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cursebreaker-lilith · 5 years ago

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I only posted her original profile in September, but I’ve changed some stuff and wanted to do a new drawing. Lili was pretty new to me then, and I’ve found her voice a lot more since so it only felt right to have a do over on her profile.

This is all up to the beginning of year 6.

EDIT: Some formatting changes made 5-12-21

BASICS

Name: Lilith Silvia Vesta Brooks

Nicknames: Lili, Pipsqueak, Pip

Name Meaning: Lilith references a figure from Jewish folklore, Silvia comes from her grandmother’s name and references a figure from Roman mythology, Vesta was also chosen by her grandmother and references the Roman goddess of the hearth.

Gender: Cis Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 16 (Variable depending on what year I’m writing about)

Birthday: October 19th, 1972

Zodiac: Libra

Blood Status: Half-blood

Ethnicity/Nationality: White Brit

Sexuality: Self identifies primarily with queer but is okay with being called bisexual. Is also probably on both the asexual and aromantic spectrum, but the words for them hadn’t been coined in her time period.

Appearance

Body:

Height: 165cm / 5′5

Build: Average to stocky, hourglass shape

Eyes: A bright yellow-green, noticeably a bit big and round.

Hair: Pale blonde hair that is very thin and fine. She likes doing it up in different ways, from ponytails, to pigtails, to braids. Right before starting her 6th year, she cut her hair short and permed it on an impulse encouraged by her Muggle friends.

Skin: Pale skin that burns easily but quickly fades into a tan

Misc: Small and usually unnoticeable scars scattered across her hands and face from ice in the Ice Vault that will fade wholly with time (most already have by 6th year). Pierced ears--one in each lobe as a teenager but adds more as an adult.

Material Items:

Clothing: As a young child, she tried to keep up with mainstream Muggle fashion. She preferred lots of bright colors, stripes, gaudy jewelry, and scrunchies. Dear lord she loves scrunchies. As she got older however, she began to phase out of the bright colors and mainstream fashion into something which would soon be called grunge. Not completely grunge however as she still loves her statement earrings and scrunchies. Usually wears baggy/non form fitting clothing.

Accessories: Almost always wearing some sort of dangly and obnoxious statement earrings. Always has at least three scrunchies on her person.

In her school bag: Her wand, at least five scrunchies, school books and papers, books Rowan wants her to read, an old crochet penguin for good luck (her first attempt at crochet animals), crochet hooks and yarn, journal and papers related to Cursed Vault plans, at least three cool looking rocks she found on the ground.

Reference:

Face Claim: N/A

Voice Claim: N/A

Personality

Traits:

+ loyal, friendly, extroverted, responsible, mature, kind, adaptable, quick learner, resourceful, hopeful, courageous

+/— determined, good liar, intense, clever, intelligent, independent

— obsessive, untrusting, secretive, forceful, quick temper, angry, abrasive, single minded, rule breaker, rude, spiteful

Description:

Lili has a lot of pent up anger and a quick temper. She’s angry at her family, at authority, at the world. She’s not good at processing this anger and thus tends to lash out at people very often and often very cruelly and violently. She knows this and tries to keep in check but isn’t very good at doing so even as she ages. Because of her anger, she also tends to keep grudges for quite a while, even for stupid or petty reasons and is slow to admit she’s wrong.

In a better world, she would be known for her friendliness. Lili can be very friendly and relaxed. She talks first and makes a judgement second, trying to be as open minded as possible. She’s very casual yet polite and likes people being the same back to her.

Lili is determined in a way that tends towards the negative. Her laser focus on things tend to quickly become obsessions if someone she trusts doesn’t intervene quickly enough.

After her mother stopped being a parent towards her at a young age, Lili learned to take care of herself quickly. She’s become clever and resourceful in her steps to becoming independent. It’s left her mature and responsible for her age, but also untrusting and secretive, convinced she can do it on her own (or with Rowan only).

Lili is very loyal to those that earn her loyalty. For those she cares about, she would do anything. If you do something to lose that loyalty, expect harsh treatment after if Lili even deigns to speak to you. She’s not afraid of cutting people out of her life if they betray or anger her.

Other:

Likes: crafts (crochet, knitting, sewing), Rowan and Barnaby, scrunchies, dangly earrings, being busy, collecting things, fashion

Dislikes: Merula and Ismelda, Rakepick, Snape, most other Slytherins, people who get in her way, Dumbledore, Doctor Who after the 5th Doctor, not getting enough sleep, flying class

MBTI: ESTP

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Hogwarts

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

OWL Classes:

Astronomy: 6/10 (E)

Charms: 9/10 (O)

DADA: 9/10 (O)

Flying: 2/10 (A)

Herbology: 3/10 (A)

History of Magic: 2/10 (A)

Potions: 4/10 (A)

Transfiguration: 7/10 (E)

OWL Electives:

Ancient Runes: 9/10 (O)

Arithmancy: 6/10 (O)

Care of Magical Creatures: 6/10 (O)

NEWT Classes:

Ancient Runes: 9/10 (O)

Arithmancy: 6/10 (E)

Charms: 9/10 (O)

DADA: 9/10 (O)

Transfiguration: 7/10 (E)

Extracurriculars:

Clubs: Dueling Club (3rd-4th year), Fencing Club (2nd-5th year), Transfiguration Club (occasionally from 2nd year on)

Quidditch: N/A

Prefect or Head Boy/Girl: N/A

Best Classes:

Charms It’s the one class she’s very naturally talented at. She never needs to study much, but she barely has to try with Charms. Someday she’ll beat Ben and be the best in their year at the class.

Defense Against the Dark Arts She’s not good at this because of any professor, she’s good at this because of her excursions into the Cursed Vaults giving her practical knowledge.

Worst Classes:

Flying Listen, if people were meant to fly, then they’d have wings, or a spell letting people properly fly would be created by now. Lili will be staying on the ground, thank you very much.

Herbology She’s lived in the city her whole life and being around so many plants is strange. She doesn’t hate the class, but she does use it to catch up with her friends rather than study.

Potions She doesn’t have the patience for potions, and that’s even when she doesn’t have Snape refusing to acknowledge her existence.

Favorite Professors:

Flitwick She thinks Flitwick is great. There’s not much more to say. He’s responsible but not smothering, and still thinks well of her brother. If she ever had to pick an adult to trust, it would be Flitwick.

Kettleburn She had taken Care of Magical Creatures because Rowan had wanted a third elective and Lili didn’t want to take Muggle Studies or Divination. However, she ended up loving the class and thinks Kettleburn is hilarious. She honestly wished she could take the class NEWT level, but her schedule was already full.

Least Favorite Professors:

Snape She has a very complicated relationship with Snape. He hates her because of her brother (who he did not get along with), because she reminds him of James Potter, and because her nickname, Lili, reminds him of his lost love Lily Evans every time he hears it. Lili, of course, does not know any of this and thinks he just hates her for no reason. Jacob thought he was a Death Eater (he got that from whispers older kids who Jacob knew were definitely Death Eaters), so Lili uses that as justification to not like him.

Rakepick She never trusted her and barely liked her, even before she became a professor. Her opinion didn’t go improve any time in fifth year.

Magic

1st Wand: Blackthorn, unicorn hair, 11 3/4 in, shiny and slightly flexible

“Blackthorn, which is a very unusual wand wood, has the reputation, in my view well-merited, of being best suited to a warrior. This does not necessarily mean that its owner practises the Dark Arts (although it is undeniable that those who do so will enjoy the blackthorn wand’s prodigious power); one finds blackthorn wands among the Aurors as well as among the denizens of Azkaban.”

2nd Wand: Aspen, phoenix feather, 12 in, fairly rigid

“In my experience, aspen wand owners are generally strong-minded and determined, more likely than most to be attracted by quests and new orders; this is a wand for revolutionaries.”

Special Abilities: Natural Legilimens, Occlumency

Boggart

Form: Jacob telling her she’s useless and unwanted and that everything she’s doing is for nothing.

Riddikulus: Has not found anything yet that works

Amortentia

What they smell: the Owlery, Standard Ingredient, and something else, something she can’t figure out

What they smell like to others: Lavender, hot chocolate, campfire smoke

Patronus

Form: A goshawk. Independent and intelligent hunters who focus intently on stalking their prey.

Memory: A childhood memory of going to a fair. Jacob looked after her the entire night, and it’s one of the last times she remembers seeing both of her parents laugh.

What they see in the Mirror of Erised: Herself with her family–Jacob is there and looks like how she remembers him, and her mother and father are holding hands and smiling. As she ages, her mother and father are phased out of the image and replaced by her friends, her new family.

FAMILY

Father: David Brooks

Muggle

b. 1943

Works at an accounting firm.

In theory, he was alright with magic and the wizarding world. In practice, it unnerved him more than he could say. When his children started doing accidental magic, and when Jacob came home from Hogwarts talking about nothing but spells and magic, that was it for David. He filed for divorce in 1980 and hasn’t spoken to his ex-wife or children since. He has since married to a fellow Muggle, treating her children as his own and speaking rarely of his biological children. He doesn’t even know Jacob disappeared.

Mother: Carina Flora Brooks (nee Braddock)

Pureblood

b. 1944

Ravenclaw

Works for a wizarding travel magazine as a photographer, travels around the world frequently

She was perhaps not meant to be a mother, and would have been happier following in her brother’s shoes of travelling the world with no responsibilities. However, her mother was insisting she marry and Carina, in a fit of rebellion, decided to marry a nice Muggle she knew instead of the purebloods her mother had picked out.

Carina was never very good with either of her children, and in particular could never get along with Jacob, resorting to abuse (emotional and physical) to try to get him to behave how she wanted. Despite this, she totally shut down when Jacob disappeared, feeling like a failure. This led to her severely neglecting her daughter to wallow in her own misery day and night. It also led to an irrational hatred of Hogwarts. She refuses to read any letters sent by them and has made several subtle attempts to make Lili miss the Hogwarts Express.

Brother: Jacob Seraphinus Ulysses Brooks

Half-blood

b. March 8th, 1967

Slytherin

Currently missing.

Never able to make friends easily or keep his mouth shut, Jacob always had a hard time fitting in, so he turned to books. He preferred fiction over nonfiction, but one history book’s mention of Cursed Vaults on Hogwarts’ grounds led to a search that would dominate his, and his sister’s, life.

He was an outcast in his house and Hogwarts, besides for a few acquaintances, and instead focused on reaching his goals. He was reckless and brave (the Sorting Hat considered putting him in Gryffindor), but obsessive, secretive, and increasingly dependent on the idea of “the end justifies the means.”

Grandfather: Ambrose Braddock

Pureblood

b. 1903

Ravenclaw

Deceased

Known for being Britain’s first natural Legilimens in a century. The Braddock family is known for being a line of natural Legilimens, but none in the family had had the ability in five generations before Ambrose was born. This ended up leading to an offer of marriage from the Malfoy family who wanted the connection to this rare ability. Later realized his grandson was also a natural Legilimens, but died before he could teach Jacob more than the basics on how to control it and never realized his granddaughter also had the ability.

Died of sickness in 1975 at age 72

Grandmother: Silvia Braddock (nee Malfoy)

Pureblood

b. 1911

Slytherin

Never worked, has always been a housewife

Your typical upper class, conservative grandmother. She may not believe that strongly in pureblood mania anymore, but she still believes in things like “children should be seen, not heard,” and corporal punishment. Was in an arranged marriage to Ambrose and never really grew to love him feeling she was marrying beneath her Malfoy heritage. Fairly reclusive nowadays, only entertaining old friends for brunch and going to the occasional pureblood party.

Uncle: Victor Felinus Braddock

Pureblood wizard

b. 1940

Gryffindor

Has a different job every few months, deosn’t really needs to have one and his work ethic shows that

Considered a fun uncle by his nephew, and an annoyance by his niece. Has a lot of stories, and a slight drinking problem. While his mother was annoyed at him for having a dalliance with a Muggle-born, she was even more furious that he refused to marry Suzie. Victor didn’t want to be tied down, and left her to raise their two daughters only appearing in their lives every few years.

Cousins: Donna and Caroline Jones

Half-bloods

b. 1960 and 1975

Both Gryffindor

Welsh

Their mother Susan Jones was a Muggle-born Sorted into Gryffindor in the same year as Victor Braddock. The two have had an on again, off again relationship since their Hogwarts years that has resulted in two daughters.

Donna was sorted into Gryffindor in 1971 (meaning she would have been roommates with Lily Evans which is a coincidence I swear) and it’s easy to see why. She’s confident, brash, and blunt. She has many problems with her father and refuses to interact with that side of the family. Works in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for the Ministry.

Caroline is the opposite of her much older sister and was surprised to find herself in Gryffindor (Sorted there in Lili’s 3rd year). She’s timid and quiet, but with a backbone hidden underneath. She wilts at any negative tones, but is always ready to extend a hand to anyone who has hurt her, even multiple times.

Step family: Sabina Brooks, Ioan and Luca Ciobanu

Muggles

b. 1949, 1975, and 1980

Immigrants from Romania to England

After divorcing Carina, David began dating Sabina shortly after and later married her, acting as a father to her two young children. The four of them live together in London.

Pets:

Alfred An easily frightened black cat that once belonged to Jacob

Doctor Hoot A large barred owl that frequently forgets it’s an owl and not a lapdog

FRIENDS

Best Friends:

Rowan Khanna Her best friend!! She originally befriended Rowan because Rowan reminded her of her muggle friend, but it soon blossomed into a different, much closer relationship. Whenever Rowan is gone, Lili doesn’t really know what to do (”I’m going to cut all the sleeves off my robes.” “Why??” “Rowan left an hour ago and she’s like 85% of my impulse control.”) and Lili would never have made it through any of the Cursed Vaults without her. She probably also would have gotten expelled for brawling and dueling in like second year without Rowan. I’m not joking about that impulse control thing.

Barnaby Lee Lili didn’t like Barnaby at first. Even before he worked for Merula, she thought he was nothing more than a stupid jock and made fun of how Snape would pick on him in Potions. Then she actually talked to him and did a complete 180. “I’ve only known Barnaby for an hour, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and them myself.” She liked how sweet and genuine he was despite his awful upbringing. He’s always there to support her, and she’s really grown to love him for that. He once thought he had a crush on her, but it wasn’t really romantic (”The feeling was friendship but he had never experienced it before.”).

Good Friends:

Bill Weasley He’s like the big brother Jacob should’ve been. She was not thrilled to have a complete stranger helping with the Vaults, but in hindsight she’s so very glad she listened to Rowan. Lili isn’t sure she could have gotten half of what she’s done done without Bill’s help and steadfastness.

Charlie Weasley Their friendship kind of crept up on Lili. Charlie was closer friends with Ben and Barnaby, so while Lili had a passing familiarity with him before the Forest Vault, she wouldn’t have called them friends. She was surprised when she turned out to really enjoy his company when he started helping with the Cursed Vaults.

Chiara Lobosca Chiara was someone Lili tangentially knew due to people confusing them for each other (the hair color; once Chiara hits a growth spurt and Lili doesn’t people stop). Then Lili is forced to partner with Chiara in Herbology in 3rd year, and besides seeing her Herbology grade go up the slightest bit, she finds a friend in Chiara, appreciating the girl’s seemingly infinite kindness.

Friends:

Nymphadora Tonks They get along in classes, but Lili doesn’t trust Tonks with anything serious.

Liz Tuttle The two have many overlapping friends but don’t really hang out with each other.

Badeea Ali She really respects Badeea, but they just don’t have many reasons to be around each other.

Jae Kim Lili thinks he’s hilarious and very smart, but doesn’t trust him as far as she could throw him.

It’s Complicated:

Ben Copper Probably the most complicated relationship here. She befriended him out of pity and continued their friendship because of his skill at Charms. He’s had a crush on her since they were 11 when she stood up for him which no one had ever done before. Then the Red Robed Wizard Reveal tm happened and Lili dropped him and ignored him, though he tried to make it up to her. 6th year only drives a deeper wedge between them as Lili can’t stand his recent behaviour. Ben finally confessing about his love for Lili in 6th year didn’t help mend anything either.

Tulip Karasu After finding out that Tulip had purposefully not told her about Jacob’s room, Lili instantly decided she was an undesirable but necessary ally. Lili does not like Tulip for most of their time at Hogwarts as she’s really pissed that someone would keep her brother’s things from her. Lili will talk to her about the Cursed Vaults, but they do not hang out and Lili does not consider her a friend. This really, really hurts Tulip’s feelings but Lili doesn’t really care. The relationship does get a bit better in 6th year, but it’s never going to be a close one. In a better world without the Vaults, they’d probably get along smashingly as while Lili isn’t a prankster, she has no problem egging them on.

Love Interests:

Penny Haywood Her first, longest, and most confusing crush. She was wary of Penny at first. Popular girls were rarely that 100% nice, but Penny truly was. She also had a nice smile and pretty hair and soft hands…. It took Lili quite a while (like four years and Bill telling her) to figure out it was a crush and then….she did absolutely nothing. She panicked and stopped talking to Penny for a while before sheepishly apologizing when Penny confronted her. They went to the Celestial Ball together, but “as friends.” That did not stop them from having a Moment that Lili interpreted completely wrongly and she assumed Penny didn’t like her romantically. Penny in fact did, and since Lili never reacted to their Moment in the proper way, Penny assumed that Lili wasn’t interested. The two continued having crushes on each other for the rest of their time at Hogwarts and remained close friends after they both graduated.

Talbott Winger Her second, less confusing, crush. Similar to Barnaby, Lili didn’t think much of Talbott at first. He was that one kid who was talented at Transfiguration and she once saw him chatting casually to an owl in the Owlery. He was weird and she ignored him. Then she was paired with him on a class assignment in 3rd year and a friendship bloomed despite Talbott’s protests. It was a casual thing at first, but then Lili helped Talbott find his mom’s necklace, and their talk under the stars about family and the past and future deepened their friendship. Having already figured out she had a crush on Penny by this time, she managed to get the signs that she now also had a crush on Talbott, which made her panic, again. However, since Talbott is even worse with emotions than her, she didn’t do anything drastic like she did with Penny. They went on one date in 6th year but that was going too fast for Talbott and they decided to stay friends until Talbott felt more comfortable being around people. Lili took this….mostly gracefully.

Diego Caplan The two met in the Dueling Club in 4th year. Diego was impressed with Lili’s skill and tried to befriend her and also maybe flirt with her a bit. Lili, who tends to gravitate towards people who are unashamedly themselves, found his over the top flirting hilarious and was instantly endeared to Diego. She really enjoyed being around him, finding his lightheartedness helped her forget some of her troubles with the Cursed Vaults, especially in 5th year. He asked her out on a date, her first one, and she agreed. She enjoyed the date, but 5th year was the peak of her obsession with the Cursed Vaults so she broke it off. They later dated again during 6th year, after Lili’s one date with Talbott.

Dormmates:

Rowan Khanna see above

Desdemona Selwyn An OC. Their entire relationship can be explained with that one text post that’s like “Bitch.” “Blocked.” “Wait unblock me I need to tell you something.” “Unblocked.” “Bitch.”

Vidalia Barrows An OC. Lili has said like two sentences to Vidalia and she plans to keep it that way. Vidalia just eats and sleeps and does whatever Desdemona says to do.

Doesn’t Interact:

Murphy McNully/Skye Parkin/Orion Amari/Erika Rath She’s not involved in Quidditch.

Andre Egwu I just can’t think of a way to work him into the plot lol They would get along somewhat well otherwise.

Enemies:

Merula Snyde Hated each other’s guts for a while. Then Lili gave up her Frog Choir spot and Merula gained a small crush (even if Lili was a total ass about giving it up). While they’ll never be friends, by the time of 5th and 6th year they’ve become reluctant allies similar to Lili and Tulip above. Lili will probably never totally befriend her, but she’s learned to be civil and that’s progress.

Ismelda Murk Lili doesn’t really like Ismelda but she considers her all bark and no bite. Ismelda hates Lili because she thinks Lili and Barnaby are gonna end up dating and is jealous.

Desdemona Selwyn An OC. See above.

Most of Slytherin House Lili has never been shy about being half Muggle and being proud of it, and in a house that still worships Voldemort, that sets her apart. The few that don’t find her being pro-Muggle distasteful don’t want to be exiles in their own dorms and avoid talking to her.

Story

Childhood:

Lili’s childhood was never that great. Her parents fought frequently over her and Jacob’s use of accidental magic, and this eventually caused them to divorce when Lili was 9. Her mother in particular was emotionally and physically abusive but Jacob spared her from the worst of it.

Jacob was always the best part of her childhood. She loved her parents, but Jacob was the person she always looked forward to seeing. When he went to Hogwarts, she was upset for weeks, and when he went missing, she was devastated (especially as he went missing the night of her birthday).

Her mother didn’t take it well. Carina was not particularly close with Jacob, but this obviously big failure of her as a parent hit her hard. She became very emotionally withdrawn from Lili and threw herself into her photography work, leaving the country, and Lili, for weeks at a time.

Lili had to become very independent very quickly after that. That, plus the fact that she didn’t have any non-Muggle friends meant she trusted very few people and lied often. Getting her Hogwarts letter was a relief and a promise of freedom

Hogwarts:

: )

see here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1467043

Adulthood:

Lili is very distraught after graduation and leaves everyone she knows behind to travel Europe and find herself. She spends several years doing this, helping people and doing odd jobs.

Eventually, she finds that she has a talent for languages, picking up a few easily in her travels, and starts to consider possibly doing something related to language whenever she goes back to Britain.

Miscellaneous

She fuckin loves scrunchies.

Has lived in a Muggle neighbourhood her whole life.

Likes muggle TV. Grew up watching Doctor Who. Not impressed with the 6th Doctor, and glad she was away at Hogwarts during his run. Favorite Doctor is the 4th and she knit herself her own version of his scarf.

Likes collecting things! She loves cool rocks on the sidewalk, tacky tourist souvenirs, and things you find for $1 in a thrift store.

She can knit, crochet and sew. She likes making little crochet animals and giving them to friends (or just keeping them and having a plushy empire around her bed).

Loves having her photo taken and has a whole collection of photos, but hates taking photos. It reminds her of her mother.

One of her Muggle friends got her into fencing. She thought it would be useful to hone her athletic skills with, so she continued doing it when she went back to Hogwarts in the fall.

The type of person who needs to be doing something 24/7. When she doesn’t have anything to focus on, she tends to be all over the place and rather annoying.

Quieter and more complacent as a kid. it was after her family broke apart that the need to be so driven started to become a part of her personality.

Love Like You from Steven Universe is a song for her and Jacob (from Jacob’s POV)

Chameleon by Michela is a song that fits her

Tropes:

Big Brother Worship

Determinator

Family Eye Resemblance

Good is Not Nice

Hair Trigger Temper

Jerk with a Heart of Gold

Parental Neglect

#hphm #harry potter hogwarts mystery #hogwarts mystery #hphm mc #jacob's sibling #jacobs sibling #lili brooks #art be mine #this is super long lol #pls enjoy #texttexttext post

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silent-redemption · 6 years ago

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Blog theme change + 4th Arc Update

Hello, Mod Infinite here!

Its been a while, but im glad to inform you that progress has been made and you will see it very, very soon!!!

I wanted to adress 2 things in this post, very quick and very simple:

First of all, the curent theme the blog has is broken.

After the change of rules on tumblr for some reasons a lot of themes were whiped out, if you had one of thoses you will keep it so I didnt mind right away. But I did later on.

Recently I went back to the code to add something new to the blog and realize that you cant edit it, all attempts end up with an error message and Tumblr will require you to change your theme.

Which sucks, I liked the current desktop theme and I liked to add little details as change the colors of all the blog as we change the arc or event. I can’t leave the blog like this since the sidepages were currently updating with the character’s info, the blog rules and the chronological story for new readers.

The 4th arc Mystic Jungle: Eggman’s Base is coming, and along that update I will also update the theme blog, hopefully to something similar to what we had.

This is to ease navegation though our blog on desktop and not go all the way down to start reading. Mobile users won’t see this changes unless they open Tumblr on a phone browser, and that will gave them at least the sidepages to see.

So yeah, I wont announce when the new theme will be up, we will just roll with up.

Second, the 4th arc progress

I told you the 4th arc is coming, how close to release is that sentence??

Well, the introduction post presented in a comic-like format has 8 panels in total and from that the first half is completed and second half is still in production.

The idea is release them separatedly but next to each other. We ask a few months ago if you were okay with 2 art styles or just prefeered one and thank the lord you pick 2, my moral and tendonitis appreciate it so first half is one style and second the other, to get back into the flow before open the askbox and answer questions.

BUT BEFORE WE POST THAT I want to draw a cover for the 3rd arc Mystic Jungle: Aqua Road, not only giving you content while we finish the introduction but also to seal that arc officially. I ended up liking to draw thoses covers.

So yeah, I think thats all

Thank you for sticking with us, you will see more updates from this blog very soon!! While is winter and class season here, is summer and vacations season on the other half of the world

-Mod Infinite

#ooc #mod infinite

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watchingthesuperbowl · 8 years ago

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Notes taken during Super Bowl XXX

PREGAME

This is another Channel 4 joint. Gary Imlach, Marv Levy, and Drew Pearson are the UK commentators.

Cowboys to receive the kickoff.

NBC had this game in the United States. Dick Enberg on PBP. Paul Maguire is the color commentator. Phil Simms is in the booth too, it seems.

FIRST QUARTER

First play is a pass to Jay Novacek underneath. Broken up by Carnell Lake.

Second down, intermediate pass to Michael Irvin. 20 yards, out to midfield. Irvin motioning that he couldn't see the ball because he was looking into the sun. Caught it anyway.

Michael Irvin can’t see.

Deion Sanders in at WR for the Cowboys now, so of course they hand the ball to Emmitt Smith. 23 yard run, to the Pittsburgh 28.

Third and long, jet sweep to Kevin Williams. Enberg calls it a reverse. (Grrrrr.) He's stuffed and the Cowboys will attempt a 42 yard field goal. Chris Boniol. Yep, got it. 3-0 Dallas, less than three minutes into the game.

NBC graphic: Team scoring first has won 21 of 29 Super Bowls.

Steelers heading into the sun in the first quarter. First play is a handoff to Erric Pegram for two yards.

Kordell Stewart in for Pittsburgh as a slot receiver. 1995 appears to have been the year of the multi-position star.

Steelers go five-wide on third down. Enberg says it's a revolutionary formation from the Steelers this year. That seems a bit overly effusive, no? I feel like run and shoot teams like the Falcons, Oilers, and Denver Gold would have gone five-wide with some regularity.

O'Donnell throws underneath on third and long. Receiver tackled immediately and it's a three-and-out.

Imlach asks Marv Levy how the Steelers should deal with the great Dallas offensive line. I love Marv Levy dearly - he's one of my favorite sports people of all time - but I think we've established that Marv doesn't have a bunch of answers for the Cowboys in the Super Bowl.

NBC graphic: Cowboys offensive line averages 333 pounds per person.

Maguire: Steelers say Cowboys' offensive strength is their run game. Cowboys say Cowboys' offensive strength is their pass game.

Aikman goes deeeeep on a post pattern to Deion Sanders. Perfect throw. Sanders makes the grab. 47 yard gain, inside the Pittsburgh 20.

Maguire: Aikman tells a story about practice, when he threw a pass to Deion Sanders as far and as hard as he can throw it. He was certain he'd overthrown Sanders, but when he went back and watched the film, Deion actually had to slow down to catch the pass.

Aikman to Novacek inside the 5. First and goal from the 3.

Next play, play fake to Smith, toss to a wide open Novacek. Easy score. 10-0 Dallas in the first quarter. Replay shows it was pretty clearly an illegal pick to clear space for Novacek.

Drew Pearson: Expect Steelers to pass more - need to open things up for the run game.

Levy: Novacek hid behind his line on the touchdown pass, lined up as a wingback right and crossed behind the line, and the Steelers lost track of him.

Maguire: This is a brand new field since the Fiesta Bowl. Players expected it to be tight, but they're slipping all over the place. Field isn't tight.

Steelers go no-huddle after a first down. Cowboys only have nine players on the field and have to call a timeout.

NBC promo: Next weekend, Gulliver's Travels starring Ted Danson!

Byron "Bam" "Choo Choo" Morris into the backfield for Pittsburgh. CHOO CHOO!!! Up the middle for six.

Third down, a pitch to Kordell Stewart. Short by a half-yard. What a weird call - why not just snap it directly to him, since he's a quarterback and stuff.

Steelers going for it on fourth and less than a yard. Kordell Stewart lines up under center and Neil O'Donnell lines up as a wide receiver. Again, weird. Everybody in the stadium knows you're not passing the ball to Neil O'Donnell. Why play with 10 offensive players? Anyway, it works. QB sneak.

Enberg: Bill Cowher is the youngest coach ever to take a team to the Super Bowl. 38 years old.

Third and 8, O'Donnell stands in and fires it to Andre Hastings. He has plenty of time. First down.

They go no-huddle again and the shotgun snap is about five feet over O'Donnell's head. Loss of 13.

Current drive: 11 plays, 24 yards, 5:07 and counting. 11 plays for 24 yards!

Last play of the quarter, O'Donnell to Corey Holliday. He's a rookie who had zero receptions in the regular season and, over the course of his career, had a total of one regular season catch.

First quarter ends. Dallas 10, Pittsburgh 0.

SECOND QUARTER

3rd and 13, O'Donnell rolls and is nearly picked off by Larry Brown. It's decision time on 4th and 13 from the Dallas 39. They'll punt. There are no good choices here, only choices that are less bad than others. Predictably, Rohn Stark blasts it through the end zone for a 19 yard net.

Enberg: Jay Novacek's mom collected aluminum cans all year so she could pay her own way to see her son in the Super Bowl. She didn't want him to have to pay for her.

Four passes in a row to Novacek. His mom's getting her money's worth.

Second and 10, Aikman to Irvin into Steelers territory for a first down.

Maguire: Emmitt Smith told his linemen that when they block, he doesn't want to see their stomachs. Just keep blocking straight ahead and Emmitt will find the hole.

Simms: Steelers are getting no pressure at all on Aikman.

Third and 5, Aikman is confused by the play call. Looks at the sideline quizzically, figures it out, and completes a pass to Moose Johnston for four and a half. It's a measurement, but it's almost certainly going to be short. He is. It's about eight inches short. Barry Switzer will go for it.

Moose Johnston gets it easily. Everybody expected Emmitt, Switzer crossed them up.

Aikman looks deep and Michael Irvin grabs it as he steps into the end zone. Offensive pass interference. He grabbed Carnell Lake on the way past him.

So what do the Cowboys do? They throw the ball to Jay Novacek. He's having another big Super Bowl. 19 yard gain.

Cowboy drive stalls there and Chris Boniol comes on for a 35 yard field goal attempt. Right down the middle. Three possessions, three scores for Dallas. 13-0, mid-second quarter.

During commercial break, Channel 4 plays a bit of the Navajo language broadcast of the game. Neat.

Drew Pearson: Players are probably using wrong shoes for this surface, there are a lot of slips. If it were me, I'd use Astroturf shoes because the ground is hard under the grass.

O'Donnell throws behind Yancey Thigpen on first down. Nearly picked off..

Pittsburgh goes three and out. Rohn Stark punts. While the ball is rolling, a Steeler comes from out of nowhere and clobbers a Cowboy in the back, sending him flying into the ball. The Steelers recover, but it's (correctly) ruled Dallas ball. That was weird. Pittsburgh players are flipping out, but c'mon. That was never your ball.

Levy says the Dallas player should have been nowhere near that ball, regardless of whether he was shoved.

Pearson: Steelers are confused. Don't know whether they want to run the ball or throw it. Dallas defense is dominating at the line of scrimmage and O'Donnell isn't hitting passes.

Greg Lloyd hits Emmitt Smith in the knee on a tackle on second down. It wasn't intentional. Emmitt is limping a bit.

Third and 10, Chris Oldham knocks down a pass intended for Irvin, who was behind the defense. Cowboys three and out for the first time.

Steelers take over at their 46. First down, O'Donnell misses an open receiver. Second down, it's a coverage sack. Charles Haley got him for a loss of 10. Third and 20, O'Donnell to Hastings for 19 yards. Maguire emphatically says they have to go for this. This is four-down territory, period.

A replay shows Deion Sanders completely whiffed on an attempted tackle on the third down play.

Fourth and inches, Kordell Stewart has no trouble picking up the first down on a QB sneak.

Second and 10, CHOO CHOO! Bam Morris blows through the line for around 13 yards. We hit the two-minute warning with the Steelers at the Dallas 30.

Third and 7, O'Donnell to Mills for six and a half yards. It's an absolutely horrible spot and the refs give Pittsburgh a free first down.

Enberg begins to talk about NBC coverage of this game on the World Wide Web, but Channel 4 cuts away mid-sentence. That was the first internet reference I've seen during a Super Bowl.

Third and long, O'Donnell finds Mills near the 5. Probably should have been overthrown, but it was a great catch. Steelers call timeout with 0:17 left in the half. They have no more timeouts. If they don't kick here, they need to throw into the end zone.

And they do exactly that. O'Donnell zips it through some traffic to Yancey Thigpen, who beat Deion Sanders. Deion shoved him into the path of the ball. Suddenly, despite the Cowboys' dominance, it's only 13-7. 13 seconds left - you'd think Pittsburgh squibs the kickoff and Dallas takes a knee on first down.

Cowboys run a reverse on the kick return. They get it to their 37.

Yep, Aikman takes a knee. 13-7 at the half.

THIRD QUARTER

Kickoff goes out of bounds. Steelers get it at their own 40 yard line.

CHOO CHOO! Bam Morris blows through tacklers like a freight train. 15 yard run gets the Steelers to the Cowboys' 35.

Steelers go five-wide on third and 9. Dallas blitzes and O'Donnell has to throw too quickly. Incomplete pass, so inexplicably they'll punt from the Dallas 33. Rohn Stark kicks it into the end zone because that's what happens when you punt from the opponent's 33.

Pearson: Steelers didn't really lose momentum on that drive. Didn't score, but they moved the ball.

Second and 11 for the Cowboys, the Steelers try to cover Michael Irvin underneath with a linebacker. Predictably, this doesn't work and Dallas gets 15.

Cowboys don't do much - just the one first down to Irvin - and they punt.

Steelers run on first down. Maguire says he cannot understand why the Steelers aren't running four and five wide receivers.

Second down, Kordell Stewart takes a handoff on a run/pass option. Doesn't have his receiver open, pulls the ball down and jets down the sideline for 12.

Maguire: Steelers are throwing plays away. I don't even know why they're running some of these plays. (Runs up the middle on first down, in particular)

Third and ten, Pittsburgh goes four-wide, Neil O'Donnell has plenty of time, and throws the ball right to a wide-open Larry Brown. He hit Brown right in the numbers. The problem is that Brown is a cornerback for the Cowboys. Brown returns it inside the Steelers' 20. First turnover of the game.

First play of the Dallas drive, Aikman to Irvin on the sideline. Steps out of bounds at the 2.

One play later, Emmitt Smith powers it into the end zone. Or so the officials say. He's clearly down before the ball crosses the goal line. Whatever. It's a touchdown. 20-7 Cowboys, middle of the third quarter.

Levy: Not sure the interception was a gamebreaker, but it's going to come down to how the Steelers respond. And the fact that they got called for a penalty on the kickoff return isn't a great sign.

Levy thinks Smith got into the end zone, for what it's worth. I disagree, but I respect Marv.

Pearson: I'm not saying the Steelers need to abandon their (run-heavy) gameplan, but they need to throw the ball a bit to open up space in the Dallas defense.

Maguire is still baffled by the Steeler offense after they hand the ball to Choo Choo Morris on 2nd and 13. They pick up the first down on third and long when Andre Hastings breaks a tackle.

Third and short, O'Donnell pitches the ball way the heck backwards to Erric Pegram. I really hate the call - going backwards to go forwards when you need a yard and a half - but he cuts it back for a first down.

Incredible catch by Ernie Mills out near midfield. He was wide open and had to dive with his arms fully extended to get to the ball. Miserable throw.

Fourth and yard and a half near midfield. 2:00 or so left in the third. Steelers go for it, run Choo Choo into the teeth of the defense, and he doesn't have a chance. Cowboys take over on downs, up 13 with 1:26 left in the third quarter.

...and they do nothing with the ball. Cowboys will boot it away after Rod Woodson makes a nice break on a third down pass to Michael Irvin. John Jett kicks it through the end zone.

Steelers pick up 12 on a first down pass to Mills. Deion Sanders, in coverage, tells his teammates after the play that was his fault, he should have done better. Third quarter ends, still 20-7 Dallas.

Pearson: Very surprised Cowher went for it on the fourth and one, particularly at midfield. Would have run a lead blocker.

FOURTH QUARTER

First play of the quarter, Choo Choo shows his nimble footwork. Dances to midfield.

One play later, Ernie Mills is nearly decapitated by Scott Case on a catch over the middle. He maybe drops the pass, maybe fumbles, but it's called a fumble. Tight end Mark Bruener recovers. The officials didn't seem to know what to do. It took them forever to make that call.

Later in the drive, O'Donnell scrambles, rolls right and finds Mills. Nearly picked by Larry Brown. He easily could have had three picks by now.

Third and short, O'Donnell to Thigpen now. Pittsburgh is moving the ball. A touchdown here and it's anybody's game. 12:00 and counting on the clock.

Steelers have to burn a timeout before a crucial third down play. That hurts.

What hurts worse is a sack by Charles Haley on that third down. Knocks Pittsburgh almost out of field goal range.

Norm Johnson attempts and makes a 46-yard field goal on a field with shaky footing. Nice kick. It's now 20-10 Cowboys. Steelers still alive.

Onside kick! Steelers recover! They've got it at midfield and coach Bill Cowher is PUMPED.

Enberg: 12th onside kick in Super Bowl history. Fourth successful one.

Steelers on fire now. Two great catches on the first two plays and they're inside the Dallas 30.

Third play of the drive, O'Donnell to Mills near the Dallas 20. Larry Brown hits Mills in the back and the receiver's knee twists. Mills is injured and the furious Steelers comeback has to take a break.

Steelers get inside the Dallas 20 on a punishing Bam Morris run up the middle.

O'Donnell to Thigpen, and the Steelers have reached the Dallas 5. Thigpen is decked by linebacker Dixon Edwards, but holds on.

First down, Morris to the 2. Second down, Morris to about the six inch line. He got royally boned on that call. He was in the end zone.

There's no such controversy on third down as Morris goes untouched around right end. He walks into the end zone. Suddenly it's a three-point ballgame. 20-17, mid-fourth quarter. (6:36 to be exact.)

Kevin Williams drops the kickoff and only gets out to the 12. Steelers fans in the stadium are going crazy.

NBC graphic: Cowboys have a total of 41 yards on their last five drives. They get 22 yards on the first play of this drive.

Second down, linebacker Levon Kirkland blitzes and runs into Aikman. Didn't tackle him, but blasted him backwards for an eight yard loss. Now it's 3rd and 17.

Incomplete pass on third down, Kevin Williams wants pass interference, the officials (correctly) say nope. John Jett will punt. The Steelers have 4:15 to get into position for a game-tying field goal. Plenty of time.

First down, Andre Hastings drops an easy one. He was wide open downfield.

Second down, O'Donnell hits a wide-open Larry Brown in the numbers again. Still a problem: Brown still plays for the other team. He returns it to the Steelers' 6. Looked like O'Donnell expected his receiver to break outside and he didn't.

Replay shows that if O'Donnell had thrown downfield, his receiver was so wide open that could have almost walked into the end zone. That's (probably) the ballgame.

Yep, it's the ballgame. Emmitt gets into the end zone on second and goal. 27-17 Dallas. That's Smith's 18th career postseason touchdown, tying Thurman Thomas for most all-time.

The Steelers need 10 points in 3:43. Not impossible, but certainly improbable.

First down, Andre Hastings fights for an extra five yards and stays in bounds instead of getting out and stopping the clock. Next play, complete to Corey Holliday. Holliday now has more catches in this game than he had in all of the regular season games he ever played combined.

Enberg: O'Donnell is #1 all-time in least interceptions thrown. Presumably this is in terms of INT%.

Steelers near the Dallas 40 as we hit the two-minute warning. Again, this comeback isn't impossible, but it's unlikely.

Maguire says he thinks Deion Sanders might take a year off from baseball if the Cowboys win this game. They did and he did.

Third down, Andre Hastings drops another pass. O'Donnell is limping after Cowboys DL Chad Hennings lands on him.

John L. Williams, one of the best receiving backs of his era drops a pass on fourth down. The ball was behind him, but he probably should have had it. Cowboys get the ball on downs.

Larry Brown named MVP. Was a 12th round pick in the draft, 320th player picked.

Aikman takes a few knees and the game ticks away.

Simms: The Steelers had many, many chances to win this game.

0:13 left, fourth down, and Dallas will punt because they have to do something. Dallas downs it with 0:03 left. The Steelers need 10 points in three seconds. Spoiler alert: They don't do it.

12th consecutive Super Bowl win for the NFC. (XIX-XXX)

Steelers lining up to throw deep on the final play. Why not, I guess. Brock Marion picks it off, not that it matters.

Final score: Dallas 27, Pittsburgh 17.

POSTGAME

Enberg: Pete Rozelle said his favorite Super Bowl was the 35-31 Steelers-Cowboys game in Super Bowl XIII. (For what it's worth, I agree and also have that game atop my list, at least through the first XXX Super Bowls.)

Marv Levy: Games in which a team has turnover differential at least +2, they win 94% of the time.

Imlach to Pearson: Are the Cowboys a legitimate Team of the 90s? Pearson: Yes, they're absolutely the Team of the 90s.

I think this is the first trophy presentation to happen on the field.

Jerry Jones: I want to tell all Steelers fans, and their owners and coaches, what a great team you have and how hard they fought tonight.

Jones: As talented as our players are, they're even more mentally tough than that.

Jones: Of my three Super Bowl wins as an owner, this is the sweetest. This was the closest game of the three.

Greg Gumbel to Switzer: Before the game, you told me whether you win or lose, you're not concerned what people think about you. Is that still true? Switzer: Yes, still true. I care about my family, and these guys are who I want to be with. The Dallas Cowboys.

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It wasn’t always pretty Saturday night but Auburn did find the endzone three times. A closer look at those touchdown drives.

Once again, Auburn’s offense struggled out the gate. The Tigers went 3 & out to open the game (shout out to Auburn’s game clock...) and then followed that possession up with a fumble on 4th & 1 they weren’t going to convert anyway. What did they do on the next two possessions after failing to get five yards on four plays?

They went 3 & out....

Thankfully, Auburn’s offense found a spark early in the 2nd quarter. Facing another 3rd down situation, Gus Malzahn decided to dial up one of my favorite plays in his arsenal.

This play is probably best remembered as the final dagger Auburn planted in UGA’s chest back in 2017 on that beautiful night in Jordan-Hare. While this one didn’t go for a touchdown it did get Auburn’s offense moving again.

The Tigers are in 20 personnel meaning they have two backs (I am classifying Nigh as a fullback), no tight ends and three wide receivers on the field. It’s cut off in this gif due to the highlight tape I ripped it from but Auburn is initially in a Shotgun look with Whitlow offset to the right of Nix. However, before the snap, Nix moves under center while Boobee slides up to the side of Nigh. Anthony Schwartz comes across the formation and his sweep action draws FOUR Tulane defenders. As a result, when Boobee slips out the backside there is only one man that can stop him. Granted, that defender trucks Marquel Harrell but Prince Tega Wanogho gets enough of him to ensure Boobee moves the chains.

Auburn then goes hurry up. They don’t get much on a draw play (Harrell gets beat across his face, Boobee fails to see the cutback) following the first down but on 2nd down the Tigers strike gold.

All three of Bo Nix’s touchdowns this season have come from exploiting busts in the defense. As a true freshman, to already have the savviness to quickly recognize a major error in the defense and immediately take advantage is not something you see everyday.

Auburn is in a 2x2 look with Will Hastings and Seth Williams near side and Sal Cannella and Eli Stove up top. It looks like Auburn is simply running four verticals on this play. Auburn has a major mismatch pre snap with Will Hastings being covered by Patrick Johnson who is actually a pass rusher that plays the hybrid LB/DE position called the Joker in Tulane’s defense (think Buck). That mismatch gets even better when Johnson just sits down in zone coverage leaving Hastings free over the middle. The deep safety can’t help because he’s reacting to the vertical routes to the far side of the field. Nix quickly recognizes Hastings is wide open, gets him the ball and Hastings hits Tulane’s last remaining hope with a spin move for the score.

After that drive, Auburn had some momentum going on offense. Tulane could do nothing with their ensuing possession and the Tigers got the ball back at their own 42. After two quick completions to Eli Stove gets one first down, Auburn finds themselves facing another 3rd down situation. Auburn again decides to spread the field with four wideouts and Nix finds Williams in a favorable matchup.

This play might end up costing Auburn a lot depending on how long it takes for Williams to recover from his shoulder injury but it was a huge play in Saturday night’s game. Both slot wide receivers are running crossing routes over the middle. It kind of looks like Mesh but typically the crossing routes are run much closer to each other in that type of concept. Either way, Nix had Hastings here for a first down if he hits him in stride over the middle. Instead, Nix elects to take the 1 on 1 matchup with Williams.

If Nix throws this over Williams’s outside shoulder then it probably carries Williams into the endzone. But that is a bit of a nitpick, he throws a good enough ball for Williams to make a play on which he does. Unfortunately, Williams would leave the game with a shoulder injury and when he can return to action is unknown at this time.

Following that big play and stop in action to address Williams’s injury, Auburn would line up in Wildcat and Boobee would try to go over the top. For the 2nd straight week, an Auburn player would attempt to dive over the pile and stretch the ball out only to have it knocked away by a defender. This time, the ball would be ruled to have been dislodged before crossing the goal line. Thankfully, a heads up play by Marquel Harrell saved the drive.

I thought Auburn might wait for a review because it looks like maybe Whitlow broke the plane before fumbling but Malzahn elects to go fast.

The Tigers are in an unbalanced look with Wanogho lined up on the right side as an extra tackle. Tega is able to reach stud Tulane pass rusher Patrick Johnson and keep him out of the play. Nigh pulls around and fits on the edge player creeping out wide while Sal does a good job cracking the outside linebacker. The DB who was matched up with Stove in man coverage is the only man with a shot at stopping Stove but he can’t get there in time.

Unfortunately, Auburn would spend the rest of this half trapped inside their own 20 yard line. A discombobulated final drive of the half would end with no points and the Tigers headed into halftime with an uncomfortable 14-6 lead.

Tulane would again flip the field to start the 2nd half. Auburn started their first drive at their own 5 yard line. They would get a first down but that would be it. On the following drive, Auburn started on the 18 but would FINALLY get the run game going. A questionable pass interference call on a wheel route to Harold Joiner on 3rd & 3 got the drive kickstarted and from there it was all Boobee ending with this beautiful Wildcat touchdown.

Who doesn’t love a well executed Buck Sweep?

Facing 2nd & 4 from inside the 15, Auburn goes Wildcat out of the hurry up and runs Buck Sweep. Both guards pull around to the weak side while the rest of the offensive line down blocks. What makes this play is the outstanding job Jack Driscoll, Prince Tega Wanogho and Spencer Nigh do sealing their men inside. When Horton and Harrell pull around, there’s no one to block at first. Tulane’s beefy nose tackle eventually breaks free from Driscoll but Harrell is there to clean him up. Horton continues down field and is able to get enough of the last remaining defensive back to allow Boobee to get into the endzone untouched.

The Tigers had a ton of success running Buck Sweep out of the Wildcat this past Saturday night. Don’t be surprised if you see more of it in the very near future, not just out of the Wildcat look either.

Overall, it was a disappointing performance for the offense but you continue to see the flashes that give hope. Nix is still developing but continues to exploit failures in the defense. He would have had another touchdown if he could have hit Hastings in stride to end the half.

The run game is still a major concern. Auburn’s is struggling to get much movement when running Inside or Split Zone but were able to eat up yards out of those concepts vs Oregon thanks to Boobee doing a great job being patient and finding a hole. That didn’t work against Tulane as both Boobee struggled identifying the correct run lane and Auburn’s offensive line continued to struggle getting much movement. The Tigers found some success running more gap concepts (like Power and Buck Sweep) in the 2nd half especially when running behind either Wanogho or Driscoll.

I suspect Auburn will have success regardless of scheme this Saturday against a very bad Kent State defense so we really won’t get answers about this run game until they head to College Station in two weeks. The inconsistency to execute the core concepts of Malzahn’s philosophy is a major concern yet both games Auburn’s offense has found a way to get the run game going in the 2nd half. That’s a flip from the way things usually go under Malzahn. Typically Auburn’s offense starts out on fire running the pregame script before stalling out in the 2nd & 3rd quarters. This year, Auburn’s opening scripts have been duds but the staff has done a great job making adjustments to spark some important drives. It’s important they figure out how to do both over the next two weeks before Auburn enters the gauntlet that is their SEC schedule in 2019.

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Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO

Last Friday I had the pleasure of watching John Mueller of Google being interviewed on the BrightonSEO main stage by (Distilled alumna!) Hannah Smith. I found it hugely interesting how different it was from the previous similarly formatted sessions with John I’ve seen - by Aleyda at BrightonSEO previously, and more recently by my colleague Will Critchlow at SearchLove. In this post, I want to get into some of the interesting implications in what John did and, crucially, did not say.

I’m not going to attempt here to cover everything John said exhaustively - if that’s what you’re looking for, I recommend this post by Deepcrawl’s Sam Marsden, or this transcript via Glen Allsopp (from which I’ve extracted below). This will also not be a tactical post - I was listening to this Q&A from the perspective of wanting to learn more about Google, not necessarily what to change in my SEO campaigns on Monday morning.

Looking too closely?

I’m aware of the dangers of reading too much into the minutia of what John Mueller, Garry Ilyes, and crew come out with - especially when he’s talking live and unscripted on stage. Ultimately, as John said himself, it’s his job to establish a flow of information between webmasters and search engineers at Google. There are famously few people, or arguably no people at all, who know the ins and outs of the search algorithm itself, and it is not John’s job to get into it in this depth.

That said, he has been trained, and briefed, and socialised, to say certain things, to not say certain things, to focus on certain areas, and so on. This is where our takeaways can get a little more interesting than the typical, clichéd “Google says X” or “we think Google is lying about Y”. I’d recommend this presentation and deck from Will if you want to read more about that approach, and some past examples.

So, into the meat of it.

1. “We definitely use links to recognize new content”

Hannah: Like I said, this is top tier sites... Links are still a ranking factor though, right? You still use links as a ranking factor?

John: We still use links. I mean it's not the only ranking factor, so like just focusing on links, I don't think that makes sense at all... But we definitely use links to recognize new content.

Hannah: So if you then got effectively a hole, a very authoritative hole in your link graph... How is that going to affect how links are used as a ranking factor or will it?

John: I dunno, we'll see. I mean it's one of those things also where I see a lot of times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway. So it's rare that we wouldn't be able to find any of that new content. So I don't think everything will fall apart. If that happens or when that happens, but it does make it a little bit harder for us. So it's kind of tricky, but we also have lots of other signals that we look at. So trying to figure out how relevant a page is, is not just based on the links too.

The context here is that Hannah was interested in how much of a challenge it is for Google when large numbers of major editorial sites start adding the “nofollow” attribute to all their external links - which has been a trend of late in the UK, and I suspect elsewhere. If authoritative links are still an important trust factor, does this not weaken that data?

The interesting thing for me here was very much in what John did not say. Hannah asks him fairly directly whether links are a ranking factor, and he evades three times, by discussing the use of links for crawling & discovering content, rather than for establishing a link graph and therefore a trust signal:

“We still use links”

“We definitely use links to recognize new content”

“It’s rare we wouldn’t be able to find any of that new content”

There’s also a fourth example, earlier in the discussion - before the screenshot - where he does the same:

“...being able to find useful content on the web, links kind of play a role in that.”

This is particularly odd as in general, Google is pretty comfortable still discussing links as a ranking factor. Evidently, though, something about this context caused this slightly evasive response. The “it’s not the only ranking factor” response feels like a bit of an evasion too, given that Google essentially refuses to discuss other ranking factors that might establish trust/authority, as opposed to just relevance and baseline quality - see my points below on user signals!

Personally, I also thought this comment was very interesting and somewhat vindicating of my critique of a lot of ranking factor studies:

“...a lot of the times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway”

Yeah, of course - links are correlated with just about any other metric you can imagine, whether it be branded search volume, social shares, click-through rate, whatever.

2. Limited spots on page 1 for transactional sites

Hannah: But thinking about like a more transactional query, for example. Let's just say that you want to buy some contact lenses, how do you know if the results you've ranked first is the right one? If you've done a good job of ranking those results?

John: A lot of times we don't know, because for a lot of these queries there is no objective, right or wrong. They're essential multiple answers that we could say this could make sense to show as the first result. And I think in particular for cases like that, it's useful for us to have those 10 blue links or even 10 results in the search page, where it's really something like we don't completely know what you're looking for. Are you looking for information on these contact lenses? Do you want to buy them? Do you want to compare them? Do you want to buy a specific brand maybe from this-

This is one of those things where I think I could have figured this out from the information I already had, but it clicked into place for me listening to this explanation from John. If John is saying there’s a need to show multiple intents on the first page for even a fairly commercial query, there is an implication that only so many transactional pages can appear.

Given that, in many verticals, there are far more than 10 viable transactional sites, this means that if you drop from being the 3rd best to the 4th best among those, you could drop from, for example, position 5 to position 11. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we’re analysing search results statistically - whether it be in ranking factor studies or forecasting the results of our SEO campaigns, the relationship between the levers we pull and the outputs we see can be highly non-linear. A small change might move you 6 ranking positions, past sites which have a different intent and totally different metrics when it comes to links, on-page optimisation, or whatever else.

3. User signals as a ranking factor

Hannah: Surely at that point, John, you would start using signals from users, right? You would start looking at which results are clicked through most frequently, would you start looking at stuff like that at that point?

John: I don't think we would use that for direct ranking like that. We use signals like that to analyze the algorithms in general, because across a million different search queries we can figure out like which one tends to be more correct or not, depending on where people click. But for one specific query for like a handful of pages, it can go in so many different directions. It's really-

So, the suggestion here is that user signals - presumably CTR (click-through rates), dwell time, etc. - are used to appraise the algorithm, but not as part of the algorithm. This has been the line from Google for a while, but I found this response far more explicit and clear than John M’s skirting round the subject in the past.

It’s difficult to square this with some past experiments from the likes of Rand Fishkin manipulating rankings with hundreds of people in a conference hall clicking results for specific queries, or real world results I’ve discussed here. In the latter case, we could maybe say that this is similar to Panda - Google has machine learned what on-site attributes go with users finding a site trustworthy, rather than measuring trust & quality directly. That doesn’t explain Rand’s results, though.

Here are a few explanations I think are possible:

Google just does not want to admit to this, because it’d look spammable (whether or not it actually is)

In fact, they use something like “site recent popularity” as part of the algorithm, so, on a technicality, don’t need to call it CTR or user signals

The algorithm is constantly appraising itself, and adjusts in response to a lot of clicks on a result that isn’t p1 - but the ranking factor that gets adjusted is some arbitrary attribute of that site, not the user signal itself

Just to explain what I mean by the third one a little further - imagine if there are three sites ranking for a query, which are sites A, B, & C. At the start, they rank in that order - A, B, C. It just so happens, by coincidence, that site C has the highest word count.

Lots of people suddenly search the query and click on result C. The algorithm is appraising itself based on user signals, for example, cases where people prefer the 3rd place result, so needs to adjust to make this site rank higher. Like any unsupervised machine learning, it finds a way, any way, to fit the desired outcome to the inputs for this query, which in this case is weighting word count more highly as a ranking factor. As such, result C ranks first, and we all claim CTR is the ranking factor. Google can correctly say CTR is not a ranking factor, but in practice, it might as well be.

For me, the third option is the most contrived, but also fits in most easily with my real world experience, but I think either of the other explanations, or even all 3, could be true.

Discussion

I hope you’ve enjoyed my rampant speculation. It’s only fair that you get to join in too: tweet me at @THCapper, or get involved in the comments below.

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anthonykrierion · 6 years ago

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Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO

Looking too closely?

So, into the meat of it.

1. “We definitely use links to recognize new content”

Hannah: Like I said, this is top tier sites... Links are still a ranking factor though, right? You still use links as a ranking factor?

John: We still use links. I mean it's not the only ranking factor, so like just focusing on links, I don't think that makes sense at all... But we definitely use links to recognize new content.

Hannah: SO if you then got effectively a hole, a very authoritative hole in your link graph... How is that going to affect how links are used as a ranking factor or will it?

“We still use links”

“We definitely use links to recognize new content”

“It’s rare we wouldn’t be able to find any of that new content”

There’s also a fourth example, earlier in the discussion - before the screenshot - where he does the same:

“...being able to find useful content on the web, links kind of play a role in that.”

Personally, I also thought this comment was very interesting and somewhat vindicating of my critique of a lot of ranking factor studies:

“...a lot of the times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway”

Yeah, of course - links are correlated with just about any other metric you can imagine, whether it be branded search volume, social shares, click-through rate, whatever.

2. Limited spots on page 1 for transactional sites

Given that, in many verticals, there are far more than 10 viable transactional sites, this means that if you drop from being the 3rd best to the 4th best among those, you could drop from, for example, position 5 to position 11. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we’re analysing search results statistically - whether it be in ranking factor studies or forecasting the results of our SEO campaigns, the relationship between the levers we pull and the outputs can be highly non-linear. A small change might move you 6 ranking positions, past sites which have a different intent and totally different metrics when it comes to links, on-page optimisation, or whatever else.

3. User signals as a ranking factor

Here are a few explanations I think are possible:

Google just does not want to admit to this, because it’d look spammable (whether or not it actually is)

In fact, they use something like “site recent popularity” as part of the algorithm, so, on a technicality, don’t need to call it CTR or user signals

For me, the third option is the most contrived, but also fits in most easily with my real world experience, but I think either of the other explanations, or even all 3, could be true.

Discussion

I hope you’ve enjoyed my rampant speculation. It’s only fair that you get to join in too: tweet me at @THCapper, or get involved in the comments below.

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dillenwaeraa · 6 years ago

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Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO

Looking too closely?

So, into the meat of it.

1. “We definitely use links to recognize new content”

Hannah: Like I said, this is top tier sites... Links are still a ranking factor though, right? You still use links as a ranking factor?

John: We still use links. I mean it's not the only ranking factor, so like just focusing on links, I don't think that makes sense at all... But we definitely use links to recognize new content.

Hannah: SO if you then got effectively a hole, a very authoritative hole in your link graph... How is that going to affect how links are used as a ranking factor or will it?

“We still use links”

“We definitely use links to recognize new content”

“It’s rare we wouldn’t be able to find any of that new content”

There’s also a fourth example, earlier in the discussion - before the screenshot - where he does the same:

“...being able to find useful content on the web, links kind of play a role in that.”

Personally, I also thought this comment was very interesting and somewhat vindicating of my critique of a lot of ranking factor studies:

“...a lot of the times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway”

Yeah, of course - links are correlated with just about any other metric you can imagine, whether it be branded search volume, social shares, click-through rate, whatever.

2. Limited spots on page 1 for transactional sites

Given that, in many verticals, there are far more than 10 viable transactional sites, this means that if you drop from being the 3rd best to the 4th best among those, you could drop from, for example, position 5 to position 11. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we’re analysing search results statistically - whether it be in ranking factor studies or forecasting the results of our SEO campaigns, the relationship between the levers we pull and the outputs can be highly non-linear. A small change might move you 6 ranking positions, past sites which have a different intent and totally different metrics when it comes to links, on-page optimisation, or whatever else.

3. User signals as a ranking factor

Here are a few explanations I think are possible:

Google just does not want to admit to this, because it’d look spammable (whether or not it actually is)

In fact, they use something like “site recent popularity” as part of the algorithm, so, on a technicality, don’t need to call it CTR or user signals

For me, the third option is the most contrived, but also fits in most easily with my real world experience, but I think either of the other explanations, or even all 3, could be true.

Discussion

I hope you’ve enjoyed my rampant speculation. It’s only fair that you get to join in too: tweet me at @THCapper, or get involved in the comments below.

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donnafmae · 6 years ago

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Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO

Looking too closely?

So, into the meat of it.

1. “We definitely use links to recognize new content”

Hannah: Like I said, this is top tier sites... Links are still a ranking factor though, right? You still use links as a ranking factor?

John: We still use links. I mean it's not the only ranking factor, so like just focusing on links, I don't think that makes sense at all... But we definitely use links to recognize new content.

Hannah: SO if you then got effectively a hole, a very authoritative hole in your link graph... How is that going to affect how links are used as a ranking factor or will it?

“We still use links”

“We definitely use links to recognize new content”

“It’s rare we wouldn’t be able to find any of that new content”

There’s also a fourth example, earlier in the discussion - before the screenshot - where he does the same:

“...being able to find useful content on the web, links kind of play a role in that.”

Personally, I also thought this comment was very interesting and somewhat vindicating of my critique of a lot of ranking factor studies:

“...a lot of the times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway”

Yeah, of course - links are correlated with just about any other metric you can imagine, whether it be branded search volume, social shares, click-through rate, whatever.

2. Limited spots on page 1 for transactional sites

Given that, in many verticals, there are far more than 10 viable transactional sites, this means that if you drop from being the 3rd best to the 4th best among those, you could drop from, for example, position 5 to position 11. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we’re analysing search results statistically - whether it be in ranking factor studies or forecasting the results of our SEO campaigns, the relationship between the levers we pull and the outputs can be highly non-linear. A small change might move you 6 ranking positions, past sites which have a different intent and totally different metrics when it comes to links, on-page optimisation, or whatever else.

3. User signals as a ranking factor

Here are a few explanations I think are possible:

Google just does not want to admit to this, because it’d look spammable (whether or not it actually is)

In fact, they use something like “site recent popularity” as part of the algorithm, so, on a technicality, don’t need to call it CTR or user signals

For me, the third option is the most contrived, but also fits in most easily with my real world experience, but I think either of the other explanations, or even all 3, could be true.

Discussion

I hope you’ve enjoyed my rampant speculation. It’s only fair that you get to join in too: tweet me at @THCapper, or get involved in the comments below.

from Marketing https://www.distilled.net/resources/john-mueller-at-brightonseo/ via http://www.rssmix.com/

#Digital Marketing

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ronijashworth · 6 years ago

Text

Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO

Looking too closely?

So, into the meat of it.

1. “We definitely use links to recognize new content”

Hannah: Like I said, this is top tier sites... Links are still a ranking factor though, right? You still use links as a ranking factor?

John: We still use links. I mean it's not the only ranking factor, so like just focusing on links, I don't think that makes sense at all... But we definitely use links to recognize new content.

Hannah: SO if you then got effectively a hole, a very authoritative hole in your link graph... How is that going to affect how links are used as a ranking factor or will it?

“We still use links”

“We definitely use links to recognize new content”

“It’s rare we wouldn’t be able to find any of that new content”

There’s also a fourth example, earlier in the discussion - before the screenshot - where he does the same:

“...being able to find useful content on the web, links kind of play a role in that.”

Personally, I also thought this comment was very interesting and somewhat vindicating of my critique of a lot of ranking factor studies:

“...a lot of the times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway”

Yeah, of course - links are correlated with just about any other metric you can imagine, whether it be branded search volume, social shares, click-through rate, whatever.

2. Limited spots on page 1 for transactional sites

Given that, in many verticals, there are far more than 10 viable transactional sites, this means that if you drop from being the 3rd best to the 4th best among those, you could drop from, for example, position 5 to position 11. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we’re analysing search results statistically - whether it be in ranking factor studies or forecasting the results of our SEO campaigns, the relationship between the levers we pull and the outputs can be highly non-linear. A small change might move you 6 ranking positions, past sites which have a different intent and totally different metrics when it comes to links, on-page optimisation, or whatever else.

3. User signals as a ranking factor

Here are a few explanations I think are possible:

Google just does not want to admit to this, because it’d look spammable (whether or not it actually is)

In fact, they use something like “site recent popularity” as part of the algorithm, so, on a technicality, don’t need to call it CTR or user signals

For me, the third option is the most contrived, but also fits in most easily with my real world experience, but I think either of the other explanations, or even all 3, could be true.

Discussion

I hope you’ve enjoyed my rampant speculation. It’s only fair that you get to join in too: tweet me at @THCapper, or get involved in the comments below.

from Digital Marketing https://www.distilled.net/resources/john-mueller-at-brightonseo/ via http://www.rssmix.com/

#digital marketing

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doodle-doer · 7 years ago

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Working Journal for my final year project (2018)

29th January 2018

Today I edited the live action footage that I have filmed into a short test video consisting of about 20 seconds. This is because I wanted to test how I was going to animate over the top of my footage.

With this I tested it on my original idea of Adobe After Effects, however due to the lack of an onion skin tool I was unable to see what I had drawn on previous frames. From this I tested it within Adobe Animate, this turned out to be harder than I thought it was going to be due to the fact that I was unable to import the clip. After doing some research into this I found that it would be hard to do what I intended due to my clip not being the right format. From this I loaded it into Adobe Premier and then exported it (1920 by 1080 to ensure HD quality) as JPEGs this I am hoping to load into Photoshop and draw on each test fame to and construct the animation that way.

5th February 2018

After exporting my film to JPEGs out of Adobe Premier, I proceeded to import them into Photoshop and drawing over each frame. After consulting Stan for help as to how I could use and onion skin to allow me to see what I had drawn on the previous frame.

However after spending most of the day drawing over each frame, I played the film back and realised that the framing rate was wrong and which meant that the work that I had done played back to quickly.

Goals for next time is to see if I can change the frame rate or slow the footage I had drawn.

12th February 2018

Unfortunately after watching video tutorials and reading online description of the problem I have, there is no way to either slow down or change the framerate of my footage on photoshop.

Upon realising this problem I consulted with Stan who informed me that I can use the software TV Paint to rotoscope over both images and video footage. This was helpful to know as Stan showed me how I can do this. Along with this he also showed me how to add and effect on top of my layers which adds a boil effect to images, this was useful to know as the effect that my growing mass(or characters?) is supposed to look like a flipbook effect so that the growing mass skips rather than flows smoothly.

19th February 2018

After applying the new findings that Stan had showed me the previous week, I loaded my work back into TV Paint and began to work on my fridge scene of my film. This scene is 5 seconds long, after discovering that I had drawn on every frame on my first attempt I made sure each drawing was held for 2 frames. This meant that I could draw a single frame skip across two frames and have the previous frame carry over.

26th February 2018

Arrived in university and continued with the fridge sequence and began to plan ahead for my next shot. This shot being my main cup sequence which will be the longest shot of the film lasting 24 seconds which works out 600 frames at 25fps (frames per second)

28th February 2018

Found out today that an older (cracked) copy of TV-paint given to in my first year at USW allowed me to carry work over from the newer version the university offers. This means I can finish work(Job outside of university) and continue with my animation. As a result I have continued with the fridge sequence and been able to finish it now (11pm).

1st March 2018

After the completion of the fridge sequence my attention has been fully on the longest shot now, having the assistance of Louise (girlfriend) colouring my fridge sequence while my focus is on the cup sequence is a big help.

3rd March 2018

Before heading to work Louise helped me by recording some more audio for my piece this audio will help tie the film together better.

Update (8pm)

Louise recorded her audio again (more clearer) as well edited the recordings together so they are on the same sequence in an audio file.

Continued with cup sequence.

4th March 2018

Continued with the cup sequence after finishing work. As well as this I have started to colour the first 6 frames that I have of the background.

7th March 2018

Continued with the cup sequence drawing-wise after work.

15th March 2018

Continued with my cup sequence where the growth is slowly consuming the background behind the cup.

Update

In the evening I began to colour the first few frames, reason behind this is because my logic is that if I do X amount of frames of line work I can do X amount of colouring so I can balance it out and not have to worry about colouring it at a later date.

17th March 2018

Continued with the cup sequence.

18th March 2018

Continued with the cup sequence

20th March 2018

Continued with the cup sequence

25th March 2018

Louise helped me by taking over the colouring meaning that I can focus on the drawing side of things. Meaning I draw as much as I can, then Louise will colour on a file she copies over.

27th March 2018

Today I looked at the fridge sequence again and while watching I thought the block colour of grey doesn't look good for the theme that I am going for.

So I began experimenting with what I can put on top of the grey mass, so began by colouring over the top of it but in a scribble form to give the mass some texture. Using the method of colouring on one frame and then skipping to the next this allows for the auto fill to fill the frame that I skipped.

30th March 2018

Continued to colour the fridge sequence with the same scribble effect. Managed to colour the entire fridge scene where the growth crawls up the side of the fridge. Really happy with the progress I have made and hopefully I can start working on the potion vial dripping into the cup scene soon.

2nd April 2018

Began working on potion vial to be poured into the cup in the close up scene. To start with, I started to draw it digitally however I did not like how this looked. So instead I drew the image out by hand and scanned it into my Mac computer. From here I coloured the image in Adobe Photoshop to achieve the desired colour effect and exported it as a .png file, so it was have no background and the quality would remain intact.

3rd April 2018

Continuing work on potion vial and importing it into my film. Using the .png file that I previously created, I imported the image into TVPaint to continue working with it. Moving the image along the previously created growth, but I put the vial between layers so that it would look hidden beneath the growth.

5th April 2018

I went back to the video and then discovered that I was having some problems scaling the vial down to size to make it fit in the scene. I discovered that using the transform tool would move other layers such as the foreground or background growth. This meant that the layers would start moving into positions that I did not want them to for no apparent reason. To combat this I spoke to Stan about this, he said that the reason why I was having this problem was because the transform tool was not being turned off. This allowed for a quick and easy movement of the vial.

9th - 10th April 2018

Over the weekend I have been at work so I have not had time to continue with my work. So over the past two days I have been working consistently on my film. This involved continuing with the potion vial scene. I worked on the drop from the bottle into the cup. Also I continued to colour the rest of the scenes which needed a grey colouring and a scribble on top.

12th - 13th April 2018

Continuing with colouring the scenes and working on the potion vial. Colouring the film was the most tedious part of the process, but I discovered a different method of colouring which helped immensely. It involved using the paint tool (in TVPaint) and colouring directly onto the line video track that I had previously drawn. The negatives of this was that the paint tool left lines in between the original linework and the painted edge. However this was easily removed by using the pen tool. Between Louise and myself we managed to colour over 600 frames in the past few days.

16th April 2018

Added more detail and continued to work on the potion vial dropper scene. Decided against using a ladder in the potion vial scene, which was my original plan. By this point the ladder just seems too comical for the mood that I am trying to set. By having the growth control the potion vial to tilt into the cup, I can then allow the vial to disappear back into the growth, making it more mysterious.

17th April 2018

Completed colouring on all sequences. Decided that the front growth in the cup sequence will not be scribbled as I feel like the attention might be taken away from the centre of the frame. If I need to scribble on the growth I can always do so in the next few weeks of post production.

19th April 2018

Edited a draft video which included my fridge sequence, cup sequence and potion vial sequence. This was only a short film so that I can show my lecturers next week what I have achieved so far. I will continue to edit this week in post production.

24th April - 27th April 2018

This week I was focussed on taking my work into university to get feedback from my lecturers. By doing this, if they have any feedback I still have time to complete any additional work by next week in post production. From the work that I showed them they seemed happy but also had a lot of feedback for me to work on. Mainly they wanted to see the entire piece together to understand the context of the video. They advised me to add more animated pieces and varied shot distances into the film to help enhance the context of the video. I decided to add in a tentacle scene of which was in the original storyboards but I was unsure of adding in. This shot involves the tentacles reaching out from inside of the cup. I decided to make this shot an extreme close up instead, this would add further depth and interest in my film to keep the flow going. I did the shot in TVpaint first establishing the colour for the liquid and then drawing each frame of moment. After this I thought the tendrils looked like they where almost floating in the liquid so using the circle tool in TVPaint I created ovals without a filling and repeated them to make the movements more three-dimensional.

30th April - 1st May 2018

Over the past two days I have been working on audio and audio editing. After a discussion with Nikki, Sarah and Graham last week I decided to add some more shots and audio into the film to make the context more obvious. I retook some photos of my character in different poses, screaming and uncomfortable. Also I recorded audio of myself talking and got Louise to record herself talking. These voices were then edited Sony Vegas, I did attempt to edit them in Adobe Premiere but found the process too difficult and time consuming. In Sony Vegas, I used the ‘Reverb’ and ‘Pitch Shift’ effect, which added different layers and levels to the voices. During this process, I tried to edit the voices together to sound like they were arguing with each other inside my head. This is where the reverb effect came in useful as it added an echoing tone to the voices which could be adjusted in each part. Seeing as my piece is focussed on mental health, having the voices echo and whisper added to the feeling that I am trying to achieve. Tomorrow I want to show Graham my work all together with the voices added into the piece.

3rd May 2018

After finishing work, I arrived at University at 12. I showed Graham my film for any suggestions of feedback. He provided me with a few pieces of advice which I spent the rest of the session continuing to implement. Being able to show Graham the piece of work with audio was a good start to the session, because I was able to show him the context of the piece with him being able to understand what the message of the film was.

4th May 2018

In today’s session I continued on from yesterday’s work. I showed Sarah my work so far, she showed me a piece of work called Dad’s Dead a short animated piece, created by Chris Shepherd. It was an interesting animated short that upon further research won different awards for Best Animated Short. Seeing this film, was beneficial to me because it showed how the combination of live action and animation could be blended so seamlessly and how the two coincided with each other.

8th May 2018

In University today, I showed Sarah my work for more feedback and continued to work on my film. Sarah suggested I work on lighting more. So I added a dark vignette effect around the sides of some of the shots. This added a more focussed attention to the centre of the image and also added in a dark, ominous feeling to the piece.

9th May 2018

Today I finalised my animation. Continued to edit the video in Adobe Premiere, imported audio that Louise had previously edited for me. Showed work to Sarah and Nikki for their feedback; they advised that I add a texture of my choice on top of the growth inside of the fridge in the first scene. This was quite a struggle for me as I had already spent weeks scribbling on top of the growth in a consistent pattern to show depth and texture through penwork. Stan showed me how to import an image and overlay it over my work in Adobe After Effects. I wanted to use a static texture gif, but Stan showed me a preset in After Effects which I was able to customise. Unfortunately, halfway through the process the files became corrupt and resulted in me losing the textured project file. When I went back home I spoke to Louise who showed me how to do the same effect in Sony Vegas, this process is called masking. Masking in Sony Vegas is time consuming, as it required me to go around the image and make anchor points where I wanted the static texture to go. I have completed these files and intend to add them to my final film tomorrow and hopefully I will upload my completed work tomorrow as well.

10th May 2018

Arrived into uni today with the intentions to hand in, I began working on the final edit by the adding the textured fridge sequence into areas of my film (suggested by both Sarah and NIkki and to do so). I enjoyed adding the texture over the top of my film as I think it gave it an area of depth to it which enabled it to blend into the live action sequences better, however with the time limit have set myself I was unable to do other areas, but this is something I can do after the hand in and before the show.

After speaking to Nikki and showing her the sequence I have done and explained my reasoning behind what I have done, she was happy with what I have work wise and journal wise. The one question I had to ask was what I had to export the final film out as, this is because in the past films had to be handed in as quicktime files, but recently when I have gone to export areas of my film for testing/ rendering reasons I have had playback problems. Nikki has informed my that the new export method is H.264 which enabled a higher quality export with a lower file size(something I have been having trouble with)

Reflection

At the start of this project my mental health wasn't in the best of places. However, during the time that I spent focussing on this project, not only physically but mentally I feel like I have gained my creative spark again. Just knowing that I have been able to produce a piece of work that reflects what was/still is going on at this moment in time. I really enjoyed this project once I started getting into the motion of it, it has allowed for me to gain more knowledge and understanding in softwares that I feel I neglected the first time around when I was attempting my module. Knowing that I have done my best to get my story(film) and point across and taken the feedback and implemented it in to my work. Knowing that I am a step closer to my goal and dream of finishing university not only for make myself proud for overcoming so much doubt and self punishment, but to make my family proud, and so I can prove to the people who brought me down throughout my life in both school, and within my family life and told me I wouldn't get far, and that wouldn't be able to go to university, that I have done it and much more and come out on the other end stronger. A bit mentally and emotionally scared from the ordeal but scares make for good stories in the future. Maybe my experiences can help others through tough situations as well.

Recourse videos used

How to Pan and Zoom in Premiere Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7PBo6NXlQ&t=3s

Adobe Premiere Pro CC: How to Zoom In On A Picture/Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0fCF-X1Ps

How to Create a Vignette in PREMIERE PRO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_n-kr1Z3hk

Custom Shape Masking - Adobe Premiere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgV5tGDd5s

How to Make Glitch Video Effects in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 Tutorial (VCR VHS Glitch Art Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd1SMC5j4i0

TV Glitch Masking Effect (After Effects Tutorial)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld0Uvhj9VmA

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flauntpage · 7 years ago

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Only in Philadelphia: Ten Takeaways from Eagles 43, Rams 35

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Only in Philadelphia would a brilliant, come-from-behind, playoff-clinching win be met with utter despondency and despair.

Alas, here we are, with Nick Foles leading the Eagles into the playoffs as NFC East champions, because the superstar starting quarterback (reportedly) tore his ACL on the same drive in which he also set the franchise record for most passing touchdowns in a single season.

I regret using the term “Pyrrhic” in my Week 1 story and should have saved it for this game instead, because the term really can’t be defined any better. The cost of the win makes it feel like a wash. It seems pointless to talk about nine other takeaways when Carson Wentz suffers a serious injury, but we’re just gonna have to suck it up and move on with our lives.

So where’s your head this morning? Are you a believer? Can a backup quarterback take this team to the Super Bowl?

Or is the season lost? Do the Birds fold and flame out down the stretch? Do you become a grumpy loser who can’t be arsed to change your underwear or take a shower?

Listen, this team can take care of these other NFC donkeys at home in January. Nobody should be scared about hosting the Saints, Vikings, or Rams in Philly. Tom Brady in the Super Bowl is another story, but stranger things have happened. If Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer can lift the Lombardi Trophy, then anybody can. It’s time to roll out of bed and seize the day. Carpe Diem.

1) The injury

It happened on a scramble at the tail-end of a 15-play, 75-yard touchdown drive.

Wentz was running to his right when he dove for the end zone:

#Eagles QB Carson Wentz suffers a brutal knee injury against the #Rams. Sources say he could be done for the year. http://pic.twitter.com/yeAz5fbQms

— NYSportsCast (@NYSportCast) December 11, 2017

The play was negated because of a holding call on Lane Johnson. Wentz, showing discomfort, stayed in the game and handed the ball off twice before throwing incomplete to Alshon Jeffery. On a 4th and goal, he remained on the field and Doug Pederson decided to go for it:

.@cj_wentz with his 33rd TD pass of the season, a new #Eagles single-season record.#FlyEaglesFly http://pic.twitter.com/ExSIZ1giWe

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) December 10, 2017

And that was his last action, throwing a touchdown pass on one leg while remaining stationary in the pocket.

Some people blamed Pederson for the injury, saying that the Eagles should have run the ball at the goal line. I get that, and I don’t disagree with the idea for strategical purposes. They should have run the ball more overall, not just in the red zone. They didn’t show enough offensive balance in general.

But I’m always wary of trying to pin everything on someone specific. Injuries can happen anywhere, anytime. The kicker got concussed trying to make a tackle a few weeks back, remember that? Here, your franchise quarterback is just trying to make a play in an important game. He also has to try to protect himself as well. It’s a two-way street. This game was as big as they get and Wentz was trying to put the team on his back.

2) Receiver by committee

Consoling Carson in the tunnel was Zach Ertz, inactive for the game after failing to recover from a concussion suffered last Sunday.

Brent Celek and Trey Burton had big games in his absence, scoring three of the Eagles’ four offensive touchdowns.

Burton was particularly solid, catching five balls for 71 yards and 2 scores. He only had 15 catches coming into this game and hadn’t gone above 60 yards receiving more than once in his entire career. He’s a free agent at the season’s end and will want to put this on his resume:

Celek caught the opening touchdown and garnered a key pass interference call in the red zone that kept the Birds’ first scoring drive alive.

And I’d be remiss if I failed to mention Torrey Smith, who had his first 100-yard game in more than two years. He caught a season-high six passes yesterday.

3) Left guard rotation, but not by choice

One of the more important parts of the game that fell by the wayside was the departure of left guard Stefen Wisniewski, who left in the second quarter with an ankle injury.

That put Chance Warmack on the line alongside fellow backup Halipoulivaati Vaitai. Warmack was later pulled for Isaac Seumalo.

Warmack is a backup for a reason, yeah? He’s had some moments this season, but it was obvious that Wisniewski was the better player when the Eagles finally gave up on the LG rotation a while back.

On a play like this, I think Wisniewski does a better job:

It’s a delayed handoff where Lane Johnson doesn’t get a great chip on the end, but Warmack fails to move his guy at all and the play is blown up at the line. Corey Clement had a bit of room to run there after breaking the first tackle.

If Foles is gonna be the guy moving forward, hope that Wisniewski is healthy, because you don’t want your backup QB playing behind the backup LG and backup LT.

4) Whiffing

I wrote about the quality of the Eagles’ tackling two weeks ago and now I feel like an asshole, because they did a really poor job yesterday, especially the secondary.

It was 21-7 and the Eagles were cruising when Malcolm Jenkins and a few others whiffed on Cooper Kupp, allowing a huge gain up the sideline that eventually led to a touchdown:

Cooper Kupp is a pro bowler Cooper Kupp is a pro bowler Cooper Kupp is a pro bowler Cooper Kupp is a pro bowler #PHIvsLA http://pic.twitter.com/MX3E5zj6zS

— 6'7-Eleven Inches (@LeBandz_James) December 10, 2017

It seemed like the defense was out of sorts all day long, and I swear Jalen Mills didn’t want any part of this play:

Eagles have had no answer for Todd Gurley, 100 yards and 2 TDs on 11 carries. Rams go ahead 35-31 http://pic.twitter.com/MoGuYVFfdh

— The Bitter Birds (@AdrianFedkiw) December 11, 2017

Unwilling to tackle?

I can think of one guy who might be able to help in this department:

Eagles need me on Defense to bring that gangsta shit back

— Asante Samuel (@pick_six22) December 10, 2017

In all seriousness, the defense really came around in the fourth quarter, forcing a fumble and then holding on after the Eagles retook the lead. When it seemed like the Rams had adjusted and figured it out in the second half, Jim Schwartz’s unit stepped up the energy and intensity and made some key plays down the stretch to help a banged up offense get the job done.

5) Don’t roll that Blount

I have nothing against LeGarrette Blount. He’s been solid when called upon this year.

That said, Jay Ajayi had the hot hand and should have had more carries in the first three quarters yesterday.

He finished with 15 rushes for 78 yards while Blount had 7 for 12, but five of Ajayi’s runs took place on the final clock-killing drive of the game. He didn’t have enough looks in the second and third quarter after opening with runs of 7, 9, and 19 on the Birds’ first three touchdown drives.

I don’t know how much is on Pederson and how much is on Duce Staley, who controls the running back rotation, but you gotta feed the beast when he’s hungry. If you see glimpses in the ground game, build on that, lighten the load for Carson Wentz, and chew up the clock while keeping your defense off the field. Seems simple enough.

6) Hey ref, you’re blowing the game

The Eagles benefited twice last night from brutal calls against the Rams.

The first was unsportsmanlike conduct on Trumaine Johnson for mouthing off to Alshon Jeffery after breaking up a 3rd and 9 pass attempt. That was on the third quarter drive where the Eagles ultimately scored to retake the lead.

Later, the Rams were called for “leverage” on a Jake Elliott field goal attempt, a call that had everybody on the broadcast utterly confused. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman thought the refs had identified the wrong player. Mike Pereira or whoever they asked in New York City also had no clue what the call was about.

The Eagles ended up blowing their fresh set of downs and had to kick the field goal again (the first was good), so, luckily for the Rams, that bogus call ended up being a non-factor.

But just write this down and save it somewhere if anyone ever tells you that the refs are in the tank for the other team, because they definitely weren’t in this game. Eagles fans would be flipping shit if both of those calls went against their squad.

7) A big blocker

Just a wrinkle here, something we’ve haven’t seen before, which is Isaac Seumalo playing as a fullback.

They lined him up in an offset I-formation and ran play-action on this one:

Kind of a busted play from the beginning because Brent Celek flinches and tips off the defense. Wentz makes a great play with his feet to convert the 3rd and 1.

The Eagles don’t carry a fullback on the roster, so a lineman will be in there on rare occasions when decide to use one. Beau Allen has played the role in the past.

8) Doug’s worst call?

Let’s start with the gadget screen on the first play of the game. It was way too slow to develop, but then Doug got the Rams with a similar play on the next drive, which tells me he saw something on tape about throwing that delayed screen and using Los Angeles’ aggression against them.

Doug’s biggest issue was obviously not giving Ajayi enough snaps when it mattered last night. He was gashing LA early and looked up for it, so you stick with him. Instead, we got another 60/40 split that was skewed by the final series.

I also disagreed with the decision to go for it on 4th and goal at the end of the third quarter, even with a presumably healthy Wentz on the field (I had no clue how badly he was injured at the time.) If Jeffery drops that ball, it’s a crushing loss of momentum and you’re down by four points instead of one. It was incredibly risky, and while it worked, a failure there might have cooked the Birds for good.

9) Doug’s best call?

Of course it was the decision to go on 4th and 1 during the third drive.

Also, it was clear as day that he should challenge right before halftime on this horrendous spot:

You sure he got that first down? http://pic.twitter.com/rJ7IatpTcx

— Sporting News (@sportingnews) December 10, 2017

10) Los Angeles

Can we talk about how Los Angeles is a soulless, plastic town?

Yeah, it’s always 83 degrees and sunny and Malibu probably has a slight edge on Wildwood, but I’ve been out there four times and something just feels “off” about LA. The people are generally cool and relaxed and not as high strung and frazzled as East Coast types, but maybe it’s the lack of character? Philly has history and meaning and things you can walk to and from, while Los Angeles is just a sprawling metropolis of highways and Starbucks and wannabe actors. For the second time this year, there were more Eagle fans in an LA stadium than home fans. I also need somebody to explain the obsession with In N’ Out Burger.

Finally, shout out to Jeffrey Lurie for having Bradley Cooper in his suite. Would you rather be in a box with Cooper or Chris Christie?

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heavenwheel · 6 years ago

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Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO

Looking too closely?

So, into the meat of it.

1. “We definitely use links to recognize new content”

Hannah: Like I said, this is top tier sites... Links are still a ranking factor though, right? You still use links as a ranking factor?

John: We still use links. I mean it's not the only ranking factor, so like just focusing on links, I don't think that makes sense at all... But we definitely use links to recognize new content.

Hannah: SO if you then got effectively a hole, a very authoritative hole in your link graph... How is that going to affect how links are used as a ranking factor or will it?

“We still use links”

“We definitely use links to recognize new content”

“It’s rare we wouldn’t be able to find any of that new content”

There’s also a fourth example, earlier in the discussion - before the screenshot - where he does the same:

“...being able to find useful content on the web, links kind of play a role in that.”

Personally, I also thought this comment was very interesting and somewhat vindicating of my critique of a lot of ranking factor studies:

“...a lot of the times the sites that big news sites write about are sites that already have links anyway”

Yeah, of course - links are correlated with just about any other metric you can imagine, whether it be branded search volume, social shares, click-through rate, whatever.

2. Limited spots on page 1 for transactional sites

Given that, in many verticals, there are far more than 10 viable transactional sites, this means that if you drop from being the 3rd best to the 4th best among those, you could drop from, for example, position 5 to position 11. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we’re analysing search results statistically - whether it be in ranking factor studies or forecasting the results of our SEO campaigns, the relationship between the levers we pull and the outputs can be highly non-linear. A small change might move you 6 ranking positions, past sites which have a different intent and totally different metrics when it comes to links, on-page optimisation, or whatever else.

3. User signals as a ranking factor

Here are a few explanations I think are possible:

Google just does not want to admit to this, because it’d look spammable (whether or not it actually is)

In fact, they use something like “site recent popularity” as part of the algorithm, so, on a technicality, don’t need to call it CTR or user signals

For me, the third option is the most contrived, but also fits in most easily with my real world experience, but I think either of the other explanations, or even all 3, could be true.

Discussion

I hope you’ve enjoyed my rampant speculation. It’s only fair that you get to join in too: tweet me at @THCapper, or get involved in the comments below.

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Well that sucked. Auburn’s first play was a sack. Auburn’s last 3 plays were sacks. Let’s try and find out what happened.

DISCLAIMER: I’m not a coach. I’ve never played football outside of practice in middle school. I don’t have the All-22 film. All conclusions here are my best guesses based on watching football my entire life and being a play-design nerd. Those conclusions should be interpreted as such.

The Video

The Plays

Sack 1

1Q, 1st and 10 AU 25, 15:00 Auburn opens up in 10 personnel with 2 WRs to either side. Since I don’t have the All-22 feed, I’m not sure what the route combination is to the bottom. At the top is a smash-concept. Stidham gets man coverage, so the call is usually to hit the corner route to (I think) Ryan Davis. It seems to be well covered. His checkdown, Pettway, is also well covered.

I think he panics too early. Stidham has a good pocket, and Wanagho has walled off his man behind Stidham. He should be able to step up and either wait for someone to break open or get rid of the ball. Instead he flushes right and CU’s linebackers are all over him.

Fault: Stidham

Sack 2

1Q, 2nd and 7 CU 43, 1:47 Intentional grounding counts as a sack for record keeping. This is the trick play. Stidham threw the ball away, and I’m assuming he didn’t know that once anyone else touches the ball, you can’t safely throw the ball away. In his defense, I didn’t know that either. On the other hand, one of the 6 offensive-minded coaches or however many analysts should have known that and directed him as such. If he throws this at Pettway’s feet he’s fine. It was a nice 2nd down call though.

Fault: Play design, coaching

Sack 3

2Q, 3rd and 5 CU 6, 15:00 Auburn is again in 10 personnel, but this time there are trips to Stidham’s left. Clemson only rushes 4. Lawrence rips past Braden Smith and forces Stidham to step up right as he finished his drop. He steps up right into the arms of Wilkins. This one is all on the line. If Stidham has more time, I think he could have hit Pettway right at the sticks.

Fault: O-Line, Braden Smith

Sack 4

2Q, 2nd and 1 AU 30, 0:34 With time running out in the half, Auburn sends everybody out on 2nd and 1. Stidham breaks the pocket and rolls right, but apparently he doesn’t have anything and goes out of bounds with a loss of 1. This goes down as a sack, but it really isn’t any different than a throwaway.

Fault: Unknown, possibly coverage

Sack 5

3Q, 2nd and 5 AU 35, 10:27 10 personnel, 2 WRs to either side. Ferrell times the snap and Wanagho can’t wall him off enough. I think Auburn was running a fake screen to the right, since Ryan Davis is near the backfield when Stidham is blind-sided. I understand maybe taking a shot here, but where is the checkdown. I also don’t recall a hard-count later in the game to attempt to catch Clemson offside. Auburn is lucky to recover the fumble here. It was a 50/50 ball that Wanagho got to first.

Fault: not varying the snap count (though credit Ferrell here)

Sack 6

3Q, 3rd and 14 AU 26, 9:41 The very next play. Same personnel, but trips left. Clemson rushes 5, but showed 6. Stidham steps up and right into the pocket, but apparently he has nothing. God forbid ESPN show an endzone replay. In fairness, this is 3rd and 14, so I’m sure he wanted all of it. Fans hate when you run 3rd down routes short of the line to gain, but it has it’s place. Let your guys try to make plays.

Fault: coverage + no underneath option (just a guess)

Sack 7

Q3, 4th and 3 CU 37, After a nice 3rd down play where Stidham hit Davis on a crossing route (see? we did run them) to set up 4th and 3, Auburn sugar-huddles with unbalanced 21 personnel. TE Jalen Harris is the weak-side tackle, and Braden Smith is the “TE”. It’s a flood to the right. Cox, the FB, runs shallow, then I’m guessing the receivers run a high-low combo.

For reasons I don’t know, the line shifts left. Clemson’s Lamar waits for a hole to open up, and Pettway is left blocking two defenders while the other 6 protectors block 3. Stidham doesn’t really have a chance here, but with it being 4th down, you might as well throw it.

Fault: play design, O-Line

Sack 8

4Q, 3rd and 7 AU 15, 14:23 10 personnel again with 2 WRs to either side. Clemson blitzes, and while the pickup is pretty good, Wanagho gets beaten by Ferrell. Stidham actually does a really nice job to roll right and try to find someone. On replay, I think he should probably get this one away to whomever was the outside receiver to the right. Though I can’t tell if they come back to Stidham like they should.

Fault: Wanagho, Stidham, possibly an unnamed WR

Sack 9

Q4, 1st and 10 CU 45, 5:21 A Stove sweep and Stidham scramble have Auburn inside Clemson territory on what would be their final possession. Auburn goes with 10 personnel, 2 WRs to either side and a stack to Stidham’s right. This is a screen to Kam Martin, but Clemson red it the whole way. When Wanagho leaves Ferrell, he stays with Martin. Since Wanagho goes downfield and attempts a block, Stidham can’t throw to anyone else. This has to go at Martin’s feet.

Fault: Stidham, but credit 99 for not being fooled here.

Sack 10

4Q, 2nd and 13 CU 48, 4:48 Martin is replaced by Pettway, otherwise the same personnel. Hastings motions right to even the formation and determine coverage. Clemson moves their safeties, so it’s probably zone. Clemson rushes 6, but they rush both linebackers into the same gap. The second linebacker waits for Pettway to pick up #34, then runs right behind him as a free rusher. This is known as a “green dog”. If the play takes too long, and if the line doesn’t react, then Clemson has a free hit on Stidham. Davis is pretty open as he breaks his post to a square-in since the safety stays high, but Stidham either can’t see him or was too focused on Hastings running the rail route.

Fault: a little on Stidham for not reading the blitz and/or not stepping into the throw, a little on the line for not reacting (at the end, there are 4 linemen blocking two players), a little credit to Venables, who didn’t blitz much until Auburn got desperate.

Sack 11

4Q, 3rd and 20 AU 45, 4:03 Auburn brings in Cox to help with protection and sacrifices a WR. It doesn’t matter, because Clemson only rushes 4. Stidham has time, but apparently no one is open. He steps up, then flushes right, but there’s only one receiver to that side. He waits too long to try to throw the ball away, and his knee hits the ground before he puts one right between Kodi Burns’s imaginary numbers. Imaginary because he’s out of eligibility and is the wide receivers coach, not a wide receiver.

Notice I said Stidham flushes right. Stidham rolled to his arm side every time he was under pressure. Even if the left was open. Even if the left was the wide side of the field. Even if there are more receivers to the left. He has to be coached to flush to space, not just to his arm strength. If he rolls left here, he’ll have enough time to set his feet and throw. I’m not sure if he’s been coached into doing it, or if he hasn’t been coached out of doing it.

Conclusions

Some of these are situational. I’ve never been much for throwing the ball away on third down, because you’re just saving a few yards for the punt. 5 of the sacks were on 3rd or 4th down. The real problem is the other 6. Sure, one was an obscure rule, but what about the other 5? They consistently kept Auburn in bad situations where Clemson could ignore the run threat and pass rush at will. Great offenses struggle in those scenarios, and this does not appear to be a great offense. What it can be is good. Good offense with this defense is probably enough to win 10 games (give or take the bowl). Jarrett Stidham has all the arm talent he needs, but he has to get the ball to his receivers. Those receivers have to work to get open. The line has to gel and give him time.

This Saturday is going to be a “get-right” game. It’s a chance for Auburn to clean up its passing concepts and give its players the confidence they need before hitting the road in the SEC. All is not lost, but if changes aren’t made, there are only a few games left on the schedule that can be counted as surefire wins.

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