I'm not convinced his system won't work. It sure seemed to be working well at the end of last season, and for the most part during the aTm game.

The losses on defense hurt us more than we thought, dumbass penalties cost us as much as anything - woulda coulda shoulda, but cut out a half dozen particular penalties and we could be sitting at 4-0 or 3-1 at the worst.

Injury to Williams and Hatcher hurt. No fullback ready because we had to move Walker to RB due to Williams injury, then Walker got hurt.

Just a shitstorm on hard luck and dumbassery.

I think we will get righted soon though.

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Posted by Cooter Davenport

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Member since Apr 2012

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Posted on 9/30/15 at 11:41 am to WonderWartHawg

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dumbass penalties cost us as much as anything - woulda coulda shoulda, but cut out a half dozen particular penalties and we could be sitting at 4-0 or 3-1 at the worst.

The holding penalties are not mistakes. They're being coached to hold on every down. Record the games and re-watch them for holds. Myles Garrett was being egregiously held even on the play where he caused the fumble.

The thought process is that the occasional holding call is better than taking sacks or having your RB tackled in the backfield. And it's not necessarily a bad strategy because the refs will allow for a certain amount of holding and won't blow every single one. A few holding penalties is better than losing 5, 10 yards again and again and again and having the QB wind up injured. So Arkansas is coached to hold until they get called, back off for a while, and then start holding again.

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