re: Mark Snyder

I can see auburn giving us some trouble. Their spread/run is going to challenge us as we stacked 10 in the box against arky and won't be able to do that against auburn when they're running 4 wide and doing a read option.

Here's an interesting Arkansas article breaking down the stats of the game.

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The Aggies then had as many opportunities in the fourth quarter alone as they had in the previous two. Remember: the defense doesn’t control when the other team gets the ball. That’s the offense’s job. Arkansas’ inability to move the ball (18.1 percent success rate) gave Texas A&M five cracks at tying the game in the fourth quarter. Good smashmouth offenses don’t allow an opponent five drives in one quarter.

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finally found a youtube of our full game. Here's the tripping play. Watch it in slow mo. I underestimated how big of a gain it would have been. They had the ball at the 42. Think it would have been approximately a 22 yard gain without the foul but they still would have been well outside field goal range even at around the 36.

Howard, Shaan and Mastro all went for the reverse. Shaan actually reacted to the RB the quickest and while Matthews and Mastro were still going away from the play, he was turning back when he was tripped. Watts spun him at the 36 at which point Matthews overran the play. When Williams comes out of the spin at the 35, Matthews is actually 5 yards beyond him at the 30.

Given Washington was slightly ahead of Matthews as the trip occurred, there is zero reason to expect Shaan doesn't make that play at the 36. No matter how it is spun, there is simply no way you can say the trip(s) had nothing to do with the result of that play.