can't hang that debacle on Friend. That was CBJ. Even the freshmen. There's a stigma attached to us. As bottom feeders, our recruiters have a hard sell. And, that's where it all starts
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I can't buy that one either. It is hard for Fr to play unless they're extraordinarily physically gifted. But "stigmas" do not stop good coaching. Great coaches, coach great regardless of the talent they have. So the debate is about just how bad UT's talent was once their two best and only true SEC worthy OL's went down to injury.
 
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Jack Burton said:
I didn’t watch them. I want to know what our style will be under Sark though. When Pruitt was hired we heard a lot about power running. I’m curious if he sticks to that or wants to get more creative for the SEC.
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Those Leinart, Bush, Jarrett teams were hell on wheels on speed. Conservative, three yards and a cloud were the furtherest description. You needed every second if you were lucky enough to be in a position to beat them and Vince Young built his legend doing so. It isn’t the spread but it’s what most of the non RPO NFL teams run.
 
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tennrich1 said:
Folks have a selective memory don’t they? I remember reading many of the negative comments about Rick and thinking ..these guys want us to take them seriously???
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I didn’t predict what he’s currently doing. But I was on a vacation and went on a Longhorns board right after they hired Shaka. Congratulated them because I thought he would kill it for them but also thanked them because Rick Barnes was what we NEEDED...regardless of win/loss factors. The posters that responded were absolutely livid because Barnes had betrayed them by never delivering a championship...rich people problems. We were bleeding and couldn’t hire anybody but the most solid of character coaches and they’re not always available. What he did being able to establish his kind of team from the ground up, doing it the right way was beyond anybody’s wildest expectations.
 
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cgrish said:
Well u are right on that. We could do well with that offensive scheme.i hope we have something like that. Not rely heavily on power run game.
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What stood out is they knew how to use whatever talent was on the team. Reggie Bush won the Heisman and Lendale White didn’t suffer.
 
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butchna said:
Those Leinart, Bush, Jarrett teams were hell on wheels on speed. Conservative, three yards and a cloud were the furtherest description. You needed every second if you were lucky enough to be in a position to beat them and Vince Young built his legend doing so. It isn’t the spread but it’s what most of the non RPO NFL teams run.
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I want that let’s do all those things.
 
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Carp said:
You do know that Freeman has been on IR most of the year don't you?
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I think he played in the super bowl? Not sure if you’re defending Ryan or Sark but I think they’re both garbage. Very few pocket passers are capable nowadays and Ryan is not one. If they had a mobile guy they’d be fun to watch but too soft on both sides
 
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whodatvol said:
I think he played in the super bowl? Not sure if you’re defending Ryan or Sark but I think they’re both garbage. Very few pocket passers are capable nowadays and Ryan is not one. If they had a mobile guy they’d be fun to watch but too soft on both sides
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Ugh.......that wasn’t last seasons Super Bowl
 
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whodatvol said:
I think he played in the super bowl? Not sure if you’re defending Ryan or Sark but I think they’re both garbage. Very few pocket passers are capable nowadays and Ryan is not one. If they had a mobile guy they’d be fun to watch but too soft on both sides
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Not necessarily defending Sark (though he wasn't coaching the Superbowl team). But to disparage him based on running game results (as it looked like you were doing) isn't fair, imo.
 
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Saw a breakdown not too long ago about the offense under Sark vs Shanahan that saw Atlanta fall apart in the redzone and drop 11ppg off their scoring. Sark ran it way less and way less effectively in the redzone than Shanahan.

As for their offense in general, it was boom or bust this year. 31+ points in 6 games, 24 or less in 9 games with one remaining. A month with great offense, a month where they couldn't score. W/L you can take it as you will. They scored 36 and 37 in two losses. You should never lose NFL games when you score 35+ points. They were 2-7 in games where they scored 24 or less points. 0-7 in games where they scored 21 or less. So the defense wasn't keeping them in games at all. You can look at most any decent NFL team (even some bad ones) and they will have 2 or 3 wins where they scored 21 or less. For the Falcons to be 0-7 in that situation says a lot about how bad they were on defense this year.
 
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You don't recruit in the NFL.

Sark might not be a top tier NFL OC but he is an NFL OC. He was elite enough a play caller in college to land an NFL position. Also he's a top tier recruiter. The question isn't if he's the best OC in the country it's a question of if he's the best fit for this job, which is not only playcalling but also recruiting and developing young players in a much shorter time period than is allowed at the pro level.
 
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