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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Levi replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
It doesn’t matter how good it looked or if it wasn’t explosive enough. The run game, either with your eyes watching live or looking at the box score, was good enough. Objectively, our Oline is piss poor at the moment but was able to give Texas almost 5YPC against Ohio st. If anything you should look back at the Ohio st game after watching the Oline the previous two weeks and say better QB play gives a win. My initial response to you wasn’t even about the overall run game this year. It was specifically about the historical 3 high against Sark/Qb’s and the Ohio st games. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Levi replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Against OSU the first time Texas rushed for 58 yards. This year the run game was good enough but Arch couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn and struggled to see the field. The 3 high stuff against Sark wouldn’t even be a thing right now if he had consistent average qb play. Ewers struggled his first year against the 3 high and then after that it wasn’t a big deal. If Arch continues to struggle, teams will continue to run the 3 high if they have the right personnel and will be successful. -
It’s really just rhythm for the offense. That’s what they need right now more than anything. Sark isn’t going to ask the world of Caldwell; he just needs to execute the most basic day one install routes.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Levi replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Both Thompson and Card looked their best under Sark imo. With Ewers there was too much injury derailments that hindered his true development. I’ll die on the hill that Ewers was a good to great Qb(not elite!) when healthy and average at best when dealing with any type of injury. Just the nature of who he was as a player which was frustrating to watch. I also think the pro style offense we run really challenges QB’s processing ability. Someone like Ewers would have looked way better in a simpler offense like the Air Raid but the readiness wouldn’t have been there at the next level. I think it was confirmed the style of offense Sark runs played a big role in the Manning’s decision to pick Texas. Ewers’ first year starting in the offense was rough and real bad at times. Maybe we’re witnessing that with Arch on top of the complete circus going on between his ears. So, I’m not ready to fire the alarm bells with Sark and the QB’s, yet. If the reports from Bobby and Gerry are true, that everyone inside the building is completely flummoxed about Arch on game days, then Sark needs to let the kid breathe. It seems to be complete mental execution with Arch. If we could be a fly on the wall during film today, I’d bet Arch is relaying exactly what Sark needs to hear from a guy that’s struggling. -
Yeah, I can see that angle. If I’m McLaren they have 2 good drivers in the fastest car so no more papaya and let the best man win.
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I totally agree but the bold is where my head is at. If your Lando or Piastri in this situation, how would you be feeling as a competitor trying to win the title?
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What an awful feeling that must be for Lando and Piastri.
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That’s kinda the point though. It’s 3 points and McLaren is worried about who’s feelings are going to get hurt because they screwed up a year ago and don’t know how to handle the situation with any maturity. Maybe I’m wrong because I haven’t been into F1 that long but 31 points with 8 races left doesn’t seem like it’s a done deal for Piastri. All it’s takes is a Kimi kamikaze or an engine failure to make it close for Piastri. It’s a luxury for McLaren till it’s not.
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I don’t understand it. If McLaren was my team, I’d be frustrated as hell at the way they’re going about this.
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It was dumb in Hungary and they’ve continued to compound the issue now with Piastri trying to win the championship. They’ve consistently been shit at handling this.
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Seems weird McLaren is worried about a position swap with the points leader that late in the race. It just comes off as a manufactured title fight when stuff like this happens. What’s going to happen if Piastri has a PU failure and gets a DNF resulting in Lando catching up in the points? From that point on is McLaren going to let drivers deal with consequences of bad strategy or pit crew failures? If not, will Lando or Piastri be willing to do a swap later in the season?
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I don’t have 24/7 nor do I know what particular route he’s throwing in this image.
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I’m not judging in hindsight. I specifically said the picture going around would have gotten Wingo hurt if Arch decides to throw it then. He should have thrown the ball earlier when the rub/pick was set. The corner was trailing Wingo by his third step. Wingo had less reaction time with the safety screaming down on him on the seam route earlier in the game. We can agree to disagree on this one.
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In order for Texas to be successful they had to be lighter in the box to help contain one of if not the best WR groups in college. And yet, the Ohio st Oline was barely able to get a consistent push against our front, only rushing for 77 yards at 2.3YPC. Ohio st has a pretty good Dline even if it’s not as deep as Texas. Their edges and LB core also played good and had some unknowns that are now on peoples radar. And we all know how good Downs is in the box and sniffing out runs. So I just have a hard time believing our Oline played bad while getting 4.5YPC with 3 to 4 new starters and blocking for a running back coming off a knee implosion. Paul seems to always be hypercritical of the lines, whether it’s not being tough enough or going on one of his S&C tirades that he loves to do. The Oline could have been better in certain situations but there was stuff outside of their control that had a bigger impact on the game.
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Sark said post game the first read was to Wingo.
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