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I played center and had a similar injury - was ready to go after two weeks. QB's throwing shoulder is next level but it can certainly be done. I'd love to be a fly on the wall with the medical team and hear how close to 100% Ewers is, and especially what his re-injury risk is. Honestly, and I know this is a hot take given ISU merc'ed TCU, but I think the latter is a more dangerous team to Texas. All you need to beat ISU if you're Texas is 21-24 points. It is easy to see TCU's offense running up the snap count and throwing it all over the field on Texas if the offense has a rough game, which was my concern thinking Murphy would be the guy. Less concerned with Ewers, knock on wood.

Quinn obviously has an Orangebloods NIL deal and was contractually obligated to play in order to boost their brand. You’re all welcome.

New to the USA?

I think probably for two reasons: 1.) It’s not a direct replay of the Houston game because they had a real offensive play. To be clear I still think you kick the FG there but they came out with a play that was clearly going to work if the snap wasn’t botched. At Houston they trotted out a fake FG call, pinning their hopes on converting on Burt Auburn getting to the edge and turning the corner. It never had a chance, they might as well have punted from the UH 25. Bit of a difference there. 2.) At UH your could feel the game turn on that call, not so much here. The offensive meltdown was such that the extra 3 points wouldn’t have put the game out of reach. It could have been consequential, yes, but in this case Texas passed on a 20 point lead in the first half and still found themselves up 20 in the late third quarter.

I don’t know why anyone would interpret Orangebloods saying there’s a 75% chance Ewers plays to mean anything other than there is a 0% chance Ewers plays

The flaw here is that the strength of schedule year in and year out with the SEC + programs like Ohio State and Michigan on the OOC schedule is going to be a lot tougher than what Mack dealt with most of his time here. Consistent 10+ win seasons would be fantastic and result in several playoff berths along with likely playing for some SEC championships. That’s really all you can ask for as a fan. I didn’t watch the segment but I don’t think that’s what Cowherd was going for.

Surely Maalik can just avoid the highlighter purple

Yeah this one is confusing to me. Feel like he projects much better at safety and has since his recruiting days.

Young voters are known for having really long attention spans and Donald Trump is known for not doing shit that is best described somewhere between monumentally stupid and genuinely horrifying. It’s a lock this attitude will be the same 12 months from now.

Since the whole “Ewers is going to play” thing came from OB, I am assuming the QB will be Murphy and the whole Ewers is day-to-day bit is gamesmanship from Sark. Reserving the right to change this if that ends up not being the case. This is a horrid matchup for Texas as currently constructed. TCU’s offense is very well equipped to exploit the disaster that is the Texas secondary. They will throw the ball 50 times and run a bunch of tempo. If Maalik continues to be a walking turnover they will run 80 plays and break the Texas defense entirely. If Texas protects the ball they should be fine but I don’t have a ton of faith in them to do that right now. TCU: 27 Texas: 20 Texas rushing: 146 - they run the ball well, but between turnovers and game script don’t get to do it enough to put up a gaudy number.

He’s been consistently rated as a first-second round pick and last I checked the NFL still loves them a white boy who wows against air. I could see second round pick but not lower than that. Third round in recent years has been the realm of Desmond Ridder, Maalik Willis, Matt Corrall, Hendon Hooker, Kellen Mond, Davis Mills, and Kyle Trask (last pick of second round). Ewers will be a higher regarded pro prospect than that.

The thing that united 2020 Biden voters will be running against him again. This has been litigated already in the 2022 Midterms. Americans aren’t particularly happy with Biden but dislike Trump that much more. The election will come down to turnout in 5-6 states as it has the last couple cycles. Really not much to wring hands over now.

This. A few of them are solid, long overdue no brainiers. But the gas power subsidy, wealth tax solution in search of a problem, swipe at local control in the ag amendment, and property tax kickbacks are such blatant handouts that it is just one step forward, two steps back Also why do I even get to vote on what Galveston City does with its Treasurer’s office?

Ohio will now have constitutionally protected abortion and legal weed while even large suburban Texas school districts like Cy Fair are going full MAGA. The bar is unfortunately getting lower every election

Ohio is not in play in 2024. Like 20% of Trump supporters are just willing to vote for abortion protections and legal weed. Same shit as when red states predictably raise the minimum wage and expanding Medicaid. One off votes on progressive issues go much better than R vs D elections.

To be clear, the working assumption has always been Ewers to the league after this year and I’ve seen nothing to change that. Just speculating based on the idea of MM transferring before even getting a shot at competing for the job, which hasn’t really been part of the “plan” if you want to call it that. That said, the idea that Ewers would be an actual competition with Arch Manning next season seems kind of silly.

Yeah, honestly, that could arguably simplify things for the better. I have no insight into the thought process for Ewers or his camp, but on the field it’s clear he could use another year in college. Maybe Murphy departing allows Ewers to come back without running Manning off, who knows he is the clear cut, not even going to have a real competition heir apparent if he sits for another year. Then he can start a couple years himself. Or maybe that’s fanfic. But I wouldn’t be losing sleep over a Murphy transfer at this point regardless.

I’d push back on this. Sark’s been happy to go Big 12 package and try this since mid last year. ISU game specifically, with Ewers playing pretty erratic football, was when he appeared to learn that lesson. There was plenty of 12 and Big 12 personnel out there last Saturday. I think they are little limited by the injuries in RB room and the player types behind Brooks and Baxter

They did get rid of their OC that offseason lol

Murphy it is

If I remember right the context on this wasn’t making fun of Duggan, but pointing out the double standard in people’s reactions.

Milroe is at 10.4 ypa while Ewers is at 9.0. Same number of TD's on fewer throws. Given Ewers has a better completion percentage (70.9% vs 64.8%) and fewer INTs on more attempts, it tells me the NCAA passer rating weights YPA and/or TD passes heavily.

Atmosphere on Saturday was definitely better than the Wyoming game, then the PA was so loud and omnipresent than it just took the crowd out of the game entirely. They seem to have adjusted and found a happy medium that gives the gen Zs their club music and smoke while letting the crowd get into the game. Works for me.

Idk why people are so hung up on whether Morris plays. He is a JAG. I think the better way to frame the argument is that Texas has made plenty of passers of the general caliber of Chandler Morris (or TCU’s freshman for that matter) look like All Americans under PK, including a career high for Will Howard just last week despite KSU trying to avoid throwing the ball for much of the first half and giving their freshman QB some possessions. I didn’t say he is. You know that, I know that, we all know that. Don’t be stupid.

Sure, but KSU didn’t do anything particularly novel that will teach the TCU start something new. They came out in predominantly single high looks essentially daring a backup QB to beat them throwing downfield. Sark anticipated this and included some downfield throws early, and they hit a couple. KSU said “well fuck me we can’t cover these receivers and they will hit enough heaves down the field to beat us” and went back to their 3-high. Texas then proceeded to run for over 200 yards. TCU plays some 3-high if I recall and could just roll with that and concentrate on making Texas execute down the field consistently. That’s probably how I’d play it, basically mimicking their gameplan from last year. Crash the safeties against the run, take away the explosives by alignment, make Texas’s inconsistent offense march down the field consistently. TCU’s rush defense is also significantly worse than KSU’s though and Texas’s run game could present a ton of problems for TCU in that scenario, allowing Texas to ball control TCU to death and never build momentum/high snap counts on offense that they will need to win.