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Hermanator

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  1. Herbert has the choke gene prominent in his DNA
  2. The problem was the OL was incongruent. The left tackle was all world at everything. Then LG and C were finesse stretch zone blockers who couldn't drive forward in the run against most teams. Then the RG and RT were power blocking maulers who struggled in the zone reach blocks. It's why I don't understand not having a separate package for short yardage with Hutson at center and Neto at LG. Get a full line of power blocking maulers to go to in those situations. That should have been obvious this time last year since the 2023 team had the same issue. That said, I don't know if they tried but just didn't feel it worked well. Would love to know if they ever tried.
  3. Many of your are failing to realize our offense wasted a historically good defense. Best in the country level. When was the last time Texas had arguably the best defense in the country? Just look at the offensive output since Quinn came back for the OU game. Look at Bond pre OU and post OU. Go watch the film and look at all the route winners Wingo alone had his man cooked badly in the back half of the season and didn't get the ball. Sometimes I wonder how you people can watch so much football yet not know what you're watching. I'm guessing it's because you let emotion get in the way and don't go back later and rewatch the tape to see what's actually going on.
  4. Then he'll be Ewers? Sturm is an aggy troll. Plus, if we had lost to UTSA, UL Monroe, or Miss St it sure as shit would have been meaningful. But we blew them out so it doesn't count. It's up to Sark to give Arch the same level of defense and offense he gave Ewers. If he does that the offense will be higher scoring than this year. I mean the offense not getting above 20 pts in regulation in 5 of the final 7 games is just piss poor with the level of experience and talent available. And for many of those we had a lot of route winners that Ewers didn't throw or missed. Even that Georgia film guy noticed it on tape repeatedly and he doesn't have a dog in this fight.
  5. Arch will be a Heisman finalist in NY and the offense will score over 20 points in regulation in way more than 2 of their final 7 games next season. Book it now.
  6. The defense tried. Held OSU to 21 pts. In the end the offensive weaknesses got us beaten. Something anyone who pays attention without the homer glasses could see coming. Still the best Texas defense ever. Holding the OSU offense that was on this kind of a roll to 21 was a master class performance. Especially holding them to 14 after the first drive of the game. Elite stuff
  7. In the final 7 games of the season our offense, in regulation, had games where they scored 20, 17, 16, 17, and 14. And we managed to make it to the semi finals. This was the best Texas defense ever. They came close to carrying the team on their backs to a NC with an offense that was inconsistent, and couldn't score over 20 in regulation in 5 of the final 7 games. They were saddled with poor QB and mediocre OL play and still won all but 3 games out of 16. Horns up to the best defense in Texas history. Your QB, OC, and offense let you down, but you were champions this season. Heads up.
  8. I disagree. Just on ability and mobility alone he should be able to consistently do more of what Sark wants by next season. I think it'll be a slower start, really wish we didn't schedule that stupid OSU game, but I think by November Arch will be way ahead of where Quinn is. If Taafe and Trey Moore come back, we have some guys step up in the secondary, and of course round out successfully in the portal, this defense should be borderline elite again next season. They were absolutely elite this season. Having a QB that not only knows the offense, but has the ability to get the ball where it needs to be consistently, will take this team over the top. That, along with weak interior run blocking, was what kept this offense from being great. Fix those 2 issues and this thing can go to another level. I've been critical of Ewers because I felt strongly that his weaknesses and flaws were not only unacceptable for a former 5 star 4th year QB with this quality of weapons around him, but would ultimately get us beaten by championship level teams. It happened twice against Georgia and in this semi final. The defense did their job. Ewers and the offense couldn't do theirs. Oh well, it's been a successful rebuild to this point and the team should improve in necessary areas. This was just the start, and now it's time to level up. Let's look forward to better offense and close the book on the Ewers era. He was good enough to drive the bus of a very talented team to 2 playoff appearances, but not good enough to beat the top teams when it mattered. This is the last time I'll mention him in a post. Let's move on.
  9. Actually should have run Ewers. Get in gun, run the zone read look, yet call a Ewers keeper. EVERY defense expects the handoff on that look because it always happens. The ends crash hard on the snap. That was the time to break the tendency and get the game tied late. I thought Sark called a great game, but he messed up the end of that drive. I also still don't understand why he didn't establish more of a goal line OL package during the season where Nero comes in at LG, Hutson at C, and we just run power with the jumbo extra lineman package. That's the best run blocking OL we have, and if that has been tried and established all season it could have been used more.
  10. I think that's more on Ewers. Every other QB Sark coached improved. Even Mac Jones sat for a few years then came in and just made all the throws to take advantage of the talent. Ewers could never get to that level. He's just extremely inconsistent. He was a good transitional QB for Sark to build the team around, especially since he arrived with ridiculous over hype that he couldn't ever come close to living up to being. That said, I'm very happy I've seen his last game as Texas QB. He and the offense just wasted a championship level defense. This defense should have won the title this year if the QB and offense didn't sabotage the whole thing. They held OSU to 21 points even with the offense doing nothing for most of the game. That was a damn good accomplishment given what that offense had been doing recently, and it should have been enough to win the game. There better be a much less predictable and more explosive offense with Manning at QB. He can make every throw consistently, is big as an ox, and can run when necessary. With the defensive talent on campus and coming in this should be an elite defense again soon. Hopefully Manning and Sark can get it right offensively and get us a title in the next 2 seasons.
  11. ND already hung with Georgia's speed which Texas has problems with, and Penn St already hung with OSU's speed this year in a 7 or game at the beginning of November. That's just a ridiculous and wrong thing to think
  12. I think he's destined to replace Day at OSU one day
  13. And somewhere on early Russian Internet chat sites was some goober named "дважды рог" talking about how Putin couldn't serve multiple terms because it isn't allowed.
  14. I have a very strong feeling the current Texas HC feels the same way
  15. Hermanator

    Bert!

    How bad must Stone suck at kicking field goals? Also, has Bert not been nailing them in practice? He's been clanking them this whole time and nobody thought to try out the other guy? This just doesn't make much sense.
  16. That has to be a joke post
  17. So even Fox sports programming is full of immoral, low rent, corrupt scumbags? Not just their propaganda network? Jesus F'n christ
  18. I've said what I know about it. The cost in lives was more about what was to come if hostilities kept escalating over it. Was it overblown by military brass or Carter? Could be so. I have no idea what extent the tensions would have escalated, how the Soviet Union may or may not have been able to take advantage of the situation, or many of the other factors at play in the mid 1970s. What I do know is jumping into that hornet's nest today for no good reason would be the epitome of trump stupidity and an additional giant waste of resources. I have a nephew who is about to complete year 1 in the army, and although I spoke my objections based on this very scenario of a warmongering trump getting back in office, his veteran step dad convinced him otherwise. I really hope he makes it 4 years, but having to deal with him getting killed invading Panama would make family events quite weird. And I'd keep the "I told you idiots so" to myself although we'd all know it.
  19. The Panamanians came to really resent the US control over the canal by the mid 20th century. There were several instances of skirmishes costing some soldiers their lives, the biggest and most well known being the 1964 Panama uprising that killed 4 US soldiers. By the 1970s it had become much more like a hostile occupation, and it wasn't worth the cost in finances and human lives to continue to fight over it with the Panamanians. It was also on the verge of being a major diplomatic black eye on the US back when our political leaders cared about being perceived as hostile bullies. Military officials advised Carter it could take up to 100,000 US troops to adequately occupy the canal and defend against a full blown uprising. Imagine what to would take now to invade Panama and hold control against what will surely be a full scale uprising against enemy invaders. All for what? Because trump doesn't like shipping costs?
  20. The reason Carter turned the Panama canal over to Panama was because it was costing the US, not only a ton of money, but also a lot of lives to maintain control and operate it. It wasn't worth the hassle anymore. That was a US that's far more financially solvent than today. So of course, let's spend another trillion and more dead American soldiers occupying Panama. Not to mention, this immediately sets the world stage for every power to fight over any lands close to them they wish to invade. Taiwan being the most obvious. Just incredibly stupid and potentially nuclear holocaust level dangerous.
  21. Yet played in a dome because they're too scared of cold, rain, and snow for their precious TV ratings
  22. The state has become one for many reasons, but this isn't one of them. Would be incredibly stupid to allocate tens of millions to DFW for equipment and staff to clear roads when this happens once every couple of years. At most one or two days a year on a heavy year. Way too infrequent to justify spending on it.
  23. I still remember that 2010 one. Had pictures from outside my 2nd floor apartment window that showed every inch of ground, trees, etc covered with snow. Remember trying to drive right down the street, about 1/4 mile, to pick up a pizza and was going 5 to 10 mph because I couldn't see what was road and what wasn't. If it gets like that Thursday things will still be crazy on Friday all day.
  24. Take a couple days off work and drive in Wednesday. Drive back Saturday. Snow/Ice isn't supposed to get here until Thursday, and Saturday looks to be sunny with a high in the 40s
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