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Their offense is a lot different than it was in September so I think we can copy/paste Notre Dame One of the big elements to me is that our DEs are so athletic. Simmons and Sorrell have both made plays this year where they crash down on a zone-read but recover to bring down the QB. Moore and Burke aren’t the same level of athlete Moore is showing great football IQ and Burke is long and seemed to learn how to play the option live in Tuscaloosa last year. We’re not a team that should lose to options plays. LBs still have some issues with run fits but not enough to really cost us

Lol Pate said almost nothing from your first two paragraphs. He used the call reversal from our game as an example of a bad reffing system. The only comment he made on the game itself was that the refs changing the call didn’t impact the outcome. So, really the opposite of what you’re saying he said Also, he issued a correction - the OU/Bama refs were not the same crew as our game against UGA

Can’t speak to other schools but we did it in 95-96 when we won the last SWC championship and the first B12 conference championship.

Man, I fucking hate the ‘meaningless games’ talk we see all across college football. Setting aside the rivalry aspect and playoff talk - this game is for a spot in the conference championship game. How does that not matter? How do we watch this team use conference championship elimination as a motivator for six weeks in a row then decide it doesn’t really matter before the biggest game of the year? Soft

“Longhorns are throwing a lot more NIL his way, and it happened (timing-wise) right after we named him a five star.” Now I’m waiting on all their subscribers to turn on them every time they name an LSU commit a five star

It’s too early to see meaningful draft data points except from a select few people (I like Dane Brugler) and even those are limited to the first couple rounds. That database has 200+ team specific mock drafts included in its consensus. A bunch of Browns, Raiders, and Jaguars fans that have already given up on their seasons and are comforting themselves with November mock drafts provide provide no value lol. Hence Sorrell being labeled a UDFA and Majors not even being listed We’re much better served giving our own opinions than listening to most draft talk at this point

He was definitely less heralded among Texas fans, though part of that was collateral damage as people puffed their chests and yelled that he was better than Evan Stewart My memory of Moore’s recruitment was that it was us vs. Louisville

“I just don’t think you are going to get NFL talent at receiver our of the portal” My god, some of those folks are so detached from reality. Like just a complete lack of understanding of the current CFB world.

The thing I’m most interested to see is Sark’s opening script It’s traditionally horizontal to get the defense thinking and tired. UGA’s LB discipline issues would encourage that. Last week, Sark switched up that tendency. He dialed up intermediate throws and deep shots for Quinn early, and they all worked. Quinn hesitated on some and missed on others. If he wants to go after their corners, he could go back to this (side note: I don’t want to bag on Quinn, but it’s a shame that Sark won’t get his due for pantsing Venables in their head-to-head). I can also see the logic in testing their run defense early with stretch zone and counter. It’s possible we just straight up win in the trenches, and I think it’s game over if that is the case and we figure it out early.

Criticizing Sark’s handling of the QB room is astonishingly dumb A) We have the best QB room in the country. Ewers played like relative shit for one quarter last week. He’s still among the small group that can claim to be the best QB in the country. And that’s due to Sark’s faith in him. Sark’s decision to develop his QB is a feature, not a bug/blind spot. It’s hilarious that you’re still clinging to Casey Thompson and Hudson Card as saviors (if only Sark had the balls to put them in!) There’s an entire discussion to be had about defensive evolution over the last couple years killing off elite QB play as we knew it for a decade, and how we should adjust expectations accordingly, but I don’t think it’s worth the time or effort to have that discussion with people that are proactively readying themselves to call for Arch at the first sign of struggle from Quinn. B) Let’s look at how some other freshmen across the B10/SEC are fairing in their first year starting Dylan Raiola: Great against UTEP, Colorado, UNI, bad to mediocre since Nico Iamaleava: Great against UTC, NC State, Kent, bad to mediocre since Other guys like Aidan Chiles and Jackson Arnold have just been bad to mediocre. Arch is now 2.5 games in. Right at the sweet spot for defenses to have film showing what he’s good at and what Sark wants to do with him, but before he’s learned how defenses will counter and how to handle that. He’s going to have growing pains and struggles soon. Personally, I’d rather give him garbage time snaps and another offseason to develop and minimize them, especially when the alternative is throwing him in front of Kirby Smart, a renowned defensive mind who showed off his ability to adjust and shut down a Heisman contender only 20 days ago. C) Sark knows how to adjust to Quinn’s struggles Quinn already went through the young QB pains. When Quinn struggles, Sark knows how to change the offense to lower our reliance on Quinn while still taking advantage of the things he does well. After the 1Q against OU, Sark took the game out of Quinn’s hands. Lots of runs and short passes, but also some of Quinn’s best intermediate concepts to keep the defense honest. He knows what to fall back on if needed (hint: it’s not Arch

Quinn did have to sling it around against Michigan. We were in several third and longs early and he converted for us. Quinn’s mechanics and accuracy were the difference between the starts in that game and OU.

I generally don’t like the idea of a guy reclassifying to enroll in August, but I’ll absolutely take it over having to hold on for a year

A forgotten part of his and Byron Murphy’s legacies will be that they came in 2021 and were immediately the best conditioned DL on the team. Oof.

Dunlop’s Deep Dig (talking about the switch to Lefau as the starter and how that unleashed Ant Hill)

To further contextualize it: OU could have had 1st and 10 at their own 25, down 7-3, with 2:21 to go in the second quarter Instead, they had 1st and 10 at their own 25, down 14-3, with 2:21 to go in the second quarter Bolden put 7 on the board through pure hustle/heart/etc. He took away OU’s opportunity to go into the half with the lead. Without his play, does Hawkins feel as much pressure to make a play and cough up the ball scrambling? Does Sark trust Wisner enough to give it to him on the next offensive snap? Does Wisner keep his confidence and score? OU received the ball to start the third. The lead or small deficit completely changes the dynamics on both sides in their favor (though we probably still win handedly). Legend