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  1. 2 hours ago, Fud said:

    Notes from Brugler on Mays' podcast

    - Thinks Ward will go 1.1, just a matter of who's making that pick (Tennessee, Cleveland, NYG?)
    - Most scouts he talks to thinks Shedeur will fall out of the top ten, although Dane isn't taking that to the bank. He isn't in the top three QBs for some teams. Mays says some teams he talked to said Ward was better on the board work than Shedeur 
    - Dane has no idea how much Abdul Carter's injury will affect his draft stock. Mays compares it to Julio Jones' injury in his draft year
    - Dane guesses that Cleveland trades back after someone else (he guesses NYG) takes Ward at #1. NYG is probably more desperate than Cleveland to get Ward because that front office and coaching staff is on the hot seat
    - Thinks top 20 for Nick Emmanwori 
    - Armand Membou has a strong case to be the first OL drafted 
    - Regarding Will Campbell's arm length, teams he talked to are split. Some still view him as a tackle, some think he's a guard but will give him a shot at tackle. Great workout and teams love his football character 
    - Everyone is befuddled at the measurement differences between the senior/shrine bowl and combine measurements. The same organization does measurements for all three events. Did they have lower level workers doing the post season game stuff? Teams are deciding what numbers or averages to use. Teams can also bring players (on a limited number) of visits to get measurements that matter to them 
    - "If you're NE and you have to take Membou or Campbell to start at LT day one", and Dane responds that it's close enough to where he'd ask his OL coach to work them both out and then decide
    - Asked who impressed him the most, and Dane first mentioned Grey Zabel, and thinks Houston would be a great landing spot for them. Thinks Houston would love to trade up for Will Campbell. Likes Jared Wilson at center, compares his situation to Jurgens. 
    - Wonders if Shemar Stewart go as high as Carolina at #8? 
    - The 2nd round WR group got more interesting after the weekend. Jaylin Noel could be WR5. Higgins was a basketball guy who didn't fully commit to football until later and could have some latent ability
    - Hairston was in the 1st round convo, but now likely solidified that, similar to Wiggins last year 
    - Tyler Booker's testing disappointed, but positional drills looked good. Teams love Booker's football character 
    - Malaki Starks had a weird combine. Terrible 3-cone, similar time to his DT teammate. Average 40, bad vert. Looked great in drills, with the highest MPH doing the drills. Typically a combine like this just reinforces your priors on a prospect 
    - Shough, Ewers, and McCord stood out throwing among the QBs. Heard good things about all three in the interviews. Shough was awesome, and looked the best. Howard looked bad. The senior bowl was bad for Milroe, but some teams are still on him because of his upside
    - More divide than expected on Mason Graham due to unideal measureables. Interesting that the Michigan guys either didn't test well or didn't test at all 
    - Asked about the RBs.. says you can talk about the RBs for an hour because he has 30 with draftable grades, he mentions the Va Tech RB really helping himself. Hampton is a top 25 pick, thinks it could be Denver. Awesome RB class; good value in every round. Some teams will double up on the position
    - Mentions Dont'e Thornton as an interesting size+speed deep threat WR
    - Tez Johnson had a terrible 40 time for his size, but had the highest MPH in drills, similar to Malaki Starks
    - The league loves Mason Taylor, thinks early second round
    - The OL as a whole looked great in positional drills
    - At DL, Ty Robinson stood out in drills. Best MPH number. Hears a very wide draft range; late 2nd to 5th round. Can fly to the ball, but can he get off blocks?
    - At LB, Kain Medrano looked good in drills and tested well. Really athletic for LB. Interesting early day three pick
    - Likes Caleb Ransaw, says he's like a mid round Jahdae Barron

    MPH for DT, welcome to the silly season 

  2. 27 minutes ago, TexasGolf said:

    if banks drops that low, the Texans better grab him.

    Interesting to Shadeur almost fall ou tof the 1st round. 

  3. 1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:


    It surprised me. To be honest, I’m a little surprised he weighed 215.

    Combine. Lots of people add or lose the weight for this week (except T Sweat) and then go straight back. Its kind of like taking a bride's weight on her Wedding day and then checking back in 5 years. 

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Answer the fucking question, idiot.

    I just did, so please put on ignore or settle your sad ass down and lose the pretend tough guy act

     

    Should add 66 grade for Will Howard and a 42.9 grade for Quinn by PFF in that game

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Do you think if Texas and Ohio State swapped QB's the results would be the same?  Would you rather have Howard or Ewers?  Be honest, so I can put your retarded ass on ignore.

    So sensitive. You look at the game, you ignore 1.5 yards per attempt more, the 75 more yards rushing by Howard, the higher QBR, and higher QB rating and come to the conclusion its basically the same. Of course, you do the typical fan nonsense and say take out this play and that play from the opposition and pretend that is a logical exercise. 

  6. 20 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Take away the screen play of 75 yards and he was at 6.7 yards per attempt.  I mean have some context.  I know you're a big Ewers hater.  You goofed.  Get wrecked.

    Take away the big play and a missed hold and it all the same, got it. 

  7. 4 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

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    Keep in mind that the interception by Quinn was during the final drive when the game was effectively over.  The long pass play completed by Howard was when Simmons was egregiously held.

    The numbers were similar.  I know you like to go with your feelings though.  Must have been rough seeing the Yankees choke on a fat Dodger dick in the World Series.

    Yards per attempt being 1.5 per greater is not similar. The QBR should have been a heads up on that. 

  8. 14 minutes ago, Fud said:

    In this instance, there's probably not a consensus on how the QB big boards are stacked other than Ward being #1 on the vast majority of boards, and Sanders being #2 on nearly as many. Dart and Shough are probably #3 on most, but there's probably some Milroe, Ewers, and even McCord or Leonard sprinkled in. After Howard sprayed the ball around, he's probably in a different tier 

    Some teams are going to be more down on Dart than the public facing analysts/reporters realize because they'll have concerns about the timeline for translating from his college offense to a pro one, if they think he can ever even get there. Matt Corral will be fresh in some of their minds 

    I have said for months. It seems like Word and Shadeur are locked in the 1-2 spot and I expect a ton volatility in the next group. It only takes 1 team to change the rankings. Appears to be only 2 guys that will be 1st round selections. The next group is likely in the 3rd round, perhaps someone reaches in the 2nd. I know Zerlien was saying it is a bit unusual for QBs to go in the 2nd. Teams usually draft in the 1st with the player being deemed a start level player and then usual wait to the 3rd and after. 

  9. 13 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

    With this QB class Ewers is probably 2/3

    He is 4th. Ward, Shaduer, Dart, and then Ewers. Dart had the best passing session at the Combine. He came in at 3. He is leaves as 3

  10. 4. Quinn Ewers, Texas

    The strongest parts of Ewers' outing in on-field drills on Saturday were his solid mechanics and impressive accuracy. The Texas product was hitting receivers on all levels of the field with nice ball placement the first half of his throws, and he was really able to show off his nice footwork and lower-body mechanics with no pass rush to worry about.

    Ewers wasn't quite as strong as Dart was when he had to throw to his right side and on some of the deeper throws on "go" routes. The 2024 second-team All-SEC quarterback missed some easy throws on comeback routes to his right side and didn't show off much of the requisite anticipation on those routes. When it came time to throw deep, Ewers had some bad underthrows that took away from an otherwise solid performance.

     

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2025/03/01/nfl-combine-2025-quarterback-rankings-draft/80969533007/

     

  11. 1 hour ago, Had Enough said:

    Not all those guys stick.  Since 2022, top 10 guys in the 40 are Kalinin Barnes, Tyquan Thornton, Velus Jones, Calvin Austin.  Several of things are rostered but have minimal impact this far.

     

    I actually scanned back to 2018 the other day.  There were a number of guys that didn’t make much of an impact.

    Believe Babers had like 12-15 WRs have broken a 4.3 40. Santana Moss is the only one to have a 1,000 yard season in the NFL

  12. Just now, Hank_Hill said:

    QB limitations, poor line play, and 3rd stringers at RB. Play or 2 away from beating the obviously better team in the Semis seems about right as far as ceiling. 

    You are using the team record to try and deflect from the offensive performance. We are going to watch a lot of offensive Longhorns drafted and they finished 18th in FEI. That is not the ceiling. There is no way you can objectively say the talent on offense was 18th best in the country 

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  13. 18 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

    We reached our potential. Lost to the best team in the country. Arch wasn’t changing that. I’m good. Hope you find peace with it though. 

    The defense reached its ceiling. It’s hard to say the offense came close to its ceiling. Special teams didnt play to expectations.. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, Tex-19 said:

    Why tf would they move Trey Moore to LB? He's a baller DE and we have Hill, Lefau, and Spence at LB.

     Played some off-ball last year. Collins is the best pass rusher. He is going to be the Buck. It would be hard to start Moore and Collins on the EDGEs in the SEC. I see this as a way to increase the versatility with Moore and help his NFL prospects. I would not worry much about this. If it works out, awesome. If it does not, he is going to split reps with Collins in base downs and be on the field in pass rush situations. 

  15. 28 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Lol it wasnt absurd at all. Ewers played like complete ass against OU and against UGA. Then proceeded to play like ass against Vandy, Arkansas, aggy, and UGA part 2. What the fuck were we waiting for? Ewers was clearly out of his depth. 

    Georgia is the only game; you did not want to throw Arch in and Sark threw him in. Texas was going to playoffs with any solid QB. That may sound crazy, but Texas won 1 game in the regular season where the defense gave up 20 or more. 

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  16. 4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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    Interesting they didn’t run the 40. I thought that was a test both could impress scouts. (Not that applies much to DL play)

  17. 40 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I do not buy your first sentence.

    Sark is stubborn, he had a succession plan going into 2024 and wanted to stick to it. There was no pressure coming from Arch's family. He felt he could win a national championship with a hobbled Ewers. 

    That is going to be the mentally healthy way to look back at it when Arch kicks ass this year. 

     

    It could be something as simple as Quinn looked better in practice. IMO the biggest issue for Texas the last 2 seasons has been an inconsistent offense. When the offense was clicking it was a thing of beauty. Quinn looked great. It also was prone to vomit inducing stretches. It was not uncommon to see both in the same game. Sark could have just been betting on Quinn and the offense dampening the volatility or nervous about putting someone with limited experience into that environment. 

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  18. 7 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    According to Grok AI, Larry Johnson has had approximately 23 players drafted by the NFL.

    According to Grok AI, Duane Akina has had at least 25 players drafted by the NFL, with estimates ranging up to 33 based on his full career impact across Arizona, Texas, and Stanford.
     

    This is silly argument. Secondary will generally have 5 on the field vs 4 for a DL. The better argument is probably Akina vs Corey Raymond. 

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  19. 9 hours ago, NoName said:

    It's pretty clear you don't know who Larry Johnson is. 16 defensive players of the year or defensive linemen of the year in the last 25 years in the b10 is outstanding. He's an incredible position coach and didn't have to 

    Akina is an incredible coach historically. He just isn't Larry Johnson.

    He has had some issues at OSU with Knowles. The story from OSU was Knowles and Johnson finally went to the mat over DL coaching/technique. Jim wanted it taught a different way. Jim ended up winning. The rest is history. 

  20. 1 hour ago, cafe society said:

    Everything I've heard is that Nansen calls the shots in the secondary.  Akina is here to coach technique and serve as the 
    Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament (it's y'all's fault for conflating Duane with Ana).  Orphey is going to absorb Akina's knowledge and synthesize it with his own, which by all accounts is top-flight.  And Gerry mentioned that he has run into Akina on the recruiting trail the last couple of years and nobody was mocking him.  Let's wait until we have a legitimate beef before we all turn into little bitches.  I would have preferred Linguist or Sanders, but I feel 100% confident that our secondary is in better hands than in the recent past.

    I just disagreed with the comp of Akina to Gary Patterson’s contributions joining the staff. I did not pontificate on the hire of Akina. Your opening paragraph seems like you agree. Not sure what triggered the second paragraph 

  21. 2 hours ago, Scholz said:

    I don't understand the consternation.  I think he brings a wealth of knowledge to the defense ala Sweaty Gary.  A very experienced voice in the meeting rooms.

    Akina is not near the level of Gary in coordinating a defense or as a defensive mind. That has been proven in Akina's history, most recently in his brief DC job at Arizona. Arizona went from DFEI #24 under Nansen to #103 under Akina the following year. He is a great DB coach. He can coach technique with anyone in the profession. I trust him on the micro, not the macro level. 

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