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Red Five

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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??"
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. Probably. He got open plenty against Ohio St.
  7. I only briefly saw McCutcheon. I don't think any of the other backup WRs played.
  8. QB play and red zone. In every single one of those games.
  9. He was the reason we didn't win the game.
  10. "Why do you insist on telling such obvious lies?" should have been the theme of the rest of that interview. "Do you think the American people are really that stupid?"
  11. Good call, we're 37.5 point favorites.
  12. OL was fine yesterday. If we got a comparable level of play at QB we win by double digits.
  13. We need to see QB improvement under Sark. Casey Thompson certainly didn't improve, and then fucked off to who cares. Hudson Card didn't, and left for Purdue where he continued being average there. I guess Ewers improved from year one to year two, but then last year was a mess. Arch looked nothing at all like he has looked up to this point, to the extent that people are wondering if there is an undisclosed injury. We are 0-4 inside a calendar year against both Georgia and Ohio St. Offensive points scored in regulation in those four games: 15, 16, 14, 7. Not all on the QB in those four games, but... mostly?
  14. I was pretty surprised that wasn’t Moore returning punts. He must have been too busy being a complete non-factor on offense.
  15. I don't think that extends to mind powers that make Arch completely miss wide open WRs. If he could hit the broad side of a barn yesterday we probably finish with about 450 yards of offense.
  16. This is the happiest I've ever seen 6th Street.
  17. Hadn't thought of it this way, but Arch yesterday looked like Hudson Card against Arkansas in 2021.
  18. It seemed like they didn't want to try anything that would get Arch in rhythm. Or anything that might make the OSU defense think for a second.
  19. He did not, and we win going away by 10+ if he had.
  20. That was not a tough environment to play in.
  21. Cross your fingers!
  22. Did the same five OL play the entire game? I don't remember seeing anyone else. Not even a rotation with Stroh and Neto was crazy. I guess that club got taken off Goosby's hand prior to the start of the game sometime.
  23. See, I don't see how this was protecting Arch. That first half looked like someone woke up our offense at 3 am sometime in May and said "go play Ohio St right now".
  24. Me, as Arch is about to take the snap: "No no no no no no fuck no fuck no!!"
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