Fall Camp 2019

texbender · Aug 17, 2019

greyhammer90 said:
Speaking of media forgetting bowl games, has anyone read that recent story on the Athletic about how Michigan's defense was only bad for fifteen minutes against Notre Dame and fifteen minutes against Ohio State? The Peach Bowl apparently was just something I imagined.

...another example of "fake news"? And why then does their longtime D line coach sail off to their #1 rival?

BobbyMac · Aug 17, 2019

Veritate Duce Progredi said:
Every time I see JOK make a play, this chorus starts playing in my head:

RIP NatureBoy. That's absolutely embarrassing.

koonja · Aug 17, 2019

Sounds like Michael Young went down with a shoulder.

Maybe we can lay off our DBs tackling to the ground for the rest of camp? IDK. Not blaming the coaches but if it's another collar bone to another starting Skill player, that's enough for me.

IrishFaninTX · Aug 17, 2019

koonja said:
Sounds like Michael Young went down with a shoulder.

Maybe we can lay off our DBs tackling to the ground for the rest of camp? IDK. Not blaming the coaches but if it's another collar bone to another starting Skill player, that's enough for me.

Yeah I'm all for being physical in practice but we can't afford to lose starters in camp. We already know we won't see Austin for a few games so depth might get thin if anyone else gets hurt

Circa · Aug 17, 2019

This Is football fellas... The weak get weeded out anyway and the best survive.

ResLife Hero · Aug 17, 2019

ResLife Hero · Aug 17, 2019

Circa · Aug 17, 2019

Veritate Duce Progredi said:
It feels like forever since we had a practice report. Tomorrow can't get here soon enough

I don't see Italics? Are ya serious?

koonja · Aug 17, 2019

Matt Freeman expects Michael Young to be out an extended amount of time.

Sweet. We should have another full tackle practice.

Sherm Sticky · Aug 17, 2019

koonja said:
Matt Freeman expects Michael Young to be out an extended amount of time.

Sweet. We should have another full tackle practice.

That blows. I was expecting a big year from him.

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Crazy Balki · Aug 17, 2019

koonja said:
Matt Freeman expects Michael Young to be out an extended amount of time.

Sweet. We should have another full tackle practice.

If it's anything like the Kmet injury, then tackling had nothing to do with it. He came down bad on his collarbone trying to make a catch.

IrishBoognish · Aug 17, 2019

Irish fans have long lamented 'soft practices'.

When we hear there's full contact and someone gets hurt, all of a sudden we want soft practices.

So goes the life of a fanatic.

IrishFanForever23 · Aug 17, 2019

Broken collarbone for Young.

IrishFanJMercy · Aug 17, 2019

A broken collarbone can be anywhere from 6-16 weeks to recover from next man up keys and lenzy

IrishFanForever23 · Aug 17, 2019

IrishFanJMercy said:
A broken collarbone can be anywhere from 6-16 weeks to recover from next man up keys and lenzy

He’s not going to miss the whole year. He’ll be back, but it probably won’t be until after Georgia or Virginia.

stlnd01 · Aug 17, 2019

Ugh. That sucks. Young was up for a good year.

Crazy Balki · Aug 17, 2019

I liked Young a lot. Particularly because he was a smaller receiver who was also a tenacious and physical blocker.

I do think with Keys, we have more upside. I like him a bit better laterally and in space than Young, but it all depends on whether he's got the little things down.

IrishFaninTX · Aug 17, 2019

I'm more worried about communication with the QB and drops with the younger WRs. They have a lot of potential but we won't really know if losing Young will be that big a deal until the first game, maybe not until Georgia.

Crazy Balki · Aug 18, 2019

IrishFaninTX said:
I'm more worried about communication with the QB and drops with the younger WRs. They have a lot of potential but we won't really know if losing Young will be that big a deal until the first game, maybe not until Georgia.

Keys and Wilkins have been getting a pretty healthy amount of reps this offseason.

Young had all of 7 receptions last year, so he wasn't exactly a seasoned veteran.

Veritate Duce Progredi · Aug 18, 2019

Losing Young is a big loss. Not because we don't have anyone else but because he was really coming on strong this fall.

We're now down a starting TE, starting WR and probably our 3rd-4th best WR in Austin. The other guys better put in the work, we're going to need them the first few weeks.

BabyIrish · Aug 18, 2019

koonja said:
Matt Freeman expects Michael Young to be out an extended amount of time.

Sweet. We should have another full tackle practice.

Seems like a good time to post this article about Dartmouth adapting zero live tackling in their camp and practices to reduce injury.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...dummies-how-dartmouth-shaping-future-football

Veritate Duce Progredi · Aug 18, 2019

BabyIrish said:
Seems like a good time to post this article about Dartmouth adapting zero live tackling in their camp and practices to reduce injury.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...dummies-how-dartmouth-shaping-future-football

I've seen an ND team that avoided live tackling and it was awful. Hint: I think it was in the Weis years.

Irish8248 · Aug 18, 2019

Injuries happen.. i do not miss the days of RBs shredding our D when they shouldve been dropped for a 2 yd loss

IrishLax · Aug 18, 2019

This is a big injury because he had developed into a really solid do-it-all #2 option. Great blocker, explosive down field, good route running. And you’re without Kevin Austin to be a #2.

We’re now about one injury away in the pass catchers from being in big trouble.

BabyIrish · Aug 18, 2019

Veritate Duce Progredi said:
I've seen an ND team that avoided live tackling and it was awful. Hint: I think it was in the Weis years.

Don’t know if you read the article but the methods they’ve used have not worsened their tackling and have not prevented them from winning. By all accounts it has improved it all. Just so you know ND and Texas have both purchased a robot dummy and Nick Saban is studying Dartmouth very closely to see about implementing some of what Dartmouth is doing.

jspags10pg · Aug 18, 2019

Young was injured in 1-on-1's. Nothing to do with tackling. You play how you practice. If you practice soft then you play soft. Gotta bring the physicality to practice if you want to play physical in games.

stpeteirish · Aug 18, 2019

Veritate Duce Progredi said:
I've seen an ND team that avoided live tackling and it was awful. Hint: I think it was in the Weis years.

One year when Davie was coach we had zero injuries in camp and word leaked out the didn't hit in fear of injury.

We sucked.

Old Man Mike · Aug 18, 2019

I am (naively perhaps) not too concerned about our receiver situation. Some time ago, a national commentator was responding to Coach Kelly's talent assessment and development strengths. Rather than saying that he was a QB guru (which he is not, despite the amazing job with Rees), the commentator said that "Kelly can create a good pass receiver just by breathing on him."

My opinion about periods where we didn't seem as dangerous as we should hope to be is that the fault was in our QBs not our receiver talent. This year we have the QB. These receivers will get open enough for him.

Circa · Aug 18, 2019

IrishBoognish said:
Irish fans have long lamented 'soft practices'.

When we hear there's full contact and someone gets hurt, all of a sudden we want soft practices.

So goes the life of a fanatic.

Circa · Aug 18, 2019

tom prendergast said:
One year when Davie was coach we had zero injuries in camp and word leaked out the didn't hit in fear of injury.

We sucked.

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