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  1. If we win tonight I am going to create a twitter account with the sole purpose of talking so much shit to each and every one of these talking heads that they all block me. I can't wait
  2. I was there. Backstory: my dad taught at Ohio State for 30 years. He went to Texas. I grew up rooting for both (Texas first, because I was raised here, and tOSU against anybody else). What I saw from those mouth-breathing heathen in 2005 after Limas Sweed broke their hearts made it impossible for me to root for Ohio State ever again. If you weren't there, I promise you: whatever you've heard, whatever you imagine reading this, it was worse. That stadium is a madhouse to get out of, shoulder-to-shoulder mosh pit. I caught about two dozen cheap elbows to my ribs, shoulder checks, and so on. All I heard was "Fuck you, Tex!" and "Go home, you Texas faggot!" If you're thinking, "I woulda knocked somebody out," no, you wouldn't have. It was very clear that you'd have been stomped into the hospital by 30 people if you did. They wanted you to, so they could. When we finally made it out of that sewer, I took off my 10 jersey and stuffed it into one pocket of my shorts and my Longhorn hat into the other one, as my only backup was a 60-year-old man and I knew those psychos were only going to get worse as we got away from the stadium and all the cops. I walked back shirtless across at least a mile of that shitty place, watching people throw Molotov cocktails into dumpsters and light couches on fire in the street. It looked like Beirut or something. When we got back to the truck, I told my dad I'd be fucking embarrassed if anything like that ever happened in Austin. He nodded sadly (remember he invested 30 years of his life into that place) and said, "Yeah, it happened after the Michigan game last year, too." I said, "Wait, y'all beat Michigan last year." He looked over at me and said, "Oh, yeah. It doesn't matter who wins the game. They do this after every big game either way now." In conclusion... Fuck Ohio State in their faces. I hope we win by 70 and everybody transfers out of that shithole. Were you there, too? Tell your story. Let's get worked up...
  3. Damn straight! I was at that game and winning the NC against the Domers would go a long towards redemption for that loss. But we have business to take care of first……..
  4. Ok let’s go ND I want to face them if we win.
  5. This video is fucking stupid. This isn't Miracle on Ice. Way to start a Texas hype video with an aggy pick 6. If tOSU buys into all of this horseshit I've been seeing the past couple weeks about how Texas is undeserving and lucky to be playing and overrated and still hasn't beaten anyone then they are going to fuck around and find out Friday night. I wanna see how these fucks respond after they get punched in the mouth in front of 60,000 Texas fans in Texas. Michigan punched them in the mouth and they couldn't handle it in their own stadium. Let's fucking roll. We have dick to lose - no one thinks we can win and everyone has discounted our season already anyways. Hook 'em
  6. I see where you're coming from, but the bowl BS has to stop. Again, in 16 HE HAS 2 CC'S. His "wins" were mostly against the poverty teams, but when he went up against Stoops, his kryotonite, he folded over more than Riley Reid in a gangbang. Those bowls were consolation prizes for those who couldn't make a BCS game, and he was well squinted with the Holiday bowl each and every year. If the guy didn't burj the village to the ground on his way out, I may have forgiven him. But alas, being manlet tard just couldn't look what made him famous and all that month and walk away and had fan support. He pissed it all away, and now that we've seen the real Mack. It's ok to throw out how average he was in a below average conference where your only team to beat to get to a BCS game is ou, which he couldn't do because he's a moronic, below average, low IQ barely functioning retard. He was blessed to have Akina/Robinson/Muschamp, because in offense we had GDGD (or CTJ to some). He needs huga and kisses tio make himself feel important. A guy who has millions still needs attention. What kind of pussy needs that after being the head coach at one of the most blue blood teams in history? He fucked himself on that one. He has no one to blame for his downfall other than himself. Being the idiot low IIQ dumbass that he is, after losing ro Bama, he decides we're going to be a running team now...except, you know, we didn't have the personnel for that. Square peg, round hole Mack. Edit: I'm not a television show, so no, I don't get ratings.
  7. Everybody calm down. Their o-line is not good, and we have some strong, fast edges to push them around. We also have one of the best secondaries in the country. He may have Jeremiah Smith and Egbuka, but we still have the Thorpe winner. Mukuba. Jelani Mcdonald, Taaffe, and plenty of depth. Our WR's are not to be taken lightly. Golden, Helm. Wingo. Moore are all capable of posterising their secondary. This isn't a gimme for either coach, but we are the only top team they have played (Oregon was never going go win it, and they won't until we're all dead for another 75 years). Plus, their o-line and d-line look a bit small-ish compared to our shitty conference. tOSU is an outlier. Ryan is also a perennial loser against teams with equal taken. We aren't fucking Tennessee, and Oregon got their skulls drug because they played them before and knew what they were going to do. We also have an o-line that can protect, and a defensive front who went 97 plays without giving up. That's some superhuman level shit. This will be a close game. If we can rattle Howard with our ridiculous edge depth/safety/corner blitz a few times, he could get Bert Auburn level bad,, then we're gonna win. So let's compare the now NIL league. Which is basically minor league football. Or even the final 4 in basketball. One team may look bigger and stronger, but can they outlast the team with similar talent and coaching? We shall see. I truly do believe tOSU is not going to win. Why you ask? It's being played in our home state and it might as well be held at DKR with as many fans coming in. This isn't turtle Tom. Sark will dial up some shit, and PK is an elite DC.
  8. The ncaa could also say we have no business or try to be in the business of the players nil. The pros pay also, go try that organization. Sue them for not letting you play in their organization. There is a way to argue it and win. Don’t know who made the rule but dissolve the 3 yr rule and say good luck in the nfl if they draft you. Might kill the ncaa but they’re headed that way anyway.
  9. Yep. It's pretty remarkable that discussing a future president's threats to invade allies is taken as "You fools can't grasp the English language! That's not news; it's just politics. Get that out of here!" And, poof, talking about it is siloed to a subforum where folks who don't want to think about such a radical departure from normal international relations don't have to see it. Foreign policy is a government activity and is, therefore, politics -- never mind the fact that news about international relations is discussed all the damn time elsewhere. Perhaps, it's a good example of what we're seeing elsewhere: anticipatory obedience. Bezos, Zuck...I guess all the tech execs got the same memo. Back on topic: How has Panama responded? In a statement of rebuke to Mr. Trump last month, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama wrote “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent area belong to PANAMA.” Mr. Mulino also said U.S. vessels are not being overcharged. Rates being charged to ships and naval vessels, he insisted, are “not on a whim.” Panamanian officials said all countries are subject to the same fees, though they would differ based on ship size. They are established in public meetings by the Panama Canal Authority, and take into account market conditions, international competition, operating and maintenance costs, Mr. Mulino said. Rates have gone up recently, however. That’s because starting in 2023, Panama experienced severe drought, driven by a combination of El Niño and climate change, which Mr. Trump has called a hoax. With water levels at Gatun Lake, the principal hydrological reserve for the canal, at historically low levels, authorities reduced shipping through the canal to conserve the lake’s fresh water. A Trump spokeswoman said that because the United States is the biggest user of the canal, the increase in fees hits its ships the most. What is China’s role in the Panama Canal? Chinese soldiers are not, as Mr. Trump has claimed, “operating” the Panama Canal. “There are no Chinese soldiers in the canal, for the love of God,” Mr. Mulino said in a speech Thursday. “The world is free to visit the canal.” A Hong Kong-based firm, CK Hutchison Holdings, does manage two ports at the canal’s entrances. And some experts have said that does raise valid competitive and security concerns for the United States. Ryan C. Berg, the director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, noted that CK Hutchison would likely have data on all ships coming through the Panama Canal. China has been using its shipping and maritime operations to gather foreign intelligence and conduct espionage. “China exercises, or could exercise, a certain element of control even absent some military conflagration,” Mr. Berg said. “I think there is reason to be worried.” Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Tuesday that China “will as always respect Panama’s sovereignty” over the Panama Canal. China is the second-largest user of the Panama Canal after the United States. In 2017, Panama cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognized the island as part of China, a major win for Beijing. Can the United States reassert control? Not easily. Mr. Mulino has made clear the Panama Canal is not for sale. He noted that the treaties established permanent neutrality of the canal and “guaranteeing its open and safe operation for all nations.” And the Senate ratified the Panama Canal treaties in 1978. Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, suggested that the provocations were merely part of a negotiating tactic to get rates down. “You know, I don’t envision American troops going in to retake the canal, but you got to think that someone is out there scratching their head going, ‘Is Donald Trump crazy enough to do something like that?’” Mr. Mulvaney said Tuesday on “The Hill” on NewsNation. Mr. Berg said the neutrality agreement made it unlikely that Panama would even be able to grant special rates to the United States. And, he noted, Mr. Mulino is “incredibly pro-American” and likely eager to help the incoming Trump administration deal with issues like illegal immigration. “President Mulino is going to be a great ally with the United States,” Mr. Berg said. “We should not want this to devolve into some kind of political fight because we’re going to need President Mulino on a number of other issues.” But there is, as Mr. Trump has threatened, a military option. Mr. Trump could as president order an invasion of Panama. Under the terms of its constitution, Panama has no army. But experts dismissed Mr. Trump’s threat on Tuesday as empty intimidation. “If the U.S. wanted to flout international law and act like Vladimir Putin, the U.S. could invade Panama and recover the canal,” said Benjamin Gaden, director of the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program in Washington. “No one would see it as a legitimate act, and it would bring not only grievous damage to their image, but instability to the canal.”
  10. I think he is going to need near 100 yards receiving on Friday for us to win. We have to target him early and often. We are better when he is a huge part of the offense.
  11. You know what is crazy to think about that we've all thought about but never in the grand scheme of all time greatest QBs in program history? Colt getting hurt vs Bama....think about it. If he doesn't get hurt and we go on to win that game he'll have as many titles as Street and VY with the added statistical leader in nearly every passing category for the program. In the scheme of NCAA at the time he was also the winningest QB in the sports history and the 2nd most accurate QB in the sports history. He's also top 25 in the sports history in passing yards and touchdowns. IMO all the above coupled together would have made him the best QB in program history. That makes it an even bigger what if that I never really thought about until this thread.
  12. Why do people do that shit? Shaka had to go. Idc what he’s doing at Marquette, he didn’t win an NCAAT game here. At all. None. Nor did we replace him with RT. The new hire fucking torpedoed his own employment
  13. We watched your dumb ass games vs Tenn and Oregon. First, Sampson was hurt and didn't play. Tenn was our "Indiana". They didn't have to play Texas, aggY, or Ole Miss. Out of conference they played Kent St, UTSA, and fucking UConn. We have zero respect for them or you beating them. Zero. Also, y'all jumped out so quickly on Oregon's trash defense they never had a chance to run the ball on you. That negative yardage was because you sacked Gabriel a bunch when he threw it 41 times. Look buddy. We are not impressed with you at all. Your only win against us was when we had a freshman QB. Below is the all time vs every opponent list. Have a look around. Not many teams have had the upper hand on us. On Friday you may get the best of us or you may not. But make no mistake it won't be because we are Indiana or insert any other tier two program that just doesn't have the horses to play with you. We have 5 stars too. One of them is going to be harassing your QB all game long on Friday. https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/2013/7/21/FB_0721135542.aspx?id=132
  14. You mean the one where ASU got away with targeting? Helmet to help.et...kmocked Bonds helmet off?....that one,?... The refs fucked us regular. Good thing we are used to it....pardon my typing...hard to work the keyboard with all the hand wringing going on. This ain't the '85 Bears we are playing.... I am going James Brown here and saying we win by 14....fuck em....
  15. Were you hoping for somebody else to over-analyze Quinn Ewers's performance this year? Well, happy birthday. Here is a gigantic spreadsheet with Quinn Ewers's performance in 2023 and 2024. It is broken down further by: coverages drive progression field position game situation pass rush play characteristics pressure status QB movement throw depth throw direction All of this is beyond the LOS because we all know that Quinn is fantastic on passes before the LOS. On the topic of Quinn's deep ball. Criticism is warranted. Attached is a strike zone of Ewers's performance in 2024 beyond the LOS and another one of the top 20 QBs in college football. As you can see, Quinn struggles a bit on balls to the right and mightily on deep balls over the middle. However, he makes up for that by being a top-5 QB in every other zone on the field in Adj Passer Rating and on SISData's IQR rating. Still, something is definitely off vs. last year. What I have found through my research is not surprising: 2023 Quinn > 2024 Quinn. 2024 Quinn's aPR dropped by 20 and 50(!) pts on deep balls to the right and middle and declined by 25 and 30 points to the intermediate right and short. What is the difference? It may be because Ewers has found himself in off-schedule drives more often than not this year, at a rate of nearly 2.5:1 (375 on-schedule plays in 2023 vs 145 in 2024). It may also be that teams have increased their usage of man and cover 3 against Ewers. Anecdotally, I have noticed Quinn is quick to make reads and that has hurt him when the defense has a shell over man. However, my guess is injury. These large drop-offs mainly occurred around Quinn's injury and have been progressively improving since. My main reason behind this is a 50pt drop-off when pressured this season vs last (and this has been improving over the season). His lack of mobility due to the ankle injury has been a story-line for a reason and teams have been exploiting it. In fact last season he spent a greater portion of moving/shuffling (think the 2nd TD in the OT win vs Arizona State) vs planted as he has this season. His injuries have made him a statue encouraging teams to increase their usage of blitzes by ~40%. Another notable difference between the years is while he is 20pts better in aPR in the 1st half, he is nearly 50-60pts worse in the 2nd half. This seems like more of a coaching/running game issue rather than a QB issue. I would keep an eye on this going forward in future seasons. Do our coaches not adjust well coming out of the half? I think it is important to read Sam Khan's article here. Quinn has always been compared to what he is not vs what he is due to his recruiting rating. While Quinn is not as good as last year and he is not the greatest of all time, he is still a top 5 QB in college football this year. That is with him battling two injuries that are affecting his play.
  16. Fuck this post. They have Will Howard and we can disrupt him. Also, we've got enough "insurance" money to make sure we win. Some of you boosters on here need to start playing mafia sports politics. Also, go in expecting to lose and you'll lose. We gotta act like they ain't shit. Remember, those fuckers put their pants on one leg at a time just like our kids do.
  17. i know you are kidding, but if he brings us to the promised land, i'm not sure we will let him leave. the rich boosters watched us wander in the desert for close to 20 years, they are not going to let it happen again. if sark wins multiple NC, he will become the wealthiest football coach of all time
  18. This is a part that is a curious subject but plays an important part for me when ranking a player and greatness. When it come to QB, specifically, the "He’s got this" feeling in me is the standard. When I'm honestly not worried if a 2 minute drive is need to win the game, because I'm confident the QB on the field is going to get it done. Almost more than a feeling a knowledge based on prior experiences with that QB. As for QBs I personally experienced. VY was king, and it's not fucking close. VY carried the team. VY defined FAFO. Next would be Colt. A tad different in that it felt like he elevated the energy of the team. I wasn't concerned about Colt getting it done, I knew he would. Next while his record in nowhere close to Colt, Sam or VY James mother fucking Brown always gave me that same confidence. After him Major Applewhite would be my pic. Moxy, it's cliche and over used word, but Major had it and I believed in him. I loved Sam and I knew Sam would run head first into a wall, but my confidence in his ability (likely due to his supporting cast) wasn't as high as the others. Quinn falls in behind those. This isn't a stats or team performance aspect. It's gut feeling. I never expect or know Quinn will get it done, I hope he can and think he MIGHT. And yes this is absolutely subjective, but not 1 person here doesn't agree with me in the broad terms. Who you think that about is where we may differ.
  19. Well, it's been a good run during the 2024 CFB season for Texas. A year of mostly highs, with only a shitty home game versus GA and an OT loss to GA standing in the way of what's been perfect. I'm thankful for the memories and experiences, personally. Unfortunately, all of that comes to an end this weekend on Friday night in the bowels of the DFW metroplex. Watching this season die at the stale, beer-soaked, cheese curd-smelling fat fingers of the sweating, mouthbreathing giant Ohio State football team is an inevitability. It's going to be demoralizing to witness, but we should continue to hold our heads high irrespective as Texas fans. "But closetojumping, this same Ohio State team lost less than 6 weeks ago to a mediocre Michigan team at home. We blew those same assholes out, while they still had Will Johnson, in Ann Arbor even, earlier this year!" I realize that Texas and Ohio State have actually played the same opponent this year and the results might be revealing in some ways, but that is apparently irrelevant to the current situation. I've yet to hear or read any analysis in the public domain of that situation mattering. Apparently both rosters have completely turned over and it no longer matters. Or maybe the notion is that Ohio State takes pleasure in getting publicly buttfucked every year by their arch nemesis, but will not play the bottom in any other match-up. I don't know, but I've been told that we've got to throw it all out. I wish Texas would petition to play OSU this weekend in their famous alt-unis colored maize and blue, but they're apparently not doing that. "But CTJ, Will Howard has the tendency to become a turnover machine in big games and he's never beaten Texas!?" I get it. I realize that Will Howard appears to be a spare to Texas fans as we've watched him on numerous occasions attempt to lose ball games on his own at KSU and even this year against Oregon and Michigan. However, Texas fans are the fucking blind morons here. The fatass, jort-wearing, gravy-splattered experts from the Ohio State fanbase and the talking heads in the media have seen a different Will Howard. Things have gotten so distorted compared to what we've experienced that draft ranking services now have Howard listed above Ewers on the boards. So, yeah, we're the idiots here, folks. There's simply no way to envision a scenario in which one of the nation's leading turnover defenses could force a turnover prone QB with a history of choking under pressure to go on a turnover spree. Bucknuts has convinced me so. "closetojumping, this Ohio State OL has lost 3 OLs, is playing true freshman, playing their star guard at OT, and barely fields a two deep. Texas has one of the best front 7's in all of college football with elite LBs, OLBs/Edges, and DTs. Ohio State hasn't faced a front like this all year!" I'm sorry to inform you guys, but none of that matters. Ohio State is hot! They've got the hot hand and those OL have magically transformed from their November embarrassments to looking like a Joe Moore trophy-winning unit. Plus, Ohio State has the aforementioned Will Howard, who has obviously turned a corner in his play, and has like 5 or more elite skill players guaranteed to go to the NFL in Henderson, Judkins, Egbuka, Tate, and, of course, Jeremiah Smith. Texas can try to play sound gap integrity on the early downs while bracketing Smith all they want, this OL is apparently too robust. "Texas has elite skill guys, a Joe Moore finalist OL group, and a resurgent Quinn Ewers, who always shows his best in big games on the road, ctj. Ohio State's D doesn't know what's coming!" Listen, by all national accounts and according to the room temp IQ wizards at Eleven Warriors, the Ohio State defense has "elite" players at every level of the defense. Ohio State sports multiple potential 1st rounders (whenever they're eligible to declare) on defense, for sure. JT Tuimoloua is a projected early round guy and he's usually a terror about twice a season. Maybe he shows up against Texas and does something? We'll let Kelvin Banks figure that out, I guess. The guy has been playing lately for a contract, but he was irrelevant against Michigan and Oregon the first time. Tyleik Williams is well regarded inside but he's got all of 12 tackles on the year. Jack Sawyer can prevent an opponent's flag from being planted at the 50 yard line like a motherfucker, and no one can talk more Ohio State meatheaded shit than this blowhard, so maybe that leads to something game-changing on Friday? Denzel Burke has blown harder this year than a meth-ed out OSU sorority girl, but maybe he can hang with Matthew Golden unlike anyone else this season. Sonny Stiles has run past more tackles this season than Danny Stutsman, but I've heard he's also super good. Caleb Downs is actually the real deal, so hopefully Ewers is decisive in the pocket this week. The rest of the secondary has been beaten more this season than Zach Smith's wife, but never mind that. I realize that even the adjusted stats love the OSU defense. That said, don't look at who they've played in posting the numbers they've posted. Don't consider that IU was a paper tiger or that Oregon did what they wanted in the first game, or that PSU pissed down its leg when it saw the Scarlet and Grey or that they played no one else worth a fuck on offense all year. No, those things don't matter, their defense is an unrivaled beast and the Texas offense stands no chance. "Fine. We get it, closetojumping, you're giving us no shot. But what about Ryan Day folding in big games as though he's being grilled under a heat lamp by suspecting police officers of his role in numerous pedophile rings?" I realize that Ryan Day appears to be a violently aggressive groomer of catamites and that he probably feeds off the blood of small children to maintain a solid coif and a 68-10 career record, but you can't argue with success. I don't care if the guy had his pants pulled down on national tv by Steve Sarkisian in the 2020 title game. Day going into the fetal position and sucking his thumb while crying for mommy against Michigan shouldn't matter to us. The guy is 4-4 in the postseason with the wins coming against: -a Utah team that lost their QB to a devastating knee injury early in the game -a good Clemson team in 2020 -a 2024 coelenterate in Tennessee -a revenge game against Oregon in 2024 I don't know, maybe he's able to find something new to fire up his team this week against the underdog Longhorns. There's no way that Texas will find motivation from being counted out all week and being told they have no chance. Hell, I don't think they've got a chance myself, and I know I'm notoriously one of Longhorn netdom's biggest Pollyannas. So give me Ohio State in a runaway, 55-14. Thoughts? Hook'em
  20. Great, where do you put him? How high and why? I have no idea where he lands for me yet. I literally never seen him play until I watched two big plays on YouTube today. Hard to rank something you wen't alive to see. When I was watching football early in my life it wasn't like there was a YouTube to go pull up the film. You read about it, if that. The people commenting that I am wrong didn't watch it either. I only know what I know and what I see. I see stats that outside of wins are terrible in comparison to what we have been used to since Texas ditched the wishbone. My top 4 right now is 1. VY 2. COLT 3. QUINN 4. SAM
  21. No, I'm not. I just have a difference of opinion. Not that it belongs in this thread to begin with. What is the fucking criteria? There isn't any, it is all subjective thereby it is just fucking opinion. I have mine, you have yours thereby I'm wrong because you own the place. No need to be a dick. So, it doesn't matter what the stats are? How do we choose who is the greatest, who belongs on that list? Is it favorite number? You can't say, no one is saying. Vince IMHO was the greatest, why, because he put the team on his back and did whatever was needed to win. Colt was second as he eventually did the same thing until he got injured. I didn't watch Street play and neither did you so all I have to go by are statistics. Those don't look very good outside of wins. That includes running the football. All that being said it isn't fair to compare them because it is different eras that had completely different expectations for QB play. James Street was never asked to go dominate the other teams defense and win a football game. he was never asked to show the ball 40 times and run it 15 in one game. It just isn't a fair comparison and you know it. I already said pre-modern football he was the greatest QB in longhorn nation. What else is it you want me to concede? I can't in good faith say overall he is high on that list and I'm not sure many other people are either. If I have to include him based on football that I have watched in my lifetime with what I know about how the game is currently played, he is behind a number of QBs. Quinn being one of them.
  22. Keep in mind we played Georgia to OT and they absolutely had help from the refs. Give ASU some credit here too, because their coaches had three weeks to prepare and scouted us to perfection. Likewise, it wasn't just Skattebo that made life difficult. Leavitt is one hell of a QB that people understimated. Indeed, I see most here on this board still talking about Skattebo and few mentioning Leavitt's contribution to that game. They don't make it happen without him. It takes a tremendous amount of defensive energy to stay on top of a QB as slippery and twitchy as he is. He is more evasive than Milroe. So, said another way, ASU was no joke. Also, multiple no-calls allowed them to make their comeback and yet still Texas managed to grit it out and win the game. Our guys never gave up like they would have in the past. Sark and Flood need to fix the OL blocking though. Georgia and ASU cracked our code and they need to fix that problem. Other thought is, we have tended to play to the level of our competition. If that still holds, our play will elevate with the perceived threat faced. Our D is going to be a step above what OSU has faced. Our offense just has to produce and to do that, Quinn must be protected. I just hope the ACC crew is better than Big12, Big10 and SEC refs have proven to be this season. If they call it even, we should be good.
  23. Let me give you a little insight into why Quinn seems to eat against stronger opponents such as Michigan, Bama, etc. Most teams that play Texas say.. "Fuck this, we need to keep everything in front of us." So Quinn has played against the three high safety look the majority of his career in Austin. Certainly the B12, but teams did it a bunch against us this year as well. However, when you find teams that say "We are good enough to guard them, we will play them in single or two high looks", then Quinn suddenly goes off. He is hitting worthy for moonshots all day against Bama, he is torching Michigan's secondary, etc. When Quinn wasn't running for his life against Georgia, he started putting together some nice downfield throws. He has been far more accurate the last three games down the field and outside of the numbers. Now he just needs to not float the ball and we could see a true offensive explosion. I predict that he is going to hit some big plays down the field versus tOSU. Knowles is one of the better 3 high defensive coordinators out there, but he doesn't run that concept all the time because they have the athletes to cover in man. Once they go man, I expect Quinn to carve them up. When they roll back into a 3 high look, I expect us to try and run the ball with the wide zone. If Quinn breaks 300 yards against tOSU, I think we win that game.
  24. So we are going by wins? It is settled, he is the greatest Longhorn QB of all time then. Or is it Colt who won what 44 games? Or is it Vince, because he won the National championship? Are you seeing my logic now? See, there are differences in opinion. I'm not saying you are wrong, even though I don't agree with your opinion. Why am I wrong because of mine? I'm not the one with flawed logic.
  25. The Pate podcast was a pretty depressing listen and hard to argue with much of it. People try to compare this to the Texas/USC game but it's not remotely the same. Sure, the media talking head predictions may be the same but for those of us that watched every snap that season there was a ton of confidence based on actual X's and O's. That Texas team flat out dominated damn near every week including destroying Colorado in the Big 12 championship game. If anything USC was similar to Texas in that year in that they underachieved much more frequently despite winning (although they, along with Texas, played their A game in the Championship). This Texas team hasn't put a complete game together really since Michigan (well UTSA/ULM if you want to count poor competition). Starting with MSU we fucked around and have done it every game since. Florida was the best performance and even that took a 4th down conversion inside our own 25 YL to wake the damn offense up. I think it's absolutely fair for talking heads (and everyone) to wonder if Texas has an "A" game in them at this point as it really isn't "recency bias" as much as wondering if this is just who Texas is. That being said, for OSU, I think the jury is definitely still out whether they really are the team we saw the last 2 weeks (i.e., as Josh Pate stated, have they turned into LSU 2019 buzzsaw that is just that much better than anyone) or will they revert to the mean. I'll be fascinated to see how Sark coaches this game given the dynamics in play and given that we don't have a ton of matchups on paper that we love. There is absolutely still a path for Texas to win but going to need to somehow put it all together for 4 quarters. I don't disagree with Pate's assessment that we either have to be able to run the ball consistently or win the turnover battle by 2 or more to win.
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