Texas A&M Observations

[o_dawgnabit]

my biggest take away so far (which I know is still early in the season and against Northwestern State) is that their oline is going to be awful this year. They have already given up several sacks and TFL and are constantly in long down situations.

 

[The Fatboy]

Yep it's pretty bad.

 

[NWADawg]

If northwestern state d-line is giving them trouble, they should probably just forfeit the game with us. Survive to fight again kind of thing.

 

[The Fatboy]

They better be worried about next week when Clemson comes in. Mond might get killed

 

[mcdawg22]

If northwestern state d-line is giving them trouble, they should probably just forfeit the game with us. Survive to fight again kind of thing.

They have Clemson next week. All 4 Clemson DL were named 1st team All Acc.

 

[OnlyDawgInMinn]

They don’t have a QB that can run a pro style offense. I knew Jimbo would have trouble at A&M for at least a year or so...

Their RB is halfway decent, but this scheme is almost built to give a serviceable back 100 ypg. Sumlin knew offense, but couldn’t recruit for ****. I think we will be seeing that lack of talent for a couple of years in college station.

 

[dawgman42]

It's also 35-0 just before halftime. You can't usually tell anything from these first-game patsies.

 

[Shamoan]

They better be worried about next week when Clemson comes in. Mond might get killed

That last part would be a pity

 

[Junction John]

My biggest takeaway is thank god the great adidas shoulder stripe war is over

and we won.

 

[FQDawg]

This. This happens in the first game for plenty of teams each year. Even some elite teams don't look like elite teams in the first game of the year, much less the first half of the first game of the year.

That being said, they could have looked like world-beaters on the OL last night and Clemson's DL would still come in and crush them next weekend.

 

[MSUDC11]

I still cringe thinking about the ribbon atrocities we wore from 2012 to 2014. Thank goodness we finally got the uniforms right in recent years. I don’t hate A&M’s look, though. It’s better than what Adidas gave us at the time.

 

[johnson86-1]

my biggest take away so far (which I know is still early in the season and against Northwestern State) is that their oline is going to be awful this year. They have already given up several sacks and TFL and are constantly in long down situations.

Didn't get to watch much. The two plays I noticed their Oline doing terribly looked like blown protection rather than just OL being overmatched. So thety could just be a little behind on the learning curve as far as picking up Jimbo's offense.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I still cringe thinking about the ribbon atrocities we wore from 2012 to 2014. Thank goodness we finally got the uniforms right in recent years. I don’t hate A&M’s look, though. It’s better than what Adidas gave us at the time.

This. I always thought they looked like a phillips head screw from above with that stupid ribbon stripe on the helmet and ribbon stripe on top of the pads. Adidas design team did a lot of slacking after TAMU was added to the SEC. They just basically copied and pasted between our two teams and changed like one thing. Glad we went back to the sleeve stripes that somewhat resemble the 80's and 90's.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I was not that impressed. They started out very slow. their defense did not look much improved either because Northwestern State seemed to move the ball on them even if they didn't score in the first half or at least until i quit watching. They should have been beating that team by 30 in the first quarter.

 

[Dawgzilla]

I thought they looked like Christmas presents.