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ATLLonghorn

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  1. A couple days removed from the Georgia game and I'm much less doom and gloom than I was on Saturday and yesterday. I was pretty much convinced we were not good enough on offense to win a national championship and I think I've come off that opinion. I posted in depth thoughts on the first half in that game thread after a rewatch and never got around to anything more than a dirty rewatch of the second half and the offense looked weirdly lethargic. It just seemed like there was no sense of urgency until the final field goal drive.

    But the more I thought about it, I looked at it this way: Texas missed two field goals, got caught off guard by the most obvious fake punt of all time, got fisted by the officials for four quarters, got caught totally off guard by a running quarterback they weren't ready for and played like fucking shit on offense and still should've won the game and won it easily. Georgia showed they're a championship program, Texas has the ability to be a championship team.

    I would've hoped that the first Georgia game would've been a wake up call for this team that they are good enough to win a title, but that they need to find an extra gear and it didn't really seem like that was the case. Now they have two weeks to rest, recover and really ask each other are we going to do the little things in our preparation to take our game to the next level. Does Sark have it in him to inspire the offense to improve. Is there a leader in that locker room who is going to step up and set the tone holding himself and his teammates accountable? If they do that, this team can win a title.

    The Texas defense is championship worthy. I would ride into battle with those dudes over any other unit in the country on that side of the ball. The real question is going to be will anyone on the other side of the ball step up and help his brothers elevate their game. If that happens, this team can win a championship. It's all for the taking. Let's do it, fellas. Hook Em.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

    Just double checking but there’s no way he comes back to Texas right? He did walk on senior day so I’m hoping he sticks with that. No way Sark screws us over and keeps Quinn while manning transfers? Has on3 said this is Quinn’s last year at Texas regardless of what happens?

    they honored him on Senior Day. He gone.

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  3. I'll post more general thoughts on the first half after my rewatch is done soon and certainly I'm not putting everything on Ewers, but this is the kind of stuff where it's fair game to be critical. Ewers has to learn to take the easy stuff instead of making his life hard. Golden is working his way open. There is never a universe where throwing to Moore here is the right option.

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  4. We'd beat Arizona State anywhere on Earth, but the top 4 seeds are supposed to get the bowl game closest to them based on seeding so hypothetically Boise should get the Fiesta and then ASU the Sugar, but since the Sugar Bowl would be advantageous for Texas and Boise is going to get outdrawn by Penn State fans wherever they play does that mean we'd likely play ASU in Glendale?

  5. 1 minute ago, Levi said:

    It was a poor throw but your acting like Bond had no chance to catch the ball. The throw could have been a lot worse than it already was. I’m not sticking up for Ewers and saying it was all on Bond. I know it’s hard for this thread comprehend, but multiple things can be true on a single play and this is one of those imo. 

    It's a technically catchable ball, but as a receiver you aren't expecting the ball to your inside shoulder on an out route and he never knew where the ball was. He could have caught it, yes, but the responsibility of the quarterback is to put the ball in the best spot for his guy to catch it and Ewers doesn't.

  6. 1 minute ago, Dr.Dre said:

    Placement could be better yes.  But that was really a great play by their db.  He didn’t look worried about bond running by him as he normally should hence the tight coverage.  Bond still gimpy.  More Wingo please.

    on Bond, I haven't watched him in depth to really study his route running ability so I don't know how much of a technician it is, but context clues would certainly seem to agree with your point that he's gimpy. Doesn't look like he can stick his foot in the ground and cut.

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  7.  Starting a more in depth rewatch now, not sure how much video I'm going to clip, but any OL stuff I'll post here. There's no real goal in mind, just trying to see what happened and will post stuff that stands out to me. First play up: This is the 5th offensive snap of the game. I don't like the play design because all the routes are covered down field and the plan looks to be to leak Wisner out of the backfield, but #11 is there anyway. Nevertheless, this play gets blown up because Goosby isn't sure of his assignment. With Campbell pulling he's going to block the end and Goosby needs to block down on #78 but doesn't. Wisner tries to throw a shoulder into #78, but that isn't his responsibility on this play.

     

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  8. Just now, Hank_Hill said:

    We’ll find out. Other teams are bad too. Hope we don’t play Georgia again. 

    The silver lining is there is no LSU 2019 or Alabama 2020 offense or Georgia 21/22 defense out there so everyone is beatable, but just worrying about our own house we're bad in areas we can't be bad (HC, OC, QB, special teams). Our defense can win us games, but three in a row against good to very good teams? Sark and Ewers gotta carry their weight.

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