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Peter Jinkens had an issue taking proper angles a bit.

I thought that was the primary cause on the TD that ISU scored.

That's a close game with a decent quarterback. Jantz couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

So our defense holds a team 15.7 pts under their season average and we get these grades..... Interesting.

Have to take your word for it Bobby. No LHN. I didn't see the game.

I'm with you hooked. I didn't see the game either. I also don't have a radio station in my area that carries the Horns, so I had to provide my own play-by-play from the results I was reading on the computer. According to my coverage, we played really well.

I think he's had 3 for 10+ this year but now 100% sure. I am sure that Mack would rather have a forsure hands guy over someone who might be able to make more plays but has a higher chance of turning it over after 2010.

It really was a game of two halves. I've asked Bobby to do this and will ask again. Go back and look at what was differerent in the second half compared to the first. Like so many; I didn't get to see the game except for a few minutes on stream that was soon shut down. But the box score by half tells a story of two games.

Based on the first half; there is no question that Bobby is right. It was C at best against a mediocre team offense. But the second half is a different story. 70 total yards. One first down. 11 plays passing; 8 rushing for 30 yards. That's 2.5 yards per carry.. That's dominant whoever you are playing.

I wait for Scipio's report to see what happened from half to half; but something happened; and it wasn't ISU simply abandoning the run.

I saw some improvement. We seem to be tackling slightly better and taking better angles in pursuit inside out. There were times that we looked like at least an average to slightly above average defensive team. I hate, hate, hate how often we declare out blitz early enough for the offense to see it, take a sip of tea, adjust their protection, and run the play. Our overload blitzes looked to be feast or famine, and we had a few punt block looks with everyone at the LOS save one safety in the middle of the field.

A good QB would have made that a closer game. Jantz was wildly inaccurate.

Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the game.

I watched a replay on LHN late Saturday night. I made it back through the first half, but not the second.

However, ISU adjusted its offensive gameplan in the second half. Instead of a two-back look, the one that has given Texas so much trouble this year, ISU went more three and four wides because of the scoreboard.

I also think ISU was no longer simply trying to sustain drives. They were looking for chunk plays in the passing game. That plays right into a blitz happy scheme.

Did the Texas D play better in the second half? Yes.

But the circumstances were very different and stacked in their favor. In the first half, when the game was truly still on the line, the defense looked out of sorts to me.

Lots of defenses are made to look good when they have three- and four-score leads. That's my take and I feel pretty strongly about it.

What pressure!?!

Bobby just wants our defense to have plenty of blackboard material. They have no reason to feel proud of themselves until they shut down our next two or three opponents. Let us pray for further redemption from where our big, unknowing, preseason heads took us. Best Texas defense ever? Woe Nellie!

I think Fera is terrible. When he kicks, I hold my breath, even on extra points. The kid is a major disappointment.