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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. There is a sizable difference that you majorly gloss over here between "QE is playing like a pussy" and "QE is a pussy." I'd halfway agree w/ the first. The 2nd is stupid and out-of-bounds and I'd hope someone who is so involved in paying players NIL would know that.
  2. People zipper in too early, then get mad that other people are "cutting the line" by not allowing people to merge at the proper zipper point.
  3. I just want to know who sucks more, Quinn Ewers or Chris Beard? I'm going with Beard, he REALLY sucked.
  4. OsU: Wicked Witch of the West Edition
  5. Friendly reminder to all that Sark said Xavier Worthy was fine all year and then we find out later he played the year with a broken hand. Coaches lie.
  6. Wadlington thinks he is much, much smarter than he actually is
  7. *Top 11 but yeah. I still have scars from Barry fucking Switzer announcing OU squeaked by Texas by 0.00000001 point in the BCS back in the day so I'm gonna expect disappointment until shown otherwise.
  8. Good news is by the time we hit aggy we will be really accustomed to seeing blitzes. We're about to get a ton of live game reps.
  9. Prefer not to rely on that and back in on the strength of our "brand."
  10. If we take a loss to aggy in the last week of the season there is a really good chance we'll be out.
  11. First, fake internet points are dumb. Second, RE: your context point, it illustrates that there are a lot more people out there who agree with @Thatguy, or at least that while QE has been sub-par we shouldn't pull the trigger on Arch yet. And, there is a super-vocal minority of some size in the camp of "QE is a total pussy and the reason we suck," "Put in Arch because he's gives us a better chance to win now," or "This year is sunk anyway let's write it off and get started on next year with Arch now." The first camp will rep posts they agree with but don't want to expend the mental energy engaging in a pointless slap fight with the other camp.
  12. Should be but usually they were coming from a LB at some type of depth so it was fairly consistent and QE seemed to have a mental clock for it. I don't recall a bunch of DB or safety blitzes that got home on us last year.
  13. My theory on this is that in the Big12 we saw more 3-3-5 so it was less pressure coming from the D-line, and pressure that came via blitz from the LB was easier to see/diagnose and get one extra beat to react to. In the SEC the D-lines are bigger and faster, the coverages are more multiple with better athletes, and the pressure is showing up faster making it harder to read/react. I was watching a QE's high school highlights again: Watch the first 10 or so throws on the tape here and you're going to see a lot of the same issues we see now. I see a TON of back-foot throws, and also not climbing the pocket. There is also some dimes in there too. But if you look at the >20 yard throws, many of them are either 1) the WR is wide-ass open, or 2) it's a lob that the WR wins. In college you don't get hardly any of #1, especially on deep shots. And for #2 the CBs are such higher level how and the safeties so much faster that those lobs turn into picks or breakups - which is exactly why he isn't throwing them. It's almost like he's using a 9-iron angle on those throws when he needs a 3-iron. When he attempts to lower the angle, he overthrows it. For all the touch he has on the short and intermediate he doesn't have it on the long ball. Sark and QE have to figure it out because it's pretty obvious what defense we're going to see the rest of the year: Pre-snap show 2 safeties high Post-snap rotate one safety to close the middle of the field to intermediate crossers Blitz a LB to create pressure, or simulate blitz often Show man and switch to zone or vice versa, QE has trouble (like many QBs) when a pre- and post-snap read don't match up Deploy a shallow zone and expect the check down to the flats Keep it all in front of you This plan basically forces QE and Sark to do what they don't want: attack the sideline downfield with long throws, or go over the top. Normally the counter would be run the damn ball and force them to shift, but we apparently don't have the horses for that.
  14. QE reduced the reverse bailouts from the pocket and I did see him climb into the pocket and deliver on-time throws down the middle several times. He still was way too cautious and his deep ball is bad. The O-line took many pre-snap penalties and holds, but the worst were the busts. There were at least 3-4 instances where an unblocked defender came in while we were double teaming someone else. Conner missed one, I think DJ missed another. They weren't all blitzes either. That's not a QB issue, or a lack of running game issue, it's a protection/communication issue in the O-line. You could put Tom Brady back there with a defender in his lap at the go and he's going to have trouble (on THOSE snaps, not a get-outta-jail free card for QE's performance).
  15. I'm convinced that imma and blacklab have implemented a function in this site called DerkaBot AI. Whenever it senses engagement falling off, it posts to get people riled up.
  16. Burton made an allusion on a podcast a week or two ago that his blocking wasn't up to par with those ahead of him and he was skilled but getting outworked.
  17. In watching the Film Guy on YT, opened my mind on a few things: Yes QE could have played better specifically in faster processing and willingness to go to the 2nd and 3rd reads before checking down and stepping up, and, Yes the O-line saw a level of athlete they hadn't encountered before BUT, the receivers were blanketed. And not just because of superior athletes - it was because they were extremely well coached and knew our tendencies and routes really well. It's not like there were regularly multiple open receivers running free. Usually the first and second option were covered, and the 3rd had either a small window requiring a quick trigger or QE would have had to feather the ball between a LB and a safety - doable but a NFL-level type throw. If we see UGA or that skill level again, Sark needs to get deeper into the bag and/or introduce some new concepts they haven't seen on film. See this play:
  18. That's not totally true, whenever OU is playing I do have a rooting interest. I root for the meteor to hit the stadium.
  19. Here is the ultimate test: if the places were swapped and we were at Georgia and the bad call was against THEM and their fans reacted the way ours did. We would have multiple threads on here calling them pussies "take the L pussies," and "bad calls are part of the game" "that's not reviewable/reversible" etc. Burton made that point on his podcast, Texas fans would be apoplectic if the shoe was on the other foot - for good reason.
  20. I guess I'm a "pussy" because I agree w/ what Hartzell wrote. Multiple things can be true: the call was trash, people can express displeasure by booing, and throwing trash onto the field makes Texas look like a bunch of crybaby bitches. The fact that the refs regrouped and got it right by changing the initial call only reinforces the bitch-ass nature of throwing trash because it creates the perception that it was "worth it," even if one had nothing to do with the other.
  21. It wasn't just Georgia's "SEC speed" matching ours, they were well coached too. Put yourself in Kirby/Muschamp's shoes: Texas has a QB1 who is not a run threat at all and has pulled the ball on RPOs maybe once this year. Texas has a QB1 who either can't or won't throw deep (e.g. beyond 20 yards). Texas has no between the tackles run game. WTF would you do? I'd have my safeties and LB close the middle of the field intermediate throws, jump immediately on the check downs, use my speed to cover the edge runs, and let me D-line talent cook. Which is exactly what they did. The only time we executed on O was when we were bailed out by multiple targeting or facemask 15 yard penalties, or QE tossed up a prayer and Helm got it. Against any defense we outclass skillwise, it works. And if we could fix one or two of the bullet points above, we'd actually be dangerous to a high-skill defense and they'd need to respect it and couldn't just jump the checkdowns and flats. But we don't adjust and throw slants I guess b/c we're worried about INTs? Gotta fix one of those 3 things next time we see a high level D.
  22. The money, eh whatever, the AD can afford that. The student section is GA yes? Not sure how they're going to find people and ban them, I guess they'll get a dozen scapegoats.
  23. On offense we seemed really shocked that Georgia had the speed to run with us to the edges on those quasi-running sideline passes. They were all over the checkdowns and their game plan was super solid: 1) Ignore the deep ball because QE can't or won't throw it (I think we tried, what 2 last night?), 2) let the D-line take care of the up-the-middle runs, which we rarely try and that leaves 3) deploy the safeties and LB who don't need to care abut the middle run or deep shot to smother the TE and swing passes, which is basically all that is left since we so rarely try slants.
  24. As a chubby to fat middle age man I resent this idea I can't be a gym-goer. I hit the gym 5x a week. I just eat a shit ton of drink lots of bourbon too. 🤘
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