Irish Wrist Watch

Look, we've been waiting two months for Quinn to get over this psychological hump he's got inside the thirty. Using an ambiguous, difficult to define term like "soft" to describe his throws might be difficult for him to process in the heat of the moment. On the other hand, if we define them as "pussy throws", the phrase will strike terror straight ionto the heart of his cerebral cortex. If I was a QB accused of making pussy throws, I'd never fucking make another one in my life. I'd be up at dawn the next day - with my head coach - firing, I mean FIRING that fucking ball threw that fucking tire! Quinn would turn 2 of 10 for 5 into 8 of 10 for 90. I hope it's not too late...

Did not know that. That could throw off the mechanics a bit and trim a few yards off the distance. Still, if you've got a great kicker... I'd say from your own 45 in, less than twenty seconds left in the half might be worth a try. No blockers, lower trajectory. 65 Yarder. No snapping 7 yds back. If you miss, you're giving your opponent a couple of plays inside your fifty... or, if it's the end of the game and you need those three to tie or win, the odds might be just as good as completing two six yarders to the sidelines, then adding the 7 yard snap... Just depends on conditions and your kicker. Wouldn't be surprised to find out that every couple of weeks the opportunity occurs once in the NFL.

I'll bet over half the coaches in the NFL don't even know about the Free Kick Rule. I've seen numerous instances where it woulda been a great call, but it wasn't used. And you never hear anyone in the booth call for it. Kudos to the chargers' coach and Dicker.

https://thetvapp.to/ has been a "go to" for me this year. Page one usually lists every FB and BB (and hockey) game for that day, incl Thur Nite. (most other channels for regular TV as well, including the Tennis Channel.) Very few reboots, if any. But, occasionally it won't feed and suggests a vpn. If so, next stop is sportssurge. Under football ->CF (or NFL) you'll have all the college (Pro) games of that day (they may not appear until a few hours before kickoff). For each game there are a dozen streams. The top five are pretty reliable. Several are better than Streameast. All of above are pretty much Hi-Def. Not quite as good as Satellite, usually. One caution, if you tune in late, like the fourth quarter, your game may not be listed anymore. So if the stream you were on goes to shit and you have to return to the main page... (This is rare). That can be overcome by using tabs so that the original list of streams per game remains on your browser. (I Use Edge) or keeping an extra backup stream in a new tab (don't run it, though). Once a game is de-listed, you can usually find it on the streamer's site. Not too familiar with Youtube. Have used it some. Might be a great HRes alternative. Don't tell anybody.

All the drops last week makes me think that something is deeply wrong with this offense.. I think maybe Quinn's lack of success in the Red Zone combined with his ability to turn the ball over combined with his hesitancy (or self-doubt, or nervousness, whatever) in the Red Zone, combined with some god-awful passes/near interceptions in the Red Zone has bled over to the rest of the players. The whole fucking team behind Quinn seems to have a lack of focus, a "what's gonna go wrong next" psychosis. A ball is thrown too slowly, perhaps and it throws off their timing as they wait to get whacked after the catch... or whatever... has resulted in a team that can't score TDs inside the Zone, and I haven't seen any signs in the last eight games that they're gonna get over it. They're snake bit. Sark, you've got to try something different to help them get their mojo back. Take Quinn the fuck out inside the thirty for a few possessions and see if that helps anything. Worst case scenario, it doesn't, but it helps them get the Arch monkey off their backs. Maybe they'll step up and say "I guess we're gonna have to drag Quinn across the finish line." Do something... Just try anything Sark, because the formula you've been running isn't working worth a shit. Quit being a fucking spectator. Quit being a fucking Xs and Os guru and return to being a coach that does whatever needs to be done to win. Engage the team in a new tack. Almost makes me wonder if Sark has caught a bit of the Quinn Hesitation Psychosis and it's fucking him up too. In scientific terms: Seems like everyone on offense is running around, being a pussy. Goddammit, you got to beat these motherfuckers next Saturday. Hop to it.

Yeah yeah. Dekker dreamed of unicorns too. Lotta good it did him.

Great analysis, wildly liked by Surly, hard to watch. Ewers is warmed over dogshit inside the 25 yardline. WAshington game all over again. Fucking EMBARRASSING. You're right about Sark though. He needs an Offensive Coordinator or at least advisor who is planning ahead while the D is on the field. And he sure as hell needed to do a better job running the ball. Georgia gave the rest of the league a blueprint on how to stop QE. Of course, no amount of planning is going to compensate for the crap passes Tippytoes was throwing out there. Arch gets five on a first down play, which makes getting another first down almost inevitable. We get it, and does Sark put him back in for the next first down play? Fuck no. I'd say the best plan might be that once we reach an opponents thirty, to have Second Teamers bind and gag Ewers on the sideliine and perhaps roll him up in a tarp so that Sark has to play Arch. Release him with each new possession, but have a crack unit ready to run on the field and drag him to the sidelines once we reach the red zone. Could work.

That's some great insight that seems to get lost in all this. When you get a QB out of the pocket, often you will see one tackler and wide open spaces in front of him. He can turn it into a nice running gain, or because everyone on the D is freaking out, he can turn it into a forty yard TD pass. The problem most QBs have with the latter scenario is that they're not accurate passers when they're on the run. Not only is Arch fast and can beat that one tackler, but I'm pretty sure he's damn accurate on those types of passes.

Anyone expecting a defense to hold a quality team to 14 or so points is an idiot. It happens, but against a good team it only takes one play to break your back and end your season. That's why anybody who is satisfied with scoring 16 points is a fucking moron. Anything under thirty points for our offense should dissapoint the hell out of us. "Playing good enough to win" is just another platitude to go with "at least we won 9 games this year." Fuck that. Tell that to Nick Saban. In saddling us with Tippytoes Ewers in the Red Zone, Sark is running 85 octane fuel into a high performance engine. It raises a question: many said that Georgia players stepped up their game with the entry of the freshman QB, likely adrenaline. Well, seems like the fading of the adrenaline is a natural phenomena that happens when your QB isn't out there MAKING things happen. When you continually fail in the Red Zone, the players sort of get used to it. We saw what happened when the rush kicked in on their side. Perhaps having a fresh young go getter at QB would raise everyone's play just a notch (although I don't think you would be able to notice it on our kick ass defense)?

Which brings us full circle to my 50/50 strategy for Clemson, born at Surly and soon to catch steam with ESPN Overlords. Give Arch a legit shot. Sark thanks Surly in post Natty interview, Board swell to thousands. Weekly roundup on ESPN. Big monthly membership charges, not applicable to members before the Horns takeover of college football.

We already heard from a credible source (A Surly Poster) that Arch is kicking ass in practice. So if Sark thinks averaging 7 pts per second half over an eight game stretch is the best we can do, then perhaps I do know more than him. Or maybe he's so busy with all the other peripheral hc duties that he doesn't even know about that statistic. In which case, I guess I and every other person on this board knows more than Sark. Maybe... he can't see the forest for the trees. Maybe Sark is so bogged down in some statistical gobbledegook that he hasn't yet figured out why we can't score... How about 2 for 10 Sark? New stat for you, courtesy of Surly Horns, your new go to site when things aren't going in accordance with your readouts. Two for fucking ten. Sark needs to get a new barometer for checking QB health. I just listed two new ones for him. I'm glad Ewers is brilliant between the twenties, but Sark just passed up a golden opportunity to make a smooth transition to a new star QB. Last night coulda been Fifty/fifty. May the best man win. Worst case scenario: we lose to GA - last night. Best case scenario, we win the SEC... and a Natty. He has the same opportunity coming up on Dec 21st. Let's hope he's pulled his head out of his ass by then and figured out how to run up 45 against Clemson. Wait, wait... it's coming to me... Let's stop running completely, giving Ewers even more shots inside the twenty. Who knows, he might kick that completion percentage up to 25 or even 30%.. We're in Orc territory now. Meri and Pippin need to sit the fuck down.

So you're saying the best we can do is 16pts in regulation against this amazing Georgia D. That a new tack with a better QB wouldn't have made any difference? Well there are a few teams less talented than UT who did a fuck lot better than 16 points against Georgia. Quinn was 2 of fucking 10 in the Red Zone. Wake the Fuck Up! ... Two of Fucking Ten! He's the fucking problem. He and Sark. Nobody else. A better QB and we don't give a flip about a couple of missed field goals, because we score as much as those other teams did.

I'm not saying that Sark should give Arch half the snaps as a running QB, I'm saying the special Arch Package would open up the fucking playbook to everything including RPOs. Maybe they get rid of the shit that pinned Quinn in the pocket, although Arch can do that shit all day long if necessary, but move him around in such a way that if all the receivers are taken, he doesn't have to run thru three lineman to break into the open. He gets an easy five yards and slides, or maybe he sees an opening and takes it 65 yards, pulling away from cornerbacks and safeties. Forget the lateral passes. We don't need those. Throw in a few sweeps for the RBs. Bust some fucking heads. An aside: The Horns showed they weren't afraid to bust heads against anyone last night. They just needed a leader to light them on fire.

Both Texas and Georgia had budding superstars standing on the sideline. Only one of those got a chance to make a meaningful contribution - which he did. He fucking decided to run the ball right up our gut - and he won the fucking game for Georgia. Yeah, he got his bell rung, but he'll be back after a big rest (that we won't get). Had both budding superstars had a shot in this game, it's almost a lock ours woulda come out on top. Because Arch would have had a better Defense playing behind him.

After the stats have come out about Quinn's 8-game second half production? Mostly against mediocre teams? I just don't think Sark will continue to fuck this team for Quinn's sake. He absolutely must realize the guy has a problem in the red zone and that means giving Arch a lot more than just a couple of snaps.

Correction: Arch has to make those throws for us to make a run. (It's a new mindset)

It seems to me that there's a very good argument to be made that there's no way Texas, with Arch taking half of the snaps against Georgia (with an "Arch Gameplan", of course), would have done any worse than the meager 16 fucking points that Ewers put on the board in Regulation. We probably would have fared a little better with him getting just half the snaps, maybe a lot better. Therefore, there's an even stronger argument to be made that Arch should get half the snaps against Clemson, so that he can be ready to take on whatever comes after Clemson, because there is zero chance that Ewers can win the big one - zero - and that we absolutely have to get Manning into the game ASAP and not just for a couple of plays (for Christ Sakes). Only Manning can take us to the promised land. He needs to play at least half of the Clemson game, goddammit.

It occurs to me that maybe Sark's casual attitude about not beating teams too badly has possibly permeated the entire offense. (We didn't see that on the D, which has its own coordinator.) Sark is hurting this team too and needs to tighten things up. I don't recall Saban as being afraid to run up the score as he dominated college football. Seems I heard a story from one of the Cowboy offensive lineman about playing for Landy - that they could beat an opponent 45-0 (which they did a lot of back in the day) and they would go in for the Monday Game films and get their asses chewed out up one side and down the other for the fuckups they made. Sark needs to up his game.

Oops... Southwest Conference & UT – Most no-hitters, career (2), tied by James Street, Hooton and Greg Swindell

In the first game of the year, the Bill Bradley Horns lost (that almost never happens). In the second game, we tied a respectable Houston team. In the third, Darrell Royal puts in a scappy underweight short running QB named James Street. He won twenty in a row and two Natty's before graduating. God Bless Him. Bobby Layne's (way before my time) Wiki page is worth a visit. Holy Fuck! Born in Santa Anna, Texas, Layne grew up on a farm in Coleman County just north of Santa Anna. His father, only 36, died of a heart attack when Layne was eight years old. His mother, Bea, was so destitute, she could not afford to keep the family together. Layne's two sisters stayed with his mother while he was sent to Fort Worth to live with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and Wade Hampton. The Hamptons eventually adopted Layne and moved to Highland Park, Texas, which was then a suburb just north of Dallas. He attended Highland Park High School in University Park. Layne's best friend and football teammate was fellow future hall of famer Doak Walker, the Heisman Trophy winner in 1948 for the SMU Mustangs and a pro teammate with the Detroit Lions. #3 player selected in '48 NFL draft. 3 NFL Championships with Lions. Numerous records in college, some of which stood until Street and Vince came along. And in baseball, one of the best pitchers ever to play at UT. Numerous records finally broken by Burt Hooton and this: Southwest Conference & UT – Most no-hitters, career (2), tied by James Street, Hooton and Greg Swindell His NFL career had some controversy of interest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Layne#References

Someone suggested Bond couldn't cut and that may well be the case, because he shoulda cut into the ball, caught it in his craw and been off to the races down the sideline before that defender had time to react. Instead he throws his hands at the ball - combined with all the other drops, a good sign the receivers aren't getting the reps they need in practice or in the games. If they're dropping the ball in practice maybe they need to be sitting on the sidelines during the game. Looks like a lack of discipline, or laziness or both, although if he was hurt, I guess we should cut him some slack, but if he was hurt, shouldn't someone have told Sark. We need to tighten up our game. Or maybe it was a lack of killer instinct on Bond's part. We've been spoiled. We've been winning even when we aren't really trying. That goes back to Sark's "killer instinct," or lack thereof. We've got "Some gas, but keep a foot on the brake pedal just in case..." You know, like how teenage girls drive for the first year or so. (If anyone has any stories, you must share.)

So I guess by pointing, instead of doing his own job, #3 wanted to make sure that the guy who just intercepted the ball knew how to do his... that is to run toward the opponent's goal line. (I guess everyone knows by now the path to the end zone was clear except for one tackler, who was eminently blockable). Truly heartbreaaking. It's a coachable moment, I suppose... about focus and reaction time. The moment something "unexpected" happens, every player on the field has to immediately reccognize that their job just changed from attacker to blocker, and they must immediately move to take care of it. The pick six woulda been a remarkable moment on our path to a championship. I guess Sark has to pick up the pieces. Is he capable of making the tough decisions ahead? He had seven weeks of "in your face" data on our second half offensive production and still couldn't pull the trigger. An easy one to pull actually. He doesn't have to replace Quinn, he needs to get Arch into the offense immediately, and I don't mean one play ever couple of series. Give him his own series. The cream will rise. Let Quinn rest and reflect on the sideline. Maybe Quinn will hone his killer instinct a bit. He's too, for lack of a better word, emotional. He sees an open receiver and too often something clicks in his brain and instead of firing the ball, he lofts it. Maybe it's a lack of confidence - he's afraid of making a mistake. He doesn't step into the throw. Mechanics.

One other thing seems pretty obvious now, which I don't think anyone has brought up. Many posters praised Sark for his not wanting to run up the score on teams - some thought it to be professional or some kind of noble gesture or something. Some said it was because he played a lot of 2nd stringers, although I'm not so sure about that, but what seems apparent to me is that when you're fucking around with your foot off the gas, you aren't honing your blade that you're gonna need when the big boys come to town. I caught a lot of heat for suggesting that Sark bring in Arch in the middle of the third qtr against Michigan and beat those motherfuckers 65-10 or something like that. In retrospect, that "All Gas" mantra has just been a load of bullshit. When you pull back, you are depriving every player on that field of honing his skills, especially the stars, but including second stringers. Instead of getting more first downs and touchdowns, you're farting around then punting and putting the onus back on the Defense. We saw a number of dropped balls tonight. Why the fuck was that! Too much fucking around in all those previous games against mediocre teams. Sark gets a lead and sort of sits on it. He has essentially wasted Manning this entire year, when he wasn't starting. That's on Sark, goddammit. He sure as fuck wasted him tonight... One other thing: it sort of feels like he's gonna continue to waste him for the rest of the year even when Ewers shits the bed against yet another team we should have beaten and we get knocked out of the running - because Ewers ain't gonna beat anybody really good. Sort of like tonight.

It ended pretty much like the Wash game last year. Quinn has hit a wall. He Peter Principled. Time to work Arch into the offense. Gotta believe Arch woulda put more points on the board tonight than Quinn. He woulda done it differently. Not sure how, but can almost guarantee he woulda come away with between 50 and 100 yards rushing. Throw that in your offensive pipe and smoke it.