Had Enough

This is a prime example of someone trying too hard to be impartial. Absolute gifts and assistance. The only holding call that led to a pick 6. The blatant holds that led to an injury. The multiple face masks committed against our dline (these aren’t subjective by the way). Oh but an official throwing a flag from 40 yards away on a borderline block in the back then picking it up = an absolute gift. What were the other gifts?

Right now, your boy Poona has the 9th best PFF grade for interior linemen.

This depth is unprecedented at Texas at least for 40 years. It’s pretty rare for any team in the past 40 years for that matter. And likely in the entirety of college football history. Probably the UGa and Bama teams of the past decade or so.

That one I won’t take completely for granted. There was a free blitzer that sped it up a bit. Obviously a play the QB needs to make. Just thought the throw was easier than the quick decision part.

Not if you have the old school T-bar. First game ever played in 7th. Ball thrown right between my eyes. At one point, the ball just disappeared then doinked off the face mask.

Exactly why did that make you think he is now healthy? The best thing about it was the quick decision.

Outstanding. Kudos to you for giving it a whirl. If I make it to a volleyball match in the future, I’ll look for you on the wall.

Apparently. Where’d you play DB?

In my opinion, the pace on that throw to Blue was more important than the location. There was some extra on it, likely intentional. That one happened to have zip and placement.

What if it hits your face?

That was one of Georgias better yards and points efforts on the season. The Beck picks were the problem. But I’ve come to learn we all define things a little differently. So 100% right you are.

Alrighty. On UK I’ll take an alternate route. You don’t want to play our speed after not playing a legit D1 team in 3 weeks. They are a crapshoot. While they did well against Ole Miss and Uga, Auburn, Tennessee and Florida had some of their better games in terms of yards and points. I think their offense will mostly be dead in the water and ultimately their D craters. I am confident that our offense will be more difficult to defend than it was the first half of the season. We’re are healthier and a bit rejuvenated. Think the bye have is a slight internal evaluation too. A&M from a difficulty standpoint is likely the hardest for our offense to crack.

Things were working well. Honestly, I think we’ll score at least 30 in the next 3. Rather handily at that. Particularly if the defense continues to get turnovers on the other side of the 50. We are too good. Georgia shook the confidence (if I’m allowed to speculate on that) with a bit of a hangover (more unprovable speculation), mid season road game the following week. We are likely healthier than we’ve been in some time. Arkansas defense has had some rough outings. We can overwhelm Kentucky. A&M is the most difficult, but they have not played an offense as capable as ours.

Just for fun, I went back and watched his first 9 dropbacks. He has 5 completions, a sack (doesn’t look to be his issue), a scramble that did give us a chance to consider going for it on 4th (but it looks as though he passed on an open guy at the 25), a miss that Bond takes to the house if caught, and what should have been a pick. Two of the completions were passes that are caught damn near 100% of the time. On the season Ewers ranks 42nd in completion percentage (64th if you use adjusted completion %) behind the LOS to give a little context. One of those was on Wisners back shoulder. Another completion was for 4 yards. Only 1 was beyond 10 air yards. It sure wasn’t one of his faster starts. He certainly finished better than he started. So whatever you want to call it, go ahead. Oh and by the way he started 4/4 versus Georgia. I don’t remember exactly where it went from there, but I don’t think there was a mix of missed TD and shoulda been pick in his first 9 dropbacks. In any event, I’m done with it.

Ok. Thanks for your genius.

You did refer to someone’s else’s post as “shitty.” I never said I couldn’t engage in the drama and bs. Objectivity and opinions are not necessarily opposing views. I guess I’ll rethink whether confidence has any impact on a QB. Or any athlete for that matter. Thanks for pointing that out. We were simply discussing whether it was a fast start. An opinion. I gave you my thoughts. Yes, we had multiple mishaps throughout. I did not point those things. I also didn’t point out the wonderful routes and pass protection and catches that went into that 5/5 either. Did you? We succeed and fail as a team. I think we win it all. You? If that happens, I do not care about stays. You can extrapolate that to each individual game.

We’re all limited without the All-22 so it’s difficult to say with certainty what we’re doing and what defenses are doing. It’d be interesting to get the insight on these considerations. I agree that we like the short stuff as running game extensions. But we were down almost 10% in the 10+ yards. That’s quite a drop over last year. Yesterday we were up approaching 15% more targets in those areas as compared to Ewers previous season totals. As for Manning, in my opinion, his sample size is too limited and sporadic to know. He does seem to enjoy heaving it at this point. I am not sure on the short range accuracy. It’s only the Longhorns that I see every play of every game so it’s difficult for me to judge how good others are.

Missing a wide open TD and throwing what could have been a pick in your 2nd drive after getting no points can be considered as such, yes. Things happened that helped get him going. That’s what team is. It’s ok. We still won, and it has no impact on the rest of the season. I view things in context of team and what’s a reasonable expectation. The defense was out good; the offense needed a Sark jumpstart with a great job by Gibson.

It is not the design of the offense. If you believe that, you are arguing against Sarks first 3 years here including the first two with Ewers as well as his Bama teams. That’s even to argue against what Arch did when he started this year. The short stuff is no doubt a Sark element. The screen game has always been an element. Those have not changed. He likes play action. Always has. Now, before yesterday, the approach seemed different. You could probably attribute the defensive approach to some of that but not all. We were not attacking deep or the intermediate parts of the field. It was not the short stuff last year that was Ewers best element but the intermediate. It would not surprise me if Sark was dialing it back due to the length of the season with the thought of giving the defense more down time.

Show me where I have said he did not play well? Or bitching about a win. The 5/5 for 50 yards was fine but resulted in no points. I didn’t even attribute it to him. But zero points is zero points. That was drive was what we’ve been this season. No big plays that fizzles out whether that be penalties, whatever. I would say it didn’t leave him feeling comfortable and confident due to how he started the second series. The decision to go, the subsequent play calls, the subsequent defensive series allowed a bit of a reset and allowed him to settle in. It’s not far fetched to say we could have been down after the first two series. So no you jackass I don’t give a shit about stats. It’s about wins. We are the most talented/experienced roster in the country. And we won. And you’re welcome to point out where I’ve said he’s a detriment to the seasons objective of winning. I’ll be about as objective as any son of a bitch on this site. Probably more practical experience as a participant, parent and fan than the vast majority of shitheads represented here. But drama and bs sells so here we are.

Screw the stats dude. We got the most important one. That is what matters. Everyone did their part. But if Sark does not go for it on 4th inside his own 30, it’s possible we go scoreless in the 1st quarter. Nevermind one of throws could have been picked. Then the end around put us in scoring position. That first TD to Golden, that’s as close to a given for any college QB. And high school QBs. Then UF fumbles the next drive followed by an easy throw to Helm. Kudos to Ewers for making those throws, but let’s not act as though that’s indicative of a fiery start.

I think Sark knows. There’s been some disconnect. I lean towards Ewers being too cautious as one element. UF certainly cleared the middle of the field on that TD and made that easy execution. I can’t imagine we will get that look often because in spite of the handwringing our pass protection is quite good. The defense is better served making us drive the field and see if we can make a mistake.

This is the same trait that causes many to people to soil themselves in excitement. When it woks, it’s awesome. When it doesn’t, it’s a bit wtf. His game is to get the ball out of his hand and into the receivers. There’s a bit of a tie in to the back foot and off platform stuff. Back to the Michigan game in drive 1, he had two plays that were like this. Same shit two years ago but more often than now. I’m not sure you can get him out of it, and there are benefits at times.

Looks like 9.4. Sorry, that was all passed. Thats the range it needs to be. For pretty much every game, it had been 6.5 or less. One on one shots down the field are always reasonable choices. That doesn’t mean they were the best or smartest choice but reasonable. That was the best Sark has been, the most aggressive Ewers has been. It’s a winning combo.

Seriously? Do you remember this stat line? 20-34 for 388 yards, 5 TDs and no picks. And that was against a team that won 10 games. A game in which people bitched about the Oline (it was solid except for 1, maybe 2 drives). That was from one of those shitty QBs. It’s highlighted to show you how conducive this offense can be to compiling QB stats. QB is the most difficult position in sports. It’s also the one most highly dependent on your teammates. When Sark is good, he makes it very easy. He was good yesterday. Far too little credit has been given to the non-QB guys the past two years. That’s not necessarily uncommon, but it sure as hell is understated as to how capable his offensive teammates were and are. And when on, Sark has more, QB friendly play calls than any Texas play caller I’ve seen. These guys don’t simply get drafted because their QB makes them look good. The offensive skill talent that we’ve had the past 3 years is off the charts relative to the entire history of Texas football. The defense that people liked to bitch about is now top 10 for 3 years running. In each of those years from an OFEI/DFEI perspective, the defense is higher rated than the offense. We’re what 4-0 the past two years without Ewers starting with three of those being 30 plus point victories. I’m still on the side of we will win it all this year. He will do his part. Just remember when you lift him up and kick others aside that the situations were in no way equivalent.