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Irish Wrist Watch

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Correction: Arch has to make those throws for us to make a run. (It's a new mindset)
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Oops... Southwest Conference & UT – Most no-hitters, career (2), tied by James Street, Hooton and Greg Swindell
  7. 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
  8. 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.)
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Quinn just doesn't seem to have that killer instinct. You can see it in his face GB&U& Graham.mp4
  13. I think there were two or three others with 25+ yards after the catch. Completion % and picks are probably better indicators of performance. Quinn has some real good receivers. He's not getting it done.
  14. Too many wasted shit plays like this that never stood a chance
  15. because we should be scoring 30 points every single game, and Ewers sucks in the red zone. No doubt, Sark has got to make that running game go. That said, a couple of weeks in a row our runners have taken over and put away the game. GA obviously figured out how to slow it down, but in doing so seems to have left themselves vulnerable to the pass. Quinn/Sark couldn't take advantage of it. The one ingredient our offense is missing is a healthy does of QB sprints. A good RPO can turn a stop at the line of scrimmage into a twenty yard sprint for the sideline by the QB. And when the tackler starts thinking QB, handing that ball off can result in a quick ten yards.
  16. You don't have to defend anything "perfectly" to intercept a ball throw at low velocity. Quinn sure as fuck shoulda thrown it away.. The guy was fucking covered. Newsflash, Quinn. If your receiver is covered, either throw it away, throw it where only he can catch it, or take off running. Fuck. Had he thrown it away, we would have, worst case, punted to GA, probably stopped them, they wouldn't have gotten that last FG and we would have won the game with ours.
  17. My takeaways, in no particular order: Quinn had his moments of greatness, but alas they came with too many moments of fuck up. His last interception gave GA a FG that kept us from winning with our final FG in Regulation. It was another shit throw that we've seen way too many times to a receiver who was blanketed. On our last possession before kicking that FG to tie it up, Quinn threw three shitty passes. REminded me of Washington last year. If the receiver isn't open, he doesn't pull it back in and try to buy time for a secondary receiver - he just puts it up and hopes for the best. On one of those throws, the receiver was open at about the eight. A good tight throw woulda resulted in a first down inside the five or a TD - in either case we would have won outright, but instead Quinn lofted the ball and it sailed over everyone's head - just like Washington. He got us 16pts in regulation: That's what Quinn does. Sometimes he looks like a scared rabbit. On our first possession in OT, Sark put in Manning for a quick five, opening the door to an easy first down. On the next first down play, Sark leaves fucking Quinn in instead of repeating what had just worked so well. Sark's play calling was too often mediocre. The team made way too many errors. Holding GA scoreless was never an option, and when Sark saw Quinn put up 6 in the first half, he probably should have given Arch a few tries. All we really needed was two TDs. With ARch's ability to run and pass, woulda been easy. It's time to give Manning a bigger role in our game plan from here on out.
  18. You gotta have a mobile quarterback, dammit
  19. Except for a couple of dropped interceptions, we only woulda scored 6 against the Aggies. This particular offense is handicapped under Quinn.
  20. What's with these throws all the way across the field to the sideline where receiver is running directly away from the QB?
  21. We need a QB who can run the fucking ball! Outside runs. Inside runs. Fuck this tippytoe shit
  22. Arm moving or not, it was a lateral, coulda been six if it hadn't gone OOB
  23. Georgia had two game plans. We can't make halftime adjustments to this one.
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