Everything posted by Park Gothic
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Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
Yes - the score depends entirely on what we do rather than what they do. If we're up by 30 in the 4th, I can see us salting the game away and letting them eat clock with small chunk plays. I could see us allowing a late TD because the game is already over. But something in the range of 35-6 / 41-13 feels about right.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
I think we've asked our LBs to play more aggressive than they are capable of. If we tone it back and involve the safeties/DBs in the run game more, that should clean it up. Guilbeau, Taafe, and Barron are rock solid in run support.
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Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
Nah. I've given this game a pretty deep think and we're going to stomp the shit out of them wire-to-wire. They literally won't be able to do anything on offense. If they favor the run (which they will, because their entire WR corps is injured) we won't stay in dime like we did against MSU. We will adjust our gameplan to match what they're doing. Our defense is better overall than it was last year and their offense is much, much worse. Our DBs in particular have improved, and although the DTs have gotten a bit worse, the fall off is not that bad. Plus we're better at the edges. Almost all CFB games come down to which team has the better QB? They've got a true freshman at QB who, although talented, is not nearly on Ewers' level. Our safeties are going to pick up the slack that we've seen in the run game (mostly from our LBs) and that will be that for them on offense. I'll be shocked if they score more than 10 points. On the other side of the ball - our offense is in an entirely different league than theirs. We have one of the nastiest o-lines in CFB, we have a veteran QB who can comfortably distribute the ball against pretty much any defense, we have an insane stable WR who are among the best in the country. Our RB room is thin and one of our RBs is prone to turning the ball over. And turnovers are the one thing that might kill us. But I'm not overly preoccupied about that for a few reasons: (1) If Blue can't get his shit together, bench him. Problem solved. But what if we need Blue's pass blocking? What if we're worried about depth and don't want him to quit on the season? (2) Just lean on the passing game. Yes, I would rather the offense be balanced and I would rather be "run first," but our passing game is B-A-N-A-N-A-S. It's fucking nuclear. We can bomb it all over the field and I don't see how they'll stop us. Quinn is not perfect, but he's not at all prone to throwing picks. And if they overcommit to stop the pass then that makes the running game that much easier, regardless of Blue's deficiencies. But, more importantly.... (3) I think Blue will clean it up and have a great game. Tashard Choice is still his coach. Dude is still in his contract year. He's had two weeks to think about this and work on things. Blue knows he needs to hit some home runs on the big stage to make an impression on the NFL. He can't afford to have a bad game and I think he will do everything possible to see that he doesn't. And if he still does, despite his best effort, see points (1) and (2). Their defense is good, but it's not much better than Michigan's, if at all. And Sark STILL hasn't gotten deep in his bag this year. We immediately went vanilla against Michigan when he saw the game over. If we need it - and I don't think we will - Sark can pull out the stops and show OU some shit they haven't prepared for. I'd rather save that for UGA if we can, but we don't have to. There are just too many ways for our offense to beat the best defenses in the country, and OU is not one of those. We're not sleep walking into this game like we did last year. We are better and they are worse. We are absolutely going to ruin their Saturday and I don't think it will be close.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
I think the issue with our run fits has been on the LBs and not the DL. Gbenda, Blackwell, and Hill have all had problems filling gaps and staying in lanes.
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Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
I’m a millennial and was roughly the same age as those characters when the movie came out. But movies have a much longer cultural shelf life than that. Anyone who was in their “raunchy comedy” phase between 1999 and 2009 was the target audience. and with that comment, I am going to step off this particular tangent and save my thoughts for the movie board.
- Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
- Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
- Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
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Missouri at Agricultural & Mechanical - 11am on ABC
Coffee and semantics. Great work, football board.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Spouting dumb, obviously wrong shit on twitter generates engagement.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Yeah, I am also skeptical. If it was (almost) anyone other than Nahlin I'd give it more credence, but that guy's entire business is built on telling Texas fans what they want to hear.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
So apparently Nahlin is now bullish that we're flipping Sanchez? Has anyone else heard this?
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freshman edge Colin Simmons off to a great start
- 2024 Season Thread and all the shit in between games
If you've got a deep gash, like one that requires stitches, stuffing your head into a helmet and getting hit at full speed can easily reopen it. Too much friction.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Cook is pretty tight with Arch and appears to be one of Arch's preferred targets. Seems like he would stick around for at least one season where Manning is QB1.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I had the misfortune to see this atrocity at the co-op the other day: https://www.universitycoop.com/Texas-Longhorns-All-Schools-SEC-Hat?quantity=1&custcol_coop_coloroption_gm=5- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
You're about to activate Doc's trap card.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
I don't give a shit who uses the word "natty" or how often they use it. It's the same with words like "irregardless" or saying "literally" when you mean figuratively. It's stupid no matter how many people do it. Words like "natty," "tuddies" and "wardaddies" can all fuck right off.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
- Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
He's an exciting dual threat QB is a blue blood and he won a big game. He's also improved a lot since last season when he was viewed as a project. Why wouldn't they be hyping him up?- Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
Another element to the defensive playcalling may have been that we were holding back some of the wrinkles we want to use against OU and UGA. If what we were doing (taking away the RPO and deep ball) was working, why change it? Why go deeper in our bag and show the good teams on our schedule what we can do? We still beat MSU by three scores. That may just be me telling myself what I want to believe, but it seems like the decision to not adapt our game plan to MSU's offense was intentional.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
I'm not going to weigh in on the whole Campbell / Hutson thing, but man is it nice that we have such a deep OL room. Hutson would have been our best lineman by a wide margin only three seasons ago. It's great that we can even have these kinds of arguments.- Longhorns in the NFL 2024
DUI and a reputation for partying. It's dumb, but not dumb. When a team like Tennessee correctly bets that they can get him in the second round, it's a massive windfall.- 2024 EDGE Colin Simmons
- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Y'all are wild about this Livingstone kid. I know y'all aren't really hating but I see this kid becoming the butt of more jokes and it seems premature. Maybe he's the jaggiest jag to ever jag. Maybe he's just at Texas to pull trim and launch his country music career. His film certainly doesn't jump out to me, at least not enough to warrant the modest amount of hype he's gotten. But he's also a true freshman who clearly had a longer developmental curve. I wasn't expecting to really see anything out of him this season. I'm just not ready to write him off yet considering that smart people think he'll be pretty good. He also gave us one of the bigger chuckles we had at A&M's expense during the 2023 recruiting cycle. So there's that. - 2024 Season Thread and all the shit in between games
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