As fun as the Herman run game is, I have even more fun watching the passing attack. I pointed out in last year's Sterlin Gilbert breakdown that, outside of the screen and quick game, "most of [the routes] are just running straight ahead to different depths." The new offense will be radically...

The news that Major Applewhite would be the new head coach at Houston threw a wrench in my work on this breakdown, but it turned out to be a bit of a blessing. I had watched eight Houston games and, after weeks of reading everywhere about Tom Herman's power run attack, I was very confused: There...

Let's wrap this up and start preparing for Hermania. OFFENSE If a Foreman Falls in the End Zone, but Big 12 Refs Are Around to See It... I expected the offense to struggle, but I thought they'd at least score a touchdown. Turns out, they did. This is, I believe, the same play Texas started...

Well, I count this among the most pointless things I've ever done. DEFENSE I don't know why this play made the Big 12's highlights, but until the full game is uploaded, this is all we have to work with. I've never seen Texas run this zone blitz before, but I'm extremely confident that...

I don't know how to feel about this game. West Virginia is good and was the better team, but Texas still had multiple chances to win. As a matter of fact, WVU scored only seven points in the final 44:39. It was also the rare Big 12 game where the officials appeared to be present and competent...

As interesting as this game was as a whole, the highlights are pretty boring. As you'll see, both teams took turns beating each other with the same concepts. Anyway, let's get to it. DEFENSE This game was the greatest evidence yet that the defense is improving. It held an offense that was...

Winning > losing. Winning against Baylor this year > all of the things. Daniel said it really well. This was a game Baylor had circled since they took that L last December. It got circled at least four more times (once for every "stolen" recruit) this summer when justice was served Texas...

Ugh. DEFENSE How to Neutralize Hager Add speed option to the list of things Texas' linebackers don't know how to defend.  Kansas State is reading Breckyn Hager. Hager is a MONSTER when he can set his hair on fire before the snap and just play "see ball, hit ball." Opposing offenses would...

I was hoping there'd be a high-quality version of the game online by now, but instead we'll have to work with this. OFFENSE Buechele Is Growing At this point we have a decent idea of Shane Buechele's limitations, but he did a couple of things this week to challenge that idea. First, it turns...

DEFENSE Make a Play at the Goal Line It's impossible to get stops inside the 5 if you lose every one-on-one battle. Twice Oklahoma scored off the exact same play (power), from the exact same formation, to the exact same side. The offense's first challenge here is that the left tackle has to...

OFFENSE Let's look for silver linings or something. 18 Wheeler Still Works There were some nice blocks on Tyrone Swoopes' two touchdown runs. Caleb Bluiett doesn't get his guy on the ground, but he does knock him back into the end zone. Brandon Hodges controlled the end the whole way...

I just realized the Texas fans who were critical of Texas' number of pass attempts in the second half were being serious, and I felt the need to address it. Shane Buechele or Tyrone Swoopes "attempted" passes (stood in the backfield and looked for someone to throw to) on 18 of Texas' 40...

Let's never play another 9:30 kickoff game.  Here's what I gathered from the "highlights." OFFENSE Warren: Better Performance or Worse Competition? At least on this play, it looks like the latter. But that's OK. Left guard Patrick Vahe and center Zach Shackelford very suddenly push the...

Threw together highlights of the second-best M. Roach around UT football.

The plan is to toss up some highlights, then post cool stuff as I see it. OFFENSE There really isn't much interesting stuff in the offensive highlights from an Xs and Os point of view, but the touchdowns are worth watching again. The Time Warrick Kept the Ball This isn't the only time...

Offense Army: Let's start with Shane Buechele's first touchdown pass. Texas runs three verticals with the outside receivers and the tight end and a curl/flat with the slot and the back. Notre Dame overplays the three-receiver side, bringing the safety to that side over to pick up #3 (the...

Let's jump right in. We can talk some about X's and O's but there's really not a whole lot to take away from spring scrimmages, especially public ones. Let's focus more on the players. There's not a lot to glean from this play except that (1) Brandon Hodges appears to be the weakest link in...

Texas commits DE Andrew Fitzgerald and OL Denzel Okafor (#37 and #38 in the Horn Sports top 50 in Texas) were two of the top performers all week at the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl practices. Check out every snap for both players in the game. Andrew Fitzgerald (#48) — Every Snap...

The next time the Longhorns take the field they’ll be running a new offense, but we don’t need to wait until then to get a glimpse at what it will look like. Rather than diagram a bunch of plays or compile clips of Tulsa or 2012 Eastern Illinois, I thought it might be useful to show examples...

Apologies for the tardiness. The holiday and work (read: the desire to do anything other than rewatch this game) has slowed me down. Let's start with the first big play of the game. I did you the favor of cutting it off at a point where we can all pretend Holton Hill came down with one of the...