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  1. Who is more talented - Vince or Ewers? I have no doubts Ewers will get drafted. He might even be great. Hell I think we’re winning it all this year.
  2. Here’s where I get confused. It seems we have different definitions of talent. I generally think “physical” traits as others use the term talent. Yes, Ewers has a stronger, more lively arm than Sam. Hell, he may even be faster than Sam. In college, you just need QBs to make plays however they come. Interestingly enough, Ewers has a livelier, stronger arm than Vince Young. Anyone here going to call him more talented? Sam has more attributes closer to Young than Ewers does to Young. Traditional passing stats are good, but they’re very limited relative to what you have today. If you wish to compare completion percentage, that’s fairly useless. For example Ewers has thrown 32% and 27% of his passes behind the LOS the past two years. Sam never threw more than 20% (be mindful Sark is more a screen guy than Herman). In their careers those completion %s in that range are from 91-95%. Quick math on the 32% gives you around 10% higher completion percentage in total before you even get to the other depths. Even if we talk win percentage, is it not equal or higher in non-Quinn starts than Quinn starts the past 3 years? All of the discussion requires context. The simple answer based on numbers is simply that. The simple answer.
  3. Member that time WVU dropped 10 on 3rd and 10 and Sam run ran for a 1st? Pretty awesome. To date, as best I can tell Ewers has never started and won a game in which the opponent scored more than 27. Malik Murphy did it in 2 starts at 30 points. Nevermind some of that was his doing. In 2020 alone, Sam won 3 in which the opponent scored 30+ points. Lost 1 in which the opponent scored 30+ (uh we fumbled on the 1). Lost one in which we scored 40. Several of these were OT but still. In 2019, he won 3 in which the opponent scored more than 30+, one was 48. He lost 3 in which the opponent scored 30 including 1 in which they scored 40+. 2018 was more of the same. Beat OU then got a screw job in the championship game. He had two wins in regulation in which our opponents scored 45+ points. Lost at least 1 in which we scored 40 in regulation.
  4. We lost at Tech in 2022 without Ewers.
  5. Wins generally speaking is a team stat. There’s no debate that Sam had a less talented team. Sam was asked to carry his team in a manner you will likely never see again. The mental and physical endurance it required of him was incredible. It’s unfortunate that his last year was a cluster in multiple respects.
  6. There are several ways of looking at this. Obviously as rookies they have much to learn, but Longhorn rookies are approaching 100 catches. Has that ever happened? Worthy had 6 TDs total so that’s production. With Kelce and Rice he was never going to be the focal point. Downs and Pittman were first in line before Mitchell arrived. Seems as though Mitchell was a pick for the future rather than dominate now. None of those teams are even top 10 in passing yards. Mahomes is sitting at 10th in passing TDs. I thought the original comment was meant in jest anyway.
  7. I’ll just make a few notes for posterity here. The run game has been fine. Georgia was the worst, and it was Wisner the whole time. We may be small, but it’s a bs excuse to not hit it up some between the tackles. Blue has been showing a feel the last two games. He can provide some run inside. We went from criticizing Michigan and their cover 3 (Nevermind they showed cover 2 presnap, ran some 4/5/6 man fronts) to wondering how this 3 safety look confuses the hell out of us. Watch the S on the Golden TD. Terrible. We had opportunities deep. Versus Michigan, we broke the pocket or stepped into it. The 30 yarder to Bond was terrible execution on UMs part. Helm TD broken pocket. Same for the called back TD. The intermediate stuff was largely missing here too I’ll buy that we need to sit on our routes more. Have Quinn rip it in there. Sark wanted his arm. Use it then. Blue needs to be our offensive MVP the remainder of the season. He’s the biggest mismatch on the field bard on the matchups he’ll likely get.
  8. Brownwood in Waco seems odd. But guess it’s neutral. What year did you graduate?
  9. I probably went off the rails a bit but not sure what you mean here. My point was that we had QB issues. But also concern that had Sam returned Sark would have tampered his running, which would have limited him. But I think he kicks ass anyway because he’s a competitor. Ive watched roughly half the games in the past 25 years live then a majority again. Don’t recall missing a single game over that time. Probably played a shit ton more than most on here growing up. But hey who cares. Certainly didn’t mess my drawers against those mighty Marlin Bulldogs like some here did.
  10. People can’t get past that ArKansas game but after that the pass protection improved, the run blocking had moments of some pretty damn good stuff. Sark doesn’t want his QB to run. That first year wasn’t so much about winning as building. Probably easy in his mind to say screw that. I’ll bite the bullet and build towards 2024.
  11. No idea how this all went down. I don’t think Sam ever gets recruited by Sark, but I bet he’d do damn well for him. If he wasn’t serious about bringing Sam back, that was poorly done.
  12. Alrighty. It’s not impossible I reckon.
  13. Can we win 5? Isn’t that what you’re saying.
  14. You can’t really compare them although those comparisons happen all the time. The environments are completely different. People absolutely give Ewers higher marks for his arm but in college you can work around that. You can easily find many great throws from Sam too. In my view, the most you can ask of a player is to play as hard as often as you can. That’s Sam. His production was damn good too. The chaos surrounding his teams was off the charts.
  15. I do think the portal has screwed with offensive continuity. Defenses may be more apt to dare you to drive the field too and see if you can be patient as well. The clock rules allow the game to be shortened some. Ultimately points may be harder to come by.
  16. Yep, very difficult. There’s no doubt we have a very good defense but for me there are still questions as to exactly how good. The pig 2nd half approach is how you attack us. The Alfred Collins fumble was huge because they were driving again. 17 and below would be quite the accomplishment.
  17. I’d wager we’d need at least 1 game of 200+. You realize we get a shit ton of yards after catch, right? We have now run the freebie TD pass two weeks in a row. So that’ll be more difficult, but they’ll probably give the Yac a bit. Keep an eye on Georgia as that was their best offensive output yesterday.
  18. Gotcha. That was the closest, quickest info I could get. The middle of the field to the intermediate area has been missing all year. Backing out throws behind the LOS, we were 10-22.
  19. PFF had him 5-6 between the hashes from 10-19 yards yesterday. 76 yards. They also had him pressured at 14% (for the second game in a row), which on the season would likely rank him as the least pressured QB in the country.
  20. You dropback a thousand times you will do virtually everything a few times. People give Swoopes hell, but he had several very good games.
  21. Exactly how is he better than Sam? Are you basing that on winning a championship in a mediocre big 12?
  22. I don’t remember those specifically. I do recall a terrible decision. Thought you were talking Georgia in this thread.
  23. Like what? Fumbling? In the same game that Ewers also had a strip sack. How many games has Arch run the 2 minute offense? Against the most talented team in the country. After getting 2nd team reps all week. Terrible comparison. By the way, I’m not calling for Arch. We can win with both in my opinion.
  24. Better than Sam by a large margin? Based on what? On occasion. Sam carried his team. On occasion Sam led his team down the field against all odds late in games. Sark versus Herman? Who had better WRs? Better backs? Better Oline? I mean I guess freshman Bijan was close to junior Bijan. There are few, very few QBs that have played with as much talent offensively as Ewers. In the history of college football. There’s certainly no Texas QB that can say that. We will never know but Beuchele probably takes last years team and this years to a pretty high level. It’s difficult to compare across teams because culture/environment, schemes, teammates vary and often greatly. I’m 100% certain that Ewers has the best, most conducive surroundings in my lifetime.
  25. I’m curious how this will play out. We will have won 17% of our games without Ewers. The defense has been outstanding in every game thus far. Other positions have had spotty play at times but also looked great at others. His best games have been the first big game out of the shoot each year. I can’t help but think the gameplan is a part in that. He’s lauded for leading us a Big 12 championship and playoff appearance. Yet he beat neither of our two most difficult Big 12 opponents. OSU was certainly one of the weaker championship opponents recently. We’ve struggled to put teams away in his tenure. He hasn’t led a game winning drive late in the game as best I can recall. I’m not even sure he’s won a game in which our opponent scored 30+ points. Hes good enough to win it all.. our rosters good enough to win it all. I’m not sure our rosters ever been better. So when we win it all, will it be more Trent Dilfer or Patrick Mahomes?
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