I don’t think VY made us tough. His legs made us right. Finally we had a constraint on every play that defenses had to account for, and suddenly we could run the ball. Success breeding confidence. And then he’d take off on his own and convert 3rd and 30.
Similarly, Colt was completing passes at nearly an 80% clip to two NFL WRs and an NFL 3rd down back. Defenses don’t have a lot of answers for that kind of accuracy to league quality players.
Note how our 2009 offense was shit against any team with a pulse. But our defense was a top 3 unit. Which will also cure a lot of ills.
Texas hasn’t had any kind of sustained success on both sides of the ball since 2008. 2018 being the closest example. Largely because our talent on at least one side of the ball has been dog turds. It’s hard to leadership your way out of ineptness. And that’s before you add in any retardery between the headsets.
So here’s the 2021 edition. We actually have bodies in the OL room as opposed to 2014, but it turns out most aren’t very good and or we can’t translate our pass blocking schemes into something they can understand and execute. TEs largely suck. We have one WR and a good RB group. QB is incomplete at the moment given our general lack of coherent blocking.
On defense we have a couple of plus players on the DL, no complete LB’s, no safeties and talented if then CB/NB group.
We don’t have the dudes. We may not have the leadership, but I think Casey has enough. We just don’t have enough around him. I’m relatively confident that current Sark would run a train on the conference with the rosters we had from say 2000-09. PK could probably at least confer competence on those same defenses. And then you’d need that one guy in the locker room that the team believed in, and didn’t dare cross or let down.
in short we need dudes. And then we need the dude. Hopefully the former can be addressed with the portal. Because we don’t have time for 3+ years of developmental time line.