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23 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

I dont look at it as good or bad. Can the position group do their job at a level that will contribute to winning a championship? Thats gotta be the standard. OL last year did not meet that standard. 

i don’t agree with this. replace quinn with dart or cam ward and we win the title. we made it to the sec title and the playoffs last year with our o line play. they did more than enough to get us there. if we don’t have one of the most ineffectual and self sabotaging qbs in all of P5 football last year then we win the title. same with the year before. in fact especially the year before.

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this is the unit we are talking about as being “bad” and “not good”. lunacy. it wasn’t our greatest ever o line, but it was a very good unit that was superior to both its runners and the passer it blocked for.

 

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ww returned a bunch of starters from a playoff team and we featured the best lineman in all of college football, a guy who swept the awards circuit, then was a top 10 pick, and is now kicking ass as a rookie on a very bad team in the nfl. it’s mind blowing that this many people are this eager to criticize last year’s o line as if they were an issue. 

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8 minutes ago, Derka said:

i don’t agree with this. replace quinn with dart or cam ward and we win the title. we made it to the sec title and the playoffs last year with our o line play. they did more than enough to get us there. if we don’t have one of the most ineffectual and self sabotaging qbs in all of P5 football last year then we win the title. same with the year before. in fact especially the year before.

I like ya brother but this "replace quinn with dart" is crap.  Dart crapped the bed when pressured, too.

 

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1 minute ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I like ya brother but this "replace quinn with dart" is crap.  Dart crapped the bed when pressured, too.

 

dart was (is) leagues ahead of QE as a qb, and he did not have the supporting cast that QE had. every game we lost the past two years was a close loss featuring subpar qb play. you put Dart at qb for us last year and we walk to the title. 

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28 minutes ago, Derka said:

this is the unit we are talking about as being “bad” and “not good”. lunacy. it wasn’t our greatest ever o line, but it was a very good unit that was superior to both its runners and the passer it blocked for.

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ww returned a bunch of starters from a playoff team and we featured the best lineman in all of college football, a guy who swept the awards circuit, then was a top 10 pick, and is now kicking ass as a rookie on a very bad team in the nfl. it’s mind blowing that this many people are this eager to criticize last year’s o line as if they were an issue. 

There was a great discussion on 3rd and Longhorn this week during their Bye Week podcast, about how Texas fans believe "the standard" for Texas football is four perfect quarters of total domination week in and week out.  That's just not realistic in the current era of SEC football and Division 1 football in general with NIL and the transfer portal.  To say that we didn't have a good offensive line last year is just nuts.  

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2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

Why the fuck would you visit Camden?

We were driving through it, stopped, got some beers, and then headed to Cape May. It wasn't a decision that we were like 'You know what? We should stop in Camden. I've heard real nice things about it.' Lovely city. Beautiful atmosphere. 

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14 hours ago, mwaadeeb said:

Sounds like you've only been to Newark and Trenton.

I would only go to Newark if I could smoke weed with Redman. Other than that, I'm gonna have to pass on that. I don't want my death and the last thing I city is a liquor store on a corner in Newark. 

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13 hours ago, Hookem10 said:

And we would kill them with are front seven 

Fml, I seriously don't want to be "that guy," but it's our*

I'm sorry. I hate being a grammar Nazi when I also misspell and get called out, but it has to be done to equal out the assholery here. 

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1 hour ago, Derka said:

this is the unit we are talking about as being “bad” and “not good”. lunacy. it wasn’t our greatest ever o line, but it was a very good unit that was superior to both its runners and the passer it blocked for.

 

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ww returned a bunch of starters from a playoff team and we featured the best lineman in all of college football, a guy who swept the awards circuit, then was a top 10 pick, and is now kicking ass as a rookie on a very bad team in the nfl. it’s mind blowing that this many people are this eager to criticize last year’s o line as if they were an issue. 

Eh, I don't know about "greatest ever," but we weren't as bad as we remember it being. We got absolutely obliterated by Georgia the firdt time due to lack of preparedness, but the second time we sent Beck to the ICU, and had no idea Stockton could run since we didn't have any tape on him, and still went to OT. 

In the CFP against fOSU, Cam Williams came back too early from his knee sprain against ASU due to both pressure because it was the semifinal, but also because we had no one behind him except Baker, who would have gotten destroyed (same with Chatman). 

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1 hour ago, Derka said:

dart was (is) leagues ahead of QE as a qb, and he did not have the supporting cast that QE had. every game we lost the past two years was a close loss featuring subpar qb play. you put Dart at qb for us last year and we walk to the title. 

We will never know.

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12 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

We really gonna drag the Ewers bullshit into this thread too. Really. Keep that stupid bullshit quarantined to the appropriate thread, don't shit up this one as well. 

Dart >>> Manning

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There was a great discussion on 3rd and Longhorn this week during their Bye Week podcast, about how Texas fans believe "the standard" for Texas football is four perfect quarters of total domination week in and week out.  That's just not realistic in the current era of SEC football and Division 1 football in general with NIL and the transfer portal.  To say that we didn't have a good offensive line last year is just nuts.  

How about 4 quarters of dominant football against…UTEP and San Jose St?

This year is a lot like 2018. Every game showed amazing potential, then a struggle.
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28 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


How about 4 quarters of dominant football against…UTEP and San Jose St?

This year is a lot like 2018. Every game showed amazing potential, then a struggle.

Think the current version of this team crushes those teams appropriately 

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Arch Manning must keep thriving against pressure when Texas faces Georgia - Howe (OTF)

Ho-Lee-Fuk: "According to Pro Football Focus, Manning has been pressured 122 times through nine games, tying him with South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers for the second-most pressures faced among FBS quarterbacks"

At least Arch is adapting to it all. A "W" @ UGA would be massive for our CFP chances.

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Arch Manning must keep thriving against pressure when Texas faces Georgia

 

Jeff Howe

By Jeff Howe

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Before he parlayed his red-hot finish while leading Texas to an overtime road win over Mississippi State into a banner performance in last Saturday’s 34-31 triumph over Vanderbilt, Arch Manning proved he could handle pressure.

According to Pro Football Focus, Manning has been pressured 122 times through nine games, tying him with South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers for the second-most pressures faced among FBS quarterbacks. He’s produced when the heat has been on him; the 11th-ranked Longhorns hit their second bye week of the regular season with Manning carrying a PFF season-long grade of 68 when facing, tied for the eighth-best grade in FBS among quarterbacks who’ve been pressured on at least 20 dropbacks.

With only 18 of those pressures resulting in sacks, Manning’s 14.8 pressure-to-sack percentage is tied for 60th among 171 qualifying FBS quarterbacks and sixth out of 17 qualifying quarterbacks in the SEC. To give Manning’s ability to avoid sacks more context, Jackson Arnold has the worst pressure-to-sack percentage in the SEC, with him getting sacked on 32.6 percent of the pressure Auburn has allowed.

While Manning’s legs (specifically, his ability to extend plays) have been one of the elements of the offense that Texas (7-2, 4-1 SEC) has been able to count on throughout the season, he’s becoming a top-notch quarterback at beating pressure with his arm.

According to PFF, no SEC quarterback has completed more pass attempts against pressure than Manning (43). Manning has the second-most passing yards of any FBS quarterback against pressure (676) and his five touchdown passes when facing pressure are tied for the seventh-most in the country (the seven touchdown passes against pressure by Tennessee’s Joey Aguilar lead the SEC, with Manning, Taylen Green of Arkansas and Texas A&M’s Marcel Reed right behind him).

This is a positive trend for the Longhorns that needs to continue against a Georgia defense that’s found it tougher to get pressure on opposing quarterbacks organically this season. Steve Sarkisian and the offensive staff should expect Kirby Smart and Glenn Schumann to throw the kitchen sink at Manning when Texas heads to Athens next Saturday (6:30 p.m., ABC), even though Kyle Flood’s offensive line is coming off of arguably its best outing of 2025.

According to PFF, Manning was pressured on just seven of his 34 dropbacks against the Commodores. Whether Clark Lea and the Vanderbilt defensive staff intended to blitz more coming into the game, or the Commodores shifted gears on the fly, the Longhorns made Vanderbilt pay for blitzing Manning 19 times.

Manning had a 15-for-19 day against the blitz last Saturday, throwing for 248 yards and three touchdowns with no turnovers committed or sacks allowed for a PFF grade of 91.6, Manning’s best of the season against the blitz and a perfect NFL passer rating (158.3). On the 50 combined blitzes he's faced in his last two games, Manning is completing 67 percent of his passes (30 of 45) for 508 yards with five touchdowns, no interceptions, no fumbles and four sacks allowed.

In two meetings with Georgia last season, the Bulldogs blitzed Manning and Quinn Ewers on 41.4 percent of their combined dropbacks (46 of 111). Those 46 blitzes led to 20 pressures and six sacks, with Manning and Ewers combining to go 22-for-40 through the air for 256 yards with one touchdown and four turnovers (one interception and three fumbles).

For Texas and Sarkisian to slay the dragon and get over the hump against Smart and the Bulldogs, Manning must continue his positive trend of delivering when opposing defenses bring the heat.

 

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4 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Fml, I seriously don't want to be "that guy," but it's our*

I'm sorry. I hate being a grammar Nazi when I also misspell and get called out, but it has to be done to equal out the assholery here. 

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I think it's are're's actually

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4 hours ago, bejezuz said:

There was a great discussion on 3rd and Longhorn this week during their Bye Week podcast, about how Texas fans believe "the standard" for Texas football is four perfect quarters of total domination week in and week out. 

Statements like this are beyond fucking stupid.

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4 hours ago, bejezuz said:

There was a great discussion on 3rd and Longhorn this week during their Bye Week podcast, about how Texas fans believe "the standard" for Texas football is four perfect quarters of total domination week in and week out.  That's just not realistic in the current era of SEC football and Division 1 football in general with NIL and the transfer portal.  To say that we didn't have a good offensive line last year is just nuts.  

That’s pretty typical for most big time programs. Fans expect perfect play no matter the situation , experience , or bad calls. Just Win all the time. At this point of college football I just want to get into playoff however then see if we can go on a run and win the whole damn thing. I hate life when we lose but am trying to have some sort of reasonable expectations for this team. Whiskey helps sometimes. 

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2 hours ago, WinningIsHard said:

Shout out to Derka for carrying his hatred of Quinn consistently for this long. It reminds me of this 

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me being realistic about a qb you overrate = “hatred”. lol ok.

and me mentioning quinn in this thread = ZOMFG freak out!!! even though a)he’s going to inevitably be brought up, just as last year’s o line is the current topic of discussion, and b)we’ve already had about a dozen different quinn related tangents and discussions in this thread throughout this season. you all only whine about it when i take part.

y’all make mountains out of molehills and then whine about the mountains existing. 

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5 minutes ago, Derka said:

me being realistic about a qb you overrate = “hatred”. lol ok.

and me mentioning quinn in this thread = ZOMFG freak out!!! even though a)he’s going to inevitably be brought up, just as last year’s o line is the current topic of discussion, and b)we’ve already had about a dozen different quinn related tangents and discussions in this thread throughout this season. you all only whine about it when i take part.

y’all make mountains out of molehills and then whine about the mountains existing. 

Dart or cam ward win a title in sark’s overly complicated offense is a wild thing to say. Both of them seem pretty stupid so far as nfl starters, athletes sure but not cerebral by any means. You didn’t say maybe or better odds, you said win the title. I didn’t even say anything mean to you, or overly aggressive lol. 

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1 hour ago, Josef Pwag said:

Statements like this are beyond fucking stupid.

There was a great discussion at @immamac’s last kegger about how Surly posters believe “the standard” for Surly posting is 4 perfect paragraphs of total linguistic and rhetorical domination post in and post out. That’s just not realistic in the current era of @futureman begging anyone who will reply to him to dare him to fist himself while @Derka calls out every straw man he sees while simultaneously committing straw man arguments himself. To say that we didn’t get some good MS Paint posts from @THUJONE is just nuts.

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