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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The winner of Aggy went to SEC Championship game in addition to first time playing in 14 years. We lose that game there is ZERO doubt it's in your list of "big game losses". Playoff games are inherently big games. GTFO with this bullshit.- 7689 replies
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If you can't get hyped for Texas/OU that's a You problem. Best damn day of the year every year.
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The emotional swings of message boards depending on last game outcome, particularly if an unexpected result, is always so funny to watch. Many generally expected us to beat OSU easily week 1. Then many thought we were losing 8 games after UTEP. Then after SJSU we were set to dominate Florida and OU and likely not be tested until Georgia. And now we are back to a 4-5 win season. I'm not saying everyone but it's always a wild ride with a good chunk of the posters and I suspect that is the same for everyone's boards. No doubt many OU fans went from wanting to fire Venables to convinced SEC and National Titles are on the near term horizon based solely on a couple of decent (but hardly 'great') home wins against Michigan and Auburn. Here is where I'm at. I think we have a real and significant OL problem that isn't going to get solved this year. Ithink Manning is likely going to continue to have ups and downs but I feel good about the way he played and competed @ Florida. I think we have enough talent at other positions combined to be in any game on our schedule if we play to potential. I think our staff completely screwed up with our personnel evaluations this offseason, but I don't think they are idiots and expect they are scheming as much as they can to solve for glaring deficiencies (whether it works against a really good OU defense more talented than us across the board up front TBD). And I have absolutely no idea what will happen Saturday because it's Texas/OU and there is pretty much nothing that will every surprise me about this game because the right bounce and general momentum will swing games wildly either direction moreso than any other game on the schedule.
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JFC. This board is so dramatic after a loss.
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I think the RB room may be a bigger issue than WR but it's impossible to really evaluate either because the OL play is so awful. We could live with the growing pains at RT if the interior line was simply average.
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Cmon now. I think maybe 3 or 4 of the 12 draft picks last year were Herman recruits and none were "Herman developed". Give me a break.
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Jackson Arnold self sacks more than Quinn ever did. But yes, this is far from a 'get right' game for the OL. I expect it to be ugly.
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Stop making predictions or attempting any kind of analysis. You are terrible at it.
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This. Posting evidence that people have retarded takes on Twitter isn't much of hot sports opinion.
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Coach Sark Press Conference 10.6 - 11:30am (LHN app or ESPN app)
Skipper replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
We were talking about this on drive back from game. I don't get it. On offense (OL in particular) it's clearly a personnel clusterfuck that Sark and his staff completely mismanaged or misevaluated. But I don't get the defense as we've watched these same guys completely dominate. I'm trying to think back to the last game (even a game we won) where what was on paper an inferior unit completely outplayed us. Maybe OU in 2023 when Gabriel went off? Washington scored a lot of points in '23 but that was a really good offense and Penix played an elite game. Lagway played solid but our D flat out just got whipped at the LOS and we haven't seen that in forever. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 10.6 - 11:30am (LHN app or ESPN app)
Skipper replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
I think the team was arrogant enough to believe the records and their preseason hype and expected to show up and win. In some ways, the schedule really f'd us this year starting @ OSU and then having 3 games that were never going to be in doubt. I'm with Imma that I don't know where the leadership is on this team. I'm not surprised by the offensive performance (although the disaster of the OL clearly worse than I imagined) but was really disappointing to see our defense show up and give up that long TD drive first possession and then turn around and do it again after we cut it to 10-7. That's bullshit and not being as mentally prepared and ready to play as your opponent. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
To drive home the point for those claiming Arch should be benched based on the Florida game, Florida had 35 pressures (believe the 2nd most any P4 team has allowed this entire season) while only rushing 4 on 85% of snaps. Our RB's had 15 combined yards on 11 carries. You think there is a QB in the country that is going to excel against that? We went to max protect frequently and still couldn't protect. I think most will agree that Colt was the best passing QB we've had. Go back and look at his stat lines in the OU and Nebraska games his senior year that we barely won where our OL and running games similarly completely shit the bed in front of him. Hint. It wasn't pretty. I walked away from that game feeling much better about Manning's potential than I had at any other point this season and I think anyone that understands football or hadn't already decided that he is unsalvageable would think the same.- 7689 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
JFC. You're right, we should throw out a non-athletic Caldwell in his first start at Texas with an absolute shit OL in one of the most unique environments in sports that he's never seen. That should be the actual game plan and not the emergency plan. Got it. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
If you watched that game and thought Arch was "the problem" you're a moron. If we got that Arch against OSU where the D was dialed in and special teams flipped the field constantly we probably win. I never said he played a great game. But he wasn't a top 10 problem on the field Saturday. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Arch had one really bad series I recall specifically (the 3 and out right before the blocked punt where he missed 2 throws although would need to see on rewatch if he might have been hit on one of those). But that's to be expected at times. I thought he played pretty well for chunks of the game. Do you know what this team can't have? A defense that gives up a long TD drive right after you cut it to 10-7 and might have momentum + a punt team that completely misses an assignment and lets someone go free to give up a safety. You can live with a bad series from time to time from your QB if other units aren't shitting the bed simultaneously. But I have no doubt Arch is going to get blamed again for stalled drives this week when he's going to be put in an impossible position. If you can stop the run with a light box and get pressure with 4, they can just alternate dropping DB's everywhere and selective pressure. We are so easy to gameplan against right now if you have just a "plus" defense that it's embarrassing and OU is fantastic up front. I think we are absolutely going to have to play Arch hero ball to have a chance because we flat out don't have the personnel to run the offense Sark wants to run. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 10.6 - 11:30am (LHN app or ESPN app)
Skipper replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
A true freshman being part of the plan going forward tells you all you need to know about OL personnel. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 10.6 - 11:30am (LHN app or ESPN app)
Skipper replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
What do you expect him to say at this point? There isn't a waiver wire. It's beyond obvious there isn't a solution. It's clear now this season was fucked months ago when Sark and the rest of the staff convinced themselves this offensive line would grow enough to be serviceable. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I don't know how anyone could watch that game and think Arch was the big problem. The color commentator must have been negative to skew everyone's thoughts because I was getting texts all game as well, but from the stands 20 rows up I watched our line get their asses kicked all game long, zero running game, and Arch get hit constantly. Anyone that thinks fucking Caldwell would have came in and dominated because he threw one good ball is insane. There isn't a QB in this country that could have had a good day throwing the football when we can't run the ball and can't fucking block 4 in max protect. Arch was forced to play hero ball basically from possession #1.- 7689 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I think the "edge" and planning for a long season is part of it but the biggest part IMO opinion is overall roster management. Staff fell in love with younger players and/or expected way too many to take the next step and so we clearly spent way too much NIL on retention instead of addition. Particularly on the offensive side of the ball. We have a group of 5 OL combined with a RB and WR room stacked with 2's and 3's and not a single WR or RB1. Both those WR's A&M picked up look like they are better than anything on our roster and I'm guessing they are getting paid less than multiple guys and maybe even a couple of the freshman. I'm not sure we have a RB that is able to break a tackle or pick up a single yard more than our shit OL blocks a play for. The next time I see a TE block well this season will probably the first. It's just a bad roster on the offensive side and it's entirely on the staff getting complacent or full of themselves for watching our backups last fall (and then in the spring) and not realizing they need help. -
I think it's a total mixed bag as nobody knows what to expect out of either offense. The consensus on Dusty and Danny Sirius XM this AM (including a guest they had on) was that they trusted Arch more than Lagway. Dusty liked Texas to cover and Danny leaned that way ass well taking the first half under but thought if we could get a meaningful lead in the 2nd half Florida might just collapse. Of course I've seen the opposite take this week as well. I don't think anyone knows what to make of Texas which is fair because frankly I don't either. Such a weird schedule to start the season.
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Even better. Appreciate it and let us know if any meaningful updates if you don't mind!
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Did you find a good source for a deeper dive and if so mind sharing to follow updates? Flying down tomorrow night. We got solid free tix through contact but if weather looks likely to be a shitshow with lightning delays might pony up for club seats to ride it out inside.
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A gif and "drive-by-humor" is fine if it may any fucking sense whatsoever in context dude. That's the point. It didn't. Done arguing with you.
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Even he is slightly better and it is his potential for personal fouls or if he misses more assignments or whatever other reason that is keeping him on the bench, it's not like he's been a huge difference maker when he has played (Dunlap has their aggregate snaps graded at Neto 78 and Stroh 76.3 and I expect those go lower as competition gets better). I think the obvious conclusion is we just don't have the personnel (at least that is ready).
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Got it. You are just a dumbass that has hot takes that are fucking retarded then states they are "jokes" when called out. Got it. One suggestion for you for the sake of readability of this board. Post less.
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