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Darth Tron

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  1. With Kelce out, do I start Toney, or keep my wait and see approach? I've got Scary Terry and Courtland Sutton in the wings.
  2. Quinn may get it turned around, he may not. All I know is that the bill of goods we were sold stated that this was a can't miss, generational, potentially the greatest QB prospect of all time, perfect score recruit. Prospects like that don't struggle with basic mechanics in their second year starting under a "QB Whisperer". They don't finish 59th in the country by QBR against fuckin Rice. They sure as shit don't airmail routine deep balls with clockwork regularity going into their second season as starter. Maybe he was damaged beyond repair by the lost HS senior season, lost freshman season at OSU, and the clap from some buckeye coed. Because unless he's been purposely sandbagging and unleashes something we've never seen before for the rest of the season, we've seen what he can do. The point is, we didn't get a generational recruit. We got a maybe, POTENTIALLY good, standard issue QB who might someday grow into the offense. And we need to come to terms with that. I find that alcohol helps. EDIT: If this is the post that the universe chooses as the one to mock and Quinn turns into John Elway, you're welcome.
  3. We’ve seen and rationalized enough middling performances against Rice to know how this goes later in the season. Offensive line couldn’t get push. QB couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from 15 yards out or more. Our chunk plays were typically schemed rather than broken from a simple play against an outmatched opponent. These are basic issues rather than one-offs. I know we’re not supposed to overreact to the first game, but I didn’t see anything that made me feel better about problems that previously existed. Things didn’t look fixed. I think our ceiling is lower than I thought before the game. That said, maybe we play up to a diminished Bama and get lucky in a rock fight. Sark removes his head from his ass and stops wasting 1st downs, Quinn gains some confidence and the Rice game will be just a teaching point going forward. Here’s hoping!
  4. Promises were made.
  5. Halftime analysis: 1. Sideshow Bert is money 2. Ewers ain’t it. 3. We might have a defense 4. Put the koolaid back in the fridge.
  6. This thread should be fun
  7. Texas 48 Rice 7 Quinn 287 yds (not that many passing attempts, but at least 2 long bomb TDs and 1 long Whittington zigzagger where they bring him down on like the 10.
  8. Nothing was riding on the TCU game. Small potatoes. Let's talk about the 1984 Cotton Bowl.
  9. If it's actually Garbage that would be cool with me. (Crush on Shirley Manson back in the day) Agreed
  10. He’s holding out for the Northwestern job.
  11. I think most of us have a strong reaction when we get penalized for doing pistols down against Texas Tech but everyone in the college football world can do horns down with impunity. Its the inconsistency of officiating that we care about, not necessarily the horns down.
  12. Ketch, Anwar, AND Looch. Bring in Kurt Bowels and you've got yourself some must-see trainwreck TV.
  13. And like poetry, the guy who ran hard was safe.
  14. Wtf kind of baserunning was that?
  15. Can we get a guy on base BEFORE we accumulate 2 outs?
  16. So, our bats are silent and theirs aren’t. That about sums it up
  17. I asked ChatGPT to describe the aggies as if it were Rod Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode. Nailed it. "Imagine, if you will, traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of profound disappointment. A journey into a wretched place where the sports teams are perpetually mediocre, and the hope of a championship is merely a mirage. A universe where the Texas Aggies reside. They are a team with an insatiable hunger for failure, a thirst for losing, and a penchant for disappointment. Their misguided belief that they belong among the top-ranked teams leads to another season of heartbreak and shattered dreams. In the Twilight Zone, there is a maroon-colored vortex, and it leads to College Station, Texas, where only shattered dreams and crushed spirits await. Beware the Aggies, for they will leave you with nothing but regret and sorrow."
  18. Was at the game. Ewers was meh. Honestly the whole team was meh. My old man and I said to each other at one point that Tuscaloosa was gonna hurt. It was a spring game, so hopefully it means nothing, but we walked away rather unimpressed.
  19. Up by 12 and the offense stagnated. We deserve the loss. Jacking up 3s and hero ball instead of the extra pass.
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