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Preach Sark. Too many Texas fans are irrational and shitty just as water is wet. We've somehow already reverted back to Ohio State/Georgia/Bama level of expectations despite being the epitome of average (and at times worse) for well over a decade until '23. I was as frustrated at times during the Arkie game as anyone but the amount of bitching I've seen almost a week later about a 10 point road win where we kneeled the ball out in the red zone has been exhausting. You don't have to look far over at OU and their current trajectory to remember that regardless of how the rest of this season plays out we are in fact finally living in the good times again.

Nice bounce back after Monday's shitter

The throw he made against OU 49-0 between 2 defenders to JT was as elite as they come. I think that is the reason for the frustration with Quinn. Fair or not, you show that kind of potential your first year as a starter, the expectations are that you play at a high to elite level consistently by 3rd year. My personal expectations were, barring injury, no doubt he would be at the heisman ceremony. It's expectations relative to performance that is the source of the complaints I think. He's been a really good QB for us. I think everyone hopes he can take us on a 3 game heater to end the season and snag a playoff bye and he is 100% capable of doing that.

They are just different QB's. That aside, Sam was more consistent. Quinn is better than Sam overall when he is "on" IMO without much question. I'm not sure Sam could have won that game @ Bama last year. But Quinn's floor is lower. When his fastball isn't working, he doesn't have Sam's ability to make things happen with his legs.

It's a solid spot to watch games. Pretty much my go to in town if there is a game on I want to see and I'm not watching from a Sportsbook.

Right. I edited too slowly. There was a calculator someone posted somewhere yesterday that let you play out outcomes and it had us in over Georgia I believe which made no sense.

Edit. Nevermind. This must be a different calculator than the one I looked at yesterday.

I think we shuold win. But they have a pretty damn good front 7 and that has been our biggest problem post Michigan. Our OL is going to have to play a lot better than they did against OU and UGA (and Vandy) and Quinn can't get rattled when we inevitably have some busts that lead to sacks (i.e., we need Florida Quinn and OL play that shrugged off OL bust on first series costing us points). Kentucky solid up front as well so will be a good gauge of where we are offensively headed into that game.

Didn't Indiana also cancel an OOC game against Louisville to stack wins (in their defense, probably hoping for a bowl and not the playoff when the AD made the call). Indiana's schedule is group of 5 worthy outside of this one game Saturday. Period. If they get smoked by 3 TD's, they should take the same nosedive BYU did and frankly behind BYU if BYU wins Saturday. Because BYU would have 3 or 4 better wins than Indiana.

To be clear, I don't necessarily think they are wrong absent multiple other upsets in that scenario. Like I said, just win and it doesn't fucking matter. 10 games in and still control our own destiny to land a bye. Pretty good spot to be.

Shit like this is why I keep saying absent some upsets resulting in 5 SEC teams making it (and even then not a done deal), i don't really see how Texas gets in losing @ Aggy. It's really pretty simple. Michigan and OU both having their worst teams in years fucked the resume this year. Just gotta win.

Arguing about Quinn's velocity or touch etc. on difficult throws is getting lost in the minor details. Leave that to the NFL scouts. We can win or certainly compete against anyone if Quinn isn't playing hesitant and can consistently make the correct reads and hit open short to intermediate routes in the middle of the field and the occasional deep ball (even if still a lower than ideal percentage). That combined with what we already do in the short passing game should yield enough points to damn near beat anyone. He absolutely has the ability to do that as we've seen it numerous times over his career. I think QE's best play against Arkansas was that 3rd and 12 scramble where he zipped a catchable ball into tight coverage. It was an incompletion but that is what we need to see more of. He stopped thinking on that play and just played football. Sark has to figure out how to tap back into that kind of play more consistently for us to have the end to the season we should have.

Simms was never even close to being 'blown out' by OU as a starter despite the cultists revisionist history but I digress. I think Simms is a pretty decent comparison to Ewers in that their highs were really high but not consistent. One massive difference is that Simms had to deal with a fucking Mack Brown/Greg Davis gameplan (against OU in particular) and was handcuffed frequently by conservative and uncreative play calling despite all the talent around him. There are times we can nit pick Sark play calling but on the whole it is light years difference then the scheme from 99-04 when we just out talented teams to win games but couldn't scheme for shit. Now our scheme is usually there (only game this season probably outs chemed was UGA in my mind). When Quinn is off or hesitant, there are plays to be made and he's just not making them consistently. Again, he didn't have a "bad" game against Arkansas but an above average game from the standard of a 'good' D1 QB and that game is never within 2 TD's in the 2nd half. A good to great game by Quinn standards and we probably flat blow them out the way our D was playing.

I was surprised by the A&M/Auburn line as well at first but if you put any value in the power rankings Auburn has significantly underachieved from a W/L perspective compared to what they 'should' have done. Most of their games have been close. I watched them completely choke the OU game away as well blow a chance to have the ball with a chance to win against Vandy by jumping offsides on a FG. It's one of those games you could easily see Auburn putting a decent offensive game together and winning as their D is good enough to keep A&M in check and A&M has been a shitty road team for forever (see South Carolina and MSU this season as MSU had the ball down 7 in the 4th). I've about convinced myself A&M is going to lose this game and fuck up the chance to make 11/30 pretty much the biggest home game they have ever had.

No idea how this site is working but it's nonsense. In a scenario where we beat Kentucky and lose to A&M, it has the 4 SEC teams as Bama, Ole Miss, TN and TX. So not only do we assume the committee ignores the H2H win and punishes A&M for losing in the SEC championship game (which I don't think is likely), it either assumes UGA is going to lose to Ga Tech or that the committee would ignore not only the H2H win @ Texas but also ignore win against TN and slot them behind both. Zero chance that would ever happen.

That math doesn't work at all based on remaining schedules. It's possible but I put it more like 25%. Would need a lot of things to fall our way as resume won't really stack up if favorites hold serve. We just need to win the next 2 and it won't matter.

Except this year the winner plays for the SEC championship and is in the playoffs and the loser is done. It's a massive game. None of this bullshit chest puffing like it's one sided, only downside for us, etc.. Give me a break.

Strong strong disagreement with this. This years A&M game has, by far, biggest stakes of the year. That is on top of it being a rivalry game. It's setting up to be the biggest Texas/Texas A&M game since 1995. And just because these guys haven't played in it before doesn't mean they don't know it's been talked about constantly since it was scheduled. It's definitely a trap game for both Texas and A&M. That being said, it shouldn't matter.

At this point this is the only thing he is really consistently elite at. He's not athletic and goes down too easy and his deep ball has always sucked. You can live with that if you have the short and mid range accuracy and consistently making the correct reads but we don't have the latter and he's playing way too hesitant.. I was hoping the injury was still nagging and Florida game was the start of Quinn playing confident again. But yesterday was frustrating. He didn't play shitty but he wasn't an asset. We should have been up 3 TD's in the first half and that game should have never been close. I like the idea above about just flat out calling a designed QB run early in games to get him to stop thinking and play football. But if we aren't moving the ball again against a good team that is actually scoring points (unlike Ark in first half yesterday) it's not going to shock me to see Sark pull a Saban in Bama's championship game when he benched Hurts for Tua. Manning may be more likely to throw a pick so I understand hesitancy to do that in a close game you feel like it still under control, but we're almost certainly going to have to play better offensively to win @ A&M. The stakes for that game are way too high to give Quinn an entire game to figure it out if we fall behind and he's part of the problem.

I think this is a leading indicator of what I'm expecting. If we make this a 4th quarter game we might be in trouble as their crowd will be hostile and loud. But this is different than '21 for multiple reasons but primarily because it's an 11AM game and a fan base that has nothing to be excited about for the season. Half of them probably fully expect to get blown out after the last game. 2021 was an early season game where all the season possibilities are still in front of you. This Arkansas fan base has no expectations for this game beyond what it means one way or another for the Pittman tenure. If we can jump out to an early lead there will be no energy in the stadium before halftime.

It wouldn't surprise me but best thing that could happen if you want potential for more SEC bids (giving us cushion) is for OSU to blow IU out of the water potentially knocking them out. OSU has that @PSU win in their back pocket if they lose again. To be clear, I'm not sold on PSU but it is what it is.

I think TN/UGA is likely going to end up viewed as an elimination game. Particularly to the extent one team wins somewhat comfortably.

Last week seemed better. Only one real total bust where DJ Cambell missed his assignment on the first series (costing us points). Penalties were better. Need to continue to clean it up. I think whether or not we can keep Quinn relatively clean against A&M pressure will likely determine that game.

And I don't think most Texas fans have come to grips with that yet. I think everyone would have assumed a 10-2 Texas team is in a 12 team playoff. I certainly would have. But between Big 10 having a massive gap after top 4 teams resulting in no parity, Michigan win not paying dividends, Notre Dame riding that win @ A&M to carry them through despite having the worst loss of all candidates and SEC having a ton of 2 loss teams, it's pretty much becoming a certainty absent 1-2 teams losing as a 2 TD favorite

I tend to agree with the take above that we won't see a 9 game SEC schedule without playoff expansion that does not increase auto bids (i.e., adding 2 or 4 more at large). What's becoming clear is due to Michigan and OU sucking (the latter can't help it obviously), absent an upset like USC/ND or PSU/MN (or something else completely random like Ole Miss or Bama losing as heavy favorites), Texas is going to have to win @ aggy to make the playoffs. We could probably end up losing one of the other 2 and still get in with a W at Aggy. But a loss there is probably going to knock us out barring upsets. The narrative that Texas doesn't have a quality win is just going to grow louder.