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  1. It's not just Lebby, it's anyone running the Briles offense. PK's worst game ever might have been the 21 Arkansas game against Kendall Briles. I was expecting our defense to struggle a good bit against MSU, because PK just has not figured out any answer to that offense. Thankfully our offense and ST bailed him out last week. The key to making up for out terrible OL is reading the D pre-snap and getting the ball out quick, which is something Caldwell should be drastically better at than Arch. We give up way too much pressure inside and too many free blitzers for scrambling to be the answer.
  2. You post a lot of stupid things on this website. This is one of those.
  3. I don't agree with this at all. You could've said the same about Ryan Day 2-3 years ago and now he's the CEO and hiring OCs to call plays and that led him to break through the wall and he's got a great shot at winning back to back national titles while replacing like 70% of his offensive personnel from last year. The same goes for Sark. He can hire an OC to still run his offensive system, but have that OC take a lot more of the burden of play calling and lower level tasks. Sark is a really good CEO and recruiter. Being the OC is not his only value proposition as HC. In fact, his offense has been the biggest impediment to UT winning a national title for three years in a row now. He's much more valuable as a CEO and recruiter than an OC while being HC.
  4. This is such a ridiculous post. The defense was on the field for 40+ minutes and 86 plays because our offense was going 3 and out constantly. Of course the raw yardage number will be high. Kentucky ran a shitload of plays because our offense kept giving them the ball. We held Kentucky to 4.6 yards per play, which is an elite number, especially considering how many plays they had to be on the field. The fact that our defense didn't get gassed and start to fall apart by the end of the game was absolutely incredible. This was 100% a culture win for the defense. And this is one week after the defense held OU to 6 points and created 3 TOs. UT has a top 3 defense in the country by almost every metric. This unit is absolutely elite. Anyone who's doing anything other than praising our defense for winning us the last two games has no clue what they're talking about.
  5. I love this news. This is going to be a fascinating experiment and comparison of IndyCar drivers vs F2. It'll also just make the F2 season way more fun. I think he'll start out very fast in quali and the races but struggle with Pirelli tyre wear early in the season (unless he does a crap ton of testing before the season, which is possible because he has Gainbridge and Andretti money behind him). I expect him to be the best driver in F2 by the end of the season, but it will be fascinating to see how it plays out. Also for those in here who want to see real, close racing, I highly recommend watching F2. It's a ton of fun to watch and follow and allows you to watch actual racing after an F1 snoozefest most weeks. A lot of quick, young drivers going all out against each other. You see flashes of brilliance and absolute foolishness all mixed together in a tight racing series. The F2 cars can follow so much better than F1, they're smaller, lighter, and don't have nearly as much ERS and other pitwall settings nonsense. Fullraces.com posts every F2 race shortly after if you don't want to have to subscribe to ESPN+. I haven't seen it announced, but I'm hoping the Apple TV rights include the F2 races as well. That would definitely help bring more visibility to F2.
  6. If they put out a line today, we would probably be favorites over Vandy. After next week? We shall see. A&M would be a no doubt favorite against us.
  7. lol wut Vanderbilt at home is a significantly more likely win for us than at UGA or home against A&M. We'll be underdogs in all three, but that's out best shot for sure. Vandy's defense is not good. They're still very limited athletically on defense and they don't tackle well, either. We have a way better chance of scoring 20+ on Vandy than either of the other two. LSU's offense is ranked right around where our offense is per advanced metrics and they put up 325 yards and 24 points at Vandy, which was their best offensive performance of the season against an FBS school.
  8. Considering James Franklin has the PSU money, he could probably sign for about half what he would get normally with FSU (just enough to be able to argue it's market rate and not affect Franklin's PSU payout) and functionally cut Norvell's buyout in half for FSU. That move would make a lot of sense for both FSU and Franklin.
  9. If it was just aero regs, I could see it allowing cars to follow and race closer a la 2022, because they don't produce as much downforce/dirty air in year 1 of new regs, but adding the engine change too is likely to create some absurd field spread.
  10. Did you watch the game? Arch missed 7 or 8 wide open receivers from a clean pocket.
  11. It's been nice to see Baker be pretty consistently good since the tOSU game. He's quietly rounded into a solid starter at RT with potential to be much more. DJ Campbell also seems to have taken a small step forward. The back breaking whiffs and holding penalties occur less often from him this year, although he still has a lot to clean up and is extremely underwhelming for a 5 star in year 4 of the program. LG and C continue to be an absolute flaming pile of shit. Brooks has potential as the solution there, but Flood wasted all offseason and the first 4 games, resulting in hundreds of reps at that spot with guys like Neto and Stroh. Hopefully Brooks can be on a steep trajectory to average or better. Hutson has been extremely disappointing. He's always been limited physically, but the more disappointing part is his technique and mental part of the game is also terrible, especially for a guy in year 4 of this program. Maybe Connor Robertson is a significant step up from Hutson at C and Flood has just been playing the wrong guy like he did at LG, but we'll have to wait and see on that one. Flood and Sark's lack of development with guys on the OL has certainly been disappointing, but the gigantic red flag with them is their complete inability evaluate what they had this offseason. It's clear we never had a guy even come close to being the answer at LG all offseason. It should have been painfully obvious to them we needed at least 1 transfer at LG or C and it really should have been 1 guy at each spot. I'm not sure how anyone can believe Flood is a UT-quality position coach when he's this bad at evaluating what he has, and it's even worse when you take into account the lack of development of so many guys who've been in the program for a number of years.
  12. Now I'm not necessarily one to pat myself on the back, but... I pretty much called exactly who Mateer was this offseason. He looks like a Heisman guy against overmatched competition and puts up great stats, but once he faces good defenses that aren't at a big talent disadvantage, he starts throwing a lot of intercept-able balls and struggles to complete more than half of his passes. Sometimes he could salvage those performances with his legs, but he's going to struggle to do even that against good SEC defenses. OU's expectations got set extremely high with a joke of a first 5 games leading to a bloated #6 ranking. They're in for a rude awakening from here on out and I can't wait to see it. In summary:
  13. I wasn't counting any of Roschon, Brooks, or Bijan because they weren't recruited by this staff. This staff has taken 7 RBs out of HS since Sark got here. Of those 7 guys, one is a hit (Wisner), 2 are already busts (Gibson, Stewart), 3 are incomplete due to injury/too early (Baxter, Clark, Simon), and it's debatable whether you consider Blue a hit or miss. He gave us good production his final year, but his overall production during his time here was very underwhelming for his ranking. There's no doubt we've had terrible injury luck at RB. The staff was raving about both Baxter and Clark, but injuries haven't given us a chance to actually know how good they could've been, and it's possible neither guy will ever be the same after their injuries. Simon looks like he has good potential to be a hit, but only getting one clear hit in 4 years while taking 7 RBs, 4 of whom were very highly rated, is not good enough even with bad injury luck factored in.
  14. Baxter was. Gibson was the 9th RB in the class and 117th overall, so not nearly the same tier as Baxter. Obviously still a bust/miss by the staff, which we've had way too many over the last few years at RB. I remember being fairly underwhelmed by Gibson being our RB1 in that class. His highlights were mostly running through truck-sized holes thanks to IMG's loaded roster. He reminded me of some of the Katy RBs we've seen over the years.
  15. 47 and 49 are the punter and the long snapper.
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