I Plead Da Fif

Defense looking beast

Attaboy Quinn

Man Vandagriff kinda sucks

She’s bad

Great start Quinn. Showing confidence in our Offense going for it. Love to see it.

Wingo is alive!

Great pass by Quinn for the first

We keep getting Tessistore and Palmer god dammit

Wow

Oh shit Dart just self sacked

Texas 28 UK 6 Total Yards 590

I mean is he really that far off? I get that it was somewhat of a satirical post, but we have one of the top few OCs in college football as our HC. Sark makes QE look amazing when when QE is on. Sark makes QE look great on some plays even on QE’s off days. Could not be happier with Sark as our HC with what he’s brought to our program and his redemption story is one of tremendous humility that shapes the way we approach culture within the team. I don’t think there is a single HC in college football I’d take over Sark right now.

Game 1 next year is at Ohio State. I’d love to see it.

This is a pretty simple answer: Vince. I’m not that stupid, man. Running ability, accuracy and decision making improved throughout his career and his deep ball was better than QE.

I agree all conversations around this require context. We’re not comparing apples to apples here, but the best we can do is compare empirical evidence, because everything else is objective. You could argue we’d be better off this year with 2019 Roschon Johnson at RB instead of one of Jaydon Blue or Quintrevion Wisner. Team is missing a reliable between the tackles runner. To be honest I don’t really care about depth of targets for comparing this. That data will be included and factored into a QBR rating, and if you look at QBR, you see fluctuations in both. From a purely statistical analysis standpoint, QE hasn’t been kept out of the end zone passing at all the past 2 years. He’s had 2 games where he threw 2 or more INTs. You could argue QE’s turnovers cost us UGA this year and OU last year and that’s it. From a talent standpoint, I think of potential. Potential is what it is, based off of flashes of brilliance that make us think that player could make plays at that level more consistently, of which QE has yet to accomplish. But he has shown flashes of absolute brilliance, where if he was no worse than 90% of who he was at Michigan all year, he’d be in the Heisman conversation all year and we’d not be spending this time hand wringing and debating. To me this is why QE will still get drafted this year if he goes, just not as high as he would like, but probably higher than we would think.

I feel like we’re having some revisionist history on Sam. I loved Sam. He was a great leader and a great Longhorn that bled burnt orange. His battering ram nature had the offense playing at a higher level than without it with a swagger we needed. That said, comparing Sam’s and Quinn’s 2nd and 3rd year stats does not convey Sam was a more consistent passer. Quinn has greatly benefitted from having a better roster around him resulting in more wins on his down games than Sam, but I feel pretty strongly the stats don’t say Sam was a more consistent passer. Sam 2nd and 3rd year Quinn’s 2nd and 3rd Year I think what is more frustrating to folks is we know Quinn has more talent, he just doesn’t consistently put it all together.

Was at that game with my dad. I remember seeing the teams get off the bus and teenaged me mouthed “fuck you” to Nick when we (at least I thought) locked eyes for a brief second haha. Was a great day and great game to be at.

The funny thing is I think he would do really well in an offense like Michigan’s, assuming there’s a solid power RB and a couple of targets for him to throw to. I imagine Michigan fans would kill for QE this year at QB too. Michigan doesn’t come back to Austin until 2027, playoffs notwithstanding. Arch gets to face off against Ohio State the next two years for our non conf big opponent. Michigan really would be a perfect match if he doesn’t like where his draft grades put him.

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I don’t even see this as a possible outcome. I think next year the Mannings and Arch are guaranteed QB1. I don’t see a world in which QE plays another season of CFB and plays for Texas. I could see him going to Michigan, Miami, Oregon, and a small handful of SEC schools if he gets around the intraconference transfer rules, than being back at Texas.

While I don’t disagree with some of your statements here, I’ll just ask you this: do you think it is also possible that we run different offenses with Arch and Quinn because we have a damn good HFC and OC who plays into his QB’s strengths? If I’m not fanboying over Arch, which is really easy to do with what we’ve seen this year in his limited action, I’m seeing him as someone who isn’t as accurate as Quinn in the short and intermediate game and doesn’t throw as good of a ball for YAC as Quinn. Arch has better mobility/pocket presence, better arm strength and more accurate on the deep ball. And Arch is a vocal fiery leader. I think we can all agree that Arch has a higher ceiling and is probably closer to what Sark desires as his signal caller in his ideal offense. That said, it’s pretty much a guarantee based on QE being the guy that Sark feels more confident in his Quinn version of the offense with Quinn as a 3rd year starter running it over his Arch version of the offense with Arch the RS FR running it.

I agree with this statement. I know people refuse to believe this, but the reality is is each game he’s making at least one pass where I’m surprised he was able to go through his progressions to the 3rd option and fire a strike. Maybe it’s because I’ve come to expect less and less of him since the OU game, but I I’m happy to be pleasantly surprised. It’s not just dump offs either. I’d have to go back and rewatch the Arky game, but I remember one where he connected on a first down over the middle and it was his 3rd option. Palmer, as bad as he was on color Saturday, even called it out as a great play by Quinn, and it was. We should at least attempt to be accurate in our critiques of Quinn. He’s struggled/struggling with deep ball accuracy, pocket presence/self sacking, and he’s not running and taking off for the free yards that are being given as frequently as he could. If he had a bit more fiery leadership, it may be easier to forgive his short comings. Put me in the camp of having Ewers be more aggressive running the ball when it’s there for Aggy and beyond. Quinn has plus, if not great accuracy and touch in the short to intermediate game. Quinn leads receivers in motion to give them their best chance at YAC. Quinn throws an incredibly catchable ball, Wingo and Moore drops recently be damned. Watching other games in the SEC recently, it became even more apparent how catchable his balls are than say Nussmeier or Sellers. I say all this to say, we could be a lot worse off than Quinn Ewers at starting QB. Quinn has looked terrific at times in his tenure and also ass my dude at times. I also am undecided as to whether this team looks better on offense if Arch were to have started the entire year. We saw Arch start against arguably our 2 easiest opponents all year, and in one game he looked phenomenal, and in another he looked like a freshman QB. The definition of inconsistent. His ceiling is undoubtedly high. If Sark truly believes QE gives us our best chance to win a title this year, I’m willing to believe in Sark. He has brought us back from absolute irrelevance to 2 straight years of going to or being on track to make the CFP. Sark and the core of this team, inclusive of QE, are the very reason why our expectations have become sky high and why there’s so much hand wringing over the guy under center who should lead us to the promised land.

With UGA beating the Vols and assuming we beat UK and Aggy who do we play? Rematch with UGA? Bama? Ole Miss? Tennessee?

Let’s go boys!!

Fine, whatever, booty