Levi

I grew up in the area. They’re doing exactly what Celina did back in their hay day. Prosper is getting new schools left and right, Celina is starting to build new ones, Melisa and Anna aren’t even recognizable from just 10 years ago. VA just built a new high school with like 3 other elementary schools. But you’re telling me Gunter only had 11 students move in from the last realignment? Half of which were athletes.

Prosper is growing non stop. Celina is trying to slow play it as long as they can, and them only being 4A D1 is still small for the amount of development going on. Gunter is straight up fudging their numbers to stay 3A.

Out of the GCG, Majors is the only guy that got significantly better. Connor is still soft in the run game and Campbell is a roller coaster with Hutson coming into relief. I’m not sure which unit is better than the other, but the only things that are consistent with last year and this year is Banks being elite, and penalties. Flood has got to figure out the penalties.

Oof

Ewers had 175 air yards and 183 YAC. The Moore td reception was 41 yards and I believe the biggest chunk play from a throw 5 yards or less.

I think we should be scoring more no doubt but the ‘21 class from Bama had 5 offensive first rounders. The covid year was 4. 2 first round Qb’s and Wr’s in back to back years. Hopefully he gets Texas to that point eventually.

The second paragraph is interesting. After Tua won the championship game this talk was getting out to the public. Saban drew the line in the sand and when Hurts officially crossed it, the switch was made. Maybe if Saban made it earlier his life is a lot easier that season.

Ah yes, an opposite hash throw across the field with the left side screaming down on you as the ball leaves your hand is a basic one. And asking a receiver to make a play on a ball that hit his right shoulder pad is a fantastic one. This whole play was a shit sandwich from start to finish and I’m not going to put the blame on one guy. Although I do think, like I said in my original post about the play, a guy like Golden probably catches that ball. I get you and have agreed to such. The ball placement was bad and as a receiver breaking out it’s a tough play. If you’re saying that he could have caught it then it is a catchable ball. As a receiver that is better than nothing. We’ve seen this receiving core make tougher catchers on worse throws from Ewers all season.

It was a poor throw but your acting like Bond had no chance to catch the ball. The throw could have been a lot worse than it already was. I’m not sticking up for Ewers and saying it was all on Bond. I know it’s hard for this thread comprehend, but multiple things can be true on a single play and this is one of those imo.

Christ on a cracker, I’m not even going to entertain that last sentence. I acknowledged where the throw should have been. At the same time, the ball literally hits Bond on the right shoulder pad and it’s not a one handed try like you’re making it out to be. That’s a normal drop or a catch with any other receiver on team. Poor throw by Ewers, poor effort by Bond.

You’re correct. I could be in the minority on this play but he had guys screaming on his left side and needed to get ball out. It wasn’t perfect but it hit Bonds in the hands and if it was Golden, Wingo, Bolden or Helm that ball likely get caught. Sometimes you needs to help out your QB and not be lazy and catch the damn ball.

Outside of the Beck portion, I agree will all of this. I think Ewers has RSF(Resting Sad Face), I don’t blame him for how he looks on the sidelines. Ewers did not lose this game and the blame should be from top to bottom. Almost every area had a faults last night. But this was the game to prove all the doubters wrong. When the Oline is getting man handled in the run game, receivers are uncharacteristically dropping passes, Sark having questionable play calling, and Bert absolutely shitting his pants—this was the game to put the team on your back. He failed in that aspect. He had plenty of opportunities to grab the game by the balls and win it. Ewers succumbs to the pressure when his team needs 1 or 2 throws from him when the lights are bright.

I think it’s pretty evident that the Georgia Dline has our number in the trenches. They gotta figure that shit out because there was too many battles being lost for the supposed top 3 oline in the country. Wisner also isn’t the best back against this Georgia team. Auburn has to go. Period. But with all those negatives, there were throws in a game that Ewers needed to make in order to overcome the failures of the others. I’m talking about 3-5 throws. That is the difference in these close games. If you’re not going to do it with your legs then you damn sure better be poised in the pocket and execute. The latter is significantly harder than the former. Ewers simply misses that consistently in his game. I got to agree with Brian Robison said on the OTF post game. It’s not necessarily what Ewers can do but what he does in the biggest moments. Turnovers suck no matter what but his are almost always in the most critical situations and doing it in a way that a 3rd year starter shouldn’t be doing.

Seven to Eleven Steve

@UTEE97: we stopped throwing the ball by early 3rd quarter because of Ewers. *presents video evidence of the opposite being true* @UTEE97: You’Re SuCh a FaN BoY.

You have no clue what you watched at all or like I said, you’re be disingenuous. We were throwing the ball well into the 3rd, not stopping earlier in the quarter like you stated. He fumbled with 7 seconds left in the 3rd. By the time we got the ball in the 4th, it was all about running it down their throats and chewing clock. We stopped pushing the ball down field through the air because it would have been stupid to do so. Wisner and the oline were dominating them. If Sark didn’t trust Ewers to throw the ball, he wouldn’t have called the throw to Bond in the 4th.

This is just disingenuous from the aggy game perspective. The passing game did not disappear in the second half. Both drives where he eventually turned it over were good drives. Bad Ewers in the second half doesn’t make it past the 50. The focus should be that Ewers kept us from finishing good drives(that he had a role in), with the turnovers. It shouldn’t be that he was keeping us from having a good drive in the second half. The tipped ball where the wr falls down and corner gets an easy assisted pick six— It sucks but it happens. The fumble was completely his fault. I don’t think anyone can defend that and you’d like a veteran qb to be more protective with the ball in the redzone, especially after the previous turnover. Ewers probably had his best second half through the air against aggy. Bond runs the correct route and the game is over. The tipped pass to Helm was actually a good ball and defender was just reading Ewers perfectly. I don’t believe it had anything to do with his arm angle, surprisingly. The rest to of the second half throws to Wingo, Moore, Helm, and Golden(?) were solid.

Gasly and Zhou in the points!

Yeah this is where I’m at. Was it only two bad plays? No, but the other mistakes were minor and each qb has those they want back each game. No one is perfect. The two redzone trips we made and eventually turned the ball over, he had some nice throws. I can’t remember which one of those two it was but aggy didn’t have an answer for Wisner or Ewers. One of Ewers’ most underrated throws of the night was when they finally got a free rusher off the edge and he recognized it and quickly got it out to Helm in the flat for a first. He was doing good to great on both of those trips then his brain decides to turn off.

Had a lot of guys play great on the offensive side of the ball, especially Wisner, but Goosby coming in and playing like he did was huge. I think the first couple of runs were to the left side. Never skipped a beat with him in.

I don’t understand their use of the Mo Bamba song. I have an Aggie friend that says it’s not about his time at Texas so they can play it without feeling like it’s about “Texas”. This is coming from fan base that turns every longhorn gear upside down at any store. I just think it would be weird if our stadium was rocking to a song about Johnny even it doesn’t explicitly mention A&M.

Why not both

Yep and I bet the roll out on the first series was for Sark to see where his pain level was at.

Yeah for some reason I thought the injury occurred later but it happened with 10ish min left in the second. The Helm throw over the middle and a couple other good throws came after the injury. It’s almost like he went into halftime, had time to think about his injury, and came back out in the 3rd and was overthinking/skittish. It was only a couple plays for him but boy they were ugly.

Being a 5 start doesn’t automatically mean the development to the next level will be easier and it’s not necessarily an indictment on Sark as qb guru either. We gotta remember that Sark runs a pro style offense and it was evident Arch wasn’t close to ready his freshman year. At this I’m not sure if Sark is being stubborn or if Arch is on a longer development curve than expected. There’s evidence for both and in all likelihood it’s probably a mixture of the two. But Arch has played 2 1/2 games already and had a big moment against Georgia. Arch isn’t dumb and more than likely realizes that if he hits the underneath route against Georgia and we get at least 3 on that drive, he’s in the driver seat right now. Or maybe not and Sark brings Ewers back out. But I do think Arch should be fine when or if his name is called no matter the situation.