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  1. Hookem2147
    Sark ain’t stupid man. He knows what he is watching. The playbook opened up this year with Arch in. Yeah, the opponents sucked but we just had so much more of the field to work with in addition to his running ability. There were a lot of valid reasons for Ewers remaining the starter and his experience is valuable, but those reasons are quickly becoming fewer and fewer. He is absolutely playing for his job against Vandy. We can’t have a national title contending team with a third year starter who needs training wheels. He has earned the right to work through some stuff but 3 straight games is enough man.
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    The dude had like 16 yards passing in 6 drives and was seeing ghosts. At that point his own confidence is about to go off a cliff if you keep just letting him bang his head against a wall. He absolutely made the right direction in sitting Quinn down. At worse, Arch comes in and does the same thing as Quinn but at that point you already had nothing going so who cares (which is what happened). At best, you get a spark from Arch or Quinn calms down (I.e Rattler against Texas in the 2020 game) and looks better the remainder of the game. You can’t look that bad in a home game coming off an injury and a previous game where you already looked shaky and expect to just keep doing the same thing with a capable backup behind you.
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    Your overall point stands, but calling the 2022 Alamo bowl where 3 of our best players opted out a “big game” is a stretch. Especially now with the expanded playoff, no one is going to give two shits about non-CFP bowl games.
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    This is the worst set of pass catching RB’s we’ve had since we trotted out Kyle Porter and Daniel Young. For someone who is supposed to be an explosive playmaker, Jaydon Blue acts surprised the ball is thrown in his direction half the time.
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    Beck just isn’t/wasn’t an accurate thrower of the ball. With that being said, he always seemed to be in control with his pocket movements and mechanics. He was sacked once despite a fair amount of pressure. His issues are far different than what we saw with Ewers.
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    Hard to comprehend how it has regressed this badly this fast. The competition level doesn’t dictate many baseline things you should be seeing game after game that Ewers showed through the first 3 games this year and really most of last year. A lot of what he has put on film the last two weeks is worse than some of his freshman year stuff. Georgia should have easily picked him off at least 2 more times in the 4th quarter. The second half was no better than the first half for him regardless of some stat padding.
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    Was quite a bit of downplaying of the Baxter injury when he went down and the guy many claimed was better than him did not record a single carry tonight. God bless Wisner. He is a tough kid but he isn’t built to be the primary back on this team or run between the tackles. The drop off in pass pro from Baxter to Blue/Wisner is also significant. The latter two are very poor at chipping edges and doing little things to help QB’s buy an extra tick or two.
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    He received at Michigan because he wanted the wind in the fourth quarter. Valid reason. The OU game was the only other game he’s opted to receive in a long time and I’m still confused on if that was documented correctly because the ref turned to OU first after the coin was flipped. The 4th down stuff is what it is. I don’t always agree with it but he’s consistent in the aggressive approach and I think people would be surprised how often analytics tell you to go for it in a game. In terms of managing the clock, I see much worse every week around the country. Nothing he has done in that regard has been super egregious.
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    Rothstein is pretty high on Ohio State, who we open the season with. Had Texas at #26. Should be a good test.
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    Gerry brought up a good point on OTF. Muschamp moving into an analyst role for Georgia has hurt them defensively. He is apparently in the building during the week to help with prep but isn’t heavily involved on gameday anymore.
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    Multiple guys missed practice time last week with strep throat. Maybe it is still going around.
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    I’d be mildly surprised if Georgia rolled out something like the 3 high safety defense. That typically hasn’t been their MO. Venables had showed it in the past (including the Tennessee game earlier this year) so you kind of knew it was coming. Guys like Saban and Smart typically aren’t implementing those type of junk defenses with the athletes they have. Which is probably part of the reason we have pantsed some of the more traditional defenses we have seen even when they have great individual talent.
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    Speaking of DT’s
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    Played 4 snaps. If you had to rank our receivers he’s probably the 5th or 6th option right now. I’m not taking Bond, Golden, Moore or Wingo off the field for him as things currently stand. I’ve heard in the past he isn’t the best practice player, which is problematic when you are in a room that talented and do stuff like drop wide open touchdowns in games. Hopefully he turns it around but hard to argue with his playing time based on what we’ve seen.
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    I thought the decision on both 4th downs Saturday were no-brainers. We obviously picked up the one at the end of the first half but the holding negated it. We kick a FG on either attempt and it makes a 18 point game a 21 point game, so you make a 3 possession game a 3 possession game. I’m going to guess any analytics you want to use are going to tell you to go for it there and that’s not even factoring in how good we were playing on defense.
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    Based on Sark ripping Ewers coming off the field, I think the read was to hand the ball off on that 4th down RPO. Probably should have handed it off on 3rd down too but Ewers had a wide open guy. Just tried some rushed off platform sideway throw. That sequence summed up his day. I liked the aggressiveness Sark had there. On the OU 10 and basically saying we will score or force you to drive 90 yards which there is no way you can do.
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    He has coached in 32 games at OU yet has only had to play 8 ranked teams and only 3 in the top 10, all of them at home or at a neutral site. 2022: #19 Kansas and #23 Oklahoma State at home and won both, #13 FSU in bowl game loss 2023 #3 Texas win, at #22 OSU loss, #15 Arizona in bowl game loss 2024: #6 Tennessee at home non competitive loss, #1 Texas non competitive loss This overall record is ballooned by the fact he hasn’t lost a non conference game because their non conference schedule has been garbage all 3 years. He had the easiest schedule in the Big 12 last year and didn’t make the title game. If you look under the hood even more you see just how bad his tenure has been.
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    FCB posted that the Bond ankle injury is very minor and he should play against Georgia.
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    Yeah, he played poorly but the absolute worst decision would have been to pull the plug on your proven starter with skins on the wall after THREE drives when you are down 3-0 in favor of the media darling backup. That surely wouldn’t cause any drama or controversy. If this was 2022 or Ewers had looked like 2021 Spencer Rattler coming into this game I would have been more willing to entertain a change but you don’t do that to your starting QB of 3 years who had been playing at a Heisman trophy level prior to injury.
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    Venables is a good defensive coach and they threw out a ton of different looks in that first quarter. They aren’t very good at certain spots (CB) but they have several guys who will be playing on Sundays and a good coach coordinating them. Regardless of where their scoring or total defense ranks, my overall point stands. Ewers isn’t the first NFL QB hopeful to have a poor game. This isn’t 2022 OSU where he had very little goodwill built up. The guy has played a lot of football the last 2 years and played well in big games. The same NFL that continually overdrafts QBs year after year isn’t overreacting to one bad performance.
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    PK and Nansen still calling blitzes in the 4th quarter after what we’ve seen in the second half games the last 3 years was refreshing as hell. Everyone wants to talk about what we are likely to lose on offense after the year but think about this defense next year with Simmons, Hill, Burke, Muhammad, Guilbeau, McDonald, Lefau and Smith all a year older.
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    Yeah but what about this one bad game?!?!?!?! I don’t think NFL teams have ever drafted a QB who played poorly against a good defense before.
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    The offense only scored 23 last year. 7 came on a punt block TD. The 3 turnovers, all by Ewers (2 INT’s and a fumble) were killers. I do think it’s interesting that last year we had all this confidence and people predicting blowouts and Texas closed as a 3.5 point favorite. If I remember correctly the line was hanging out around 5-5.5 all week and a ton of late money came in on Oklahoma. I think the spread this year (14.5) is the largest since the 2015 and 2016 games (both OU -16.5). Only the 3rd time Texas has been favored since 2009.
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    Miss State, LSU, South Carolina, New Mexico State, Auburn and Texas the rest of the way. Where are they underdogs outside of Texas? 7-1 SEC record seems very much on the table for A&M. Perks of avoiding Georgia, Bama, Tennessee and Ole Miss. But don’t forget Texas is the one with an easy schedule!
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    Poster on IT: Josiah Sharma finally got eligible for Folsom and played in their 35-7 domination of Oak Ridge. Josiah was an absolute menace. I had him with 7 tackles 2 tfl 1 sack 1 fumble caused and 7 pressures. He might not have been credited with the sack, but he should have been. Was surprised that he played as many snaps as he did considering he hadn't played in a game yet, but only a couple of times was he subbed out until the 4th quarter. He was just too strong for the Oak Ridge OL. QB could never get settled in the pocket as he constantly drove his man into the backfield. He was active the whole night and was consistently chasing plays down from the backside. Motor was on the whole game. He did seem to tire a little in the second half, but he was still active and powerful. He has the body to anchor our defense, but he's so disruptive that we might want to give him a little latitude to penetrate. Kid's gonna be good.

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