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Red Five

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  1. Or just play Neto there. I wonder if he has quiet quit already. You don’t plan for an entire offseason to start a dude on your OL and then just not play him at all.
  2. Um I think Turntine and Robertson could both start for us next weekend if such a thing were possible. (that is an absurd exaggeration but you get my point.)
  3. It's actually pretty impressive to recruit like we have over a five year period, and be Texas in the NIL era of free agency, and put an unranked team on the field. You almost have to try to accomplish that. Especially when you began the season ranked #1 and god dammit I hate everything.
  4. You would think the benefit of the whole "large humans" thing would be that they can generally maul people. But they don't do that either. We apparently look for huge, slow-footed, weak, even-tempered guys to stack on the OL.
  5. I know you're risking fumbles with Gibson, but we're gonna have to start playing him when it matters. And I'm assuming Baxter is still out, because that's what I'm going to assume about him going forward as long as he is a part of this team.
  6. I only skimmed the last few pages, but how many times this season thru only five games have we heard announcers say "Manning had _____ wide open in the middle of the field and didn't see him". I don't know the number but it's a lot, and it feels like more than every other Texas QB in recent history combined. I don't know if it's vision or confidence, but whatever it is it's bad.
  7. It’s crazy that we’re almost to the midway point of the season and we have no idea who our starting left guard will be at Texas/OU. It could realistically be any of three or four different people.
  8. Gerry Hamilton with the fun point: “The best player on OU’s defense will be lined up over the Texas LG.”
  9. I did not see those kinds of games from Campbell and especially Hutson. The rest are about right.
  10. Nope, just longer, slower developing plays, waiting for WRs to come open 30 yards downfield, while your QB is dodging DL like in a video game.
  11. In Eric Nahlin's "horns up, horns down" article this morning, he had three "horns up" (positives). Arch, Livingstone, and the punter. And we had a punt blocked for a safety.
  12. Imagine if Arch was your kid. He cannot continue to take shots like that the rest of the season. It's dangerous. Seriously, a statue like Ewers or Chris Simms gets sacked 15 times yesterday, and leaves the game in the third quarter to head to the hospital.
  13. I would have to rewatch the game which is not something I am going to do, but I swear there was a play in the first quarter where someone picked up Cole Hutson and threw him backwards. I'm being serious.
  14. Pushing around Alabama in Tuscaloosa in the fourth quarter feels like 20 years ago. We couldn't come close to doing that against UTEP.
  15. What does the game yesterday look like if we do nothing but trade OLs with Florida? When the OL gives up 35 pressures and our offense is seemingly designed for the QB to hold the ball fucking forever.... this is a problem. Having a non-existent running game is also problematic.
  16. Yeah I don't think we'll get to seven wins this year.
  17. This is the very first thing they need to do. There is just zero point in keeping Hutson at center at this stage. It's almost as bad as LG. After that then completely start over at guard, including potentially Campbell. Fucking try Jackson Christian or Christian Jackson or whatever the fuck his name is with the first team if we have to. Tackles aren't great but we can live with them for now, and I'm pretty confident those are our best two.
  18. Fine. We've heard good things about Kibble at guard. Try that then. We've got 15 scholarship OL. There is just no fucking way the five (Brooks is a tackle playing out of position and that experiment probably needs to end now) we saw yesterday are the best of what we can put on the field. It's just not possible. Kibble, Chatman, Cruz, Robertson, some Colemans... you mean to tell me they are all a step down from this current first team unit?
  19. The very first thing we need to do, and it's not gonna fix everything but it could act as a tourniquet, is put in Robertson at center and Hutson at LG. That could potentially be.... somewhat functional? I'm talking about just keeping players alive.
  20. I don't think either Gibson or Simon saw the field yesterday, even with Baxter out. Not that it would have changed anything.
  21. Here's an idea: If we insist on coming out every game in a two TE package (which, considering how the OL protects, is probably a good idea that we shouldn't have to do), then make one of those two TEs Jaydon Chatman or Nate Kibble. Like what we used to do with Karic. As in, not Spencer Shannon, who is not a threat to catch the ball nor a threat to block anyone.
  22. After our LG experience today, I think they have to try Robertson at C and Hutson at LG.
  23. They are going to bring a ton of pressure. Sark might want to think about maybe installing a screen pass into our game plan. God forbid we do anything to get a defense thinking or even just playing on their heels.
  24. But it is as bad as before. The OL Sark inherited was much, much better than the one he’s putting on the field in year five.
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