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  1. 17 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    People I'd like to be quarterbacking our team this weekend: 1) Quinn Ewers 2) Hudson Card 3) Casey Thompson 4) Maalik Murphy.

     

     

    6 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

    big GIF

    People I'd like to be quarterbacking out team this weekend:) 1) Vincent Paul Young Jr 2) Colt McCoy 3) Quinn Ewers 4) Your mom

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  2. 1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

    This is some serous over thinking. Maalik was bad. "He could have 300 yards and 2 more TDs", if every single break went his way and Mitchell became Earl Campbell after the catch. .This completely misses reality, he has been amazingly lucky. He threw 2 balls off the face of KSU defenders. He has over 300 yards if he doesnt flat out miss 6-8 open WRs. I dont know if this just who Murphy is or there is a much better version down the line, but he was just bad vs KSU.. 

      I agree that he was bad. However, what I posted above this is valid. No idea what Arch will do. We know Murphy, like Milroe, throws a great deep ball. Just is processing slow on the other stuff. Week two everyone was making fun of Bama with Milroe. Now he looks like a guy that could get you into the playoff. He just needed experience, and the game to slow down. I am not sure if that will happen for MM but I have no clue what Arch will do. There is a scenario where you put Arch in but it needs to be another KSU game. Bama almost got beat by USF playing around with their QBs just to find out why those guys were behind him.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    You think a Dykes coached team isn't going to show up at home to beat Texas, who he absolutely hates, on the way out the door? And we're going in with a QB throwing 4 to 5 passes a game into the defenders hands? 

    We aren't getting KSU or WVU level effort. We're getting everything they have to throw. This is a holy war to them and they know it's the last chance they'll get at us for years, possibly decades. You feel confident on the road against a fanatically motivated opponent with Turnover Murphy at QB?

    Sure don't, but we have no clue what's behind him. None. For all we know Arch could come out over and underthrowing deep balls like Ewers used to. Then TCU walks their safeties up and takes away our run game with no way to hurt them. Next thing you know we can't put long drives together due to negative plays and procedure penalties, and all the explosiveness is gone from the O. It's not a foregone conclusion that Arch will walk out there accurately pitching it all over the lot.

  4. 10 minutes ago, formermav43 said:

    You can make that same argument in reverse, though. Ewers’ worst game was against OSU, where he completed fewer than 40% of his passes and threw 3 picks. They finished the year ranked as the #115 in defense in college football-worse than any team Card started against.

    The point isn’t that he was a better player or that anyone would want him over Ewers today, but if he could have stepped in as relief and played better in a couple of specific games. Almost certainly so. But I think Sark made the decision to punt on the short term win for Ewers (and the team) to develop into what they are this season. 

    Card played against UTSA, Tech, and WVU. Defensive rankings can say whatever you want them to say depending on time of year, who you played against, or anything really. For example, if you come out on offense and jump all over teams all year guess what? Your passing D is going to look awful on paper because everyone has to abandon the run and start throwing to catch up. Doesn't mean your pass defense is actually bad. Bottom line, Quinn played against the who's who last year and Card played against the  also-rans. The only game we saw both of them in is Bama. We know how that looked.

  5. 3 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    The situations are different. Last year in the Oklahoma State game we had two losses so the playoff was out of the picture. The conference title was still up for grabs at that that point, and both the team and Quinn could have benefited from pulling him out of a game he was practically throwing away by himself. You pull him out to settle him down and see if a fresh quarterback can guide the ship to a win, and then during the next week you build Quinn back up and start him again. No one was saying to bench him for the season. Once the TCU game came around, Sark had already made his bed and allowed Quinn to blow the Oklahoma State game so there was nothing to play for at that point. I disagree that letting him shit his pants in front of everyone for those two games had any benefit on him developing this year. The same level of shame and embarrassment in his lack of preparation would have happened from getting benched as well. 

    Now this season is completely different. It isn't the full-time starter we are talking about, it's two backups, and whomever loses the competition for next year's starter is transferring anyway. It would have been best for next year to get a look at both under this high stress, live fire situation to see who handles it better heading into next year's competition. It would have also been best for this year to exhaust all the options and figure out which guy gives you the best chance to win now since both the playoff and the conference title are still on the line. 

    Now there could be circumstances we don't know about such as the Mannings telling Sark they don't want Arch playing under any circumstance this year, but that just isn't really believable. It's far more believable that Sark is staying true to his tendencies of being a quarterback coach first and head coach second. Since Maalik stuck it out with him, he's going to give him every opportunity to torpedo the ship and throw away a conference title and playoff out of loyalty to his guy. It's just one of Sark's faults. 

    Chances are we get TCU's best shot on Saturday in Ft Worth. We better hope Quinn is ready for it. If not hang on to your butts, fellas. 

    I bolded part of your post. I honestly don't know what to tell you if you don't understand how having a quick hook on your quarterback can hurt their development. You have two seconds from the snap to drop back, survey the field, and make not only a solid decision, but with good technique and accuracy. There is no room for waning confidence. You saw that this weekend. Murph was nails early on but a couple things went wrong and next thing you know he is holding the ball too long and throwing the ball late. You pull him at that point and he is questioning whether he has the ability to play at this level. Then what if Arch is awful and you have to go back to Murphy? You've lost him at that point.

    Right now Murphy is pressing, thinking he has to make every play. Why is he doing that? Because he knows who is behind him and feels like he has to play remarkable in order to stay ahead of him. How do you fix that issue? You show him that its ok to take whats there, and its ok to not make every play. You stick with him, coach him up, and get him to settle down. If you bench him you further validate what he is already thinking.

    Listen, Murphy is a couple tackled WRs away from having over 300 yrds and two more TDs. Possibly 3 if Cook doesn't let himself get muscled. You get the kid to simply understand to throw the ball away or take a sack when there is nothing there and he is a solid QB. We don't run for 200+ if he is not tearing Kstate a new asshole anytime they showed man coverage.

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  6. 1 hour ago, formermav43 said:

    , where last year in relief he completed nearly 70% of his passes with only 1 INT. Ewers was absolute garbage in those games, throwing balls to no one in particular, completing less than half his passes, turning it over. It’s why we essentially abandoned the passing game against KU and Baylor.
     

    There’s no doubt in my mind Card would have outplayed him at that time if brought in based on his body of work last season-and I believe that’s precisely why he didn’t play him, because of the potential repercussions. He was willing to sacrifice the wins in the short term for the longterm development of Ewers (and the team). I hated that move last year; this year, you can argue it looks like it paid off.

     

    1 hour ago, Had Enough said:


    Interestingly enough Cards numbers last year are reasonably comparable to Ewers this year.

     

    1 hour ago, South Austin said:

    Compared to almost 80%, 6 TDs and 1 INT last year at Texas.  At least statistically, that's a step back, but you can also argue that the different in surrounding talent and coaching between Texas and Purdue has a lot to do with that.

    But against who? My daughter's backup hitter in volleyball has almost as good a hitting percentage as she does. However, she only plays when we play cupcakes, so she gets to pad her stats against them. My daughter earned hers against playoff bound teams.

  7. 9 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    Arch's redshirt has zero to do with the situation. For one, the only way Arch is in college 5 years is if he's a complete bust. Secondly, even if he played against BYU in an all hands on deck tryout and was clearly better than Murphy he could have played every game up until Thanksgiving and kept the redshirt. Third, you know what's more important than a third string QB's redshirt? Winning the fucking conference and getting in the playoff. 

    Also, I think Sark isn't handling this like a true head coach. He's handling it like a former college quarterback and offensive coordinator who refuses to bench one of his guys that he recruited. He did the exact same thing last year with Ewers. Remember the TCU and Oklahoma State games? Even though Ewers was almost solely responsible for losing those games he refused to bench him. He stated that young quarterbacks have to go through those growing pains to develop. A head coach should always put the team ahead of a young quarterback's development, but this one doesn't. And that's going to get us beat if we aren't as lucky as we were last Saturday. 

    Unlike KSU who is built offensively in the worst possible way to attack Texas's best in the country run defense, TCU is built in the best possible way to attack our defense. Their strength is the passing game and their receivers are fast and talented. They will move the ball against us all day long, but somehow they are worse in the red zone than we are, so the defense is going to have to make plays to keep them to field goals. I do not feel good going on the road with a turnover prone, inaccurate quarterback against a team whose offense can easily attack our weakness. Unfortunately, we don't have a head coach like Saban to save Sark from his worst tendencies. 

    I don't agree with this at all. First, Sark has shown to make solid personnel decisions. Whether you want to agree or not, sticking with Quinn last year lead to a confident Quinn this year. Maybe pulling Quinn leads to him transferring at worst or losing confidence in himself. None of us are at practice so we don't know whether or not Arch looks good. If you put Arch in there you have immediately lost Murphy, and if Arch struggles you can't then go back ro Murphy. So the decision isn't one to make lightly. You guys think pulling players in and out doesn't have affects. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, Knighthawk said:

    I abided by a 24 hour rule and just rewatched the game.  MM not all that bad.  Yes he could have thrown four picks and short hopped a couple others.  kSU is a good veteran team that capitalized on a young qb’s mistakes.  Shocker.     
     

    He will be fine over the next few weeks.  I saw enough upside from MM to go along with plus skill players across the board that should be more than enough to sweep the last three … even with some rs freshmen fuck ups which should diminish each week going forward.   
     

    Relax.  Give the guy a chance.  

          after a solid rewatch I would say I have to agree. Did he have a couple stupid throws? Absolutely. However, there were a lot of really good ones. Worthy got tackled on two TD throws. Cook got pulled down on one. We had a lot of penalties that killed drives. A blocked punt. A fumble. If we can somehow not turn it over its not that close. The refs call the obvious calls and its a blowout.

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  9. 8 minutes ago, UTHornFan014 said:

    Yeah - This interception can be attributed to bad luck/bad officiating. His other INT (and the other couple that should have been INTs) were less than ideal though... 

    Indeed. Also this 4th down call was money. Sanders for sure gets the first down and maybe a TD depending on that last man. If Red just doesn't drop it.

     

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  10.   What Murph was looking at on the deep interception. K-State has adjusted to the full Flyover, with all 3 safeties deep. The call was pretty solid as it looks like Sark dialed up a winning route combo vs that look. Whit went vertical with a 15 yard curl to occupy the field side safety. Cook releases inside for a 7 route to the pylon. The corner carries the route and pulls Cooks jersey and Cook falls. Murphy throws the ball where Cook should be. If Cook doesn't fall its just him against the corner as the route is breaking away from the safety in the center. Cook cannot fall down with that little contact. Maybe he was trying to draw a call. Not sure. After watching it again that wasn't a bad throw just unfortunate.

     

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  11. 2 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

    What is the theory behind why MM could throw on target 1st half and then suddenly couldn’t hit a barn 2nd half?  Fatigue?  In game injury?   Mental breakdown?
    I don’t think I have ever seen a QB fade that drastically and then stay down so consistently before.  

       Kstate came out all cocky and tried to bring numbers in the box and 1v1 the receivers on the outside. Once we got up on them they switched an started playing their safeties deep. Its easy to make solid throws when its one on one. However, he threw a couple "oh shit" balls into coverage after Kstate dropped their defense back and I am guessing he was taking a little longer look to be sure on those throws that were late. Some QBs follow the receiver with their eyes and have to learn to look at the open spot and see the receiver coming into it. Right now MM is the former, which is why he doesn't see defenders.

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  12. 4 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


    He’s missed time 3 seasons in a row that he’s played. The guy from bama that did that to lsu ain’t the one that busted him up this year. Or in high school.

    I cannot speak to what happened in high school. I can say that if the NFL is looking at the guy who purposely tried to hurt him last year, and the DL that tackled him the exact same way they won't have a problem with it. It's not like they were light tackles. Those guys were both trying to hurt him and they did. The NFL protects their QBs a little better than that.

  13. 46 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

    That’s certainly one way to look at it.

     

      Look. This is Texas where teams gameplan every week for your game despite playing other opponents. Where the UH's of the world come in all fired up and throw all their emotions at you and then give zero effort in a shutout game a week or so later. You are getting everyone's best shot and all the pressure. It's not for everyone. Gilbert was overwhelmed here and it showed in his play. Pros felt the same way. Hold the clipboard. Same for the others. 

  14. 7 minutes ago, Bolero88 said:

    We had 3 sacks from our DEs yesterday. That ain't the problem Shitty Safety play is. 

    Maybe you need a rewatch of how long this mfer was patting the football behind his line while our D-line flailed about, desperately trying to get to him. You can't ask a secondary to cover that long. Start and the 16:15 mark. Count 1-thousands. We are even bringing extra guys and still can't get there. You can say its holding or whatever you want, but 4-5 seconds in the pocket is an eternity.

     

     

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  15. 3 hours ago, txhorns said:

    2.3 YPC takes into account all of the sack yardage that Shedeur has taken, which is a ton.  He had -37 yards last night.  Their running backs haven’t been bad.  They won’t win the game for Colorado but they could certainly help to ease some of the pressure.  Another big concern is that they constantly try to throw the ball deep, likely to show of Shedeur’s talent for the NFL.  Shedeur wouldn’t take near as many hits if they threw quick slants and screen passes more often.  Get the ball out quick.  Basically their offense is designed to show off Shedeur as much as possible instead of to win football games.

    Sack yardage is taken into account by every team's average. Also, you are not taking into account long runs. Take UCLA for example. McCaskill had a long of 9, Edwards had a long of 8. Wilkerson had a long of 8. Hankerson had a long of 9. That means those 4 backs, outside of popping one run each, averaged 1.5 yards per carry, and that's without the sack yardage added in. If you are watching their games you would see this. They will have a draw play on 3rd and long that gets close to a first or something like that. However, they can't run the football to get them ahead of the chains at all. Now take Texas. We popped two big runs of 54 and 27. Outside of that we are still averaging 4ypc.

     I get you guys love hating them. However, their line cannot pass block even a basic rush, and they can't consistently open hole for their backs.

  16. On 11/3/2023 at 6:36 PM, NoName said:

    yeah, the offense is the problem here.

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    demoting easily the best hire you made and a true up and comer who has done very good all things considered

    if you want a real laugh compare how they did last year vs this year.

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    demoting Sean Lewis is the single worst decision he could have made coaching staff wise. its going to impact his ability to hire actual up and coming coaches moving forward and is a terrible look for a guy who left a HC job for you.

    then you demote him for one of the 5 worst NFL coaches by win% since the super bowl era and who was last successful in 2017 with the Vikings and whose last experience at the college level was in 1998 with the 3-8 Stanford Fighting Willinghams?

    terrible decision. wonder if lewis even stays around at this point

     

    They are averaging 27.32 time of possession. Part of the offense's job is to possess the ball and protect the defense. They also cannot protect the quarterback. If you actually are watching the games Sanders has pressure on him by the time his back foot hits the ground. Lastly, they CANNOT run the football and aren't doing anything creative to get something going. 2.3 ypc isn't going to cut it. If I were Prime I would bring in someone from the Briles tree to get people away from the box.

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  17. 4 hours ago, Sundodger said:

    Um, Sark.   You got a shit coach.  Washington crushes Texas this year if they meet.

      This dude coming in here with his chest puffed out. That 316 yards rushing you had on USC? You can slice 200 off of it bruh. That dog won't hunt.  We played yall last year when all our draftable players sat out the bowl game and you still barely beat us. Us at full strength? Nah bro. Truth is, you don't even know how good you are because you've played a Pac12 schedule and no one else. Your best win came against a team that barely beat a 4-5 team from our conference. Utah barely beat a 3-6 team from our conference. In fact, who from your conference has a quality win out of conference? If I were you I would just hide in the corner and see how things shake out.

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