We are the Joneses - The Official Texas Longhorns Athletics Thread

[satam55]

Fight during practice:

 

[dtownreppin214]

 

[dtownreppin214]

Fight during practice:

forgot about thornton...man there are some good dline ends in the state this year. now i know why they didnt reach last year.

 

[dtownreppin214]

smh hate seeing our senior starting center get demolished on the first play. we need doyle, flowers, hutchins to graduate asap.

 

[lightskin jermaine]

who is #80? he got owned in both of those vids

 

[...o3]

was i the only person who could only see a sliver of that video? why was it so far off to the right?





nvm, i had to go on dude's twitter page to see it.

 

[Spade]

who is #80? he got owned in both of those vids

Was number 80 the one at the end? Good gawd that shyt was painful to watch.

 

[dtownreppin214]

Eddie Reese is the best coach on campus. Has been for awhile.

 

[dtownreppin214]

Was number 80 the one at the end? Good gawd that shyt was painful to watch.

who is #80? he got owned in both of those vids

the dude getting washed in the fight video is Blake Whiteley, the JUCO TE we got from Canada a few years ago.

the dude who got worked at the end of the other video was Dorian Leonard. That was surprising b/c he supposedly brings a lot of intensity to practice and has some edge to him.

 

[lightskin jermaine]

the dude getting washed in the fight video is Blake Whiteley, the JUCO TE we got from Canada a few years ago.

the dude who got worked at the end of the other video was Dorian Leonard. That was surprising b/c he supposedly brings a lot of intensity to practice and has some edge to him.

ah okay. he couldn't handle malik in the first day in pads vid at :27. i guess he's strictly a receiving TE.

 

[dtownreppin214]

ah okay. he couldn't handle malik in the first day in pads vid at :27. i guess he's strictly a receiving TE.

nah bro he was actually brought in for blocking purposes. he just sucks.

 

[lightskin jermaine]

nah bro he was actually brought in for blocking purposes. he just sucks.

well damn

 

[satam55]

the dude getting washed in the fight video is Blake Whiteley, the JUCO TE we got from Canada a few years ago.

the dude who got worked at the end of the other video was Dorian Leonard. That was surprising b/c he supposedly brings a lot of intensity to practice and has some edge to him.

ah okay. he couldn't handle malik in the first day in pads vid at :27. i guess he's strictly a receiving TE.

nah bro he was actually brought in for blocking purposes. he just sucks.

well damn

No, dude is a receiving TE. He played WR in High School.

 

[dtownreppin214]

No, dude is a receiving TE. He played WR in High School.

this is what BON wrote on him when he committed. he only had 8 catches in his JUCO season, the consensus was he was here for blocking purposes once Swaim graduated.

Like Swaim, Whiteley looks like a passable athlete in the passing game, though he doesn't project as a difference maker there -- his value in college will likely also be in the run game.

The easy comparison with Whiteley is the fellow JUCO product Geoff Swaim, who was the most effective blocker for Texas after enrolling early out of Butte CC in California. Like Swaim, Whiteley looks like a passable athlete in the passing game, though he doesn't project as a difference maker there -- his value in college will likely also be in the run game.

Utilized often as a move blocker at Butte College, Swaim really had a chance to put some vicious hits on opponents with momentum already generated coming out of the backfield or moving across the formation, a fact that rather colors a viewing of Whiteley's film at Arizona Western, where the Canadian product is also a highly effective blocker, but from a mostly in-line position.

Whiteley may not be as versatile as the current Longhorn -- there's certainly no way from the Western film to tell, really -- but he is persistent enough with his leg drive and good enough with his hand placement to get his fair share of pancakes.

Even in-line though, it looks like Whiteley doesn't quite have the same roll as Swaim through the hips that helps produce his power, but Whiteley's also a year younger in the trenches a position that requires some hard work to develop the strength to root out defenders even at the junior-college level.

 

[Piff Perkins]

What's the expectation for the team this year, and do you think they'll meet it?