The QB coach says not to throw them.
Ryan Clanton to be new offensive line coach
- Thread starter Connor_Ferguson
- Start date
It felt like someone on Chizik’s staff had a decent eye for o-line talent. Got KO, who was a 2 star, and had James Carpenter signed before he had to go to Juco. He ended up at Alabama and the NFL. There were a couple others that we offered early and they blew up with higher offers. They left Rhoads with some talent.
Then the Rhoads staff took the approach of finding tall skinny kids then tried to pack on a bunch of weight so they could hold their own in the Big 12. Seemed like we ended up with a lot of injuries on the line with those kids. Although those years kinda run into one another.
Last edited:
Oh yeah. CPR(Yancy our S&C coach) was all about finding tall skinny athletic kids they could build up with treadmills.
I’m convinced Scott Haughton was destined for the NFL but he couldn’t stay out of his own way. Dude was crazy sneaky athletic. Carter Bykowski was in the NFL for a little bit too I believe. They were both Chizik recruits tho.
Looking at the recruiting classes Rhoads brought in, I don’t think any OL who was recruited by Rhoads ever sniffed the NFL. Maybe Oni Omoile or Campos? Other than that though, my goodness the OL recruits were bad
I'm not really sure what your first sentence means.
To me, Clayton's first assessment was very much along the lines of "what the hell were they doing here?" That may be old hat (as you say) when an entire staff is replaced. This critique, however, was directed at two former favorites (Myers and by implication Manning) of the still current HC. To me, that's a new twist.
Also if you know what's going on you don't wonder down the field and get called for illegal man down field. We did that plenty last year.
I agree on the physical potential, needs to improve greatly between the ears. Hopefully he takes a big step this year.
Yeah lots of people wanted the next shiny toy, now Brock is playing every Sunday in the NFL we had it pretty good while he was here, Yeah I know injuries gave him the chance to play, but he sure made the most of it.
Did more than made the most of it, he'll be the week 1 starter this season
The biggest flaw I saw was a propensity to seemingly just say "**** it" when things weren't going his way. That type of play and mindset only seemed to grow as the season progressed.
Other than throwing the ball away, and staying with plays (poise) a little bit longer, I'm not sure what he could have done differently. Our line sucked, we couldn't consistently run the ball, and our offensive design was trash. Too many plays called the line couldn't block for, little usage of designed rollouts or misdirection to confuse defenses, and WAY too many plays where the receiver depth was shockingly similar amongst our receivers.
We need to make ourselves tougher to prepare for. Utilize TE chip blocks to help for protection deficiencies, misdirection, and have much better route/play design than what we had. I think the success of Purdy and Breece (before being hurt) opened some eyes on how terrible our offense/play design really was. These are players who had outstanding careers despite playing behind mediocre lines and suspect play calling.
I think Dekkers was rightfully frustrated by what was going on, with his only saving grace being the amazingness of Hutch. I just hope he comes into the season with a "clean slate" and doesn't give up so easily on some plays like he did last year. He's got a great arm and throws an infinitely better deep ball than Purdy. He can be a great QB for us but he can't do it by himself.
Yeah, I thought when him and Remsburg were just blowing people up in 2020 that they were going to be absolute stalwarts going forward. I think they still can be.
Those “decent” lines could do one thing, but not another. Run blocking might have been passable, pass protection distinctly was not.
Lots of OL’s over the past twenty years were okay at one thing or another—but not everything.
And most weren’t terribly good at anything.
Lol. Chizik’s “eye” would have been getting lucky on two or three players over two years—and much of the “luck” he’s getting credited with was the simple fact that everyone out there knew those players weren’t going to qualify.
Carpenter wasn’t the only one.
Simmons looked promising his first year and was a mauler at times. I don't understand how he regressed so much since. Remsburg was injured a lot of last season so having him healthy will hopefully be a big help.
I posted in one of the OL threads months ago that regression of promising freshmen was the one hallmark of the OL during CMC tenure. How many times did a new guy come in and look good, and you thought "wait til next year, with another year of growing and coaching!" and then next year he was worse not better. Remsberg, Simmons, Newell, Ramos, Hufford, Miller - just the guys I remember offhand thinking that.
IDK if Clanton will be the answer, but I do know the status quo was not working at all...
I think I heard him correctly. Loved when he told a guy "You don't have to be perfect, just be violent"
That's the motto for next fall. Put it on a T shirt for that position group.
If we're doing T-shirts can we do "That linebacker thinks he's got a free run through. Left foot, left shoulder. THI-GA-GA"?
1:08 mark