Shocking News to Report: TE Injured

[LonghornCatholic]

 

[Godz40acres]

"And the hits just keep on comin'."

 

[Detective Shilala]

I wonder if this means we'll see Garret Gray lined up out wide catching bubble screens...

 

[ProdigalHorn]

Chris Warren...

 

[SabreHorn]

Chris Warren..

Can't block

Can't read the defense or pick up a blitz

Can he catch the ball? Does it matter since we don't throw to the TE?

Put Collin Johnson at TE. He's bigger than most, faster than all, and would be a deep threat against all the cover threes.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

He's been playing H back the past two weeks.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Chris Warren.

Depends. Does he hate his knees?

 

[Dionysus]

Put Collin Johnson at TE.

And just end his career right now?

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Put Collin Johnson at TE

Why do you hate him so much?

 

[Detective Shilala]

LOL, in all seriousness, I kinda like this idea. Use CJ like we used Shipley in 2009. That worked out pretty good. If only we had the offensive genius of one Greg Davis in the booth still (everything is relative!)

 

[Crockett]

I've watched some clips where Chris Warren overwhelmed defenders with his blocking. Is he always in the right place? How the hell do I know? I'm not a coach and I don't carefully watch film. I do love Warren's size, strength, speed and ability to run after the catch against smaller defenders. I would not be amazed if he became an NFL tight end someday.

 

[Detective Shilala]

I think CW would make a good TE too. I actually think if he wants to go pro, that is where he will make it.
Can he make a good TE by this weekend though?

 

[X Misn Tx]

bummer for Cade. someone needs to return the Tight End talisman to the temple, because the gods are VERY ANGRY.

 

[BabHorn]

how many injuries have happened in practice? Seems like most are from friendly fire.

 

[Horns11]

The most innovative thing Greg Davis did at Texas was the change when Irby got hurt in 2008. He promoted the switch from a pro-style zone offense to an all-out spread with Dan Buckner and Jordan Shipley taking the majority of the "2nd slot man" snaps. Having no Jamaal Charles also made it a lot easier, since he wasn't tempted to try to zone read every play.

Irby got hurt on his 2nd catch against Rice. We played around with Peter Ullman and Ian Harris at TE against Arkansas in a semi-meaningless easy win. Then Greg Smith against Colorado in the boring road game blowout. It was kind of obvious that the TE personnel wasn't going to give us the edge against #1 OU the following game, especially with Ryan Reynolds playing LB. So he straight-up ditched it. Ullman and Smith got like a series each, and when it was obvious that we weren't getting any help, the role of the TE disappeared except in some short yardage and nontraditional sets. And when we won, we rolled with those sets for most of the rest of the season.

Oddly enough, the Tech game was where we tried to resurrect a lot of TE stuff in the first half when nothing was working.

I think replacing Brewer with one of the bigger WRs isn't the worst idea ever. I don't think Warren is what we need playing out there.

 

[rick mueller]

how many injuries have happened in practice? Seems like most are from friendly fire.

Seems like that to me, too. This "make practice so hard that the games are easy" philosophy may need some fine tuning.