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  1. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    blue gets a B. His catch to the 12 was money. He ran well, he’s the starter going into the spring. Take away the fumble he’s an A. Yes he had that drop but we had to go to the RB in passing way more than normal due to the defensive scheme. RBs are gonna miss a few. He was one lucky break from taking the check down on first and 12 to the 5. Guy balled. He got better the last few games. I’m super confident in him next year.

    He had one really good play. It was a swing pass, where he juked some guy out of his jock strap. The catch on the 12 was a better pass, than a catch. It was almost identical to the earlier drop. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    You don't think that catch to get us in the RZ wasn't special? A hold knocks him down? No, it doesn't. J-Whitt did everything he could. He blocked his ass off, made a spectacular catch that should have helped seal the win. Yes, Blue had a fumble, but he made criticle runs at 6-7 yards a pop. Saying he wasn't an A is baffling. How do you think RB'S get their yards? By the line blocking... They did what they were supposed to do...get great yardage from blocking, because that's what they're supposed to do. He and Baxter both had rushing TD's, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. You're dinging him for a fumble, which is fair, but every other part of his and Baxter's game were A's. The line blocked for them and they got major positive yards and both scored. That's an A, especially considering Ewers only threw for 1 TD

    No. I did not think that was special. Ewers almost ran for as much as Blue. His scrambles were huge. He accounted for 372 yards in the game.  When all the RBs are running for more the 6 yards a pop, perhaps it is more about Washington's game plan and the OL then the RBs. Mostly getting what the OL blocks for you is not an A performance. An A performance is consistently getting, than what the the OL blocks for you. Go back and watch Bijan, to figure out my point.  When a player has a bad turnover and a bad drop that could have been a TD, an A is baffling. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    J-Whitt had an A+ game, Baxter and Blue had A games, even with the fumbles. Steve only started pounding the run during the 4th even though Baxter and Blue averaged 7.1 for Baxter and 6.6 for Blue. 

     

    Defense were embarrassed, and I don't mean that as a slight. Penix and his WR's were easily the best QB and WR'S we saw and it isn't close. He was uncannily accurate, and his WR's were catching literally everything, especially Pollk and Oduzne. Oduzne made some of the most insane catches I've seen in a long while. We ran into a buzz saw. Penix was dropping balls into baskets, and Oduzne made this one catch that I still can't believe (Penix dropped it perfectly low into his hands. It was crazy. 

    J Whitt has a hold that negated a big play. He was fine, but didnt so anything special. Baxter and Blue did not have an A game. They were not breaking tackles left and right. Most of the yards they got were based on blocking and Washington playing back. Blue had a big drop that might have been a TD and an unforced fumble. Saying he was an A, is baffling. 

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  4. 16 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Oh? Does 55% mean good? You should tell all of us how good 55% is in a CFP game, champ. And yeah I bitch. You just summed up everyone during the game. Congratulations! But please tell us how great Quinn played, particularly those miraculous passes he tossed to Mitchell at the end of the game, and the multiple batted balls. And surely we can't forget the passes that went behind Worthy, can we? But please, go on...

    Strange game. There was a few drops and the passes at the LOS were just annoying. I dont think Quinn was bad. I dont think he was great. I dont remember a pass that went behind Worthy, I remember the one sideline that may have hit the DBs foot. TO be honest Quinn might have been one of the best offensive players for Texas last night, that is the issue. I can not name an offensive player that had an A game. You can say the same for the defense. None of the Texas stars stepped up and played great. Washington's stars were great last night. Trice was teh best defensive player of the field. Penix and WRs were great. 

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  5. 46 minutes ago, vandergriff said:

    Michigan is going to win next week for 2 reasons:

    They will run the ball all night and control TOP.  And they will generate an effective pass rush.

    Penix will still put up good numbers.   But not even close to his game last night.

    Does Michigan have more overall talent than Texas?  Nope.

    But they have a much better coach who will scheme a winning game plan with one week to prepare as opposed to Sark who had 4 weeks and still looked unprepared.

    Michigan has more talent than Texas, especially grown talent. 

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  6. 9 hours ago, Atticus said:

    The OL really struggled to protect as well as we needed to run the plays we wanted to run.

    I'm not sure why we didn't run more short passes to Worthy since they were playing like 7-10 yards off of him for much of the game.

    We also didn't have the ball much.

    Tough game.

    I am not sure there is was an offensive player for Texas that I would say had a better, than a B game. Quinn is probably up there for best offensive players vs Washington. It was not on of the best performances by Texas. 

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  7. 5 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Bobby Burton was asked "Is Peyton Kirkland still the heir apparent to Kelvin Banks?"

    AnswerNo right now.  Trevor Goosby and  Jaydon Chatman are fighting for that right now.  Chatman may also be able to play on the interior.  Kirkland has been injured a bit this year and fallen behind Goosby, Chatman, and Stroh.

    So Kirkland and Andre Cojoe are a little behind right now.

     

    First time I have heard that Peyton Kirkland was ever the heir apparent to Banks 

  8. 5 hours ago, Not a Sock said:

    100% bullshit, Nahlin just googled former Sark assistants found the biggest name and ran with it. Nansen is the DC at a power 4 school that is currently one of the hottest teams in the country. He is absolutely not going to take a demotion for a pay raise, that’s a step back in his career.

    This maybe 100% correct, but I think we need to stop saying the P5  P4. The Big 10 killed the Pac. SEC took all the Blue Bloods from the Big 12. ACC undefeated champion got neutered on ESPN during the selection show. It is the P2. Big 12 and ACC are now somewhere in the middle of the P2 and G5, clutching at any relevancy they can hold on to. 

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  9. 51 minutes ago, alphahydro said:

    Yes, if you watch UW / Washington State, UW looks very beatable, just eyeball test.  I couldn't tell you exactly why the offense struggled in that game.  

    And it's not that Texas' offense did poorly against tech or Iowa State, just that they didn't do as well as they did against Alabama or Okie St.

    I'm just curious if there is a good reason why. 

    My own recollection is that Texas was just uneven against Tech and Iowa State - the offense was out of sorts for a few drives (roughly first half against Iowa State) but performed very well the rest of the game (roughly the second half against Iowa State).  So it's not so much that Texas was better against Oklahoma State, just that they performed well for four quarters against OK state and only for two against Iowa State.  Maybe it was just bad luck, bad initial gameplan, defense brought surprises that Texas staff wasn't expecting and had to adjust to, etc.

    That's one answer. 

    Another possible answer is - yes, Texas offense was better against OK State and Bama, but it was more marginal than those stats (which overvalue field position) suggest.  You're overthinking this, it's 18-20 year old kids, etc.

    I'm just curious if anyone sees other answers that I don't see. Like, possibly: 

    • Quinn was healthiest against Bama and OK State, and (a) in the middle games, he was hesitant because he was worried about being hit, and it showed in his indecisiveness, which killed several plays with open receivers or (b) his arm status showed in the middle games--he couldn't hit the deep ball, he couldn't hit the out, etc., so the staff neutered the offense for him (I'm just making this up)
    • Tech and Iowa State used xyz strategy, which Texas struggles with due to abc, and UW is definitely going to deploy that strategy - don't expect OK state or Alabama results unless UW commits coaching malpractice. 

    Just curious.  Just seeing if anyone saw something I missed. 

    I think at the end of the day, if the offense shows up against UW like it did against OK state and Bama, the maths get hard for UW.  If the offense plays well in spots but has dry spells, the door is potentially left open for the huskies.  Just curious if there is something to this pattern of offensive output I'm not seeing. 

     

    I think ISU is just always been a tough match up on Sark. They will drop 8 and take away the explosives. They make you have long time consuming drives and they run their offense at a turtles pace, those things usually make it a low possession game. One of Sark's weaknesses as a play caller is patience. He has been much better this year, than in the past, but historically it drives him nuts to play ball control offense. 

    Bama is the inverse. Bama will leave their Dbs on an island and that works to Sark's advantage. He is very good at finding match-ups. Bama generally does what they do. You dont see dramatic changes from game to game in their defense. 

    Tech was just a beating, but Texas had 3 false starts in the 1st half alone.  Also a hold early in the 3rd to stop a drive. That was sloppy. Not sure why Texas seems to have less focus at home (penalties)

  10. 7 hours ago, alphahydro said:

    I'm working on something. 

    Here's the punchline, I think. 

    I looked at the performance of the offense and defense for UW and Texas this season, EXCLUDING

    • Games where the opposing offense or defense is outside the top 50 (because I don't care how the teams perform against bad teams - though I snuck in Okie State's 51 ranked defense)
    • Rivalry games (OU and Wash State)
    • Oregon State (weather impacted game with high winds, iirc)

    I was just looking for trends. 

    If you apply those restrictions, you get about 5 "qualifying" games for each offense and defense (top 50 opposition offense or defense, not including each school's #1 rivalry game and Oregon State). 

    If you look at those "qualifying" games, the Texas Defense, UW Defense, and UW offense performed pretty consistently over the course of the season.  You can see a pretty reasonable trend - in general, each unit was less successful against better competition and more successful against easier opposition.  

    The Texas offense, however, was not consistent.  There were two versions of the Texas Offense

    The version of the Texas offense that took the field against Bama and Okie State (defenses #8 and #51) was markedly better than the version that came out against Tech and Iowa State (defenses #22 and #41). (using F+ rankings, which combine FEI ratings and SP+ ratings).

    I'll show my work in the next post, but

    any theories as to why Texas offense did better against Bama and Okie State than it did against Tech and Iowa State?

    If so, how does this relate to upcoming game against UW?

     

     

     

    Texas put up 7.04 yards per play vs Tech. That was the most Tech allowed all season. That is a number Texas only achieved 3 times (Tech, Kansas, and OSU).. They struggled in the red zone, but outside of that the offense was dominant

    ISU gave up 5 yards a play on the season. Texas put up 6.04 vs them.. That was the 3rd highest number they yielded all year. ISU gives up 1.85 per drive and Texas put up 2.6 per (excluding the last drive that Texas ran out the clock). I am not sure either was a poor game. 

    Washington put up 4.86 yards/play vs a WSU team that averaged giving up 5.67 yards

    They put up 5.13 vs OSU, who averaged 5.29 allowed

    ASU held them to 4.37 yards vs 4.75

    Seems Washington had its struggles also.. 

  11. 4 minutes ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    Do you mean scramble around behind the line of scrimmage ... to escape a pass rush?

    As for getting positive yardage, his totals for this season:

    - 29 carries, for (-18) yards.

    - out of 13 games, he only had three with positive rushing yardage (5, 11, 22 yards).  

    - they only gave up 11 sacks, so there is that.

     

     

    I would say he is kind of like Quinn. He can hurt you, if you get undisciplined. He prefers to move to throw the ball. His last option is to run to scramble. Doesn’t mean that Washington might not run a couple QB draws, like Texas did last year in the bowl 

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  12. 23 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

    Also, does anyone think that Washington can win by scoring 27 points this year?  They needed 10 drives to score 27 against last year’s D and that’s a losing score against Texas now. Only Iowa State held UT to fewer than 29 points this season and Washington’s D is nowhere near as difficult to prepare for. 

    Improvement in the offense is going to force UW to score a bunch to keep up. This is not a crippled version of the offense from a 4 loss, marginally ranked team. QB went from 58% completions to 71%, QBR 133 to 163, 7.4 to 9.0 YPA. Rushing is down slightly but much better than what UW saw last year. 

    I suspect they will have to virtually abandon the run in order to do so. They are a pass heavy offense already: 60% pass even trying to run out the clock in close games late. A few drives ending after they end up behind the chains trying to force the run will likely reinforce that tendency. 

    I did a quick count, so dont crucify me if I am off a bit, but I counted 31 pass plays and 9 runs (1 of which was a Penix run, so that was likely a scramble) in the 1st half of last year's game (77.5% passing plays).. I think you can expect something similar on Saturday. Washington will run, when presented with light boxes or when they feel they have tired out the DL. They are not going to attack a fresh DL, especially of the quality Texas has, unless presented with light box. 

  13. 1 minute ago, sushihorn said:

    Yep. Texas played 4-2-5 alignment consistently vs 11 personnel. Washington couldn’t break big plays in the passing game against it. They were able to run semi-consistently against that front. Texas is so much better in the front 6 this year that it’s not even funny. I doubt UW will have any sustained success against a 6 man box this year. 

    Much better backs than Johnson have failed spectacularly against this Longhorn Defense. KSU builds their whole identity around the running game, including the QB run. They had less than 20% of their normal rushing output without Texas loading the box. Ollie Gordon won the Doak Walker and he was completely shut down.

    Texas has solid cover corners now and PK recognizes that, mixing in some press man as the season went on. That increases the number of coverage options (and problems reading the D) significantly. I have some concerns about safety play but I suspect the Horns can replicate much of last year’s bowl pass defense and stop the run with 6. 

    That brings me to a question. Who do you think starts for Texas at CB? Homes and Muhammad are rated the 2 best cover CBs on the team by PFF. Muhammad is #1.. Brooks is actually last, but I expect him to start. I do wonder if Texas uses Muhammad more at the boundary, than Watts. You give up some run stopping ability and screen game, but you are better down the field. (I would flip that thought vs Michigan, where I want my most physical CB on the field more)

  14. 18 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    So, I didn’t say any of what you said. Since you responded to me I thought you were talking to me, but you are continuing to say stuff that doesn’t relate to what I say. 
    I don’t care what you do on the back half- if they have time they will beat it. This hinges completely on can we make him throw the ball off schedule because of our pressure. If we can’t we are cooked. If we can we are fine, regardless of what we are doing back there. 

    It was in response to you and the idea that Texas needs to continually bring blitzes to slow the Washington offense down. I am sahying DaBoer and Penix are too good for something that simplistic. Penix threw for 5.3 yards/att vs Texas last year. That was the lowest in his 2 years at Texas. Texas managed to bottle up the Washington passing game last year, despite not registering a single sack. 

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  15. 6 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    You aren’t going to make a living mixing coverages and making him think- you need to get home with pressure. I mean- you want to drop 8 occasionally on a first down?  Fine, waste the down I guess. But pressure pressure pressure especially in the interior is pretty much how we will shut them down/stop them, if we do. 

    you are missing the point. Mixing coverages means bring heat and playing some man behind and playing some coverage looks. You dont want to just sit back and bring 5 and play press every down. Penix and Washington will go into mad bomber mode and hammer the secondary. Blitz, press man, 2 deep safety looks, 1 deep safety. That said if you completely blow up their OL, go ahead and blitz every play. Just keep in mind that Washington has been very good in pass protection all year, so it is highly unlikely that Texas will overwhelm Washington with their pass rush. The best possible outcome is the interior pass rush dominates and there isnt a need to bring a lot of blitzes. (Murphy #1 interior pass rusher in Big 12, Sweat #2, and Collins #3) 

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  16. 27 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

     

    Good news is that it doesn’t need to be pressure from our front 4- we should be able to bring a 5th man pretty much at all times. Hopefully it’s Ant Hill from the inside more often than Barron from the edge, but it’s not like we will have to hope we can rush 3 and drop 8 or rush 4 and drop 7. We could probably look at brining 6 from time to time if they have a RB in blocking. 

    I dont think we see that. I think PK is going to mix it up. Penix is in year 6 of this offense. I think you need to mix up looks and coverages. He will throw some interceptions. Bring some heat and drop safeties deep. Penix only interception last year was vs an amoeba front. Just think about Ewers, when he knows where to throw the ball he is deadly. Penix is the same way. One thing  I do not hear very much is how well the Texas pass defense was last year vs Washington. That may not happen again.  but it is a date point the national media has completely ignored. 

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  17. 11 minutes ago, Teryor said:

    It is about the individual, all of these decisions are about individual high schoolers doing what makes them feel best and believe are in their best interests and if your feelings are hurt by these kids I hope you find another hobby

    The difference is pretty obvious. It’s one thing to play the game behind closed doors. It’s another to put out BS statements in the public domain. There are ways to handle things. Some people handle them like professionals, some handle them like a child

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  18. 16 hours ago, Crapinon said:

    Since most of them have gone away and never answer questions directly (except for a couple of decent ones) I'll give you their answer:

    Steers and queers

    You guys suck

    The same loser teams from last year in the worst conference. You're just the best of the worst.

    You guys suck

    You would be 4th place in the PAC 12

    You guys suck

    You'll never stop our offense. When you think you're going to stop the run with your fat noseguard we'll pass and when you try to stop the pass, we'll run. It's foolproof.

    You guys suck

    NO ONE on your team could start for the mighty U DUB. NO ONE

    WE named him 7 win Steve for a reason and we as fans, can gameplan around him.

    You guys suck.

    DeBoer is 10-0 verses top 10 teams. You have no chance and fate is against you.

    You guys suck

    Username checks out 

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