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They asked him a question about where he was for a week. He said something like “We’d go months without seeing Biden and no one ever questioned his health.” OH REALLY
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They can’t be having a national address from the White House to announce the change of headquarters for a dept. Or to announce a name change. I mean sure they could I guess, with this crew, but it will be hilarious. “Thank you for your attention to this matter. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.”
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After Biden was elected, I remember posting a couple of times about how important it was to have a national conversation. About how we got to the point to where we actually elected, of all people, Donald Trump president. Like a 9/11 commission type deal, to figure out how we can come back from the place we were in where something that horrific actually happened in this country. I figured something like that might actually happen after 1/6, when Trump's political career was obviously over. Oops.
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If you are an opposing DC, did you see anything in our offense that would scare you? Other than Wingo getting loose. Yeah me either.
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So Rick Wilson confidently wrote the other day that Trump is dying, and that only his inner circle is aware. Um, anyone got the rest of that piece? Was he just repeating rumors or does he actually know something?
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Coach Sark Press Conference 9.1.25 (LHN/ESPN App)
Red Five replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
If Arch hits on the easy throws, we’re talking about how we beat them at their place solidly, with a great defense and a vanilla as shit game plan. Grades on OL and especially WR would be much higher. -
Longfellow looked like a guy who should be funny. Like in a weird Norm kind of way. But I don't remember ever laughing at anything he did, in three years.
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What's going on above his eyes? The back of his head looks strange too. Like it's been shaved. Could just be a weird pic.
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I'm sorry, I forgot the part about how on election day, Trump, as President of the United States, was tweeting out "Stop the count!". He was literally trying to stop the vote count, on election day, and then declared himself the winner. Is it fair to suggest he might fuck with future elections? Are democrats being unfair to this poor misunderstood man?
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"Media during the Trump era" will be taught in colleges one day. I was bumping channels while watching commercials on Saturday (I mean, trying to watch college football) and stopped on MSNBC for five seconds. Out of context, but the host said something like "Is it fair for democrats to suggest Trump will attempt to manipulate future elections?" and the guest was like "Well, I suppose, but...." and I changed the channel. Gee wiz, is it fair to suggest the guy who did everything possible to overturn the 2020 election, including giving orders to swing states to lie about their vote tallies, and caused a riot at the capitol in an attempt to cause chaos to the extent that the votes couldn't be counted.... is it fair to suggest that guy might screw with future elections? It should be more like "Well the American people re-elected someone who has proven himself to be completely untrustworthy with our elections.... so what do we do about it and how do we prepare?"
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I wonder if Trump ever paid Rudy what he owes him, after making billions on the presidency since last November.
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Have there been any legit Dotard appearances anywhere, since all this business started? Like last Friday? That was three days ago and still nothing?
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Did another RB play on Saturday besides Baxter and Wisner? We have seven on the team if we're counting Niblett there. Are those two really far and away our two best out of a room of seven?
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Scipio's postmortem is out. It's not pretty. I was very distressed about missing this game to coach youth football, but after checking the score and reading a few of the 200+ texts blowing up my iPhone, it turned out to be for the best. Rewatching it, even knowing the result and having scanned the box score, was remarkable. I didn’t expect that my 6th grade volunteer staff would come up with a better game plan for the Spartans on two hours prep than what the Texas offensive staff dialed up for Ohio State after two months, but Saturday was full of surprises. I pointed out that Matt Patrica would represent a unique challenge for Sark as he offered very little tendency to game prep. Patricia was going to build out a defense tailored to us. I didn’t expect total game plan domination and a diagnosis of our strengths and weaknesses like he was in our practice facility though. Patricia shrugged at the Longhorn running game as empty calories and focused solely on limiting passing game explosives. The Buckeye DC assumed he’d get stops on money downs and in the red zone. He was right on both counts. It’s difficult to bag on Sark’s game plan when execution by the QB and the larger passing game was so poor and our running game couldn’t punish overplay. Offensive success tends to allow for more success and we never got real traction. So it’s difficult to say what Sark’s game plan adjustments could’ve been if Arch hit basic throws or we had a legitimate running game. The first Longhorn pass attempt was a wide open potential 25 yard gain to DeAndre Moore that Manning spiked five yards into the turf in front of him. We were in 11 personnel from the pistol with trips to the wide side and the TE split out up top. Ohio State busted their coverage and our reward was not a first down at midfield and a nice start, but 2nd and 10. That ain’t on Sark, folks. Sark also schemed several numbers advantages in the run game where we had leverage and an opportunity to drop a big run and get them out of some of their shifting, occasionally junk defenses. Watch the sky view and sometimes Ohio State is misaligned with massive run bubbles. That yielded only workmanlike, irrelevant gains and apparently everyone has decided that this means our running game was good or adequate. It was not. Sometimes, I feel like Roddy Piper in They Live and I’m the only one wearing the special sunglasses that let’s you see the alien infiltrators. I have good news though. There were several bright spots in this game and we’re really close to having a good offense if we can just tidy up a few executional areas. Just kidding. It was mostly dog shit. Quarterback Manning threw 11 completely inaccurate balls in 30 attempts and made four high quality throws. He threw one pick and tried to throw another that ricocheted off of a DB’s hands. His misses ran the gamut from fastballs hurled at top speed to a receiver 5 yards away, to skipping balls in front of the receiver, to crossing routes thrown behind a receivers head. Ohio State did a masterful job of keeping him contained while changing up their pass rush tempo and angles. He struggled to recognize coverages and when he did have protection, he hurried throws instead of letting routes develop. There was a goal line sequence where Arch threw an errant fastball at DeAndre Moore on a crosser with perfect protection while Moore was blanketed. Spencer Shannon was wide open going to the other way for a walk in TD. On the same series on 4th down, Wingo came open on a scrape route in front of him that could have been 6. Arch threw it early, incomplete to Livingstone in the end zone. You can find open receivers on any given play, but these were open receivers in front of him that were part of the read progression and he chose to throw to covered receivers from a clean pocket. In fairness, Ohio State had our receivers blanketed for a lot of the game. Manning probably assumed his situation wouldn’t improve with time. He scrambled somewhat successfully. The called QB run game didn’t really work. I don’t understand what he’s done to his release. Are our QBs obligated to degrade mechanics the longer they’re on campus? We’ll see if it cleans up. I thought he moved in the pocket well. He certainly competed through a lot of adversity. Offensive Line Trevor Goosby is a good pass protector. Surprisingly, Neto pass blocked better than he run blocked. Stroh and Baker hurt the offense several times. No, the OL didn’t play well. Ohio State played a light box and we didn’t punish them for it. When space condensed they dominated us on money downs and they got consistent pressure on Manning when they needed it. They made up for a light or honest box with physicality and effort and we never matched either. Please read this. The timing of my writing was not a coincidence. Explosiveness? We had zero runs over 15 yards against a light box and some Buckeye misalignments where we had numbers before the snap. Want to run someone out of exotic coverages, blitzes, and crazy presnap shifts in a light box? Drop explosive runs on them. Texas couldn’t. Consistency? No fumbles. Not a lot of negative runs. Passing grade. We met the JAG standard. Situational? Fail. The box score is lying to you. Ohio State conceded exactly what they wanted to. On short yardage, the OL fired out like mummies and got jacked up. Feet stopped moving at impact. No control or fit. Defenders slip off and rally to the ball. Except for the 4th and 1 Manning sneak where the playside laid down on their bellies like they were on a slip and slide. Every Longhorn OL lost on that play. Pad level? Generally bad. Finishing blocks? Not often. Initial contact, stand straight up, feet stop moving. Baker did have a pancake on Sonny Styles when he got low and drove him over a pile early in the game. That didn’t happen often enough. Cole Hutson also got a 1 on 1 with Styles early. He got jacked up and thrown into the runner. Stroh is slow-footed. He makes initial contact and then defenders slide right off. Kenyatta Jackson – a 265 pound DE – lined up in a 3 technique backside and drove Neto Umeozulu – who was blocking down on him – so far across the line of scrimmage that he used him to plug the playside hole three gaps away. That’s a 55 pound weight differential and the Texas guard had the angle advantage. Our OL is not very strong at the point of attack. The ability to run the ball was directly correlated to Ohio State’s box count and whether they had reserves in. Ohio State had so much contempt for our running game that they played a light box on 1st down on their 9 yard line, fearing we might try to throw it in. We were 70% gap run, but our angles on pulls are terrible. The puller who should turn up in the hole and find the first enemy jersey is overrunning and then trying to loop back. They need to scrape it tight and turn quickly. Not drift aimlessly. We had a goal line Arch run where we motioned the RB out to clear the safety standing at LB depth. Vacant spot. Ohio State had light numbers! Looking good. Going to stroll in. We ran counter towards the only LB remaining…and he made the tackle. Maybe run to the vacant space. That you vacated with the motion. It’s why you sent your RB in motion. WR/TE I love Jack Endries. Ball player. Willing blocker, super reliable receiver. Hands. Good routes. Played very hard. He overran on pulls like the OL. Pretty clearly not a teaching point for Flood. Our receivers are an incomplete due to a great pass denying game plan from Patricia, inaccuracy, and a lot of Buckeye bodies in coverage. Livingstone won in single coverage for a TD against a grabby Ohio St cornerback. I didn’t see a lot of separation, but I have no idea how DeAndre Moore can be evaluated with five bad balls thrown at him. We’ll see, I guess. RB Baxter had some good blitz pick ups. Both he and Wisner repeatedly stumbled out of their breaks to daylight and neither added much to their runs after contact. Watch Wingo’s acceleration on the end around. Then watch our RBs run. Very different explosiveness. Matt Patricia was not scared of any Texas RB that played on Saturday hurting his defense, I can promise you that. They were game planned as an irrelevance. Closing Thoughts Use the next few weeks wisely. This offense has a few issues, some that were foreseeable, many that can be addressed, but a couple that are genuine surprises. Units can improve dramatically over time and openers can be particularly jarring, but this was a bit of a wake up call for the Longhorn offensive staff and players.
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This is the guy who couldn't stop farting in court, stood in front of cameras with hair dye running down his face, got tricked by Borat, and set up shop for a PC in front of a landscaping business next door to a dildo store. Whatever it is that happened, it's going to be fucking awesome.
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Here? I haven't seen anything like that. It's gone into conspiracy territory on the shoulder stuff, but that's because he just looked so wildly different that what we've seen from him before.
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13 ppg in four games against Georgia and Ohio St over the last 11 months. All the guys we lost off of last year's offense are in the NFL right now. Ewers, Blue, Golden, Bond, Helm, Banks, Williams, Conner, and oh let's say Majors even though he's not just so it doesn't destroy my point.
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We have spent a very large chunk of Sark's time here going "Hey, what's up with the QB? He looks like shit now."
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I'm sorry, Rudy was driving down the street and a woman flagged him down? And then later that evening a car hit him from behind, so hard that it caused that list of injuries? Man, the real story of what happened is going to be absolutely hilarious.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Red Five replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
We have too many threads. I don't know where to put this so it's going here. A few thoughts from Nahlin: I will never profess to knowing as much as a football coach, especially someone at the heights like Steve Sarkisian, but I do have access to those in the coaching profession that I have routine conversations with. After a couple of conversations since Texas’ loss, here are three things I would consider changing. Scrap bully ball in the red zone, goal line Texas has never been a bully ball team under Sarkisian, not even with Bijan Robinson or Roschon Johnson at running back. When they had the backs they didn’t have the O-line. Now, they don’t seem to have the backs and the O-line is still in question. Of this play, on 4th and 1, Sark went with a sneak in order to prevent Ohio State from substituting but “I think they got under us pretty good and kind of took Arch’s legs out from him. Hindsight is 20/20, if I could do it all over a gain, we probably sub and they put their big guys in, we put our big guys in, and see if we can get it in the end zone.” I’m not sure that would do any good. If Sark wants to go the hero ball route with a big, tough quarterback, they should spread teams out and make them defend the entire goal line. This play wasn’t going to work either way you slice it, imo. For all his exceptional coaching ability, Sark has still yet to figure out the Red Zone and this sequence didn’t offer the ray of sunshine we were looking for in this contest. Graceson Littleton to corner, Jaylon Guilbeau back to Star Guilbeau’s a fine player but I’m not sure he’s the guy you want on an island, especially against an early-round draft pick like Carnell Tate. On Tate’s TD, Guilbeau got back in the frame but only because the ball was under thrown. Meanwhile, the true freshman Littleton looked electric at Star in his 19 snaps. Littleton was recruited as a corner and the early book on him was he was a faster version of Malik Muhammad. That looks about right after seeing him Saturday. While I would consider making this switch, I wouldn’t necessarily start Littleton over Kobe Black. But, I do think the CB room would have better raw coverage ability if Gridlock made the move. The knock on Guilbeau at Star was lack of assignment soundness but there are easier ways to help Star than a cornerback on an island. Plus, he’d be in a timeshare with Jelani McDonald. Increase the electricity at running back I realize Christian Clark is coming back from injury but he came back quicker than CJ Baxter who is already playing and just looking okay. I also realize he missed his freshman year but RB is one of the easier positions to integrate into an offense early. Tre Wisner and Baxter are solid players but they tend to get what a play is blocked for rather than providing a value-add. In my opinion, the coaches should give Clark a ton of carriers in the next few weeks to see what sort of mental load he can handle. And to also gauge his ball security and blitz pickup. This move would also tie into the above point about bully ball. If you can’t bully your way down the field, you need some dynamism. -
I fucking hate our media so much. "You've been so hard on Trump! You call him names, like President Bone Spurs, only because he never served! Would he ever call someone else names??"
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Just spitballing, but Ewers lost much of his playmaking abilities that he had over the course of three years here. He did stuff in 2022 that he either couldn’t or just wouldn’t do in 2024. Now Arch looks like he was mentally fucked from the kickoff and missing throws he should make in his sleep. Is this paralysis by analysis? Thinking too much instead of just playing?
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Weird that he went all out for Pete Rose in the Hall, and now Roger Clemens, but not Barry Bonds. That's really curious and I can't for the life of me think of one reason why.
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Probably. He got open plenty against Ohio St.
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