Everything posted by gmr548
- 2024 RB Jerrick Gibson
- 2024 RB Jerrick Gibson
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
What is your understanding of the redshirt rule?
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Any yardage after contact is pretty good if you didn't play in any of the games.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I'm a fan of bodies in the RB room the way things have gone the past couple years. But this is only relavent if there's another injury squeeze at the RB position down the stretch.
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Texas O-line talk
This is a pretty nice OZ snap across the board. Big gainer if Livingstone doesn't get rocked by the safety but like the effort to get over. Brooks probably needs to help Goosby there a bit more (tough ask for the OT to reach a 3 tech) rather than working all the way over to the other DT but it'll come with time. And he's so big he sort of prevented the penetration from actually going anywhere lol.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Derek Williams has played in every game so he can't redshirt. And he very much has line of sight to expanded playing time when Taffe and potentially McDonald are gone next year, and he (hopefully) has a healthy offseason.
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Texas O-line talk
We need our interior OL to be doing that during the actual play and not tempting the ref to throw a flag for a personal foul. But go off my meatheaded king.
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Texas O-line talk
That first one is honestly a cheap shot from Campbell. He had no interest in moving the pile and just wanted to pick on the much smaller defender that he was content to stalk block until that point. If the jersey colors were switched there we'd have wanted a flag and rightly so.
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Week 7 2025: Texas at Kentucky
I fully grasp the logic, but what a thing to read.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
103 yards after contact for Wisner on 94 yards total is stupid lol. I'm not sure if the Texas OL or OU defense should be more ashamed.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
Ikard and Lehman both know football and do a good job with the recaps. That's really all I've ever listened to from them. Sounds like it's crimson-colored glasses with anything else though. Credit where it's due, you called your shot on OU and stayed consistent with it. I bit on the Mateer hype as September went on and while I didn'tthink they were a particularly good offense I thought they would be able to piece enough together in the passing game to make it hard for Texas to win. I don't think I appreciated just how bad their OL is though.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Wow, you mean Sark isn't actually 2-100 in his career when trailing at half!? Nothing gets past you! This does make me worry about how mych hyperbole you've simply taken at face value over the course of your life but that's not really my problem. Stopped reading after the first paragraph. You told on yourself there. I'm good on the rest. You win.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
In hindsight, they really did. They knew what they had on the OL and presumably knew where Mateer was in terms of recovery. I didn't watch them before the RRS so I don't know what, if anything, he was lacking. He made some really impressive short to intermediate throws but seemed to be a non factor in the vertical game. I don't know if that's typical or if the thumb was impacting his ability to throw downfield. He also seemeed to just be overwhelmed by the moment and the pressure Texas was putting him under. Seemed to me that to the extent Mateer got them in trouble it was his mental game, not his thumb. They had to know, like a lot of people expected, that it was going to be tough sledding on offense if they couldn't run the ball even wih Mateer. Their defense (and/or the Texas offense) was always going to have to win the game for them. Knowing that, if Mateer is limited, I don't see why you start him. You go out and lose a competitive game against Texas with Hawkins and it gets basically written off in playoff converssations (and in your fanbase, and re: Mateer's heisman campaign). You go out and win because you don't throw like eight interceptable balls, all the better. Instead you rush Mateer back, let this savior narrative take hold, and watch it flop in a game you were never going to win if your defense got worked like that. Now the book is fully written on how to beat Oklahoma and they're staring down a brutal schedule with a crisis of confidence in leadership. What a self own.
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Texas O-line talk
I think I remember the one. I don't even know if Wisner was hit or if he slipped while trying to make a cut. He ended up getting just enough by falling forward but I remember a notable interior surge, the likes of which we had not seen in short yardage all season to that point. Wisner falling forward to get the first was only possible because the OU DL was moved, it would have been a stuff in a stalemate. I maintain most of our run game was Wisner hero ball but that particular play was the OL, and it was an important one.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
Nah. The punt return functionally ended the game. Whole stadium knew it. Arch's run was the final nail in the coffin. We didn't even need the FG. Whole stadium knew that too. Texas could have taken three knees after that to burn OU's timeouts and run the clock. Hell they could have kneeled on fourth down. Then OU gets the ball back down 14 with like 3:30 left. Zero chance of them going down, scoring a TD, getting an onside recovery, and scoring another TD.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Oh for God's sake. Going into the game he was like 1-100 in his career trailing at half. Now he's 2-100 or whatever after overcoming a daunting 3 point lead. That it's year 5 when you finally get to trot this out doesn't make the point you think it does. Absolutely enjoy it for what it is but don't Despite the above, this. I was stunned when we came out with a 7 minute TD drive. We held the ball the entire third quarter (13+ minutes). The defense had one three in out sandwiched between two long offensive drives. OU gets the ball back with like 30 seconds left and throws a pick in early Q4 after 3-4 plays. The third quarter broke their will. I have never seen a Sark team simply bitch slap an opponent in the third quarter after trailing at half. It was awesome. Playing defense first was huge in this game. Think about how self destructve the offense was in the first quarter and where OU starts their first possession if we take the ball first. They almost certainly go up 7-0 if they start from midfield with how they were moving on that first drive and we're feeling like we're behing the 8 ball from the beginning. Who knows how it goes from there. Instead we get the whole field to play defense and a chance to regroup in the redzone, and we get to make a statement with the ball coming out of half.
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
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Texas O-line talk
The frustrating thing is that, from what I've seen, we have at least one decent power 5 center on the roster in Connor Robertson.
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Texas O-line talk
The first watch didn't grade that well. Wisner put in an extraordinary effort to get to 4 ypc despite several runs just blown up by the OU DL, frequently turning nothing into something; even on the long run, Goosby ran in, clogged a cutback lane, and almost decked him. Arch was under plenty of pressure. They eliminated the opening script with penalties. I do give them credit for coming out and competing against a top tier defensive front - pointing out their miscues is fair but they were also just outmanned. The unit that showed up at Florida would have imploded after that. They battled though, and at least on a few occaisions generated some push in the run game and gave Arch time to make a play. They lost the battle at the LOS in aggergate but accomplished just enough for Texas to find a little something on offense. Hopefully it's a confidence builder as they go into a few games where the quality of opposing DL's will take a step back.
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Week 7 2025: Texas at Kentucky
I've seen Florida refered to a trap game. That's dumb. This is a trap game. Road night game against a bad opponent coming off the emotional high point of the season. Struggle to see Texas losing outright without just becoming a turnover machine but how they perform tells you whether this is still ultimately a slog to 7-5 or if they're actually starting to figure things out.
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
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Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
Tre had an outstanding game; found ways to turn 0 into 3 and 3 into 5+ all game. The OL was okay at best, Wisner was the running game. 35 rushes for 212 yards and a TD in his two games against OU. He has now won us an OU game and the return of the A&M rivalry. No joke a Longhorn legend in my mind from this point on. I agree this one was very sweet. I thought we had a path to victory (though narrow) and it largely played out (turnovers, Arch elevating his game, special teams), but I just did not see us finding a running game like that. That took it from eeking out a rock fight to, frankly, a decisive win. Yes, we got a break with no blocks in the back on the punt return. No, it did not matter. This offense is going to continue to be inconsistent. The OL still has a lot of issues, the young QB still has issues, there's not a ton of playmakers at the skill positions. We're going to drop a couple more somewhere along the line. But this one is going to be a core Texas football/RRS memory for me.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I think this is actually the most frustrating part about yesterday. We knew the OL play and QB play were bad and going to cost us games even if it hadn't materaialized yesterday. But we were pretty clearly unprepared to match the intensity of a Florida team that played extremely hard, which was very predictable given how their season has gone and all of the talk surrounding the program. We looked like we expected them to shit down their own leg at the sight of us like we did aginast Georgia. Sark has obviously earned grace but that is likely never getting fixed.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
It's true on both sides of the ball. Nearly all of the top end LOS talent that has powered Texas's sucess and got drafted the past couple years were Herman staff recruits. Jones, Majors, Connor, Ojomo, Coburn, Sorrell, Collins, Broughton, Sweat, and Murphy. All brought in by Herman. This is the first year we're really seeing a 100% Sark-made OL/DL.