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Posts posted by gmr548
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11 minutes ago, Vertigo said:
The first throw of the game he threw a swing pass out to the back and hit him perfectly in stride. The pass had some touch on it and he seemed loose. Every other pass from that point on was fired as hard as he could and he missed wildly. If I am Sark/Milwee, I am telling him this week that if he fires a ball as hard as he can he is getting benched. There is zero margin for error when you are throwing like that. Last year he was lobbing balls downfield and guys were running under them. This year he is throwing them all on a line, even deep balls.
He threw a couple strikes early. Said RB swing pass, he hit an intermediate throw over the middle for a nice gain a few plays later. He honestly looked fine in first quarter. The offense stalled early because Sark elected to put the emphasis on bullying UTEP in short yardage and we couldn't do it, which is a separate conversation.
I think the red zone sequence in the second quarter is where it went to shit. He was personally responsible for botching that, not just the play where he threw the INT but every snap, and I think he knew it. Next time Texas got the ball, Sark went really run heavy and Arch didn't throw again until the 4th and short PA overthrow to Livingstone. You could see his bad body language on TV. Completely cooked mentally and at that point we were 3-4 throws into the 10 straight incompletions. Bunch of hot garbage consisting of obvious pressing and mechanical breakdown after that. If you squint he kinda sorta rebounded after that stretch, so there's that I guess.
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On 9/3/2025 at 3:08 PM, DanTheHorn said:
on Bobby's show this morning someone suggested Tom Herman.
Think you might be falling for a bit there lol
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27 minutes ago, Monahorns said:
I have noticed that OL recruiting hasn't been very good after Kelvin Banks and Cam Williams. Lots of big, heavy 3 stars, which means Kurt Flood has to develop them physically and technique-wise. Stroh, Robertson, Goosby, and Baker haven't been developed for strength. The penalties show the issue with technique training. College football is about coaches. They either got stupid or lazy.
I mentioned this last year and got smoked for it but the vast majority of the OL/DL that were responsible for the 2023-24 playoff runs were Herman recruits. Sweat, Murphy, Collins, Broughton, Sorrell, Jones, Majors, Conner. Sark and staff did not ID and eval any of those. Kelvin Banks is the obvious exception but I don't know that you get a lot of credit for that eval, everyone in the country had an offer in and he was a stud from day one.
Fortunately it does look like the ability to evaluate and develop from start to finish is there on the DL side, which is impressive given coaching turnover. And certainly Flood did good work with Jones and Majors (less so Conner). But the career arcs of DJ Campbell, Cole Hutson, and Cam Williams are the first returns we have on Flood's ability to evaluate/develop his own guys and they are... a mixed bag. Campbell and Williams are/were both inconsistent and undisciplined, Cole Hutson is just bad. Goosby looks pretty solid at LT. I think you can cut Baker some slack as a second year guy, I don't even know if he's 20 years old yet. Campbell is another one who could have gone wnywhere in the country but his development, while not completely absent, does leave you wanting more. The rest of Flood's recruits either don't look great after several years or can't get on the field over guys that don't look great after several years. I don't know that we have proof of concept that we can actually evaluate OL talent.
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3 hours ago, Hermanator said:
Are you sure they weren't saying he needs to be out partying more?
Manziel won a heisman being a drunk cokehead all season. Maybe getting lit more would get Arch to stop thinking and just fucking play
The alcohol thing is so dumb. Obviously it's barely worth addressing because of the nature of the rumor, but we'd all go to the mat defending the case for Vince Young as the GOAT of college QBs. I'm sure he developed that drinking habit after college, right?
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3 hours ago, ztejas said:
This is Texas football. Back to back CFP appearances. Back to back national semifinals. B12 champs 2023. SEC title game 2024. Back to back 12 win seasons (13 last year).
Thorpe award 2024.
Outland trophy 2024.
25 NFL draft picks the last two seasons.
All of this is why the mood is what it is. We watched two years of football at that level after wandering the desert for 13 years with almost entirely mediocre to bad teams. This year feels more like the latter. The difference between last year's offense - a good but not great unit - and this year's would make an uninitiated observer assume there were major rule changes in the sport.
2010 is a comp but it's not the only one. 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017 all featured strong defenses paired with bad offenses helmed by young QBs struggling to find their way. They all finished the regular season within a game of .500 and were 0-4 against a slate of OU teams that weren't particularly special, with the exception of 2017.
That script is hardly unique to Texas either. Recent OU teams in 2022 and 2024 had the same fate. Michigan had the same fate last year, though they got the payoff of upsetting Ohio State. The list goes on. Turns out it's pretty hard to win games in a game where the objective is to score more points than your opponent when you aren't very good at scoring points.
Barring a miracle it's pretty obvious where this is going. I wouldn't be shocked if we get to 8-4; we have 3 G5's instead of 2 and a generally soft conference schedule (I think we're going to beat Florida; Arch puts balls in the turf and the stands, Lagway puts them in defender's chests). Though I'd favor them at this point (you can still get OU anywhere from +6.5 to +9.5, apparently), anything can happen in Dallas and the front 7 is going to give OU fits. We could beat aggy, their defense is still bad and Collin Klein seems determined to counterbalance his playing career against Texas in his coaching career. But there are plenty more L's coming and the trip to Georgia is going to be humbling.
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5 hours ago, William Bludworth said:
Well the good news is so are the teams we face going forward. They are all flawed. I don't predict we'll blow them out or anything, but we will out-athlete them at some point in the game. I know we have to lean on our defense, but we can score (even if it is a miracle). I just cannot see any of those teams moving the ball against us, but we can use our superior athletes to get something. These games may end up something like 17-13 going forward, but I still think we win. Georgia is just unpredictable. Just my personal opinion, and if anyone disagrees, I completely understand. This is why I do not put Arch in the "he'll make it happen". Our O-line sucks ass flagellation, but our RB's still pushed through, and we have 4 to rotate. At some point Arch will complete a pass to either Jaggy or Wingo for another TD or two. Hopefully he can find Moore/McCutcheon or Lockett/Endries. I still have faith we can win with Arch, just not Arch winning it for us.
Yeah, just like Texas manged to out-athlete the Big 12 in spite of mediocre QB and OL play for a decade plus, right?
Just like OU, at #7 in the 247 talent composite for 2024, out talented most of its schedule? Or Florida State, at #13, running through the ACC?
I don't know how a Texas fan can make a comment like this with a straight face. How do you not know better? Don't overestimate how far athletic talent takes you when said talent sucks at football. Right now, a lot of the offense sucks at football. And the 1.000 talent really sucks at quarterback.
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3 hours ago, satyanash said:
USC ranked??? What is wrong with these people
The thing about a top 25 is you have to include 25 teams.
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15 minutes ago, Newy25 said:
On this day, September 14th, Oklahoma has a better team than Texas. That was not a comment about long term program health or macro recruiting trends. In Dallas this team is going to lose by two TD’s to Oklahoma. That is my immediate concern.It would honestly be really impressive if we hold Oklahoma to 14 given we're going to get shut out.
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43 minutes ago, Constant said:
Dante Moore is on the right track. He had to play immediately which is always tough, and did so on a medicore UCLA team, but he seems to be off and running at Oregon. Need to see him play higher level competiton of course.
The rest of them, I mean, woof.
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1 hour ago, BrazilHorn said:
Tough seeing the "Team Warby" commercials all over now as well considering how inaccurate Arch is currently.
The jokes write themselves.
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8 hours ago, CastHorn said:
I’m not as seasoned of a CFB spectator as some of you boys, but I’ve got about 15 years of solid ball watching under my belt. I can’t think of one example of a mediocre team improving week to week, so much so that they’re almost a different team by the end of the season. It’s Week 3 and you can damn near count the number of legitimate successful offensive drives on one hand. That’s not going to change overnight. That was a tough watch today, preparing myself mentally for a season of it.
Generally I agree and I don't think the offense is ever going to be a plus this year. But the QB play has been so bad that if a personnel switch gets you replacement level play there, the offense can at least not be an outright liability. That would materially change the outlook.
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1 hour ago, MuellerHorn said:
Jaylon Guilbeau is getting picked on quite a bit. Guilbeau gave up a big catch and run and was beat deep another time and was called for pass interference.
Man, Gilbeau has been dogshit this year. Lucky for him it jst gets glossed over because of Arch.
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40 minutes ago, Hornsome said:
I wonder if benching might be best. Right now, throwing him out there and watching him fall to pieces isn’t helping him or the team. He is getting lambasted and scrutinized all over social media for how bad he has been.
Maybe we are like FSU 2023 and don’t have a serviceable backup qb on the roster. If so that is a massive failure on Sark. However, I think someone has to be better as Arch has been that bad. If we don’t then at least Arch had time to settle down.
We don't have a servicable starter either. This isn't last year where we were getting B-grade QB play from a third year starter and the fans thought the backup who had functionally no college experience could come in and be an A down the stretch playing for championships. We're getting an F right now.
There is absolutely no way Caldwell, Owens, or Lacey would be this bad. I'd keep Lacey out because I wouldn't be interested in throwing a true freshman to the wolves but Caldwell is an experienced FBS QB and Owens is in his second year in the system. One of them can definitely hit the easy, schemed open underneath/intermediate throws and execute at replacement level in the RPO game. Pair that with this defense and we can at least grind out a 9-3 type year that, while obviously a step back from the past couple years, isn't a setback.
Right now we're spiraling into the kind of 6-6/7-5, black saturday at the Cotton Bowl kind of territory that cedes some of the ground the program gained over the past few years. There is no downside.
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7 hours ago, Dbeasy said:
Texas went to the semifinals twice in a row. It seems ludicrous to think right now that Sark may be fundamentally flawed somehow. But….is he?
Last year actually resolidified my belief that Texas will never get to the mountaintop under Sark unless it's just 1.) An unbelieavbe amount of talent stacked on one team that can overcome coaching flaws; and/or 2.) A ridiculous, lightning in a bottle individual playoff run from the QB position ala Joe Flacco's Super Bowl run. He's been a great program builder but he continues to be mediocre as a pure football coach and I don't think he's likely to rip off 3-4 in a row against comparable talent.
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4 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:
This looks like a 5 loss team to me.
@ OSU
@ FL
v land thieves
@ GA
And one of Vandy/AR/aggy.
Seven Win Steve, you say?
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1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:
I don’t think it’s press the eject button time or bench time unless Arch regresses from today for the next game.
What would that even look like? Today was sub 50% completion and sub 5 ypa. You regress from today and you're talking about losing to SHSU.
You have to consider giving Caldwell a look. I don't holdany illusions about having a plus QB sitting on the bench but this team doesn't necessarialy need that. This team can compete if the QB can hit the easy stuff. Arch can't. He looks like you dropped a HS QB out there.
After Arch once again cannot execute the opening script against SJSU, Caldwell has to get some game run. And if he plays competently he should get the nod going into SEC play. Arch can play again after Georgia ends any ideas of SEC title contention.
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8 hours ago, closetojumping said:
Neto isn’t playing much because he’s a fucking idiot and they’re worried about him missing an assignment in pass pro or committing a stupid penalty. People involved with the spring and summer thought he was the best player at LG - if he could be trusted.
Robertson is supposedly the best C on campus but then they’re benching the unit leader or pushing him to LG where he’s been meh when playing.
The bigger complaint about Flood should be centered around what he’s actually valuing that pushes actual performance to the background.
If Cole Hutson has a million haters, I am one of them.
If Cole Hutson has only one hater, it is me.
If Cole Hutson has no haters, I have left this world.
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On 9/8/2025 at 1:45 PM, Hank_Hill said:
Tbf Peyton was probably dealing with a shoulder issue in that pic. Started wearing the glove because he couldn’t grip iirc
Eli, meanwhile, unfortunately that's just his face.
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On 9/8/2025 at 4:19 AM, ztejas said:
Man this is so fucking perfect for these threads.
"I don't actually watch Texas play football on Saturdays, but I'd like to insert myself into the quarterback discussion. What should I be upset about?"
lol do you consider the NFL preseason appointment TV too?
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On 9/8/2025 at 4:31 AM, BigHornedLurker said:
Matter ain't no Dillon Gabriel though , and even he required a sign stealing miracle to come back on us.
I don't think we can even compete with the most obnoxiously whiney fanbases on the whole, just don't have the depth, but I'll be goddamned if I wouldn't but our best up against anyone. Bravo.
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Don't disagree about Michigan but a lot of the same criticisms/issues they have can be levied against the Texas offense too. To the extent there's concern, I think it's that the Texas offense could be overmatched, make some bad mistakes, and set OU up for easy, cheap points.
I'm not really buying that this OU offense threatens the Texas defense too much though. Texas has the horses to spy Matteer and defend the conventional run game with a light box. Points are going to be hard to come by for them too and they're just as liable to gift Texas points.
I'm increasingly expecting a complete rock fight in Dallas.
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13 hours ago, victory88 said:
Dude is balling out. For those that have forgotten, Livingstone was offered recruited hard by LSU, aggy, and Texas and ran like a 10.7 in high school. Dude is a legit WR with track speed. He’s also tall with long arms. He was the only one making plays against Ohio State and those were NFL DBs he was playing against. While CTJ’s predictions and monikers were great offseason humor, you guys better put some respeck on his name! Can we get a wreath fund together to get a custom “jaggy” jersey for CTJ to wear in his suite?
Season is already a smashing success just from the lolz of PL being the best receiver on the team
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Didn't catch the game. What's the deal wIth the whole shulder injury/grimmace while throwing thing? We buying an injury or is that a stretch?
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Hilarious that you can watch the Ohio State game and be convinced this is an elite team but the SJSU game causes a spiral.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
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I don't think they really trust the second CB spot. It was also the correct strategy against UTEP. You stop the run, take away explosives, and make them execute their way down the field, converting 3rd and longs along the way. There's not really a reason to play that game anything but pure vanilla.