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  1. 5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I had no issue with him coming out at that point. A win for UTSA would have been nice but at that point, it was over and they still have their goals ahead of them.  No point in getting him hurt in a 3 score loss 

    I don't know, Traylor was obviously trying to make the score look better.  All his other starters were still in....

  2. 1 hour ago, Texasrocks said:

    You're an idiot. How many 4 and 5 stars are on the UTSA roster again? Is there a single player on UTSA that Texas recruited? They had a walk on playing tackle at one point. Not a Charles Wright 3 star type of player with offers from D1 programs, a UTSA walk on. And they scored 20 points. Yes, Traylor absolutely outcoached Sark.

    They came out fired up while we slept through the 1st quarter.  We then proceeded to roundly kick their ass.  Traylor scripted game plan worked, but he made no adjustments and got the ball shoved down his throat.  He had the ream ready to play, but to say he out coached Sark is hyperbole.  

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  3. 1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    UTSA had the game in their grasp were it not for 3 critical drops. Years from now we'll see a 41-20 score but the game was much much closer.

    Texas won, aside from UTSA errors, because of 2 superhuman Bijan runs, great contribution by RoJo, and timely NFL caliber hits by Overshown + Jamison pass breakups. All 4 of these Horns will play in the NFL, so it took NFL caliber plays to beat UTSA.  What a program Traylor has built 90 mies to the south.  Nebraska should take a serious look at this man. 

    The defense gave up 3 points in the after they got up 17-3.  The 41-20 score looks closer than it was.  We kicked their ass the entire 2nd half.  Bijan's 2 TD runs he was basically untouched.  There was nothing superhuman about either, other than his speed.  He hit a huge hole, and cut it back on the 1st one.

     

     

    We had backups in on defense in the 4th.  Traylor had them ready to go, but we held them 18 points below their scoring average.

     

     

    This was a workmanlike win, not some herculean comeback effort.

     

     

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  4. 1. Offense did what it had to do.

    2. Defense pulled its head out if it's ass after letting them get the 17 early.

    3. The targeting call on Overshown was total crap.

    4. Whatever adjustments we made on defense at the half worked.

    5. Depth is a beautiful thing 

    6. Decent workmanlike effort against a team we were superior to.  Held them to a season low in points.

    7. Team showed good hear and leadership not panicking early.

    8. These games happen.  We responded correctly.  

    9. Jeff Traylor looks alot like Herman on the sideline.

    I believe it was James Street who said. " Teams would start a game feeling like they could play with us.  You could see it as the game wore on, it went from they aren't so tough, to this is OK, to oh crap here they come."

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  5. On 9/14/2022 at 10:45 AM, Tex Pete said:

    This is exactly, and predictably, following his trajectory at Florida State.

    "But Jimbo's a sitting national championship-winning head coach!"

    Chaos off the field.

    Fluke season (championship at FSU, covid at aggy).

    Regression.

    Losing good coaches.

    Diminishing OL play.

    Now, signs that boosters are beginning to realize they've been duped.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Traylor wasn't even on staff when the hit piece was released. Are you saying he was still feeding FCB info on Texas while he was the RB coach at SMU?

    That is the opinion of some yes. Now, as a coach at a competing school in the same state(technically competing against UT), that fact doesn't actually bother me that much, what's bad for UT could be good for SMU, and the whole world knows Traylor hates Herman so.....  I just pointed it out as a tie to FCB.

  7. 1 hour ago, NoName said:

    got any actual receipts for this? or just making shit up.

    Christ! "the myth of Traylor" - when a guy wins 87% of his games over 14 years in TSHXFB, goes to SMU and Arkansas and gets the Assistant Head Coach role at both places then is the 3rd coach ever at UTSA and has success (guys ahead of him were Larry Coker, who won 44% of games and Frank Wilson who won 39% of games, Traylor is currently over 70%) then his results sure seem to speak for themselves to me.

    ...but sure, the "myth" of Traylor is only carried on by 9.95ers lol not from his actual results.

    Tom Herman didn't want to keep him because he wasn't one of his guys, not because he wasn't a good coach. and also of course that is exactly what Tom Herman (why are we believing him in this scenario anyway?) would say to poison the well.

    as a reminder THIS was the Texas Longhorns coaching staff in 2017. certainly an offensive staff of Tim Beck, Stan Drayton, Corby Meekins, Drew Mehringer, Derek Wareheim is just full of juggernauts.

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    Seriously, did I ever claim anything good about Herman or his staff?  If your going to cite win percentage as a determinant factor at small schools in recruiting hotbeds, then I will refer you to Tom Herman's 85% win percentage at UH.  Traylor is a fantastic recruiter, but he isn't the 2nd coming of DKR or Bear Bryant or whomever people make him out to be.  

     

    And yes, it was obvious as could be when Traylor left who he was feeding info to because they all of a sudden fell off the face of the earth on coverage.  Traylor was rumored to be FCB's primary source for info when he was on the staff.  FCB's coverage and inside information dropped to zilch after Traylor was let go and FCB was one of the biggest drum beaters for how big of a mistake that was.  In addition, FCB still goes out of his way to be exuberant in any praise he can possibly throw Traylor's way. 

    Lets look at some evidence:

    Who broke the news that Traylor was being hired.....FCB

    Who broke the news that Traylor got a pay raise.....FCB

    Who broke the news that Fenves, Perrin, Strong, and UT run-game coordinator Jeff Traylor(shocking) flew to Tulsa to hire Gilbert--FCB

    Who broke the news that Traylor wasn't retained---FCB

    Who just had a preview of the game with the opposing coach--FCB

    I am not an insider, but I do know people who know things.  The commonly held belief among them is that Traylor was one of the sources for the Bonito hit piece from FCB.

    "The myth of Traylor" comment has nothing to do with what he did at Gilmer, but it is entirely based on the idiot belief that that somehow makes him this fantastical coach at UTSA that Texas should be terrified of.  

     

    UTSA isn't disciplined on offense, defense, or special teams.  They don't execute particularly well, and talent wise they are good for their level, but there isn't anyone on their roster that we are watching in the transfer portal.  He has the most talented team in Conference USA and that is how he did so well last year until they got beat by SDSU, a game they were supposed to win.  He tried to out-athlete a bad UH team and lost, and managed to out-athlete a pathetically bad Army team.

     

    Traylor is a good recruiter(some would argue that was why he was so good at Gilmer.....but that's another conversation) and a good motivator, but he isn't some giant killer coach, and he for dang sure was FCB's source among others.

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  8. 3 hours ago, OB3 said:

    Why do all the 995ers love Traylor so much?

    He was a mole for 9.95ers like crazy.  It was part of the reason Herman didn't keep him.

     

    The myth of Traylor is heavily dependent on 9.95 loyalty.

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  9. 17 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Yeah, if Card starts there's no reason at all to believe that 4-6 week Ewers report that originated from Fat Ketch. 

     

    So your saying shorter or longer recovery time on Ewers?

  10. 9 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Put me in the camp of, "We don't really know how good this Bama team is, yet, and therefore we can't draw too many conclusions about us." Bama played a similar game on the road at Florida last year in week 3 winning by 2, and the Gators turned out to be a steaming pile of 6-7 meh and fired their coach. Bama still has an iffy OC, they played extremely undisciplined for a Saban team, and they don't seem to have the firepower at the skill positions or on the offensive line as they traditionally do.

    I think we learn a lot more about Texas, this week. We already know that we've got injury problems at the most important position, that we're playing an opponent that's going to play with their hair on fire, and there's a better than zero chance we come out flat. They rose to the occasion when adversity hit last week, can they do it again? Maybe in some way, not having a healthy QB room gets everybody to focus in a little more?  We *should* dominate the trenches. We seem to have an advantage at wide receiver if we have somebody to get them the ball. I'm hopeful that we come out and physically dominate them for four quarters, but I've seen this team lay an egg too many times over the past 10-ish years to give them the benefit of the doubt based on one game. If we play disciplined, smart, mistake free-ish football, we should cruise. If not, we're in for a dogfight.

    irrespective of what kind of a team Bama has, you can conclude on the basic fact that it didn't resemble any of the games last year with the defense in the backfield at the snap of the ball or our defense not knowing how to do basically anything as a sign of improvement.  So I think we beat an appex Bama?  No....but even so our boys were vastly superior to anything that took the field last year.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Fud said:

    I wouldn't assume UTSA's secondary sucks because of the raw yardage they gave up against Army. That offense is a whole different animal and DBs end up getting lost in play-action conflict after selling out on the run that they won't necessarily see against other offense. They gave up only 6.4 YPA vs Houston. 

    The problem against army wasn't that they got lost in traffic....most of the big plays were straight go routes, flags, or posts.  The problem for UTSA is their secondary is slow.  They are big...but they are slow.  Isaiah Alston is Army's go to deep threat and he is big and slow(entered transfer portal last January and had no takers)....and still burns UTSA repeatedly on straight routes.  Army's running backs abused UTSA linebackers on basic wheel routes coming out of the back field.  Also, UTSA didn't load up the box all game long against army, they ran a lot of 4-3 and even nickel.  If they give Texas the 12 yard cushion they gave army it will get ugly......and Texas actually has speed.  Army's light oline routinely moved the UTSA defensive line backwards, not talking misdirection, just flat out 1st and goal from the 3 and the dline for UTSA ended up 3 yards deep in the endzone.  UTSA has a safety who is a good tackler, the rest like to dive and arm tackle.

     

    Could we blow it against UTSA....sure....I mean we lost to Rice......but....I just can't see it.  Our Oline should maul them. Whomever we line up at running back should have room to run. Army consistently got pressure with a 3 man rush.....I mean I just don't see the trap game.  Sure we feel good about ourselves, but we didn't win and we won't have our starting QB....there's lot of reasons the players won't coast this week.

     

    As for who is playing QB....Texas doesn't need their QB to win this game, they need them manage the offense.  I know I know...last year, kansas, 7 game losing streak, whatever whatever whatever......Last year we had the equivalent of wet toilet paper for an oline and our defense was trash, whether they are as good as they looked or not against Bama, the oline is light years ahead of last year both in regards to talent and execution.  It's amazing what giving a coach a real offseason to coach an oline can accomplish. Same with the defense.  We may very well not look quite as great against UTSA, but we will still look far better than last year.

     

     

    We should be 4-1 going into Dallas.  We shall see if that happens.

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  12. 11 hours ago, Ghost of Shag said:

    I hate to go all Satya here but some of you guys are high. Top 15 team at the end of the year? 4-1 going to The RRS? 

    If Card is the quarterback, much less if he has a high ankle sprain (and Depp’s info better measure up or he should get net bombed into oblivion), we aren’t getting to RRS at 4-1. 

    Big 12 offenses are going to be better than Bama’s was. Not more talented, but more proficient. They will play with faster tempo and will exploit areas—like the middle of the field—that were open against Bama but BoB wouldn’t take advantage of.

    I’m thrilled with the apparent improvement on defense but getting up for a game against the #1 team in the nation in front of 105,000 at home is easy. Going to Lubbock is a different story.

    Out season always rode on Ewers being healthy. Without him, we’re a 6-6 team. We hope. 

    Seriously?  Tech who needed overtime to score 33 on defensive juggernaut Cougar high?  I am sorry but the pirate isn't in Lubbock anymore.  Their defense won't be harder to defend than Bama's was.  They don't have the linemen nor the the athletes....

     

     

    As for Card, he was the better QB at the end of last season but got injured.  The biggest difference for him going forward is we have a functional offensive line to not have him getting drilled every snap.

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