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Game Week Thread 2025 Game Week 2: San Jose State at Texas
Im_smarter_then_you replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
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gurt started following Does Sark know that field goals get you 3 points?
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At some point you can’t just say ‘the probability says to go for it’ when conventional game theory stops applying. Perhaps the fact that we’ve been very poor at short yardage situations for five years should start to factor in? Perhaps the psychological benefit of seeing points on the board should be factored in? Or that we have an elite defense that doesn’t need the offense to score a ton of points? I recognize there are counters to this argument, but we’re not simulating a football game we’re playing one. There comes a point where you can’t say ‘the decision was the right one, the play call was the problem’ when it has happened dozens of times. There is clearly a fundamental problem that changes the probabilities.
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I believe in Sark, I just wish he wasn't the play caller and head coach. I keep remembering that Ryan Day would have probably been fired last year had he not won the National Championship. There were big rumblings.
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I just looked at the scoring and now understand why there was a melee after the match. Look at the scoring… Seattle started off with Dwayne de Rosario’s US-born son scoring. Does Osaze play for Canada 🇨🇦, like his dad? NO! Does Osaze play for the USA 🇺🇸, because he was born here? NO! Osaze plays for GUYANA 🇬🇾… like the punch!! So then Seattle is awarded a PK late in the game and who do they send out for the PK? ALEX ROLDÁN !! 🇸🇻 El Salvador’s favorite son… kind of. I’m sure that Miami was already spitting mad over that, but then Seattle rubbed it in their faces by stamping their superiority with a former college kid journeyman who’s international career consists of ONE MEASLY APPEARANCE for the USA’s U-18 squad. U-18 soccer is so lame that people don’t even bite each other at that level! I mean look at that guy! Paul fucking Rothrock!🇺🇸 🤌 🤌 🤌 You’ve gotta be kidding me!! Of course there was a fight after the match! Seattle was clearly taunting Miami!
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Sicario 3 is gonna be really... ...accurate.
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Vivek is such an asshole. He posted this shit on Christmas Eve, taking a dump all over everything American (prom, sports, sleepovers, friends) and told everyone they need to be strivers who look at the gargoyle band director in Whiplash as a role model. He hates everything about college football but shows up in a fresh of the rack jersey and the rubes will vote for him for governor.
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God. 12-0. Horrible.
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Of course this stuff is fixable. What concerns us is Arch is a third year player and not a freshman. Generational talents typically do need to retool their throwing mechanics three years into being a college QB.
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Game Week Thread 2025 Game Week 2: San Jose State at Texas
cmontexas replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Mechanically if Arch looks like he did last year in his 2 starts we will all feel much better about the rest of the season. If he continues the Uncle Rico footwork, spraying the ball around like late career Chuck Knoblauch and we blow out San Jose on some big runs and defensive TDs, concern will linger. That's why these games matter -
What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
gsoda3 replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Football
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Interdasting. One of the least Trumpy truths ever. I mean, still ridiculous, but . . . .
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Anton Chigurh started following Hire a fucking offensive play caller
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Fucking Suárez. Great match; I was there and in the corner where this took place after (although from the front row in the upper deck didn't see the spit). Miami player threw a (light) punch and hit Seattle's Vargas in the face; a couple of other punches were thrown after by Miami players but I don't think they landed. TBH other than the spitting it looked like one of those goofy baseball "brawls". At halftime a Miami bench player tried to mix it up with a Sounders staffer as they were leaving the pitch; no idea what that was about. At any rate, fun match in front of 70,000, and an Argentinian #10 did end up winning the tournament's best player award. It just wasn't the guy in pink.
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This. It’s been a while since Texas lost to a lesser talented team.
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VinyVango started following Arch Manning: Elite or Incomplete?
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He looked like a young nervy QB in his first road game against a top 5 team in an extremely hostile environment with millions watching his every move… what was worrisome was the odd mechanics from the savant QB who has been closely coached by experts since he could hold a football. Assuming he beats up on the cupcakes coming up lets see if he has learned and put this game in his rearview once he starts again on the road in the SEC with almost everyone in attendance wanting him to fail miserably
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Long piece about the militarization of the cartels. Figured this was the best place for this. And, given the increased calls for US military action in Mexico, it should be on our radar. https://archive.is/dPX5Z The explosions began before dawn, shaking the ground and rattling windows in the darkness. With them, residents said, came the telltale buzz of drones. “We knew the devil was coming,” said Ana, a mother of six who grabbed her children and ran as gunmen moved in to do battle. Weeks later, her town still bore scars. Holes were blasted into roofs where drones had dropped bombs. Craters gaped where land mines had exploded. Spent .50-caliber shells glinted in the dirt. The clash was not in a war zone of Ukraine or the Middle East, and the combatants did not belong to any army. They were criminal groups, armed with military-grade weapons and fighting just a few hundred miles from the U.S. border, in Mexico’s western state of Michoacán. Ana, a mother of six, looking out of a window in a wall scarred by bullet holes at her home in El Guayabo. Some of Mexico’s most formidable cartels are locked in a vicious arms race on multiple fronts. On one side, they are battling the Mexican government, which is under intense pressure from the United States to crack down on the drug trade. But they are also fighting one another for territory and resources, leaving a deadly toll among their members and the civilians caught in between. Now, President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain drug cartels designated as terrorist groups. The directive has infuriated Mexico’s leaders, who have rejected the idea of U.S. forces on Mexican soil. But despite their disagreements about what actions to take, officials and security analysts in both countries agree that cartels are amassing new levels of firepower, transforming some groups into full-fledged paramilitary forces. Drug smugglers and cartel gunmen no longer wield just handguns or automatic rifles, officials and experts say, but also Claymore land mines, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars built from gas-tank tubes and armored trucks mounted with heavy machine guns. They are burying improvised explosive devices to kill their rivals and modifying drones bought online to make attack drones, loaded with toxic chemicals and bombs. An array of recovered improvised explosives recovered by the state police force bomb squad in Morelia, Michoacán. Casings are commonly made from plastic bottles, cut drainpipes and even fire extinguishers. “We cannot continue to just treat these guys as local street gangs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with EWTN, a Catholic television network, last month. “They have weaponry that looks like what terrorists, in some cases armies, have.” Mexican officials say that most of the military-grade weapons that powerful groups have acquired originated in the United States, and that up to half a million firearms are smuggled south each year. The officials say that criminals also reverse-engineer weapons, sometimes 3-D printing parts to build them. Nowhere are the consequences of this varied and growing arsenal starker than in the rugged hills of Tierra Caliente in Michoacán, a swath of fertile farmland and lush mountains that has become a strategic corridor for drug cultivation. The battle for control there between rival groups — including the Knights Templar, La Familia Michoacana and the group with the most military power, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel — has pushed the fight into a new, more brutal era. cont'd
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Caddy Shack is right there too. Hook’em!!!
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Scipio's postmortem is out. It's not pretty. I was very distressed about missing this game to coach youth football, but after checking the score and reading a few of the 200+ texts blowing up my iPhone, it turned out to be for the best. Rewatching it, even knowing the result and having scanned the box score, was remarkable. I didn’t expect that my 6th grade volunteer staff would come up with a better game plan for the Spartans on two hours prep than what the Texas offensive staff dialed up for Ohio State after two months, but Saturday was full of surprises. I pointed out that Matt Patrica would represent a unique challenge for Sark as he offered very little tendency to game prep. Patricia was going to build out a defense tailored to us. I didn’t expect total game plan domination and a diagnosis of our strengths and weaknesses like he was in our practice facility though. Patricia shrugged at the Longhorn running game as empty calories and focused solely on limiting passing game explosives. The Buckeye DC assumed he’d get stops on money downs and in the red zone. He was right on both counts. It’s difficult to bag on Sark’s game plan when execution by the QB and the larger passing game was so poor and our running game couldn’t punish overplay. Offensive success tends to allow for more success and we never got real traction. So it’s difficult to say what Sark’s game plan adjustments could’ve been if Arch hit basic throws or we had a legitimate running game. The first Longhorn pass attempt was a wide open potential 25 yard gain to DeAndre Moore that Manning spiked five yards into the turf in front of him. We were in 11 personnel from the pistol with trips to the wide side and the TE split out up top. Ohio State busted their coverage and our reward was not a first down at midfield and a nice start, but 2nd and 10. That ain’t on Sark, folks. Sark also schemed several numbers advantages in the run game where we had leverage and an opportunity to drop a big run and get them out of some of their shifting, occasionally junk defenses. Watch the sky view and sometimes Ohio State is misaligned with massive run bubbles. That yielded only workmanlike, irrelevant gains and apparently everyone has decided that this means our running game was good or adequate. It was not. Sometimes, I feel like Roddy Piper in They Live and I’m the only one wearing the special sunglasses that let’s you see the alien infiltrators. I have good news though. There were several bright spots in this game and we’re really close to having a good offense if we can just tidy up a few executional areas. Just kidding. It was mostly dog shit. Quarterback Manning threw 11 completely inaccurate balls in 30 attempts and made four high quality throws. He threw one pick and tried to throw another that ricocheted off of a DB’s hands. His misses ran the gamut from fastballs hurled at top speed to a receiver 5 yards away, to skipping balls in front of the receiver, to crossing routes thrown behind a receivers head. Ohio State did a masterful job of keeping him contained while changing up their pass rush tempo and angles. He struggled to recognize coverages and when he did have protection, he hurried throws instead of letting routes develop. There was a goal line sequence where Arch threw an errant fastball at DeAndre Moore on a crosser with perfect protection while Moore was blanketed. Spencer Shannon was wide open going to the other way for a walk in TD. On the same series on 4th down, Wingo came open on a scrape route in front of him that could have been 6. Arch threw it early, incomplete to Livingstone in the end zone. You can find open receivers on any given play, but these were open receivers in front of him that were part of the read progression and he chose to throw to covered receivers from a clean pocket. In fairness, Ohio State had our receivers blanketed for a lot of the game. Manning probably assumed his situation wouldn’t improve with time. He scrambled somewhat successfully. The called QB run game didn’t really work. I don’t understand what he’s done to his release. Are our QBs obligated to degrade mechanics the longer they’re on campus? We’ll see if it cleans up. I thought he moved in the pocket well. He certainly competed through a lot of adversity. Offensive Line Trevor Goosby is a good pass protector. Surprisingly, Neto pass blocked better than he run blocked. Stroh and Baker hurt the offense several times. No, the OL didn’t play well. Ohio State played a light box and we didn’t punish them for it. When space condensed they dominated us on money downs and they got consistent pressure on Manning when they needed it. They made up for a light or honest box with physicality and effort and we never matched either. Please read this. The timing of my writing was not a coincidence. Explosiveness? We had zero runs over 15 yards against a light box and some Buckeye misalignments where we had numbers before the snap. Want to run someone out of exotic coverages, blitzes, and crazy presnap shifts in a light box? Drop explosive runs on them. Texas couldn’t. Consistency? No fumbles. Not a lot of negative runs. Passing grade. We met the JAG standard. Situational? Fail. The box score is lying to you. Ohio State conceded exactly what they wanted to. On short yardage, the OL fired out like mummies and got jacked up. Feet stopped moving at impact. No control or fit. Defenders slip off and rally to the ball. Except for the 4th and 1 Manning sneak where the playside laid down on their bellies like they were on a slip and slide. Every Longhorn OL lost on that play. Pad level? Generally bad. Finishing blocks? Not often. Initial contact, stand straight up, feet stop moving. Baker did have a pancake on Sonny Styles when he got low and drove him over a pile early in the game. That didn’t happen often enough. Cole Hutson also got a 1 on 1 with Styles early. He got jacked up and thrown into the runner. Stroh is slow-footed. He makes initial contact and then defenders slide right off. Kenyatta Jackson – a 265 pound DE – lined up in a 3 technique backside and drove Neto Umeozulu – who was blocking down on him – so far across the line of scrimmage that he used him to plug the playside hole three gaps away. That’s a 55 pound weight differential and the Texas guard had the angle advantage. Our OL is not very strong at the point of attack. The ability to run the ball was directly correlated to Ohio State’s box count and whether they had reserves in. Ohio State had so much contempt for our running game that they played a light box on 1st down on their 9 yard line, fearing we might try to throw it in. We were 70% gap run, but our angles on pulls are terrible. The puller who should turn up in the hole and find the first enemy jersey is overrunning and then trying to loop back. They need to scrape it tight and turn quickly. Not drift aimlessly. We had a goal line Arch run where we motioned the RB out to clear the safety standing at LB depth. Vacant spot. Ohio State had light numbers! Looking good. Going to stroll in. We ran counter towards the only LB remaining…and he made the tackle. Maybe run to the vacant space. That you vacated with the motion. It’s why you sent your RB in motion. WR/TE I love Jack Endries. Ball player. Willing blocker, super reliable receiver. Hands. Good routes. Played very hard. He overran on pulls like the OL. Pretty clearly not a teaching point for Flood. Our receivers are an incomplete due to a great pass denying game plan from Patricia, inaccuracy, and a lot of Buckeye bodies in coverage. Livingstone won in single coverage for a TD against a grabby Ohio St cornerback. I didn’t see a lot of separation, but I have no idea how DeAndre Moore can be evaluated with five bad balls thrown at him. We’ll see, I guess. RB Baxter had some good blitz pick ups. Both he and Wisner repeatedly stumbled out of their breaks to daylight and neither added much to their runs after contact. Watch Wingo’s acceleration on the end around. Then watch our RBs run. Very different explosiveness. Matt Patricia was not scared of any Texas RB that played on Saturday hurting his defense, I can promise you that. They were game planned as an irrelevance. Closing Thoughts Use the next few weeks wisely. This offense has a few issues, some that were foreseeable, many that can be addressed, but a couple that are genuine surprises. Units can improve dramatically over time and openers can be particularly jarring, but this was a bit of a wake up call for the Longhorn offensive staff and players.
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Bolden made me hold my breath every time, but he came through.
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That was actually a great throw. It wasn’t a drop, because Igbinonus (sp?) had his right arm pinned. Let’s not reverse Mandel Arch here
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Wow those are eerily similar stat lines
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Liverpool FC 2025-26: #20 in memory of #20 Diogo Jota
mdmost replied to Firemans4Horn's topic in Futbol
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He needs to learn to put touch on passes. He makes it way too hard for receivers to catch short throws. There is zero reason to throw every pass as hard as you can.
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