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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

York is tiny and he's not going to have massive guys in front of him to buy him time on plays. He's like a midget version of Danny Stutsman.

You articulated all of this better than I could think it out. I've subconsciously noticed a theme on Texags where the majority gloss over York's diminutive stature as if they're discussing Dat Nguyen. And I actually started believing that he must be a feisty overachiever as I got caught in the lazy current of aggie delusion. He can wrap and tackle well enough. But he isn't the lateral missile or interior authority that they're allowing themselves to believe. He has done well enough cleaning up inside as backs stumble through initial contact. So naturally they've talked about whether he'll be drafted somewhere after his junior year. The reality is that he was still a 3 star prospect even after winning two district mvp's. In the Chin Pubes comic strip he's a midget version of Quentin Coryatt. 40 pounds ago he ran a 12.01 100 that was probably in a 21 mph back wind. His 5'10 listing is true if Joe Rogan is 6'2.

Many giggles will be had after they are giving up an average of 8 ypc when they're done playing ND, Mississippi State and Auburn.

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12 hours ago, Drifterwood said:

Gonna be funny when the aggys have to spend all season mentioning how good UTSA is

They are likely going to approach 10 wins, it might be their best win on the year.

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Anytime Tarp can get a minute away from the football department censors, he's writing subtle SOS letters disguised as threads in which he's trying to let anyone who may be listening know - know that the aggie defense is going to have its cheeks clapped on a regular basis. 

Spoilered below is an article in which Tarp explains that the dominance in camp of the aggie offense might not be the greatest thing. It's also giving an indicator that the aggie front 6/7 is small and is going to get manhandled this season. He fails to say they're also slow and that they lack talent, but we don't need him to tell us that, as we've watched them play. 

Highlights:

-York and Scooby Doo go 227 and 230, listed. York is a menacing 5'10". York is tiny and he's not going to have massive guys in front of him to buy him time on plays. He's like a midget version of Danny Stutsman. He'll rack up 10 tackles per game, averaging a distance of 9 yards down the field per tackle. 

-Albert Regis is listed as 6'1", 320. He's a buttplug who's probably not clocking in at 6'0" if he were somehow invited to the combine. 

-What they fail to account for in the interior isn't helped out on the outside, where they are also small-ish. Here's where Tarp explains that they're going to have to walk safeties up on most plays.

-Luckily, Tarp points out the solution to all of this: The aggies need to always be playing with a lead. If they have the lead, they can theoretically apply pressure on the passing game. I didn't realize that being small and slow made your matchups favorable in the passing game for a defense, but I am not an aggie sportswriter, either. 

-The good news is that ATM won't be playing any teams this year with talent in the running game. There aren't any guys like Jeremiah Love or Ahmad Hardy or Jadyn Baugh or CJ Baxter with size and speed to punish their weakness. No mobile QBs like Taylen Green or Arch Manning or DJ Lagway or Lenoris Sellers to press the outside and run RPO. Nothing to see here, folks. 

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Analyzing the matchup of A&M's interior OL and DL in fall camp

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    Texas A&M’s offensive line and particularly its interior group is projected to be very good in 2025. It’s been one of the reasons that the offense has probably had more moments than the defense so far in fall camp.

    However, there’s got to be winners and losers in football. Since the Aggies have been working against themselves, if the one group has been doing well, the opposite side of the ball has been a different story.

    Thus, when we’re discussing how well the Aggies G-C-G combination has looked and how well they’ve reportedly run the football, it’s hard to get some perspective on how good the interior of the defense is going to be.

    There is a size mismatch between the two groups. The offensive line trio of Chase Bisontis, Mark Nabou, and Ar’maj Reed-Adams go 315, 330, and 325 pounds.

    A&M defensive tackles Albert Regis and DJ Hicks are 320 and 310 but Regis isn’t very lengthy at 6 foot 1. Backers Taurean York and Scooby Williams go 227 and 230 pounds, but York is listed at 5 foot 10. Their backups that will round out the rotations are about the same size.

    The length and mass of the Aggies’ interior defenders has been a point of contention all off season. You can try to make comparisons among other Southeastern Conference football teams in order to make the case that A&M’s interior size is nothing to worry about.

    Nonetheless, so far when push has come to shove dating back to the spring, the offense has been able to run the ball more often. The only time that hasn’t happened was in the Maroon & White Game when the Aggies sat some people out, split their offensive line up among both teams, and then threw the ball all over the place.

    A&M is lacking the big ends it had not just last season but also in past years as well. People underestimated the difficulty of running against 280 to 285 pound people with length on outside zone, power, and sweeps unless you opponents found ways to generate favorable blocking angles or ran away from them.

    This also means that the Aggies’ safeties have to get involved more often in stopping the run as well since the backs are about the same size as the back end defenders.

    This analysis indicates that while A&M is equipped to control games with their running game like the 2024 Aggies, the defense may be better equipped to play from ahead. They can use the passing game to build leads, the rushing offense to protect them, and then the defense gets to use its athleticism to get after opponents.

    That formula may well the Aggies’ most likely pathway to success in 2025.

 

Stoopid sip - aggy likes shorter defenders.

They've got multiple Sammy O'Brient clones on the roster just waiting to be unleashed. Short backers? Ever heard of Sam Mills? Advantage, aggy

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2 hours ago, Chooky said:

You articulated all of this better than I could think it out. I've subconsciously noticed a theme on Texags where the majority gloss over York's diminutive stature as if they're discussing Dat Nguyen. And I actually started believing that he must be a feisty overachiever as I got caught in the lazy current of aggie delusion. He can wrap and tackle well enough. But he isn't the lateral missile or interior authority that they're allowing themselves to believe. He has done well enough cleaning up inside as backs stumble through initial contact. So naturally they've talked about whether he'll be drafted somewhere after his junior year. The reality is that he was still a 3 star prospect even after winning two district mvp's. In the Chin Pubes comic strip he's a midget version of Quentin Coryatt. 40 pounds ago he ran a 12.01 100 that was probably in a 21 mph back wind. His 5'10 listing is true if Joe Rogan is 6'2.

Many giggles will be had after they are giving up an average of 8 ypc when they're done playing ND, Mississippi State and Auburn.

Excuse you, that’s preseason AP second team All American Taurean York to you 

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Apparently an insider on Texags' premium board has posted a bunch of camp notes. @Longhornfrenzy do you have access to that forum? I don't. One of the things he's stating is that safety is the worth position on the field for them, that they're all soft or slow back there, and that Bryce Anderson is playing himself out of a role and likely won't be a starter. Paraphrasing from someone on Aggies247's paraphrasing of Texags. 

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They're being vague about injuries because The Elk is one paranoid fatfuck, but the rumors are flying. Jerome Myles posted on SnapChat from a hospital bed at Memorial Hermann Joint Center and they're saying he reinjured his knee and is having surgery. No one will confirm a timeline or the degree of injury, but it's actually posted on an Aggies247 thread that was started by one of their "insiders" a week ago, saying that the guy was awesome in practices and scrimmages and passing multiple players on the depth chart. 

Separately but on the same front, Reuben Fatheree has the dreaded "lower leg injury" and is on crutches. Carter Karels confided that they don't have specifics, but he's not expected to return to practice for "at least a few weeks". Given that that guy missed almost two seasons with a knee injury, I'm not sure I'd be real optimistic on his healthy return in just a few weeks if he's on crutches and wearing a boot. 

BTW, this was also disclosed on Texags, but apparently only to the premium subscriber board, which has non-subscribers comparing The Elk and Liucci's behavior to Little Debbie Franchione. 

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15 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

BTW, this was also disclosed on Texags, but apparently only to the premium subscriber board, which has non-subscribers comparing The Elk and Liucci's behavior to Little Debbie Franchione. 

So we should expect The Elk to publish a newsletter soon?

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On 8/17/2025 at 10:24 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

We shouldn’t be losing at Stanford, at cal, at Maryland so our road record is about as pitiful as it could be on that time band. 

I had the pleasure of witnessing the road loss to Cal in person, but did I blackout and forget a loss to Stanford recently?

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2 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

I had the pleasure of witnessing the road loss to Cal in person, but did I blackout and forget a loss to Stanford recently?

Well, 2000 isn’t exactly recently but it is after 1994. 

Posted
15 minutes ago, sdm said:

So we should expect The Elk to publish a newsletter soon?

Only available with the check after the Golden Corral happy hour 

Posted
1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

They're being vague about injuries because The Elk is one paranoid fatfuck, but the rumors are flying. Jerome Myles posted on SnapChat from a hospital bed at Memorial Hermann Joint Center and they're saying he reinjured his knee and is having surgery. No one will confirm a timeline or the degree of injury, but it's actually posted on an Aggies247 thread that was started by one of their "insiders" a week ago, saying that the guy was awesome in practices and scrimmages and passing multiple players on the depth chart. 

Separately but on the same front, Reuben Fatheree has the dreaded "lower leg injury" and is on crutches. Carter Karels confided that they don't have specifics, but he's not expected to return to practice for "at least a few weeks". Given that that guy missed almost two seasons with a knee injury, I'm not sure I'd be real optimistic on his healthy return in just a few weeks if he's on crutches and wearing a boot. 

BTW, this was also disclosed on Texags, but apparently only to the premium subscriber board, which has non-subscribers comparing The Elk and Liucci's behavior to Little Debbie Franchione. 

The Fatheree injury must be a real bummer since that means they can’t move their 6’ 7”, NFL draft pick LT to center anymore. 

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50 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

I had the pleasure of witnessing the road loss to Cal in person, but did I blackout and forget a loss to Stanford recently?

That Stanford game. JFC. Mack was upset about the fans not showing enough love after the opening game. I think maybe the opener that year was a lackluster performance against UNT. Texas won like 30-0 but the OL looked like hammered dogshit. A Nose Tackle named “Booger”, who was legitimately no taller than 5’10” and looked like a human fire hydrant, went nuts and basically shut the run game down. So Texas fans were meanies on the Internet and then one got loose on Mack’s call-in show and complained about the performance. 

So, Mack Brown had one of his kept men in the news corps following the program, Jerry Scarborough, right a stern admonishment in his newsletter at the fans. You could practically see Mack Brown wagging his finger at us through Scarborough’s write-up. He warned us that Mack could just take an NFL job and then we’d apparently be stuck with John Mackovic again as our only choice. 

I met up for one of the first times with PhxHorn, SLX, oneriver, CrazyJoeDavola, and other GoBig12 and Hornfans great posters at the time at a Chuy’s in Houston the Friday before that game. Phx was beside himself over Scarborough sending that out (they were friends) and then lamenting that Mack was focused on the wrong shit and we were in trouble for the Stanford game. 

“No way, man. “ early 20’s ctj thought. 

It was a late start on the west coast. We looked like shit almost immediately. Stanford had no business beating Texas that night.  It was infuriating. 

7 minutes ago, nnm said:

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I don’t get what they think they’re doing with this kind of stuff. It’s pathetic. You’re putting other programs, with no ties to ATM, up on a pedestal. I get that there are no “iconic” images from ATM history to tie their WR corps to, so just don’t do something pathetic like this. They can’t help themselves though. They’re going out of their way to embarrass themselves here. 

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Just now, closetojumping said:

That Stanford game. JFC. Mack was upset about the fans not showing enough love after the opening game. I think maybe the opener that year was a lackluster performance against UNT. Texas won like 30-0 but the OL looked like hammered dogshit. A Nose Tackle named “Booger”, who was legitimately no taller than 5’10” and looked like a human fire hydrant, went nuts and basically shut the run game down. So Texas fans were meanies on the Internet and then one got loose on Mack’s call-in show and complained about the performance. 

So, Mack Brown had one of his kept men in the news corps following the program, Jerry Scarborough, right a stern admonishment in his newsletter at the fans. You could practically see Mack Brown wagging his finger at us through Scarborough’s write-up. He warned us that Mack could just take an NFL job and then we’d apparently be stuck with John Mackovic again as our only choice. 

I met up for one of the first times with PhxHorn, SLX, oneriver, CrazyJoeDavola, and other GoBig12 and Hornfans great posters at the time at a Chuy’s in Houston the Friday before that game. Phx was beside himself over Scarborough sending that out (they were friends) and then lamenting that Mack was focused on the wrong shit and we were in trouble for the Stanford game. 

“No way, man. “ early 20’s ctj thought. 

It was a late start on the west coast. We looked like shit almost immediately. Stanford had no business beating Texas that night.  It was infuriating. 

I don’t get what they think they’re doing with this kind of stuff. It’s pathetic. You’re putting other programs, with no ties to ATM, up on a pedestal. I get that there are no “iconic” images from ATM history to tie their WR corps to, so just don’t do something pathetic like this. They can’t help themselves though. They’re going out of their way to embarrass themselves here. 

I looked it up. UNT was another season’s terrible opener. 2000 was ULaLa and Simms throwing a pick or pick 6 to open the game and then Texas lazily pummeled them 52-10. 

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2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It was a late start on the west coast. We looked like shit almost immediately. Stanford had no business beating Texas that night.  It was infuriating. 

Was living in LA at the time and drove up for the game.  I vaguely remember we would have been like #2 or #3 in the country with a win. I think Tiger Woods gave a pre-game speech to the Stanford players. Pathetic home crowd, was like a high school football game. Horrible loss. 

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20 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

I thought they moved Zuhn to Center because they were putting Fatheree back at a starting Tackle spot?

An aggy I know said this was the plan before Fatheree's injury.

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On 8/18/2025 at 7:24 AM, closetojumping said:

Anytime Tarp can get a minute away from the football department censors, he's writing subtle SOS letters disguised as threads...

Those dullards don't grasp subtlety. This is why they never see what's coming.

Posted
29 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

That Stanford game. JFC. Mack was upset about the fans not showing enough love after the opening game. I think maybe the opener that year was a lackluster performance against UNT. Texas won like 30-0 but the OL looked like hammered dogshit. A Nose Tackle named “Booger”, who was legitimately no taller than 5’10” and looked like a human fire hydrant, went nuts and basically shut the run game down. So Texas fans were meanies on the Internet and then one got loose on Mack’s call-in show and complained about the performance. 

So, Mack Brown had one of his kept men in the news corps following the program, Jerry Scarborough, right a stern admonishment in his newsletter at the fans. You could practically see Mack Brown wagging his finger at us through Scarborough’s write-up. He warned us that Mack could just take an NFL job and then we’d apparently be stuck with John Mackovic again as our only choice. 

I met up for one of the first times with PhxHorn, SLX, oneriver, CrazyJoeDavola, and other GoBig12 and Hornfans great posters at the time at a Chuy’s in Houston the Friday before that game. Phx was beside himself over Scarborough sending that out (they were friends) and then lamenting that Mack was focused on the wrong shit and we were in trouble for the Stanford game. 

“No way, man. “ early 20’s ctj thought. 

It was a late start on the west coast. We looked like shit almost immediately. Stanford had no business beating Texas that night.  It was infuriating. 

I don’t get what they think they’re doing with this kind of stuff. It’s pathetic. You’re putting other programs, with no ties to ATM, up on a pedestal. I get that there are no “iconic” images from ATM history to tie their WR corps to, so just don’t do something pathetic like this. They can’t help themselves though. They’re going out of their way to embarrass themselves here. 

Pretty sure the Stanford loss and the UNT embarrassment were different years.  UNT was 2002.  Our running game sucked that year.  Cedric really was not the same guy until 2003 due to, IMO, that injury he suffered against Colorado in the Big 12 title game.  Our O-line was a joke.  I remember UNT's 5'10" DT kicking Jason Glynn's ass all night long.

30 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I looked it up. UNT was another season’s terrible opener. 2000 was ULaLa and Simms throwing a pick or pick 6 to open the game and then Texas lazily pummeled them 52-10. 

You beat me to it.  Correct.

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

Pretty sure the Stanford loss and the UNT embarrassment were different years.  UNT was 2002.  Our running game sucked that year.  Cedric really was not the same guy until 2003 due to, IMO, that injury he suffered against Colorado in the Big 12 title game.  Our O-line was a joke.  I remember UNT's 5'10" DT kicking Jason Glynn's ass all night long.

You beat me to it.  Correct.

I’ve always felt that the Ced CCG injury changed his trajectory as a player.

 

before that, he was MUCH more explosive. Still a great player afterwards, just didn’t have the same burst.

 

miss ya, Ced.

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4 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

I’ve always felt that the Ced CCG injury changed his trajectory as a player.

 

before that, he was MUCH more explosive. Still a great player afterwards, just didn’t have the same burst.

 

miss ya, Ced.

His numbers per play were pretty mediocre between that injury and VY taking over at QB and opening the run game.

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That stanford game marks the first time (certainly not the last) that I got blackout drunk before a Horns game ended. HS Senior at a John Hughes-style house party with the game on the living room TV. Woke up the next morning thinking, "wait, did we lose to Stanford?" Houston Chronicle on the kitchen table confirmed. Stupid-ass Mack

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48 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

That's funny. I don't mind that. 

It's mostly funny bc most of those scrub walk-ons will never see the field. But, at least they know it.

Maybe they'll be on the prestigious 12th Man kickoff team?

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1 minute ago, skipmcgee said:

With the starters it would be pathetic.  With the walk-ons, it’s just self aware comedy

I guess y'all are right. I'm predisposed to taking aggies seriously when they're doing idiotic shit.

Posted
11 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I guess y'all are right. I'm predisposed to taking aggies seriously when they're doing idiotic shit.

Gary Oliver ain't walkin' through that door...

Posted
On 8/17/2025 at 4:18 PM, HtownHorn said:

I think UTSA is a dangerous 1st game for aggy. Traylor will have them ready to go, and aggy players have already said they are focusing on ND. 

Their offense returns basically everyone and their projected starting OL are all red shirt seniors and junior.

With Traylor patiently waiting for Texas or the A&M job to open, I bet he has his guys ready to play. Probably not enough talent to beat A&M, but I sure wouldn’t want to bet on A&M for that game. 

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14 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

With Traylor patiently waiting for Texas or the A&M job to open, I bet he has his guys ready to play. Probably not enough talent to beat A&M, but I sure wouldn’t want to bet on A&M for that game. 

I'd take UTSA +8.5, but A&M should be a touchdown better at Pyle

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31 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

I'd take UTSA +8.5, but A&M should be a touchdown better at Pyle

As a non-P4 underdog, one cannot expect to walk into Kyle field and win. 
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