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Burt Macklin

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  1. The reason Ferrari weren’t ready is because they were telling Charles to stay out, but he basically said “fuck your strategy, I’m coming in.” They were ready because they were arguing with Charles about coming. If they didn’t fight him on it, or, even exhibited minimal competence and got ready for him just in case, then he would’ve come out of the pits about a second behind Checo. Charles had a terrible weekend due to his won faults, but he made the perfect strategy call on his own and against the insistence of his strategy team, and Ferrari still fucked him. Meanwhile, Checo had his team telling him to come in, they were ready to go, and Checo is in first by lap 2 due to basically none of his own merit.
  2. No. Charlie wasn’t even close. Herman’s first two classes scored slightly lower than Sark’s, but they were also bad on the lines and full of DBs and WRS, not to mention bad character evals like Bru McCoy, Tyler Johnson, and Jake Smith that inflated his rankings. Herman missed
  3. Tanking for Caleb Williams.
  4. Not really. They beat us by showing light boxes and crashing hard on the run. Sark tried to run into it and attacked the middle and deep of the field, while TCU was leaving the quick outside stuff lightly covered. It took Sark well into the third quarter to luck into figuring this out by throwing a WR screen that Whittington broke for a long run. That loss had nothing to do with us not being good enough to throw on them. It was just an utter failure by Sark as the OC. He was absolutely pathetic in that game. Misdirection and quick hitting outside throws carved them up and we should’ve won that game easily with the way our defense was playing.
  5. Hitting the deep ball is the key for Quinn and Sark to succeed. Ewers best three games last year (Bama, OU, UW) were when was hitting deep balls and drawing PIs on deep passes. His stat line against UW would’ve been elite if not for Worthy having an all time terrible game. Worthy was probably our best deep threat last year, and he might be only our fourth best deep threat this year. Having Mitchell, Neyor, and Cook should really help increase our success in deep balls, and hopefully our interior OL can hold up better in pass pro to let more of those connect. If our offense can hit the deep ball, then it will be a top 10 O in the country pretty easily.
  6. Gbenda’s been bad his entire time here, and I’m not expecting a Gaskamp from him this year. Seems like the staff is hoping and praying he can rise to serviceable while they get Hill up to speed. We also have a ton of good DBs while being very thin at LB, so I could see us using more dime and playing Guilbeau in place of a second linebacker against spread teams.
  7. It isn’t revisionist history. Using 3 firsts and a third to move up for Lance was a bad decision at the time. Amazingly, it’s gone even worse than most expected.
  8. Y’all either don’t know what floor means, or you're out of your fucking minds if you think 9-3 is the floor. The O/U for our season is 9.5.
  9. When you can only list 8 returning contributors and 3 of them are Broughton, Finkley, and Gbenda, it’s probably time to rethink your argument.
  10. Is there anything more aggy than spending half of your practice report making excuses for why UT’s QB isn’t actually as good as people say after dropping a note that aggy’s 5* savior at QB can’t beat out a JAG in camp?
  11. I will die laughing if aggy loses out on Ivy. One of you assholes with a TexAgs account needs to start a rumor that LSU used some of the NIL money they had earmarked for Simmons to buy Ivy just to rub some more salt in the wound.
  12. Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Fuck Reese Bennett
  13. Seriously, I cannot wait to get back to watching Max win every race by 30 seconds!
  14. That comment killed me. The guy whose team went 5-7 in Year 5 of their $100 million head coach with the team clearly quitting midseason, players missing curfew, smoking weed in the locker room, getting dismissed form the program, etc. thinks Texas has a culture problem and will quit after one loss.
  15. Yeah it was something terrible like that, and we otherwise had around a top 10 offense in other situations. Yeah, it very well may be a Sark issue. His inability to adjust in-game certainly contributes to it, but I could also see those numbers turning around at least to some extent. We’ll have an answer this year, though. The team is too talented for it to happen again and not be a Sark issue.
  16. You are impressively doltish on this topic.
  17. Our offense was generally abysmal in the fourth quarter. I was listening to an episode of Longhorn Blitz a couple weeks back and he had some split stats showing we were truly terrible as a fourth quarter offense. That along with going 2-5 in one score games will make you an outlier. The real question is whether we will regress to the mean, or if there are Sark/Ewers issues that will cause it to happen again.
  18. Yeah, the Lance trade never made sense to me. The worst thing GMs can do is convince themselves they have the perfect eval and bet the farm to go get their guy. The Niners could’ve taken Mac Jones at 12 or traded way less capital to get Fields at 8-11. Either way, they’d have a better QB and an extra 2 firsts. The Dolphins turned the picks the Niners traded them into Waddle, Tyreek Hill, and Bradley Chubb.
  19. That sounds a lot like Charlie’s 2015 class. Venables actually reminds me quite a bit of Strong. Long-time, respected DC who took a long time to get a HC job, and looks like he’s in way over his head. Somehow Venables managed to be magnitudes worse on defense in Year 1 than Strong. The only positive difference I see is that Lebby was a much better OC hire than ole 59 yards in a bowl game.
  20. Which commercial real estate firm do you think he’ll be declaring to? I’d put my money on CBRE, but you can never count out JLL in this type of situation.
  21. Hutson was one of the worst starting guards in all of P5 last year (he was significantly worse than Majors), he suffered a major shoulder injury that required surgery and kept him out of Spring ball, and he’s had extremely limited reps at Center, which is the most difficult position to learn on the OL. None of that adds up to him unseating a fourth year starter by conference play.
  22. Mitchell’s one of the best red zone threats in the country, and we should be able to get a lot of push in the run game behind Campbell and Jones, assuming Campbell wins the RG spot.
  23. Don’t forget hot pockets and pizza rolls.
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