It's going to be interesting. I think the offense will be more feast for famine. Certainly the vertical passing game won't make me clench up for an INT like it did this year, but the RPO and screen game is going to be clunkier. I tend to agree that 2026 might be the year.
If Ewers had this reaction after the strip sack you'd be going in on him for being an unhinged pussy and we'd probably have been flagged for delay of game to boot.
Can't wait to lose to Oklahoma because we just keep spamming IZ.
Yeah, it was a surreal feeling to see Texas come out and win the third quarter. But I got a really bad feeling with Quinn airmailed that ball to Golden.
I think it was generally a well coached game except for the deep nickel zone blitz on the long screen TD right before half and the flabbergasting second down sweep call at the goal line. Unfortunately those two plays ultimately doomed Texas in game with such tight margins. Texas was going to have to coach and execute at as high of a level as they did all year to win and they didn't quite get it done. It is what it is.
This team still beat the everloving fuck out of Michigan, OU, and A&M; went to OT in the SEC CG; and beat the ACC and B12 champions en route to a national semifinal and 13-3 season. It was a successful year even if I'm sitting here a little disappointed. Tough way to lose but they competed and were right there and that's all you can ask for. Hang around at this level long enough and it'll break for you. At least that's what I tell myself.
Honestly the SEC CG loss hurt more than this one. Ohio State is just better and Texas didn't play/coach quite well enough to win. There were many times where the game could have gotten away from them but they managed to stay in it. In the conference championship, Texas was the one with many chances to break the game open and never cashed in, and it came back to bite them.
Quinn is what he is; I'm grateful to him as the guy who oversaw the turnaround and wish him well but I'm very much ready to see what this offense looks like under a new QB. Fill out the DL in the portal and all of a sudden next year looks really promising. The window is open for a few years at least. It didn't happen for Bama, Georgia, or Michigan until it did. Onward.
This. The second down sweep. That was really damning in an otherwise very well coached game.
Yes, let's test an elite defense to the field side when they have the leverage after getting stuffed on first down. Great call. Jesus Fucking Christ. This must be what aggy felt like running up the gut on 4th and short for the 109th time.
It didn't matter what we did after that. We were too easy to defend in that situation, especially considering Sawyer had smoked Cam Williams multiple times to that point. The TD was of course worst case scenario but the Ohio State pass rush wrecking the game there was utterly predictable.
Lendale White shredded Texas in that game. I guess you could argue Bush should have been on the field as a decoy but giving White the ball is a very defensible decision. I actually agree Sark's gameday blunders at Texas make me skeptical he can pull off 3-4 straight against CFP caliber teams but this is a really weird one to go back to. You don't have to go nearly this far.
This is such a beautifully concise example of why you are on everyone's Mt. Rushmore of most braindead motherfuckers on Surly. Bravo.
Caveat to this is that extremely inefficient, car-centric sprawl that consumes vast amounts of resources and pushes up against wild spaces prone to these kind of disasters is at the root of the issue rather than the simple number of human beings in Austin (which absolutely is a wildfire disaster waiting to happen on the west side) or LA or wherever a vacuum.
It hasn't even begun yet and he's just going to continue to decline.
I'm really going to have to triage news a lot more thoroughly than I did last time around. If it's not direct economic, housing, or climate/environmental policy, trying to start wars, or further eroding democracy, I am preemptively not giving a fuck.
I can't do four more years of getting worked up about wanting to nuke hurricanes or annex Greenland or drinking bleach to cure COVID or whatever. There is going to be new, really dumb shit on a near daily basis. Probably getting dumber as he ages. Gotta pace yourself and not take the bait.
Eli Manning is as average a QB to have ever played the pro game and is a hall of fame finalist because he got crazy hot on 2 Super Bowl runs. I hate to simp for BOW but there's definitely something to that point.
I do agree that quarterbacking is more than passing stats and you shouldn't get tunnel vision there. It's about command of the offense and leadership of the team too. They're judged on team success in a way other positions just aren't - ask Dan Marino or Eli Manning.
I do think Vince and Colt stand alone. You could talk me into Layne at that tier; obviously it's different having never seen him play and the fact that it's barely the same sport anymore. Those guys were the total package of individual greatness and leadership driving team success in a way a Street, Ewers, Ehlinger, Brown, etc. were/are not.
Honorable mention to Gardere simply because 4-0 against OU is legendary and unlikely to be matched with where the sport is going.
It might be. Bond is the only one who looks like he kinda sorta might think he'll get the ball, but an RPO is typically one read. Moore and Golden are just decoys either way. Bond could just be selling. The OL is zone blocking, I wouldn't necessarily say they aren't firing off but they could be trying to make sure they don't go downfield immediately. But that's also just kind of what zone blocking looks like from that angle.
This is my read. Probably has some kind of connection with the Texas staff either from the Baylor/Tx State staffs or his dad and wants to get into coaching. Basically a GA that can double as a practice body.
This. "Hey coach, Quinn's 2-for-100 on deep posts for his career, maybe think twice about that one" with < 6 mins left and leading, for example
That and, I mean, it was game 15.
In order to win, this team is going to have to show up in the...
*checks notes*
16th game of the year, and do things it has thus far not been capable of. I'm not going to hold my breath on that one and will instead just be pleasantly surprised if we elevate our game.
Sark's very obviously a much better program builder/manager than he is gameday coach. That is what it is. Some of these posts are insane though. I thought it was a bad hire - let me tell you, it's much easier and more satisfying to simply admit you were wrong than to bump this thread with texags grade takes every time Texas has a bad game.
Last year Texas was a legit top 3 team and they're somewhere between the third to sixth best team in the country this year. Just signed the consensus number one recruiting class after 3-4 straight top 5 classes. He's got us right there. Texas is a top 5 program right now. Not theoretically, not one of the top 5 best jobs. Top five program today. I don't know how some of y'all can forget 2010-22 so soon but this program looks so much better on the field even when not playing its best.
The "we need a real OC" bits are especially stupid. Being an elite OC is what got Sark where he is. It's perhaps his only real value add on game day. You don't kneecap that strength. Then you just have a middling game manager and a lesser OC.
Brock Purdy is actually not a bad NFL comp for Ewers, IMO. Where he lands is going to make or break his career. Imagine how ugly it would have been if Purdy went to the Jets or something.
This but on the flip side, they aren't even in office yet. Biden and Senate Democrats are still out here appointing Article 3 judges.
They've already nearly shut down the government and gotten into... Whatever this is, before even taking office. Add it to the long list of recent exhibits showing Republicans' lack of ability to govern. It's going to be such a shit show once they actually take power that this will be a distant memory.
I don't know how y'all have the energy to keep going on this. Ewers was pretty good yesterday, as he has been many times before. He is what he is at this point - generally a pretty good college QB who struggles with the deep ball and exhibits inconsistent pocket awareness.
He's got a couple of games left at Texas and a change is not at all on the table. His legacy is going to be the QB that presided over Texas reclaiming the B12 title on the way out the door, going 2-1 against OU and kicking aggy's teeth in at the biggest game in Kyle Field's history, getting to the SEC title game in the first year in the conference, and making back to back CFP semifinals. Even if he's had a disappointing year, if you wouldn't have taken that in the spring of 2022 then you would have been an idiot.
Arch will get the keys in a matter of weeks. I think there's a lot t look forward to with an offense structured around a different skillset at QB, but for now just enjoy the ride and hope Ewers plays a ceiling game when it's needed.