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  1. 13 hours ago, ousux said:
    14 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:
    Ovie likely picked LSU simply because it was his best option.
    Nobody worth a shit could have possibly wanted a player that Texas was getting rid of. 

    Have any of our portal jumpers gone on to great success somewhere else...like ever?

    Is Angilau starting at Oregon? Bru McCoy had a decent year last year and was on pace to match it this year but fractured his ankle. 

  2. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    One other thing to think about regarding the matchup with the Texas front 7 and KU's OL - I'm guessing they go big on the outside and rotate Collins and Broughton outside a bunch while keeping Sweat/Murphy/Carter/Etc. fresh in the middle until it's obvious the dude is going to have to pass to keep them in the game. 

    One of the most important things about the Texas D is that it has optionality. Luginbill, Burton and Gerry were talking about this - they can go big when they need to and they can get lean and keep up with the jack rabbits when they have to do so.

    The edge point will be interesting to watch. Waddlington has talked about how Kansas attacked Illinois's 280lb, projected first round edge. We have lots of optionality and the speed at LB if they try to spread out Collins/Broughton. We could also switch to having Hill/Bush/Blackwell opposite Sorrell. And Burke should definitely factor in with his length. Lots of ways PK could choose to go. 

  3. Dunlap's offensive/OL deep dig for Baylor

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    Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2023 Through Week 4)

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    ***please note that exact snap-count numbers may differ from other sources at times, as the Deep Dig does not count plays as offensive player snaps that are blown dead due to penalty, punts, extra points, field goals, spiked balls, victory formations, kneel-downs, etc.***

    Personnel-Grouping Frequency Overall and by Game (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    Team Target Share By Week (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)

     

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    OL Grades (Baylor)

    LT Kelvin Banks - 58 snaps

    1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.45

    LG Hayden Conner - 55 snaps

    1 run-stuff, 1 QB hit allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.36

    C Jake Majors - 55 snaps

    1 pressure allowed
    1 snap infraction penalty
    1 knockdown
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.09

    RG DJ Campbell - 60 snaps

    1 run-stuff allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.33

    RT Christian Jones - 54 snaps

    1 TFL allowed
    1 knockdown
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.33

    Reserves

    RT Cam Williams - 6 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    (4 of 6 snaps with positive grades)

    C Conner Robertson - 5 snaps
    No disruption allowed

    LG Neto Omeozulu - 5 snaps
    1 run-stuff allowed

    LT Malik Agbo (not counting Jumbo TE snaps) - 2 snaps
    No disruption allowed


    OL Grades by Week (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed BY WEEK (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    2023 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (2023 Through Week 4)

     

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    QUICK FINAL THOUGHTS

    The takeaways from this game are simple and easy to understand regarding the Texas offensive line, and the charts likely spell out what is happening with the group better than we might be able to.

    The story coming into the Kansas game is the continued progression of DJ Campbell, who, slowly but surely is working his way up into a reasonable realm in the snaps-per-disruption-allowed metric. After Week 1 versus Rice, he was sitting at a mark that -- if you compare the charts above -- was literally the worst we've ever seen. Wake up four weeks later, and not only is he nailing down some reasonable-to-very-good game-to-game grades, but he's also seen his level of disruption cut by over half on a per-snap basis. Look at the snaps per disruption allowed (by game) chart above for reference.

    This is important because DJ Campbell is an interesting player to watch progress. The high-water mark with this player is so absurdly high that we can almost just accept the warts that come along with it as is. That is to say, if we get 10 plays and 7 of them are DJ Campbell at the height of his powers, 1 where he's average and 2 where he screws the pooch and probably allows the play to be disrupted, we'd almost be apt to take that deal.

    Almost.

    Because, when the highs are so good, it makes up for the mistakes. The ones that Steve Sarkisian talked about as being so frustrating because he looks at DJ Campbell at his best, sees those mistakes, and thinks to himself, "You're better than that." What happens when the mistakes start to become fewer and far between? What if ... you know ... he develops?

    Develops in the same way we've seen from Christian Jones, whose development arc from two seasons ago to now is borderline unthinkable. Prior to his breakout season in 2022, many here in our dark basement were absolutely sure that Jones should be benched. Laughably now looking back, for guys like Andrej Karic (because how can he be worse than what we've seen thus far out of Jones) or even Hayden Conner (who, thanks to trouble allowing upfield penetration on outside-zone concepts thus far has been the line's biggest relative disappointment, and certainly its top liability).

    What we have in Christian Jones should be considered by close observers to be a future NFL pick, and likely a high one. Through four games, he's allowed the least disruption on a per-snap basis of any OL the Deep Dig has ever seen over the course of a season. He'll likely go on to play in the Senior Bowl this winter and probably become a Day 2 pick who could end up being as highly coveted as former Longhorns OL like Connor Williams or Sam Cosmi.

    Everyone knows Kelvin Banks is going to go much earlier than that in his NFL draft a year later, and one scary thing (not so much for Texas fans, more so for opposing teams) is that we haven't really seen a signature Kelvin Banks game yet thus far in the 2023 season. He's playing like the high-level D1 talent that we know him to be, while clearly still maintaining that elite-level upside that's hiding in plain sight, ready to be deployed at any moment.

    With two NFL tackles, one quickly emerging elite-potential guard, one center, who -- at the very least -- is not committing costly mistakes and one other guard who is playing at a lower level than he has historically which could indicate positive regression moving forward, it leads to one clear finding: the Texas OL -- which has been an overall team strength this season -- is still trending up.

     

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  4. On 9/23/2023 at 7:09 PM, Coach pop a bitch said:

     

    I haven't seen anyone mention this but on the Bush sack here, Alfred Collins throws the RG back a full yard on first contact and causes the splitting TE to trip and miss Bush. Collins is having a pretty good year even if it's not showing up on the stat sheet.  

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  5. Weigman's parents sound exhausting lol. Which is good for our entertainment value I guess

    For those unaware, HIPAA only applies to healthcare providers. The doctor and staff that saw Conner can't share his information unless it's for medically important reasons. Other providers in the clinic can't access his records. All that stuff is recorded by EHR systems and easily checkable

    The leak came from someone the Weigmans themselves told. Or a member of the team/staff. That stuff happens. Was the end game to use a high ankle sprain as an excuse through the end of the year? Sounds weird but I guess we're talking about a fanbase that believes the flu knocked out half the team for two weeks

    ETA: If you're going to be helicopter parents and don't want your kid to get injured, don't let him play football and especially don't let him play for Fisher/Addazzio (and I think Dameyune Craig would have been the QB coach at the time lol). If you're going to let your kid be an adult and make his own decisions, then don't go chewing out coaches and talking about suing message boards when adversity strikes

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  6. Dunlap's Defensive Deep Dig

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    Defensive Snap Counts By Week and Percentage of Total Defensive Snaps Played Through Week 4

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    Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Week 4 (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to white/median to red/worst - the number next to the name indicates movement in the rankings since last week):

     

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    Quick Hits and Thoughts

    T'Vondre Sweat has a chance to be a first-round pick
     - he's back on the top of the rankings, and now, after four games, it's time to start talking about the fact that he's looking like the most complete DL we've seen at Texas since Malcom Brown. Can he keep it up? That is yet to be seen. But let us be clear: if he keeps this up through the season (that is, staying the best player on a really good Texas defense while maintaining elite efficiency) it would be 100% foolish and silly not to think about him among the top players in all of college football.

    His snaps/disruption caused efficiency through four games (including one versus Alabama, so it's not a slate of total cupcakes) blows guys like Keondre Coburn out of the water. It's better than Poona Ford as well, and Ford was always an anomaly of a player. He wasn't an easy package to stamp as a surefire stud at the next level. Short with really long arms, Ford was an athlete no doubt, and very, very effective at Texas, but the overall package wasn't there.

    With Hassan Ridgeway, it was there physically, and Ridgeway is still earning an NFL paycheck all these years later -- but even Ridgeway had an on/off switch that you don't notice from Sweat. On top of that, Sweat has smoother feet and better general athleticism than you noticed from Ridgeway, who made his hay by simply being a giant, unmovable object with fits and spurts of angry violence.

    Sweat is almost 50 pounds heavier than the giant Ridgeway was in his final season at Texas with sweeter feet, more active hands (and eyes) while engaged, an uncanny ability to get up in the air and use hand/eye coordination to knock down footballs, all the while pressing off of blocks to free himself for such a task. He's constantly splitting double teams to make plays, and when he's not, he's usually holding up two players on the line of scrimmage to keep his linebackers clean. He leads the team in run-stuffs by a wide margin while also being tied for the team lead in QB hits.

    Ryan Watts comes back to Earth - Everyone saw Watts get burned twice in coverage against Baylor and it certainly exposed something in his game that will need to be accounted for. While he's a big, imposing figure on the boundary, he can find himself in trouble when having to get into the hip pocket of really fast wide receivers on vertical routes and simply run with them.

    On the second coverage burn, the one on the TD to the middle of the end zone, Watts' coverage actually looked alright at the catch point ... he didn't seem too far off from making the play and we almost just considered it a completion allowed. Basically, a good catch made in good enough coverage. But if you watch it back, the ball was underthrown and there was no way Watts would have been in any sort of position to make a play had the receiver not had to slow down a little bit to come back to it.

    Watts is still a great player, and the team's best outside corner, but it is a kink in the armor that's worth monitoring and keeping in the back of our minds when he's set to face burners who have good enough stem work at the line of scrimmage to get free release on him along with an ability to get vertical fast. In those spots, he's going to need more focused, intentional and better help over the top than he was getting from the safeties versus Baylor.

    Byron Murphy is a bulldog - With all the talk about Sweat, it's important to remember this. He's awesome. He has awesome feet and athleticism, too. Just watch the guy on offense, my goodness. Not only the TD catch, just watch how he positions his body and attacks defenders as a lead blocker on kick-outs and leads at the goal line. Sark called him a pit bull at his Monday PC and it made our heart sing because that is exactly how we've always categorized him around here.

    Anthony Hill has an evolving role with the return of Mo Blackwell - With Mo Blackwell's return, the staff has a small issue on its hands that's a good one to have, technically: having two players you really want on the field in Blackwell and Hill that have similar if not semi-redundant skill sets as they pertain to the personnel groupings the defense has deployed thus far.

    Both players seem best-suited to play the outside or flex linebacker in the second of two sub-packages where the team brings in a third LB. In one of these packages, Jett Bush is the third LB and that is the heavier, run-stopping package. In the passing-down package, that 3rd LB had been Hill to start the season, and he'd been so good in that role that it almost felt like a really good player in Blackwell might get Wally Pipp'ed.

    In order to placate both sides (we assume) and certainly in an effort to simply have the best players on the field, the staff seemingly came up with a creative solution. Make sure Hill knows he's still the "starter" in "his" 3-LB package as he was before. The staff deployed the package as we've seen through the first three games twice within the first two series of the Baylor contest. But then, we saw an all-new 3-LB package. Let us explain ...

    The run-stopping package looks like this

    Jack - usually Alfred Collins instead of Barryn Sorrell
    Nose - Usually Murphy
    DT - Usually Sweat
    Buck - Usually Barryn Sorrell instead of Ethan Burke
    MLB: Ford
    WLB: Gbenda
    OLB: Bush
    No Nickel Back

    The more speedy, longer down-and-distance package looks like this

    Jack - Previously Kristopher Ross, now usually Barryn Sorrell
    Nose - Usually Murphy
    DT - Usually Alfred Collins
    No Buck
    MLB: Ford
    WLB: Gbenda
    OLB: Hill
    Secondary stays in nickel

    The NEW, also speedy and very interesting sub-package including Blackwell looks like this:

    Jack - Usually Sorrell
    Nose - Murphy or Sweat
    DT - Broughton or Collins
    Buck - Burke
    MLB: Ford
    WLB: Hill
    OLB: Blackwell
    No nickel back

    It can be deployed all over the field in various situations, and relies on Blackwell's very good skills in coverage to handle No.3 receivers, TEs, or RBs out of the backfield, allowing him to be somewhat of a rover, while giving Hill the opportunity to get reps at the inside will linebacker (a base role he'll likely grow into next season once Ford and Gbenda are gone). It also allows the staff to bring Hill down on the line of scrimmage from his off-ball position to be more of an edge or flexed presence.

    Handling this situation must have been a tough needle to thread, but we have to hand it to the staff that this is a better solution than those of us here in the dark and dingy basement would have conjured up.

    Onward to the offense.

     

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  7. 19 hours ago, fuggled said:

    I'm glad somebody got this thread going again.  A couple years ago I had posted about challenges I was having with our first planted tank here.  Thanks to some of the advice on this thread, I've really been able to get it dialed in.

    Here's what it looked like at first just throwing some plants in there without knowing what we were doing.  The house sitter didn't help leaving the light on all the time.

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    Six months later we'd done a lot of experimenting and things were looking much better:

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    After another 12-18 months, we had a lush little ecosystem going that I felt confident I could sustain.

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    It was a long journey, but we learned a lot from.  After that experience, I decided to take a shot at building out a new aquascaped tank now that I knew a little about what I was doing.  I'm about 9 months into that process now.  Once I have a little time, I'll share some photos of that tank.

    You gotta tell her that a 20 is going to be more stable and easier to maintain, plus it doesn't really take up much more room.

    Tank's looking good! I love planted tanks. 

     

    I got impulsive and got a half dozen cherry shrimp over the weekend. The best of the bunch is berried so that's pretty dope. I just hope there's enough biofilm for hte little guys to survive on once they get here. Also I've decided what I'm doing with the second tank. It's going to take awhile for me to grow out the plants for it but I'll post pictures once I'm there. 

    Question for the group: Have y'all had shrimp that developed a lighter stripe down their backs? I googled and some places say it's genetic but they didn't have it when I got them so I'm wondering if it's a reaction to the new tank. 

  8. 12 hours ago, cmontexas said:

    Fan guesses as to where guys on this team get drafted in 24

    Ewers-Top 10. He'll kill it in the workouts and someone will fall in love

    Sweat- rd 1. Monster

    Sanders-late 1st-2nd. I've previously argued that NFL teams tend to prefer 6'5+ tight ends early, but he's continued to improve plus Kincaid went 25th last year and JT is better and bigger and healthier.

    Worthy- rd 2. Ideal scenario he's an elite #2 receiver with big play capability. 

    Collins rd 3-4

    Ford- rd 4-5

    Mitchell rd 4-5

    Jones rd 4-6

    Watts rd 5-6

    Catalon rd 7-udfa

    Whitt udfa

    Keilon and Kitan could stick around on ST. Brooks could be a late pick if he continues to play like he has and decides to go. Sorrell and Murphy are on boards also,  it would be mutually beneficial to get them back I imagine

     

    Here's where I'd have them. I think Brooks, Collins, and maybe Mitchell (is his mentality more like LJH or JWhitt?) are the best bets to return. Murphy should go make his money imo.

    Round 1: Quinn, Sanders

    Rounds 1-2: Worthy, Barron

    Rounds 2-3 Ford, Sweat, Murphy

    Rounds 3-4: Jones, Collins

    Rounds 5-7: Brooks, Mitchell, Gbenda

    UDFA: Watts, Crawford, Robinson, Whittington, Catalon,

    Notes: I believe in Sweat but first round is tough. My big question with Collins and the draft is whether teams view him as flexible or a tweener. Mitchell could rise with a couple big games and a good combine. I think Jones will rise once he gets to the senior bowl and interviews. Watts would get drafted if he played special teams. 

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Had Enough said:


    This isn’t exactly right. Wyoming threw for 136. Their longest was 20 yards. You know the one right over Crawfords head. Their other deepest completion was Watts/Catalon. They did isolate Thompson twice for firsts. He also had a PBU on 3rd and the pick when attacking with quick outs.

    Baylor took deep shots on Taafe/Watts and Catalon/Watts.

    The staff has a plan, and they work it.

    Right, neither of those teams were able to put together a complete game going after those duos. Wyoming and Baylor have major issues so it wasn't a big deal that they had some success, but I mention it as something that I expect teams to start incorporating into their game plans. Similar to how opposing defenses should be bringing a lot of different pressure looks vs our OL (though we seem to be improving). Basically, a good offense can probably count on having a couple successful plays doing that each game. 

    I thought about including Catalon in the safeties list, but I don't really know what to think of him so far. He's stood out crashing down against the run a couple times, but it's TBD on his ability and range defending the pass. It's hard to evaluate DBs anyways since we really only see the times they're targeted. Watts/Thompson/Taaffe/maybe Catalon are just the ones being targeted most so far it seems. If anyone has advanced stats or grades I'd be interested in seeing if they support that or not. 

  10. The only consistent weakness I see on this defense is athleticism when Watts is paired with Thompson or Taaffe. Those are the duos that we've seen Wyoming and Baylor go after with quick outs and deep shots, respectively.  

    But the fact that we have to get that specific to name a weakness and that's it's easily fixable (managing the rotation) is great. Two years ago it was 'the biggest weakness of many is when they run the ball outside in either direction.' Great development work.

    The rotation was pretty tight for Alabama IIRC. So this really seems like the staff trusts almost every scholarship player to play but also knows the margin for error each week. Great job all around by the defensive staff. 

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  11. Getting into the hobby so thought I'd give this thread a bump. I'd love to see it get more active again. 

    I'm almost a month in with my 10g. I'm pretty happy with the scaping for it- I got a sampler pack of plants and once the small portions propagate I think it'll look pretty good (for a first timer at least!). I put four mystery snails in and they're making good progress eating down the diatoms. I'm planning to turn it into a cherry shrimp colony in a couple weeks.

    The second tank is kind of on standby for now. Keeping the cycle going while I decide what to do with it.  I want to do an iwagumi style tank, but that'd involve draining it to get the carpet going and I don't want to restart the cycle, so I might wait for another tank to do that (I have four 10g kits that I bought used for $100). 

    Long term I think I'm going to roll with 4x 20g long tanks. I'll use dividers to section off smaller partitions as needed. Breeding really interests me and I think I'm going to try my hand with guppies. Lots of strains out there and I might get funky with it and try to select for stuff like behavior and brain size. There's a surprising amount of academic research on guppies. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Eskimohorn said:


    I’d argue 2018 (unsuccessfully)

    That year the secondary was loaded, so much so that we went dime much of the time.

    I’d also take the trio of Lil Jordan, Collin Johnson, and Devin Duvernay.

    It’s a sound argument until you get to the 2018 defensive line. On one side you had Omenihu and 10 sacks, on the other, you had Breckyn Hager playing with one arm.

    Bro I love the 2018 team but that's insane (caveat for 2 game sample size and all). Are you confusing the secondary with 2017? '18 wasn't a particularly good group. Very up and down and slightly above average to good overall. Not to mention glaring deficiencies at LB, which was the reason that we leaned into dime 2018-19. Hell, we tried trotting out Malcolm Roach at MLB until Maryland showed us the stunning power of a jet sweep. Not to mention worse personnel at OL, RB, and TE (setting aside your opinion on WR). 

  13. 1 hour ago, Getafix said:

     

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    Buyout numbers tend to lose meaning as they get thrown around, but for perspective I think the largest buyout ever paid to fire a coach was Gus Malzahn at $21.45M. Any sort of aggie rationalization about paying the buyout other than pure desperation and failure is just not faithful to reality. It's going to be a massive and debilitating expense. 

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  14. 3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I take a little exception to this, as the wr to that side set a natural pick that gbenda had to go under that killed his angle to McClellan. 

    They also were able to clearly identify the matchup with some pre-snap motion. I was really surprised we didn't check into a different coverage. Having your LB show man coverage on the RB before the snap and not adjusting is asking for trouble. We just got really lucky Milroe missed the throw. 

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  15. 4 hours ago, sidis said:

    Ironically, the two deep td passes were not great. Worthy’s was brutally bad and Mitchell’s wasn’t great. Wrs made incredible plays. 

    even more ironically, Quinn threw an absolutely perfect goal line throw on 3rd and goal in the first drive and worthy did a terrible job and he threw an NFL quality laser to Mitchell deep in our own territory that Mitchell dropped when the bama db timed his hit perfectly. 

    once Quinn settled down his feet after the first quarter and started to see/trust that our oline was there to play the best game they have in more than a decade, he did a really good job of delivering most of the time. Still some bad plays on the 3rd and short and 4th and short throwing to the only guy covered. But now that he’s starting to trust more than just worthy and sanders and the oline is putting in A+ pass protection performances, there’s some real potential for sustained offensive success. Great game from both lines last night. Looking forward to Hill’s season on D. 

    The important part of those throws (deep over the middle against man or quarters) is distance from the WR, not direction. If the receiver has to adjust their angle a bit, that's ok. The important thing is that it hits them in stride. Good throw + good adjustment = great play. Both of those deep shots hit the WRs in the hands and left the defensive backs with zero chance to impact the result. They weren't bad throws made right by the WRs. 

    Go watch some Mahomes to Hill highlights. Or any of the other elite NFL QB/WR combos. "Fuck it, [WR] down there somewhere" is a bit of a meme but also highlights that great scheme will get WRs in 1 on 1s with plenty of space so that throws don't have to be perfect. 

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  16. 5 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    Those were the good teams on the schedule. What they did against Kansas or a broken Oklahoma isn’t relevant in this context and you know it, as evidenced by you going to the “you’re hoping for a loss” nonsense.

    Gift from Bama and a great throw and catch from Ewers-Mitchell. Badly needed.

    Oh, the comment about you hoping for a loss was entirely personal and had nothing to do with last year's schedule (I don't actually dislike you as a poster, sorry, just the negativity gets old sometimes)

     

    Back to the game: Sark's calling a great game. I of course hope to sustain some more drives and wear them down. That'll do wonders for the run game. I still think our offense is advantaged against their defense (we're hitting deep stuff and have the quick and outside game to fall back on). If the defense can stay fresh and disciplined we got this 

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