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Stewart hasn’t been productive enough to justify the character risk. Keep the powder dry and aim higher.
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Not shedding a tear over the Hampton flip. Our recruitment of him never made sense to me. His primary recruiter was Gideon and everything I saw and read indicated we were recruiting him as a defensive back. His film does not show much to be excited about as a defensive back. He always made more sense to me as a WR take. But he made the most sense to me as a head-case to be avoided.
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45 minutes ago, Red Five said:
On what planet are X Worthy and Blue not burners guys?
I assumed we were talking about future rosters when these players will be hitting the field, 2026-2027. Obviously, Worthy and Blue are insanely fast players.
13 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:How big do you think RBs are supposed to be? Bijan is 5’11 215 lbs right now in the NFL.
Bijan also jukes people out of their socks and avoids taking a bunch of direct hits. Jerrick Gibson runs right at dudes and takes a lot of contact with his running style. I'd prefer if he had more of a Tahj Boyd build with that style.
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2 hours ago, Vertigo said:
Gibson is not small by any stretch, and his game reminds me most of Emmitt Smith. I think he is going to chew people up on inside zone.
Livingstone is a 4.4 guy, and while he does need work on those routes he is going to Moss some people on deep balls and double moves. He isn't the guy you will ask to run whip routes.
Daniel Cruz is the best linemen we have signed in the last two classes, and that is saying something with Brandon Baker on the way.
i hope we get a burner at RB and WR in 2025, that is the one thing we are lacking with the current roster, but Golden should help things.
I'm just going by the tape on Gibson and to my eye he looks smaller than most of the guys on the field. Now, that's junior tape, he may have gotten bigger since then. He's listed as 5'10" and 200 pounds on 247sports, which seems about right for what I see on the tape. On3 has Gibson listed at 5'9.5", 215 pounds, which may be a more accurate measurement for where he is now. Regardless, I didn't mean to call the dude Deuce Vaughn or Darren Sproles, I just meant his size makes me worry about him toting the rock 25-30 times a game with his violent running style over the course of a season. I think he's going to be a really good player and I agree, I think he does work on inside zone.
You think Livingstone is a 4.4 guy? I dunno man. He's roasting the dudes on his film, but they don't look like D1 athletes. But I do like his catch radius, he has quite a few circus catches in his junior film, along with that crazy one along the sideline at 00:26 in his senior tape. If he can give us that 2-3 times a game, then yeah, I don't care how fast he is or how well he runs routes.
I think Baker and Cruz are both better than anyone we've recruited on the offensive line other than Kelvin Banks in the last 20 years. It would surprise me if both aren't in the two-deep next year.
Agree on burners. Harlem Berry and Ryan Williams, come on down.
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Well, the offensive class of 2024 looks pretty settled and I've got nothing to do at work until the new year, so it's time to binge some prospect tape. Here are my thoughts on the offensive prospects in the 2024 class along with their latest film, spoilered for people who hate long posts discussing recruiting in their recruiting threads:
SpoilerTrey Owens - QB
The tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/13618556/6564d514c11a2707cc1c5302
Thoughts - That boy big. If he stands any taller in the pocket, he's going to become a target for terrorist attacks. This is a pretty short highlight reel for a kid who threw checks notes...sweet jesus, 43 touchdowns his senior season. But Trey is already committed to his dream school so I guess he feels like he has nothing to prove to anyone by cutting together a 20 minute video of all of his touchdowns. Anyway, even in this short highlight footage we can see some very nice attributes for a QB. On the very first play in the reel, the opposing strong-side defensive end twists inside and beats the right guard, getting strong pressure right up the middle. Trey hangs in the pocket, steps into his throw with the end barreling right at him up the middle, takes a pretty solid shot, and delivers a nearly perfect dime in the back corner of the endzone some 35 yards down the field. His mechanics look very solid on the throw, great foot work and properly shifting his weight from back foot to front to get that hip torque into the throw, his wind-up starts right at the waist and looks sufficiently quick and compact, and his launch point is nice and high. All that would be great to see on any throw, but to see his mechanics hold up so well in the face of pressure right up the middle is fantastic. The rest of his highlights show similar moxy and strong mechanics under pressure. Also, check out the scramble at 00:51, he's just stumbling around out there like a baby giraffe. And look at #10 on the defense in that clip, that kid suddenly realized football was not a career choice for him.
So that's the good, what do we not see in these clips? We don't see a lot of the routine passes. How does he throw the 5 yard out? Can he throw a catchable touch pass to his check-down RB? How does he throw when standard mechanics aren't an option? Can he sling it side-arm? Those are the unknowns, though a 43-5 TD to INT ratio and a 70.9% completion percentage suggest he's more than capable there as well. The one bad thing I noticed is that Trey appears to be a one-read QB who doesn't see the field much. I only counted three plays where he came off his first read (00:12; 1:14; and 1:20), the rest he locked on to his guy the whole way. Not unusual for a young QB and definitely a coachable issue.As the QB recruit sandwiched between Arch Manning and KJ Lacey, it's easy to see Trey Owens as another temporary back-up who will eventually transfer once the writing on the wall becomes obvious. Not so fast, my friend. Trey Owens is much more advanced at this stage than Maalik Murphy and he's working with a very impressive toolset that fits nicely with Sark's scheme. I think he's criminally underrated by the recruiting services and I love him as a take for this team.
Jerrick Gibson - RB
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/14967551/6378818ac11a790504152a61
Thoughts - A note on reviewing RB film: The least impressive highlight film in the world is an RB running through yawning chasms that my deceased relatives could get through. Jerrick plays for football powerhouse IMG and it shows because the line of scrimmage moves about 5 yards forward at the beginning of every play. Still, I think there's a lot to like here. Jerrick shows great physicality in finishing his runs, he has very good contact balance and slips arm tackles well, and he gets up to top speed quickly. He seems to prefer contact to trying to make guys miss, but he has some nice decisive cuts in the backfield to avoid defenders at 1:49 and 1:53. On the downside, he's slightly built and his top end speed just looks ok. Sark likes to find his bell-cow RB to get the majority of touches in a season and I just don't see Jerrick Gibson as that guy given his size, he seems more like a rotational player to me. And there's nothing wrong with that, a rotational RB with fresh legs and a bad attitude can win you games in the fourth quarter. Whatever role he ends up serving, I'm glad to have him on the team.Christian Clark - RB
Thoughts - Clark's senior tape is out, but it's not combined into one video so I'm going to talk about a couple different clips and link them as we go. First off - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/14810372/655140154ba7a803e4cd0918. Yeah yeah, he throws a nice pass in the first highlight, whatever. Skip to 00:15 and look at that fucking catch. That's a really bad throw, low and behind him, and Christian just turns around and snatches it up, AND THEN SPINS A TACKLER. That's great spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, concentration, and body control all in one clip. That shit is wild. The highlights from the Salpointe game are almost all catches out of the back field and split out wide, you can see that here: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/14810372/653425c1041e0907385186ee. This kid will be a weapon out of the backfield. Next - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/14810372/652d7794c119c00890ce2b06. He's doing a lot more traditional RB things here, I like his contact balance and how he always falls forward on these runs, finishing with authority. Check out the clip at 00:47, that is some crazy contact balance to get out of that tackle in the backfield. I also really like the clip at 1:11, Christian performs a very difficult jump cut that forces a defender to run into his own teammate right at the line, that's great footwork and body control. Christian's top end speed is not impressive, I doubt he's going to be dropping a lot of 75 yarders on anyone at the next level. Still, he shows fantastic capability out of the backfield, he runs with authority and he's got great feet. He also looks like he has the frame to pack on some more muscle. I think he's a great compliment to what Jerrick Gibson brings to the table.
Ryan Wingo - WR
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/14621444/638ce28ff31cf20aa8e399a2
Thoughts - The descendants of Abraham Zapruder are filming high school football in Missouri. Thoughts on Ryan Wingo himself? Oh, right, yeah, he's awesome. Great size and frame, long arms, clearly a very natural athlete with a smooth running style, no wasted motion. In addition to being bigger than everyone on the field, he's also faster than everyone too. Oh, and he can catch. Check out the clip at 3:21, that's an underthrown ball that should have been a pick and Ryan just casually jumps over the CB and plucks the ball right off his helmet. That's an extremely difficult and impressive play that Wingo pulls off so easily it's almost anti-climactic. He's also a monster after the catch, there are multiple clips of him taking hits and maintaining balance, running through arm tackles, and juking dudes out of their socks. There are also two clips of him returning punts for touchdowns (00:07, 3:38), so he's also a special teams weapon. I mean, it's hard to craft analysis on a guy that's so obviously gifted. Just watch the tape. Unless he has a drop issue or loafing problem on plays outside of his highlight reel, Ryan Wingo has no weaknesses in his game. He's the most gifted player Texas has recruited at the WR position since Roy Williams and if he can avoid injury, he's going to be a future first round NFL draft pick.Freddie Dubose - WR
The Tape - https://247sports.com/Video/freddie-dubose-clemens-2021-sophomore-season-highlights-10850861/
Thoughts - Those highlights show a lanky kid with blistering speed, great quicks, and nice change of direction ability. Check out the block at 1:19, he even got that dawg in him. That player reminds me of a young Xavier Worthy. And that's the player Freddie Dubose was....in 2021. He suffered a major knee injury in the opening game of 2022 and I can find no film and no stats on him since then. Which brings me to the real point of discussion here: In the portal age, why is Texas accepting a commitment from someone with a major knee injury? To be clear, I have no idea what kind of player Freddie is today, maybe he secretly had the best senior season in Texas high school WR history and doesn't want anyone to know about it. I'm just saying, there's a significant risk that he doesn't return to form and we knew that at least 9 months before we accepted his commitment in June of 2023. I don't understand why we're shouldering that risk when we can always circle back in the portal if he turns out to be fully recovered. I don't get the take here.Parker Livingstone - WR
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/15082327/64ebb34a4ba8730b28ba3877
Thoughts - First off, I know Parker also suffered a major knee injury, but that was suffered during his senior season after he committed to Texas. That's a crucial distinction in my mind, I would think poorly of Coach Sark and the staff if they were to cut bait on a player during his senior season after he had committed and never gave him the chance to rehab and bounce back. The calculus is different in my mind for a player that isn't committed and has plenty of time to bounce back and show Texas (or other teams) they've fully returned to form. Since Livingstone is in the former category, I'm going to focus on the player he was before the injury.
Anyway, the latest film we have on him is all from the one game of his senior season he was able to play. I see a beanpole of a kid with a good catch radius and decent speed. Not great speed, he's not alone in frame at the end of each of his highlights, but he's consistently pulling away from the other players. I'd put him in the mid 4.5's, which is about average for D1 WRs. I'm much more concerned about his short area acceleration and quickness in and out of his cuts. Watch the route he runs at 1:38, that should be a hard plant and cut 90 degrees to the left, and he just lazily rounds it off to the outside. That's not creating separation against man coverage at the college level. Watch the next play at 1:47, same thing. He gets separation because he's just faster than that CB, but he won't be faster than that guy at Texas. Is that poor route running (which is coachable) or does he just not have the agility to make cuts a top speed? I don't know, but I think he's going to struggle mightily to get separation at the next level. I also think there's at least 20 guys in the portal as good or better every year. I don't see whatever Sark and Jackson are seeing that indicates Texas should shoulder the burden of developing him.
Jordan Washington - TE
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/16319144/656ab36eb53e8904183dac9f
Thoughts - Oh my, look at those hands. Look at how he boxes out the defender and high-points the ball in the endzone at 00:14. Check out the jump ball catch at 3:37, that's a beautiful adjustment to a poorly thrown ball and a great contested catch. He's also a great route runner, look at that dig route against zone coverage at 1:17, and check out that comeback route to the sticks at 3:41. Also, while there aren't a whole lot of clips of him blocking, there's a few and they're decent, check out 5:58. That's Jordan taking on a defender right at the point of attack and creating a hole for the runner. I have real trouble understanding how this kid isn't rated higher. I love him and I think he's going to do great things at Texas.
Brandon Baker - OT
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/13698521/65720e09bd755e09ccd80337
Thoughts - I love Brandon Baker. First off, he's got great size, great length, long arms, it's like he was grown in a lab to play offensive tackle. Next, he's got really nice feet, he's always active, always sliding with the defender, he never seems to be off balance or out of control. He's also nasty with his block finishes. Just look at him pancake his man at 00:14 and give him the business on the ground. Oh yeah, get you some Brandon. And just look at the play at :0032. I mean, what the hell. He blocks his initial assignment to the inside, passes him off, then pirouettes to get a block on the outside rusher. That's an extremely high level of awareness, nimbleness, and fundamentally sound OL play. Check out the pass set at 1:17, look at him shuffle those feet and stay in front of the wide rusher. Finally, just look at the play at 1:48, let's really break this one down because this is a beauty. The defense presents a lot of confusing eye-candy here, the outside edge player (44) loops to the inside behind the interior rusher (41) while the linebacker (27) blitzes wide to the outside. Brandon starts the play looking outside at 44, his initial assignment, he reads that 44 is looping to the inside and realizes his assignment has shifted to the interior player (41) and accepts the hand-off immediately from the guard and locks him down so that the guard can get the block on 44 to the inside, and he doesn't panic at all about 27 on the outside, he trusts the RB behind to pick up the blitzer. It's the kind of thing that doesn't look super impressive on film, but that's an instinctual understanding of how to handle complicated assignments that takes years for most offensive lineman to learn. Think about how Texas struggled with picking up wrinkles like that last year and early this year. Brandon is a physically gifted and technically advanced player that should challenge for playing time immediately. He's going to be a star.
Daniel Cruz - C
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/15061296/656765dd5cb43d0344a39bfe
Thoughts - If Brandon Baker is nasty with his run block finishes, Daniel Cruz is downright cruel. He's not happy until you're on your back in the fetal position with tears in your eyes. That's not a joke, look at the clip at 3:19, #90 goes full fetal there. That dude can't sleep without checking under his bed for Daniel Cruz to this day. Daniel just plays with perfect leverage every play, always under his opponents' pads, always rooting them out from underneath and driving them backwards. It's just beautiful to watch. Check out Daniel in pass coverage at 3:41, he gets bored standing there so he decides to pancake someone else's assignment. He's also great at pulling and finding guys to block in space. There is no greater proof of the complete incompetence of national recruiting services than Daniel Cruz's rank. He is the most underrated player relative to his actual skill in this class and it's not even close.
Nate Kibble - IOL
The Tape - https://www.hudl.com/video/3/15176808/657228a83df6000410c0367f
Thoughts - I'm not sure how opposing defensive lines are going to survive against us in the future. Nate is yet another offensive lineman with a violent disposition. Everything I said about Daniel Cruz's attitude applies to Kibble. Of the offensive line prospects, Nate is the rawest from a technical perspective. He plays high and tends to lunge instead of bringing his feet and playing from a good base. Still, he moves well for a big man and he finds a lot of guys in space on his tape. I think he'll sit in Coach Flood's incubator for a years and come out ready to dominate in 2026 or 27.Overall Thoughts on the 2024 Offensive Class
Trey Owens is a far better QB than we have any right to expect in the class immediately after Arch Manning, the QB room will continue to be an embarrassment of riches for the foreseeable future. The RBs in this class are complimentary pieces to each other with Gibson bringing a straight-ahead physical running style while Clark brings a little more shake and great versatility out of the backfield. My only complaint is that neither is a homerun hitter at the next level. The offensive line class is fantastic, my only complaint there is that we didn't get more. Jordan Washington is a great prospect at TE, I think we could have used another extra blocking surface-type TE but those guys are ever-present in the portal. We'll be fine at TE. Wide receiver is the only position that you could argue is a disappointment in this class, but I don't think it'd be a good argument because Ryan Wingo. If your WR class consists of Ryan Wingo and two mannequins wearing Texas jerseys, it's still a good WR class. I think Wingo is the most likely to start as a true freshmen, with Brandon Baker and Daniel Cruz pushing for playing time along the offensive line.
I don't think there is a single spot on the roster that Sark hasn't substantially upgraded and this class just continues to build on that. I love that we're recruiting through the whistle on out of state bluechip recruits like Baker and Wingo while also doing the homework to find less heralded gems like Jordan Washington and Nate Kibble. We're recruiting at a championship level and it's really fun to follow.
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13 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:
I have a question. Hear me out, I know I know, but it's about Quinn Ewers.
Can someone explain why Ewers has a better QB rating in the second half? Is the entire first half scripted? I have heard references to this.
Second but related question. Why does Quinn never appear to audible out of bad plays? I will hang up and listen.
For the first question, I think it comes down to two factors: 1. Sark has had a half to get an idea of how the defense is working agains the Longhorns and he makes good adjustments to whatever he’s seeing out there. 2 - Quinn has matured since last season and no longer spirals after he makes mistakes. You put those two factors together, you get a better second half QB rating.
For the second question, an “audible” is an outdated concept. In modern football, coaches try to directly control everything as much as possible. Consequently, most coaches run a sort of “check with me” process pre-snap where you line up, look at the defense’s alignment, then check with the sideline about what play to run. So the coach is effectively “calling audibles” by calling a play based on how the defense is aligned. Also, most passing plays have some measure of flexibility built in based on how the defense plays. If zone, I break off the route and turn around in the soft spot. If man, I go deep post. No matter what the defense does, the QB and WR should be on the same page about how to handle it without needing to change the play pre-snap.
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5 minutes ago, WilburHooksHand said:
Yeah I’m not saying Texas is bad here I’m just saying it’s not like Washington hasn’t been able to run effectively on another good run defense. I’m not coming out of left field here, I am from Houston and I live in Austin. I’ve seen both of these teams play all year and I don’t think many other people can say that. Washington is just way better than people think and lot of assumptions about them are just flat out wrong, I’ll leave it at that.
The stats say Washington is 51st in the nation in yards per carry, and that’s with opposing defenses keeping safeties back to deal with Penix and pals. That’s just not impressive, I don’t care what you’ve seen.
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39 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:
What they seemed to do really well last year was find a way to run the ball on us. The question I have is whether that was a schematic weakness or a personnel weakness that they exploited. Whatever the reason, I expect it is more likely that they try to do that again rather than try and install a short, timing based pass attack in a month.
Overshown didn’t play, which meant there was a smoking crater at linebacker next to Ford. We also had a rotation of freshmen + Ovie Oghoufu at one edge position. As I recall, we rotated heavily throughout the game on defense because Sark wanted tape on all the developmental players.
Here’s a link to the game highlights:
Their longest run of the day comes at about 2:45. They get a huge combo block on sophomore Vernon Broughton, David Gbenda takes false steps to the outside and ends up outside of his lane, and Ford can’t cover the hole from his position on the backside. Ryan Watts is manned up playside on Odunze, realizes very late that it’s a run, and tries to make an off-balance tackle but can’t bring his weight to hit and gets stiff-armed.
In short, it’s a player failure. Broughton couldn’t anchor, Gbenda let his eyes take him out of the play, and Watts was so focused on Odunze he was slow to react to the run call.
Take out that 42 yard run and we held them to 116 yards on 27 carries for about 4.2 YPC. Still a decent YPC, but we were clearly selling out to stop the pass. We have considerably improved our personnel and I think we will do much better against their rushing attack even without safety help.
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11 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:
Yeah, I’d prefer not to turn down 10-20 snaps of pretty good safety play after what we’ve seen this year.
I appreciate Catalon’s aggression in filling a lane, but he’s missed as many of those killshots as he’s hit this year. The coaches don’t trust him in deep coverage, whenever he’s in he plays flat-footed within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage. And even in that short coverage area, it’s not like he’s been Earl Thomas, I don’t think he’s even sniffed a pick this year. He’s just not the same player that won freshman AA honors at Arkansas. If we could deploy him for 10-20 snaps a game in critical situations to give the defense a tangible boost, sure, but that’s not the effect he’s having. His reps should go to a player who can develop into a solution at safety, rather than a limited band-aid.
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12 minutes ago, Red Five said:
Man, we need to do some major spring cleaning at safety. The roster in general is pretty lean and healthy, but um not there. Also someone mentioned Jordan moving to safety in the spring but don't know if that's a real thing.
This. There’s the potential for addition by subtraction with Crawford graduating, and we need to clean out some dregs. BJ Allen couldn’t get snaps against Crawford and Taaffe, and has already been recruited over with Derek Williams. Portal time for him. And honestly, I hope Catalon moves on. If his body can’t hold up for more than 10-20 snaps per game, his reps should go toward developing a successor.
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Win the Big 12 and this is a great season regardless of what comes after. It’d be cool to sneak into the playoffs, it’d be cool to dismantle some hapless opponent in the Sugar Bowl, but if we don’t make the playoffs or we lose the bow game, whatever.
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Alan Bowman is the worst QB we’ll have seen this year. He has an abysmally low QB rating (119.54, worst in the Big 12 among starting QBs), he’s thrown more interceptions than touchdowns on the season, and the OSU wide receivers are trash (Pressley, their top WR, averages less than 10 yards a catch).
Roll out the Texas Tech defensive game plan and I have no idea how Okie State scores. If they hand it off to Ollie Gordon 30 times, he’ll end up with 107 yards and we’ll beat them by 21. If Alan Bowman throws it 50 times, we get 4 picks and beat them by whatever number Sark wants.
42-7, Texas. 340 total rushing yards.
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1 minute ago, shadow_operative said:
you quote a post where i literally say that he has improved from last year and you respond with this. you guys do this to yourselves.
You want to engage with the actual data I presented or just continue being an ignorant cunt?
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8 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:
Quinn makes terrible throws to wide open WRs way more often than he makes these nfl throws. it’s not even close.
i’m really not. this is the best offensive talent we’ve had player for player the 2005 national championship team.
nope. he’s still making the exact same mistakes with the exact same poor mechanics and footwork. he’s improved some, but his improvement has been far from “dramatic”.
it’s absolutely insane how routinely you guys will attack me relentlessly for my opinions, only to convince yourselves that the shit-talking combative one. that’s a fact.
I don’t care about the subjective stuff, you believe whatever you want, but the idea that Quinn hasn’t improved since last year is ridiculous. Completion percentage up 14%, yards per attempt up by a yard and a half, more touchdowns, less interceptions, and he’s 8-1 as a starter this year. You are objectively wrong here.
Also, regarding your crying about how you’re treated by the board: Everyone has a right to their opinions. The problem is, some of the things you’re talking about are not opinions. They are verifiable facts and you’re acting like your subjective opinion trumps objective data. Spoiler: You are wrong. And people are going to dumpster you when you are wrong, especially when you double and triple down.
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12 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:what at all have you seen from QE that leads you to believe he’s an NFL qb? he’s not even a particularly notable college qb despite being surrounded by elite talent and elite QB coaching. he’s also making the same mistakes and showing the same poor mechanics as he was last year, despite being coached by the best QB coach in the country. in an era where freshman QBs win heisman trophies and put up obscene numbers while playing spectacularly, QE being a 3rd year guy who isn’t in the top 50% of best players in his own offense does not portend well for his future as an NFL qb.
1. Quinn makes NFL throws with regularity, 15 yard outs and comebacks. Most college teams don’t run plays like that because QBs can’t make those throws consistently at this level at Quinn just dimes em. Quinn also shows an uncanny ability to drop perfect passes between the layers of a zone defense, which is a highly coveted skill for a QB in the NFL.
2. You’re making too much of the talent around Quinn. Worthy is an electric player, but he has inconsistent hands and can’t track a deep ball to save his life. Mitchell has a great catch radius and makes good adjustments to the ball, but he isn’t a physical player and he tends to disappear for large sections of games due to loafing. Sanders is just an incredible TE, but he’s been injured a lot this year. This offense is talented, but it’s not like they’re carrying Quinn.
3. Quinn has improved dramatically from last year to this year by any metric and saying otherwise is absurdly stupid.
4. One freshman QB has won a Heisman and a natty. One. Most freshman and sophomore QBs don’t play very well at all. Wanna know what Joe Burrow’s redshirt sophomore stats were? 7-11 for 61 yards and no TDs. RS junior year? 219-379, 16 TDs, 5 picks, 133.2 rating. That’s a guy two years older than Quinn throwing to future first round picks at WR. Quinn is better than Joe Burrow was at that stage while being younger.
5. Quinn’s not perfect, but he’s a lot better than you’re giving him credit for. You deserve the raft of shit you’re getting for your awful take.
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1 hour ago, crash_davis said:
This board was pretty sure after many games last season that Ewers was complete dogshit. He had and still sometimes has trouble seeing open receivers, anticipating throws, and is still sometimes inconsistent with accuracy. However he's MUCH better than he was last year.
QBs can get better, or they can be Swoopes. I'm not confident enough to write off dudes after 2 games.
The difference between Murphy and Ewers is that with Ewers, you could see what he was trying to do even when he failed to do it. He wanted to hit Worthy deep but he didn’t set his feet, he wanted to hit Sanders in the middle but the linebacker got depth late, etc. You could see the process and the mistake(s) that led to the breakdown of that process.
Watching Murphy, there are times where I can’t imagine what he’s even trying to do. The throw is just so bad I can’t tell if it’s a bad decision, bad mechanics, bad timing, miscommunication, or some combination thereof.
I think Murphy is a coach-killer. A guy with incredible potential, massive arm, great size, I’m sure he comes across as very coachable. The kind of player every coach looks at and says, “I can fix him.” And then he’s goes out there and throws it to the other team 4-5 times a game.
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4 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:
Or Florida State. Or Ole Miss. Or LSU, South Carolina, Auburn, Tulsa, a couple dozen other teams. But this dude thinks 10-10 in the 4th and failing to cover by multiple scores is "beating the piss" out of someone so may be a lost cause.
You have to cherry pick the score at a certain time in one game to find an argument. Weak. See you Saturday.
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2 minutes ago, Constant said:
Which metric are you referring to here? Just my eyes alone would say Colorado has played a tougher schedule than Texas.
How many top 5 teams has Colorado played so far?
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6 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:
Are you arguing that being tied 10-10 in the 4th quarter against a G5 team can ever be called "beating the piss" out of someone? You would call me out for saying OU "beat the piss" out of SMU, and SMU was never tied or in the lead after 0-0.
Also that 4th quarter ended with Wyoming covering the spread by 10.5 points, another solid argument against that being a "piss beating."
It was a 31-10 victory. You can run whatever semantics arguments you want, whatever statistical arguments you want, OU hasn’t played anyone and Texas has looked dominant against the best schedule in football to this point.
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1 minute ago, TXSooner518 said:
Weren't you tied with Wyoming on your home field in the 4th quarter?
How did that 4th quarter end?
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3 minutes ago, Constant said:
I mean, alright. But a little context wouldn’t hurt either. Their longest run was a 39 yarder. From 9:10 left in the 2nd quarter til the end of the game they had 18 carries for 38 yards for 2.1/carry.
They did some things schematically that they haven’t done all season on film. Once OU adjusted to it, it was shut down.
See, the nice thing about Texas is, we don’t have to cherry-pick stats to make our stats look good. We’ve just beaten the piss out of everyone and after Saturday, that will include you.
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3 minutes ago, Constant said:
OU is a flawed 9-10 win team. There are more scenarios where I see Texas winning than OU. Probably 70/30 or 60/40 in my opinion.
But some of the justifications for the confidence here can be pretty stupid. The statement was made that Oklahoma can’t stop the run. They have stopped the run.
ISU had 5.56 per carry against your defense. And they are wretched. If you want to pin your hopes for the RRS on the stats your defense put up against Tulsa and Arkansas State, don’t be shocked when people laugh at you.
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2 minutes ago, Sabalo said:
Was this ever confirmed?
Yeah, Mel Kiper confirmed it in his 2028 draft preview.
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58 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:
As a combo, I’ll take Beck and Humphrey over Sanders and Whitt. Sanders can be a liability in the run game. Beck was knocking fools down and is still in the NFL. And Humphrey was an elite slot and able blocker there.
And regarding our current group of receivers, I’ll take the 2018 group. They were reliable and pretty dominant. They got open, caught balls, and put up big numbers. In the Tom Herman passing game and with Ehlinger at QB.
And although 2018 Duvernay was not yet the 2019 version, Worthy has a long way to go to approach elite level where he consistently gets open, has some sort of catch radius, and holds onto the ball when he does track passes. He’ll be a slot receiver in the NFL. If he doesnt get more consistent and prove himself, he’ll be a Day 2 pick.
While they came through last week, it was another game where Texas receivers were outplayed by their counterparts. Thats been pretty consistent against decent competition since Duvernay left.The game was 5 days ago. You’re not celebrating anymore, you just have a drinking problem.
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2024 Transfer Thread - The Pedantic Circlejerk
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Uh huh. What are his NIL requirements? What kind of guarantees does he want? Is he actually willing to earn his starting spot or does he expect it to be handed to him? How does he handle it if Matthew Golden, Johntay Cook, or Ryan Wingo get more targets than him?
If you want to dedicate the NIL money necessary to pull him here despite those risks for the potential of 800 yards next year, I’m really glad you’re not in the position to make that decision.