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I'm not Herbie but I definitely agree. Never understood the hype.

And a thunderbolt from Caicedo levels the match. No idea how Mudryk didn't knock that shot off target, but hopefully we're fully awake now.

We've been really poor today. No semblance of any sort of strategy to be found. Not sure United have been materially better, but that PK was earned.

Not loving the volume of 3's from Vic to start this season. Teams want him shooting from out there and he seems to be misunderstanding all of the open looks as some sort of invitation. Dude needs more discipline when it comes to shot selection.

To the surprise of no one at all, his team is already spinning this like mad. Never mind the historical accuracy of the "idiotic survey" in question.

Yeah, no. That's just not reality. They made changes at the half and basically shut him down. He was flustered and unsure throughout the 2nd half, regardless of if we were ahead of or behind the chains. The line play clearly didn't help, but the rush was in his head and he was starting to panic. Had they game planned better at the start, we might have been proper fucked.

I was in line behind maybe 35 people at 6:50 and done by 7:15. Fuck Donald Trump.

I run a bunch of RPO’s. The ones in the Texas playbook generally work well, but there are a couple that are sort of broken. I run some speed option here and there but I have started pitching pretty early due to fumble propensity others have mentioned. The end will come downhill unblocked like 80% or more of the time. I have started to motion a WR over to sort of chip the end. But it’s definitely a higher risk play given that the fumble thing often goes for 6 the other way.

Let's play What IF for a second. What if we get this version of Quinn for the rest of the season? I have to think eventually he loses the starting job to Arch....and then what? Does he hit the portal to use his last year of eligibility as a redemption tour? I think everyone has been working under the assumption that he will go pro after this season, but I think his stock has to be sliding and if he doesn't snap out of this funk and loses his job I am not even sure he gets drafted before the 5th or 6th round. It's pretty wild to think about how far off the tracks this thing has gotten in a pretty short amount of time. This is obviously a worst case scenario, but it feels like there is a non zero percent chance it could happen. I hate it for him, as he has grown a ton as a person and is a great teammate by all accounts.

It’s never been great. He hit two vs Bama but neither one was really put on the WR with purpose. It was thrown high and the WR’s tracked the ball down. That can work when there is enough separation, but I can’t think of many downfield throws where Quinn was intentional with ball placement and pass trajectory the way that Arch has done several times this year already (three times alone vs Miss St). Maybe there was one to X against UH before he got hurt. The best one this year was the throw to Bond on the first drive against Michigan. He really seems to have no feel for it. A lot of his challenges boil down to poor mechanics, but an overwhelming majority of his deep shots are put up early and thrown like he’s just guessing where the ball needs to get to in order for the WR to have a chance to catch it.

Palmer needed to hit that with his first touch.

So bad. What’s maddening is that he was routinely climbing the pocket during the Michigan game with great success. His refusal to do so the last two games strongly suggests that he’s playing to not get hit.

I was in the middle of making a post about the match getting interesting at 1-1 when the Blues switched off and let Pool jump right back in front. Frustrating.

Don’t disagree with any of that. I just don’t see the point in going to such extremes to make the point. You can say he has real physical and mental gaps in his game without throwing something as extreme out there as a Garret Gilbert blast.

Insanely idiotic take. Quinn can never play another down and he’s already infinitely more accomplished as a Longhorn than Garret Gilbert. He had a bad game and is clearly struggling, but maybe say this sort of hyperbolic drivel using your inside voice.

Idiots are out in full force. I guarantee you almost every recruit will say something like “Man they got off to a rough start, but they didn’t quit and made it a game. Both defenses showed out and it was just Georgia’s night. Texas will see them again.”. Go flash your sandy vagina elsewhere.

Unlike fans, recruits understand that teams have good games and bad games.

For it to have regressed it needed to be better than bad at some point. It’s always been the weak link in his game. It’s probably time to call a spade a spade. He doesn’t have that tool in his toolbox and it puts a ceiling on our offense.

Quinn did need a wake up call and he’s responded pretty well to it. That said, I’m not sure how effective he’ll ever be when any throw that’s longer than 25 yards in the air seems to be a poorly educated guess. His feel for the short to medium stuff is elite and his feel for anything deeper is Swoopes-esque.

Smoked a rack of Wagyu Beef Ribs to enjoy while we bossed OU around this weekend. Forgot to get a pic of the finished rack but did get a good money shot of the two big guys.

GTFO of here with this bullshit.

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This game is bonkers.

How the fuck is Cucurella the one that gets booked in all of that?

Are either of you using revamped passing by chance? It's the best of the bunch in my opinion and not that hard to pick up with just a bit of practice. Here is a good article on how each passing style works: https://www.operationsports.com/madden-25-and-college-football-25-passing-settings-and-revamped-vs-placement-and-accuracy/ Hard to diagnose exactly what's going on without more of the details. I don't want to sound like a total dick, but none of the patches have radically changed CPU coverage or interception tendencies. Based on what's been shared my guess is that there is an issue recognizing defenses and having an idea of who the best 1st and 2nd options are on any given throw. Here is another article that helps identify what coverage the Defense is in based on how they line up at the snap. https://www.operationsports.com/identifying-coverages-pre-snap-in-madden-25-and-college-football-25/ Bear in mind that the CPU D will sometimes disguise coverages (i.e., show Cover 3 but actually be in man, etc.). Finally, the game does have momentum such that completing shorter/higher percentage throws early on will get your QB into rhythm and result in more accurate longer throws. I open most games running RPO's, drag routes, and jet sweeps to start building momentum.