Everything posted by gmr548
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I think the defense just got caught sluggish coming off a bye and were unprepared for Florida to come out with their hair on fire. Still a bad look, because that was very predictable given Florida's circumstances as a program, but that unit has been good enough for long enough that it's reasonable to think that was more of a "one of those days" performance. I think we probably still have a top 5-10 defense at the end of the year unless the team just quits.
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Texas O-line talk
Oh I agree in general. Robertson is pretty clearlty better than Hutson at center in the reps we've seen. If the knock on Neto that they can't get him to focus his agression and learn the playbook is true, that still seems like an upgrade at LG to me. I'd rather have one in three plays be busted assignments and have a dog on the rest of them than be physically unable to perform the job every snap like Stroh is. Ultimately either this is the best they can do, which is coaching malpractice; or it's not and they're sticking with it, which is coaching malpractice. It all ends up in the same place. Sark has obviously earned some grace but Flood's got to go.
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Texas O-line talk
His lines at Bama were good because they were Brent Key's players. And it was Saban-era Alabama, so the level of talent stockpiling and S&C program were just different. Just like the success he's had here has almost entirely been with Herb fucking Hand recruits. His eye for talet, particularly on the interior, is clearly just not very good at all. I don't know that he's a bad teacher because he has done some good work with Jones, Majors, etc. But the evaluations leading to the bodies in the room have been catostrophic. Any offensive line asking Cole Hutson to do anything more than distribute water bottles won't be a good one.
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2025 Game Week 6: RRS Texas v OU
This is the Super Bowl for the year in my mind. We're obviously not contending for a SEC title or a CFP spot so this is the one chance to win anything of note. I really want this one. Oklahoma is the better team but if Texas is the wounded animal Florida was today it's winnable. OU usually brings the bigger chip on the shoulder and more intensity to the game though so I'm not holding my breath.
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
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Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
Somewhere between five and seven sure They already have three. Kentucky and Arkansas are terrible so 5 is the floor. They may be able to eek out Vandy at home if the defense plays lights out but no one would be surprised if Vandy wins. Mississippi State is a conceivable win but is on the road and they have a pulse this year. OU and to a lesser extent A&M are "throw the record out" type games and OU may not have Mateer. That could be an all timer of a shitshow. They could pick off one or two of those games but they're not getting to anything better than 4-4 in conference.
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Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
I don't know why anyone is surprised. It's been obvious this is a mediocre team since the first snap of the season. The only thing surprising about today is that the defense was very obviously getting outworked, looking flat & lazy early on. I usually hate that crituque and it's the first time I've said that about that unit since 2021, but it was true today. They seem to be picking it up on that side of the ball but the game is over at this point. Strong defense + putrid offense is a formula to get you to .500 +/- one game and that's where this team is headed. Any game the staff continues to trot Arch out there is a game they're not particularly serious about winning, but of course we know they will not bench him. Job has to be legit open in the offseason. Lacey, portal QB, whoever. And don't even get me started on the offensive line. Quinn Ewers and Tom Herman's OL/DL recruits really covered up for Seven Win Steve and we bought it lol.
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2025 Game Week 5: Texas at Florida
I don't want to minimize the loss - Manny is a really good corner - but Texas is going to be living in two-high safety looks and playing a lot of qurters and cover 3. They are going to make a clunky Florida offense consistently execute down the field and priotitize not giving them cheap points and momentum through big plays. If there's time for those deep shots to develop, and Lagway is hitting them, that means the Texas pass rush was neutralized and Lagway had a really strong performance throwing downfield, and if that's how it goes I don't know that Muhammad makes the difference. It also sounds like Florida, for whatever reason, has not been throwing the ball downfield much. I haven't watched them so I don't know why that would be - whether they don't trust their OL, haven't felt like they can do it with WRs out, or if teams are just doing what I described above and taking it away. I would assume they let it rip this week because wy wouldn't they? But they're not a particularly well coached team so who knows.
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Tell me about ou
They have a bitch of a schedule down the stretch so 3-4 losses isn't the slight it sounds like at face value. Especially if one of those losses is against Texas, without Mateer. That will get written off. They finish the year: Ole Miss, at Tennessee, at Bama, vs Missouri (don't know what to make of these guys), and vs LSU. Hard to see many teams doing better than 3-2 with that and 2-3 or 1-4 isn't put of the realm of possibility. But a top tier defense and a plus QB is generally a wining formula in football (that was supposed to be Texas this year and most of this board was thinking 11-1/12-0). They do appear to have both. And if they go 9-3 with their schedule and a healthy Mateer at the end of the year, they're going to the CFB. Tend to agree the RRS goes as the Texas offense goes. I hope Mateer recovers quickly and plays. It was shaping up to be as interesting a matchup on paper as it's been in a while and I want to beat them at full strength, no excuses. And if Texas has CFP hopes they are going to need the resume boost of beating OU with their starting QB. Hawkins round 2 will produce a toned down version of last year and end up 21-7 or something, and it'll be hand waived away nationally.
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2025 Game Week 5: Texas at Florida
A road conference opener against a helmet school, coming off a bye, when you've looked like a mediocre team most of the season is not a trap game. Win or lose, Florida has Texas's full attention.
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It’s Time for Organized Resistance
Oh man you're so close.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
Not to mention one has Sark and one has... *checks notes*... Steve Ensminger.
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2025 Game Week 4: Sam Houston @ Texas
Arch/offense will be better because 1.) Basically have to, noehwere to go but up;and 2.) Sam Houston is a contender for worst FBS team. There are going to be a lot of easy plays to be made and they'll make some of them. It would be nice to see them make a lot of them, and for them to actually look crisp and easy. A boy can dream.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Dumb what down? Have you watched a game?
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
It's funny isn't it. The only thing that got Sark out of the Seven Win Steve zone was nailing the PK hire.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
This is unironically worth sucking the water supply and power grid dry.
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AJ Milwee can't help Sark break through
Oh, I read this as one of the hosts suggested it. A listener makes more sense. We're not the dumbest fanbase as a whole but our dumbest can compete with anyone.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Yeah, Cam Williams was always going to be a project and him making a stupid decision to leave early isn't on Flood.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
I don't think they really trust the second CB spot. It was also the correct strategy against UTEP. You stop the run, take away explosives, and make them execute their way down the field, converting 3rd and longs along the way. There's not really a reason to play that game anything but pure vanilla.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
He threw a couple strikes early. Said RB swing pass, he hit an intermediate throw over the middle for a nice gain a few plays later. He honestly looked fine in first quarter. The offense stalled early because Sark elected to put the emphasis on bullying UTEP in short yardage and we couldn't do it, which is a separate conversation. I think the red zone sequence in the second quarter is where it went to shit. He was personally responsible for botching that, not just the play where he threw the INT but every snap, and I think he knew it. Next time Texas got the ball, Sark went really run heavy and Arch didn't throw again until the 4th and short PA overthrow to Livingstone. You could see his bad body language on TV. Completely cooked mentally and at that point we were 3-4 throws into the 10 straight incompletions. Bunch of hot garbage consisting of obvious pressing and mechanical breakdown after that. If you squint he kinda sorta rebounded after that stretch, so there's that I guess.
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AJ Milwee can't help Sark break through
Think you might be falling for a bit there lol
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
I mentioned this last year and got smoked for it but the vast majority of the OL/DL that were responsible for the 2023-24 playoff runs were Herman recruits. Sweat, Murphy, Collins, Broughton, Sorrell, Jones, Majors, Conner. Sark and staff did not ID and eval any of those. Kelvin Banks is the obvious exception but I don't know that you get a lot of credit for that eval, everyone in the country had an offer in and he was a stud from day one. Fortunately it does look like the ability to evaluate and develop from start to finish is there on the DL side, which is impressive given coaching turnover. And certainly Flood did good work with Jones and Majors (less so Conner). But the career arcs of DJ Campbell, Cole Hutson, and Cam Williams are the first returns we have on Flood's ability to evaluate/develop his own guys and they are... a mixed bag. Campbell and Williams are/were both inconsistent and undisciplined, Cole Hutson is just bad. Goosby looks pretty solid at LT. I think you can cut Baker some slack as a second year guy, I don't even know if he's 20 years old yet. Campbell is another one who could have gone wnywhere in the country but his development, while not completely absent, does leave you wanting more. The rest of Flood's recruits either don't look great after several years or can't get on the field over guys that don't look great after several years. I don't know that we have proof of concept that we can actually evaluate OL talent.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
The alcohol thing is so dumb. Obviously it's barely worth addressing because of the nature of the rumor, but we'd all go to the mat defending the case for Vince Young as the GOAT of college QBs. I'm sure he developed that drinking habit after college, right?
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I'm sick of the attitude around here
All of this is why the mood is what it is. We watched two years of football at that level after wandering the desert for 13 years with almost entirely mediocre to bad teams. This year feels more like the latter. The difference between last year's offense - a good but not great unit - and this year's would make an uninitiated observer assume there were major rule changes in the sport. 2010 is a comp but it's not the only one. 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017 all featured strong defenses paired with bad offenses helmed by young QBs struggling to find their way. They all finished the regular season within a game of .500 and were 0-4 against a slate of OU teams that weren't particularly special, with the exception of 2017. That script is hardly unique to Texas either. Recent OU teams in 2022 and 2024 had the same fate. Michigan had the same fate last year, though they got the payoff of upsetting Ohio State. The list goes on. Turns out it's pretty hard to win games in a game where the objective is to score more points than your opponent when you aren't very good at scoring points. Barring a miracle it's pretty obvious where this is going. I wouldn't be shocked if we get to 8-4; we have 3 G5's instead of 2 and a generally soft conference schedule (I think we're going to beat Florida; Arch puts balls in the turf and the stands, Lagway puts them in defender's chests). Though I'd favor them at this point (you can still get OU anywhere from +6.5 to +9.5, apparently), anything can happen in Dallas and the front 7 is going to give OU fits. We could beat aggy, their defense is still bad and Collin Klein seems determined to counterbalance his playing career against Texas in his coaching career. But there are plenty more L's coming and the trip to Georgia is going to be humbling.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Yeah, just like Texas manged to out-athlete the Big 12 in spite of mediocre QB and OL play for a decade plus, right? Just like OU, at #7 in the 247 talent composite for 2024, out talented most of its schedule? Or Florida State, at #13, running through the ACC? I don't know how a Texas fan can make a comment like this with a straight face. How do you not know better? Don't overestimate how far athletic talent takes you when said talent sucks at football. Right now, a lot of the offense sucks at football. And the 1.000 talent really sucks at quarterback.