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  1. 6 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    Yes he absolutely has. He put up over 650 yards as a true freshman in Jimbo's dinosaur offense with terrible QBs, and another 500 yards this last year just half assing it. If it is truly an NFL over NIL situation, which I am not sure I totally believe, then it is hard to argue with Chris Jackson's resume at this point. Two 1,000 yard receivers in the NFL in the same season, followed by two high draft picks his first year in college. I would take this kid and let him put up 800 yards receiving for us next year before he heads off to the league. Cook, Stewart, and Golden would be a nasty trio while we bring the freshmen along.   

    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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.  

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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.

  9. 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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  10. 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.

  11. 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. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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.

  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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