We lost to them last year because they were better off the edge than we were. If you trade their D-line with ours we go home with the trophy. Will Howard sat back and patted the football three times before getting rid of it. You guys talk about our talent but we weren't that talented where it matters. We had one decent edge guy, a rb who couldn't break arm tackles, and one receiver. I was told that Wingo was being held back by Ewers. The guy I saw yesterday was the same ole Wingo, losing physical battles with lesser defenders. Meanwhile I watched number 4 create his own separation. Great receivers don't allow themselves to be manhandled.
We weren't as good as Ohio State from a roster standpoint. Ohio State is the gold standard. They were literally better than us at every level except QB. Teams like them and Georgia have been collecting top level talent for years. It isn't really that hard. We lost to who we were supposed to lose to if you look at it realistically. In 2023 we had no pass rush and so we lost to the two teams where lacking those things was going to hurt you the most. Last year WE lost to the only two teams we played with elite pass rushes who could simultaneously shut down our run game. Everyone else had a flaw that got exposed except those two. You can have 85 NFL level NTs but that really isn't going to help you against Penix or Gabriel. Just the same if you look at the OSU game from last year we couldn't get to Howard at all. Same thing happened today. We have holes on this team that really hurt us against quality opponents. Those holes have shown up consistently and they really don't care about our draft count.
We had three skill position guys drafted. Our offense wasn't some juggernaut. Meanwhile look at the OSU offense. None of the top teams would trade their skill guys for ours.
Not sure you noticed but we Bond was missing most of the season. We basically had Golden and Tre Wisner. Some of you have to get past this ide we were loaded offensively. We were not.
This isn't true. That's why 3 high has worked so well against us because our receivers just keep running and their secondary can just hand them right off to the next guy. That's what happened on the double coverage throw to Wingo. Downs, playing the inverted Tampa, ball hawk roll, took him when he passed into his 3rd and then the boundary corner picked him up when he crossed into his zone. This has always been a problem in Sark's offense here at Texas.
Not the same defense my guy. Those two nightmare DEs they had are gone. Arch had a ton of time to throw. We didn't whiff on a single block on pass pro. Even with all that pass rush QE still threw for almost 3 hundo and two tuddys. Arch will get his shit together but you "we lost the NC because Arch wasn't playing" guys need to eat crow.
Yes. I tried to point that out last year but we were too busy hating on Ewers to hear it. Other teams have high completion percentages because their receiver run out and sit down in empty zones creating stationary throws. Sark doesn't like stationary targets and thus lower completion percentages. He needs to draw up more stationary targets and help his qb out. It's not hard.
That's because all these guys spent last year clamoring for Arch to start. To be critical of Arch now is to admit they were wrong previously. We were always going to be here.
No disrespect but I don't understand Hispanics. Black people have skepticism built into our DNA for obvious reasons, but Hispanics keep going working the "white adjacent" thing ad nauseam, despite being burned time and time again. When it comes down to it they will be on the outside looking in just like everyone else.