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1 hour ago, Vertigo said:
I know Jonah Williams is a stud in baseball, but man does he have the potential to be something special if he decides to focus on football.
Have you seen the size of those baseball contracts? If you can get that, forget football.
25 minutes ago, satyanash said:Fell from #24 to #40, out of five-star range.
Probably because he didn't play his senior year
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Were you hoping for somebody else to over-analyze Quinn Ewers's performance this year? Well, happy birthday.
Here is a gigantic spreadsheet with Quinn Ewers's performance in 2023 and 2024. It is broken down further by:
- coverages
- drive progression
- field position
- game situation
- pass rush
- play characteristics
- pressure status
- QB movement
- throw depth
- throw direction
All of this is beyond the LOS because we all know that Quinn is fantastic on passes before the LOS.
On the topic of Quinn's deep ball. Criticism is warranted. Attached is a strike zone of Ewers's performance in 2024 beyond the LOS and another one of the top 20 QBs in college football.
As you can see, Quinn struggles a bit on balls to the right and mightily on deep balls over the middle. However, he makes up for that by being a top-5 QB in every other zone on the field in Adj Passer Rating and on SISData's IQR rating.
Still, something is definitely off vs. last year. What I have found through my research is not surprising: 2023 Quinn > 2024 Quinn.
2024 Quinn's aPR dropped by 20 and 50(!) pts on deep balls to the right and middle and declined by 25 and 30 points to the intermediate right and short.
What is the difference?
It may be because Ewers has found himself in off-schedule drives more often than not this year, at a rate of nearly 2.5:1 (375 on-schedule plays in 2023 vs 145 in 2024).
It may also be that teams have increased their usage of man and cover 3 against Ewers. Anecdotally, I have noticed Quinn is quick to make reads and that has hurt him when the defense has a shell over man.
However, my guess is injury. These large drop-offs mainly occurred around Quinn's injury and have been progressively improving since. My main reason behind this is a 50pt drop-off when pressured this season vs last (and this has been improving over the season). His lack of mobility due to the ankle injury has been a story-line for a reason and teams have been exploiting it. In fact last season he spent a greater portion of moving/shuffling (think the 2nd TD in the OT win vs Arizona State) vs planted as he has this season. His injuries have made him a statue encouraging teams to increase their usage of blitzes by ~40%.
Another notable difference between the years is while he is 20pts better in aPR in the 1st half, he is nearly 50-60pts worse in the 2nd half. This seems like more of a coaching/running game issue rather than a QB issue. I would keep an eye on this going forward in future seasons. Do our coaches not adjust well coming out of the half?
I think it is important to read Sam Khan's article here. Quinn has always been compared to what he is not vs what he is due to his recruiting rating.
While Quinn is not as good as last year and he is not the greatest of all time, he is still a top 5 QB in college football this year. That is with him battling two injuries that are affecting his play.
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Texas fans crying over Quinn Ewers only being 25-8 with 2 playoff appearances and 4-1 vs rivals is the stupidest shit ever. He's not the next coming of Vince Young, but nuance has no place here. He's trash and Texas should have never lured him away from Ohio State. Some of yall should have been left in the 2010s.
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When are we gonna spin up the KJ Lacey and Dia Bell threads in preparation for Arch Manning not being an NFL QB right off the bat and KJ Lacey being everything Arch isn't BUT THEN KJ Lacey being the worst thing ever because Texas is 40-2 under him so Dia Bell is our savior? That's how this works right?
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2 hours ago, RollLeft said:
Branch was my top WR out of high school. Bust? I'd like him in Austin if not.
Branch feels like a more expensive Silas Bolden. If you're gonna shell out money for a WR go with one of Eric Singleton, Alic Ayomanor, Omar Cooper, or even Kevin Concepcion.
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1 hour ago, OnAComputer said:
Is it doomer if I feel like this year's team to last year's team will be like 2009's team to 2008's team?
pretty much everyone who watched both of those teams knows 2008 was a better team. The 2009 team did more but lost a number of key players from 2008 on both sides of the ball. However, this year's secondary may make up for losing the DTs and we are able to use the portal to bandaid losing guys. Still, it seems like last year's team felt more complete earlier at every position (aside from safety). This probably also has something to do with my personal beliefs that WR, OL, and DL are - if not the - some of the most important positions in CFB. I'm thinking Gbenda and Hill can step into Ford's spot, but you never know what you have until it is gone.
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Is it doomer if I feel like this year's team to last year's team will be like 2009's team to 2008's team?
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3 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
Is this chart supposed to make me more or less worried about our DL going into the SEC
Less worried. Sark has been loading up on DL since he got here. I think they realized what was going to happen when Ojomo and Coburn left and then a year later it'd be Sweat/Murphy.
Honestly, if you think about these numbers they make sense from a sense of "What do I need right now." You can see the swing in # of recruits as an indicator of where the staff is worried/focused.
What's interesting is that OL recruiting slowed down this year after being on pace to take an entire new OL every class. Probably because they are feeling more comfortable with the talent they have on the OL.
He's also been taking roughly 7 more guys per class he's had the ability to play around with who they take. That's led to him upping the number of DE's, WR's, and DB's. Seems they realize there is a problem there and are throwing mud against the wall to see if anything can stick.
Another thing that is interesting and slightly worrisome is the lack of LB's. I think they are comfortable with Ant, but if he goes down, then Texas could find themselves in a ton of trouble due to depth. It probably points to Texas feeling comfortable with a contributor returning to the program after this year.2 minutes ago, Vertigo said:Moral of the story is Sark is signing bigger classes with some slight scheme tweaks making up the difference. I would be very interested to see the relative quality and star ratings of the position groups by each coach. I think you would see a pretty eye opening difference for Sarkisian along the OL and DL.
That's the next iteration of this
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Gonna go ahead and post my own tweet here because I think it's neat
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2 minutes ago, Hornlover said:
I like the use of "F*** them brakes" on the announcement.
Perhaps even @texifornia might like this HayesFawcett3 edit.
Hayes Fawcett edits are always trash. I have yet to see a good one.
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I'll take this seriously.
While I don't think it messes up the season in a way that is reminiscent of 2020 or even 2021, I do think it affects the season due to it still being highly contagious and have the ability to knock anybody on their ass for a couple of days. Also, it has shown the fun ability to exacerbate and thus expose congenital health issues.
So I think while it doesn't shut down a full team due to regulations around the disease, I do think there is the possibility for a team or unit to be hit hard by it due to it running through a position room because of how contagious it is. Like a stomach bug that saps strength for a week or two or beyond.-
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12 minutes ago, Fug said:
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quite the track record…
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44 minutes ago, closetojumping said:Well...
this. Not only this, though. I also think the guy looks like a douche and has said douchey things.
Remember that the rest of us don't work in the industry and are fans of Texas and the sport of CFB in general. As such, I find ways to dislike all kinds of opposing teams, coaches and players, and, happily, sometimes there is no rationale to it. Doesn't need to be.
It's funny. I found I like a lot of guys who went elsewhere and disliked a few who went to Texas. I won't say who I disliked.
This is way off-topic, but some of my favorite players I've covered as just people (that others will recognize) have been:- Bijan Robinson (obviously. One of the only 5-stars I met who did not big time anybody and was legit genuine)
- DeMarvion Overshown (dude is funny)
- Jordan Whittington
- Caden Sterns
- Austin Stogner (was very down to earth and funny)
- Beaux Limmer (Arkansas OL)
- Leon O'Neal Jr (y'all won't like this, but if he was a Longhorn, he'd have been beloved here)
- Max Wright (as a recruit. I guess he did not do well in college?)
- Calvin Avery
- Taye Barber
- Dax Hill (he and his family are gems)
- Owen Pappoe
- De'Gabriel Floyd
- Bryce Foster and Hayden Conner (it feels weird, but I was introduced to them when they were in 8th grade by the Katy football coach). Both of these dudes were goofy and fun.
There are definitely a few more I've forgotten, but there are quite a few dudes on OU and A&M who I really liked. I personally found guys who are down-to-earth, funny, and joke about themselves to be one's I enjoyed getting to know. Settled me down when I would flip the switch to fan mode.
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20 minutes ago, texifornia said:
Well there was that time he got accused of assaulting multiple girls. Tends to knock the old likability scale.
was unaware of this. My bad. carry on
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On 8/16/2023 at 5:16 PM, closetojumping said:
Max Wright is a buffoon
Max Wright was one of my favorite recruits I ever covered. Don't know why you'd call him a buffoon. He's a great dude.
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5 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
The price of dental implants is turning heads.
Fuck. This season is a wash.
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4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Justin Wells is hype right now lol
Yeah. Can you imagine traveling somewhere for work, and it ends up being fucking pointless. That is the hype of relief.
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1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:
Another burner account, Will?
I stay true to 35Dimes 😤
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20 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Straight legal cash homies or straight under the table cash homies?
Does it matter?
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Straight cash homies
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3 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:
Had a Texas offer.His dad works for ND. He's going to ND
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Owning the libs by touching the stove again. Soaking those 3rd degree burns in lib tears