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Thatguy

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  1. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    I follow recruiting I just don't participate on our board with the blowhards, and that's exactly what I said. We don't get guys in the rotation and we expect them to feel something for the program? Why would they? No snaps and a kid is hearing you aren't good enough to play here. Some snaps and a kid is hearing you are next. Throwing kids some scraps matters. It shows you believe in them and then maybe just maybe they don't bend your ass over when it comes time to negotiate.
  2. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Look at it from his perspective. Sark parked his ass on the bench with nary a care about his future. Now all the sudden the tables have flipped and he should be loyal? If Wisner didn't ask for more money and CJ was healthy Clark would've never seen the field. Now he has a little leverage and is probably pissed.
  3. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Most of the dudes in the portal are leaving their school because they aren't being utilized, which means they aren't Jeremiah Smith. So the negative stories outweigh the positives. The Big Dawgs are usually using who they recruited. So burning bridges is way more harmful to us than it is to a lesser school. Times are different now. When Bama was pushing out players, they had 5 stars on top of 5 stars, so they still won, and kids like going to a winner. However, look at them since the portal. Line isn't great. Can't run the football. Defense is shaky. They no longer can just load up on 5 star kids, so misses and kids opted elsewhere hurt a lot more than they used to. You are thinking about the last part wrong. You said earn your pay. Well, Sark has a short rotation so unless someone in front of you gets knicked up, you aren't getting an opportunity to earn your pay. Seriously, Lockett came in and grabbed two balls and a touch. He probably been pissed off the whole season knowing he was balling in practice but couldn't crack the lineup. That little bit of run he got might just have saved him from entering the portal.
  4. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Vs aggy, ou, UGA, Vandy, and Michigan Ryan Wingo- 26 catches for 319 and 3 TDs - 12.27 per reception Parker Livingstone- 12 catches for 158 and 1 TD - 13.17 per reception Only one of these guys were we trying to scheme open and get the ball to.
  5. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    You are missing the big picture. Livingstone and McCutcheon are both from Lovejoy. Say they both get pushed out after their first year you can say goodbye to getting recruits from Lovejoy going forward. Same with Dibble and the punter from Atascocita. I worry about us burning bridges to high schools that have good talent because of our inability to get kids coached up/minutes/ keep them feeling like they are part of the program. All these kids know each other and are paying attention to what's going on with the classes before them. They talk. If our high school recruits keep not working out we are going to start losing them. That's my real worry. That's the shit that was happening in the 2000's. Ricky(we all love Ricky) was having his issues staying on the field. Cedric flamed out. The big 3 receivers flamed out. We started to be known as the school that couldn't develop offensive players. Then we stop getting them. Texas has not produced one Mike Evans. Look how many LSU got. That's my worry. You start to develop a rep and then the well dries up.
  6. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    I said he gets open, not does everything right. Of course hig game needs work he is a freshman. That's what WR coaches are for. I am not going to spend a bunch of time arguing with you. You won't find a single coach that will say that was a good ball. Not one. I will also send you the all 22 for all the games I have and you can point me to where he struggled to get open. The Tape doesn't lie. Cignetti, a guy who does a pretty good job of evaluating talent, offered him a spot. The kid isn't a five star, but he is a solid player, especially considering he is a freshman.
  7. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Bro, there was nothing the receiver did or did not do that was going to stop the DB from getting to that ball by where it was located. I get the receiver didn't run the crispest route, but come on bro. Location was off. It's okay to say "Arch threw a bad ball". It's not going to hurt you. He threw plenty of good balls later. But we are getting away from the point, which is he gets open easily on his targets. We just didn't really target him. My goal in 2026 is not to argue with you as much. So I concede the ball location part of the discussion.
  8. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Ball was thrown behind him on the first one giving the DB a chance to break it up. How, in any world of football, can you blame that on the receiver? Wow. Ball should be thrown to the sideline. Receiver could've attacked it better but that was 100% an off throw. 2nd one if Arch puts that anywhere but on his feet he has 10 more yards, maybe more depending on blocking.
  9. Somebody that knows what's up. Shit is ugly. Protect your sources.
  10. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Look. I don't pretend to know what he ran. All I know is what he put on tape. He was open when we targeted him. 80% of the time he was on the field he was just out there to run off defensive backs and create space for who Sark wanted the ball to go to. So you can see him running 1/2 speed knowing it's not coming his way, and true to that, Arch never looked his direction. For example, he was targeted 3 times vs Aggy. He was open all 3 times. Two of those were not caught. I will let you judge where the ball was thrown whether or not they should've been. Keep in mind that these are part of his "drops". 2025 Texas O vs Texas A&M.mp4 I have All 22 of the offense vs Ohio State, Kentucky, MSU, Pig, Georgia, Vandy, and Aggy. That's pretty much consistent in every game. You are more than welcome to the film if you wanna take a look. That's why I get so irritated at the way Sark runs his offense. We bury guys in the rotations and progressions and keep them there, even when the other dudes aren't playing well. Imo, a better ball on the two "drops" and Parker finishes the game with 3 for 60-70 or so. McCutcheon same thing. Just out there being a decoy and running off DBs for the other guys.
  11. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Exactly. Dude reportedly was one of our fastest receivers coming in and he didnt have trouble getting sep on the field. Let's not act like he didnt have talent. He had his shortcomings but he had talent.
  12. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Catches. My bad. And I think he had 51 targets.
  13. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Now Livingstone was below average because we don't like him anymore. Keep in mind as a freshman he had 516 yards and 6 TDs on only 29 targets. He had drops for sure but he wasn't chopped liver. We are going to get somebody out of the portal older than him with his exact stats and talk about it being a solid pickup. I hate the portal sometimes. Ughh. Also, when all of your receivers are dropping the ball you might wanna look at why. Targeting a little off? Ball being rifled at short distances? We need to catch the ball but we also need the ball to be more catchable.
  14. Lol. What do you think the day crew is doing all day?
  15. Not the proper board Mark. We don't want people getting fired when they open the "Parker Livingstone" thread in front of Sherry in HR tomorrow.
  16. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    He went to bed angry
  17. Let's not.....
  18. Bobby Jo and the Outlaw at least gets you the top half
  19. I mean dude threw for 289 and rushed for 114. We had almost 600 yards of offense. Sometimes it be what it is.
  20. My wife looks exactly like wonder woman. No shit.
  21. Ewers opportunity came at a terrible time. End of the season. Nobody gives a shit. Best player out for the season. Next receiver just wants to get the season over with. Starting TE goes down. Then Achane goes down. You get to play Cincy but then Burrow and both star receivers are back, and they are one of the best teams in the league when they are healthy. O-line hasn't had the same 5 most of the year. You beat the Sooner's ass, then you get one of the best teams in the NFL when YOUR roster is a bunch of dudes that were serving your table last week. That said you showed some good things. Sure you had some dumb turnovers, but you showed some great things too. Ball was out on time and target. Throwing dudes open. Different arm platforms, like the TD this week throwing around a free rusher for the TD. If he gets to start the season with a healthy Hill, Achane, Waddle, and a couple other pieces he could show he belongs. Dolphin talking heads seem to like him, and it appears he saved his coaches job. The fact that they got him on the cheap should be the reason they try to tread water to get cap space, and that's all the time he needs to do what he needs to do.
  22. Brother, again it's not really about Parker, you get that right? It's about what we are doing to drive away players. As an employer I've had stretches where people were leaving our organization and I had to figure out why? To me Sark's short rotations and misses on talent eval are reasons why. I get it, pre NIL and portal, when a player left he was never to be seen or heard from again and everyone was like "great call". But things are looking a little different. Our number 2 and 3 receivers jumped in the portal. That's never happened before. Our top 3 running backs. A lineman that we were grooming to replace a senior. Now we are in a position where the same dudes that fucked up the first evals, like the O-line, are in a position where they absolutely have to hit on their evals in the portal or we are in deep trouble. It just doesn't seem like we are making good moves.
  23. I almost forgot about that. 😂
  24. Scrambling? I've remained steadfast in my stance. Someone asked why would the coach lie. I pointed out the coach's policy on entering the portal. It's understood that you cannot receive official offers until you are in the portal, but there is our coach saying call us back if you don't get the offer you think you are worth. The point is he is doing that to protect the program reputation. Now we all understand that is what you are supposed to do. We expect that. But make no mistake it is still a lie. Just like the coach doesn't come out and say he pushed out 12(random number) players because they weren't good enough. To protect the program. Now I know a lot of people played sports here and a lot didn't, but coaches nowadays use playing time to force kids to drop out of their program. It's the PC era. They even do it at the high school level. My daughter is a high school senior. She committed to play college vball the July before her junior year. That December her college coach got fired. The coaching search took a few months, but then the new coach called immediately after being hired and said she was reevaluating her needs. The previous coach had misevaluated and had a bunch of dead weight on the roster. We knew she was going to have to push someone out to make room for us because the previous coach was honest about her mistake and cryptically said the same. This season goes by and two of her scholarshipped outside hitters immediately go in the portal. She didn't tell them they no longer have a scholarship. She told them she didn't see much of a role going forward. Kids wanna play so of course they are gonna go elsewhere. I am sure no one that hopped in the portal for us was told their NIL was being taken away. I am sure every player still woulda got their money to stand on the sideline. However, if you tell a kid who had dreams of making it to the next level your role will be significantly reduced, they are going to leave 90% of the time. Money on the table or not. That is all I am saying. For me, this wasn't even about Parker as much as it was the amount of kids being pushed out or choosing to leave in general. We seem to be losing more than we are getting back and all it takes is an injury or two and you are ass out.
  25. also, there defense doesn't match their offense. If you are going to have a quick game offense that takes 12 play drives to score, you sure as shit can't pair it with a defense that can't stop the run. It takes you forever to drive the field and then you come off the field and let the opponent grind down the clock with their run game leaving you with very little drives over the course of the game. The Pats ran for 243 tonite.
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