Notes from Saturday's (8/22) Scrimmage

[UNTLifer]

https://meangreensports.com/news/2020/8/22/football-scrimmage-notebook-defense-impresses.aspx

Defensive Play of the Day: Sophomore corner DeShawn Gaddie (Arlington) made an excellent play, jumping a short route and making a house call. He read the play well, jumped it, and was off to the races on a 37-yard interception return for a touchdown.

Offensive Play of the Day: Redshirt sophomore receiver Jyaire Shorter (Killeen, Texas) went up and got a 47-yard touchdown on a very well-thrown ball by fellow redshirt sophomore, quarterback Jason Bean (Mansfield, Texas). Shorter continues to showcase his skillset and physicality that saw him burst onto the scene in 2019 - catching 24 passes for 48

Love seeing my two adopted players making the plays of the day.

Also noted that the freshman RB, Johnson, has been noted in a couple of articles now along with Dorian Morris at DB.  Our defensive backfield is young, but I honestly don't remember ever having this much depth/potential at these positions.  Great problem to have and they will be fun to watch develop.

[MeanGreenTexan]

4 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

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Our defensive backfield is young, but I honestly don't remember ever having this much depth/potential at these positions.  Great problem to have and they will be fun to watch develop.

There were back-to-back classes in '18 & '19 where we hauled in some serious DB talent.   It's time for those guys to step in and make their names known.   Looking forward to it!

[UNTLifer]

I agree and players like Gaddie and Morris were also state level track athletes, so I love the speed they bring with them.

[southsideguy]

2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

There were back-to-back classes in '18 & '19 where we hauled in some serious DB talent.   It's time for those guys to step in and make their names known.   Looking forward to it!

Our DB can only get better, last year play was beyond terrible.   I am not sure if it was coaching or the talent but they always had their back to the qb, hard to make a. play when you have no idea where the ball is.

[97and03]

I note a couple of things. We see plenty of INTs and that is encouraging/concerning. We don’t usually know who threw them or how it played out.

Noticed a couple of read-option plays and have to assume Bean is running those? Also note that they tend to be mentioned as defense highlights...

Lots of run plays for gain. 

[RiseUNT]

3 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

I note a couple of things. We see plenty of INTs and that is encouraging/concerning. We don’t usually know who threw them or how it played out.

Noticed a couple of read-option plays and have to assume Bean is running those? Also note that they tend to be mentioned as defense highlights...

Lots of run plays for gain. 

The defense knows the playbook and what each wideout likes to do. If they weren’t getting ints then that would be concerning.

[97and03]

Good point. Most years it seems the opponent knows the playbook by halftime so your logic checks out.