Looks like we still suck. Reed not hitting in stride on most of those. Receivers allergic to catching anything from O'Neal.

I wish I could unsee those.

In reply to jamey Miles seems to do a good job of leading his receivers with his throws.

Weak.
Disappointing film.

Boy that's a preview of what 8-4 looks like

Is that our actual quarterbacks throwing to our actual receivers, against no defense? What an abortion

Ouch. This is what Texas 8&4 looks like.

Y'all are ridiculous.
Absolute hyperbole and just a desire to be miserable.

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Classof25Battler said:

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Miles seems to do a good job of leading his receivers with his throws.

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He does. If our OL is expected to be much improved, and we want to stop the opponents from stacking the box, seems like he would be the better choice.

And I'm really going to miss Moose's one-handed grabs. He was highly under-rated.

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Hank the Grifter said:

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Y'all are ridiculous.
Absolute hyperbole and just a desire to be miserable.

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Or they're just describing what they watched on film....

Dang, reading the comments I thought. How bad is it. Watched. LOL

Zoo being the Zoo.

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Pichael Thompson said:

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Hank the Grifter said:

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Y'all are ridiculous.
Absolute hyperbole and just a desire to be miserable.

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Or they're just describing what they watched on film....

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Give me a break. IF you watched the film and still think the catastrophizing in the comments is warranted, you're either an idiot, can't think for yourself, just plain miserable, or all three. There were 2 bad passes total in a drill.

The comments here are ridiculous. Clearly none of the negative people on here have played the game or even been around it.

You practice to work on timing.

Plus competition brings out the best in receivers (and DB's). We used to run drills like this and kids would have these same kind of drops. Put a defender on them and they were making circus catches. Ball is just different when you have a live defender covering a receiver. It just is. Competition for the ball makes people take their game to the next level. It's always like that.

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Hank the Grifter said:

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Pichael Thompson said:

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Hank the Grifter said:

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Y'all are ridiculous.
Absolute hyperbole and just a desire to be miserable.

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Give me a break. IF you watched the film and still think the catastrophizing in the comments is warranted, you're either an idiot, can't think for yourself, just plain miserable, or all three. There were 2 bad passes total in a drill.

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But what about the drops?

I hear A&M will have shiny new LED lights with special effects at Kyle Field this year.

D-1 WRs and QBs should be 100% vs air in a passing drill. The one caveat is, how they throw and catch the ball. Anyone can lob it up there to catch. The differentiator is if they're throwing the type of ball you want them to for that particular route combo. For receivers, it's how they catch it, if they're high pointing it, etc..

We will be calling for miles after the notre dame loss. Reed just isnt accurate.

Rope-a-dope…we spread this virally and fool our opponents!!!

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Classof25Battler said:

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Miles seems to do a good job of leading his receivers with his throws.

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He does. If our OL is expected to be much improved, and we want to stop the opponents from stacking the box, seems like he would be the better choice.

And I'm really going to miss Moose's one-handed grabs. He was highly under-rated.

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And the TexAgs quest for the backup QB 2025 begins.

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BTHOB-98 said:

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The comments here are ridiculous. Clearly none of the negative people on here have played the game or even been around it.

You practice to work on timing.

Plus competition brings out the best in receivers (and DB's). We use to run drills like this and kids would have these same kind of drops. Put a defender on them and they were making circus catches. Ball is just different when you have a live defender covering a receiver. It just is. Competition for the ball makes people take their game to the next level. It's always like that.

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If that's how we conduct practice, it's no wonder we are perennially middling. Yes, you practice to work on timing, but against air in passing drills, if it touches your hands, you catch it. I only played through HS, but if our receivers touched a ball and didn't catch it, they ran to the pole and back. Didn't even have to tell them, they just did it automatically. Don't care if it's day 5 and their little feelers are hurt because it's late in practice, they are now paid mercenaries. Catch it or find someone else to pay you.

As for the film, there were some bad throws that both missed on, there were some good throws that receivers just butterfingered, and there were some piss poor efforts by receivers. Personally I thought Reed's throws looked better on the whole, but when he missed he missed bad. Miles' seemed more consistent, and I didn't pay enough attention to who the receivers were, maybe he got the backup receivers to throw to, but his receivers didn't do him any favors turning good and decent passes into catches.

All told, I'm pretty disheartened by that film for all. Day 5, evening when it's finally cooling off at least a little, in shorts and pads against air, passing drills, we should be crisp as hell. We very much were not. I don't watch others teams practice clips, but I can't imagine someone like Saban would have been pleased with that when he was coaching. 8-4 ceiling here we come.

Anybody who doesn't think that is horrible practice film is insane. Reed throws one decent pass the entire time, he never hits a receiver in stride and they have to stop and wait for the ball over and over. His delivery is late on every single pass, the ball has no zip, and his windup looks like a Japanese baseball pitcher. Those are NOT hard throws.

O'Neal is ten times the passer but his receivers simply can't catch the ball. I don't care if they are tired, you think they will be tired in the 4th quarter against Notre Dame? Their cuts aren't sharp and they look like they are half a$$ing everything.

This film is exactly why we suck every year. You play like you practice and this is weak.

In a drill like that the ball should almost NEVER touch the ground, we completed about 50% of the passes against air.

Even if you forgive the QB timing because it's a practice, the amount of drops are insane

While the passing did not look great, the disturbing part is that most of the receivers looked almost disinterested in catching the ball.

I sure hope our running game is strong.