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35 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

If we can get to the point where we have the type of talent differential on the Oline that bama had we will be. 
 

Although I can’t help but wonder if there weren’t a few times where he was ready to go with some boneheaded call and Saban said fuck that we’re running off tackle

Do you remember those years? Sark was running orbit motion bubbles to the WRs and scheming wide open touchdowns to the guys that the defense were keyed in on. 
 

Saban can suck my balls

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8 minutes ago, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

If I recall Ohio State ran it from under center and not pistol. Will need to go back and check. Also need to check blockers vs defenders on that play. 

I'll grant the specifics may be different and I am pretty sure you're correct. The main point is the bigger picture that a good game day OC would have caught it or should have anyway. If it is your opponents habit, and you've done it in the past, probably not a good thing to do on such a critical series of downs. 

If your a HC running a program, the offensive game plan, game day plan, half time adjustments, Auburn whispering, berating the special teams coach, kissing the DCs ass for saving yours, all while trying to tell your Head case QB he's good and managing around his limitations, it makes sense you might miss something like that reality.

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21 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

2nd down should have been some type of play fake pass. Throw it away if nothing is there. At least, you could maybe catch the defense off guard. They dared us to run up the middle and were selling out for that. But once the toss happened and put us 9 yards away, now it completely changes everything. They know we have to pass and use the back of the endzone as another defender. That type of toss play was the worst call, especially when it looked choreographed. Defense knew it was coming and played downhill accordingly. It's now 9 trying to block 11, with an already suspect OL. Recipe for disaster. 

Halfback pass would’ve been dope

Sark calls RPO there with a legit QB and the QB scrambles in for a TD. 

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5 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Halfback pass would’ve been dope

Sark calls RPO there with a legit QB and the QB scrambles in for a TD. 

I have an addiction for them and blame James Brown but bootleg reverse with Arch and Wisner fake left Helm running a Drag right..  6 of one half dozen of another.

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10 hours ago, closetohumping said:

We played a trash schedule. That’s not sarks fault.  Who knew Michigan, Florida, aggy and ou would suck?  Ok maybe the last two but still.  We didn’t beat anyone with a pulse.  

You know that all the teams you mentioned had very good defenses.

 Hell ou and Michigan are both top ten in defensive fei. They are legit defenses which is why and how they made bama and milroe look broken.

 

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Just now, TheYoungHorn said:

You know that all the teams you mentioned had very good defenses.

 Hell ou and Michigan are both top ten in defensive fei. They are legit defenses which is why and how they made bama and milroe look broken.

 

What happened is that our defense was suffocating, especially against subpar quarterbacking and thus they and Florida got swamped because they couldn’t stay on the field.

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4 hours ago, Zeus said:

Thank God Sark can’t keep starting Quinn. He’s going to look like an offensive genius again next season. 
 

He’s was unstoppable at Alabama with fucking Mac Jones dishing the ball. 
 

Average competent QB play and we are on to ND, and only have the 1 loss to Georgia. 
 

Our defense was probably one of the greatest wastes of talent we’ve ever had not winning the title this year. 

This was indeed the #2 waste of defensive talent in UT history, only behind the 1983 team.  #1 ranked D all season, and if memory serves correctly, all senior starters drafted into the pros, and a backup senior drafted as well.  Many people maintain that if Fred had started Rob Moerschell at QB in the 1984 CB, we would have an additional NC to our name.   Instead we had Rick McIvor throwing darts at receivers who dropped many passes in the CB and the infamous dropped punt by Craig Curry in the 10-9 loss to Georgia.  

The strange factoid of the day is that nobody knew that game lost us the NC while it was being played.  We didn't know it until Miami upset Nebraska 31-30 in the Orange Bowl, in the best bowl game I have ever seen until the 2003? Fiesta bowl, Ohio State vs. Miami, the game when Miami's great RB got hurt, and then of course the top two bowl games ever, the 2005 Rose Bowl and the 2006 Rose Bowl. 

 

 

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On 1/12/2025 at 11:57 AM, BurntEyes said:

A bootleg fake toss left, rolling back right Quinn walks in, tossed a gimme to Juan or whomever. 

Any sort of action that fakes left and rolls right, easy TD. 

There were 5 sacked 4 us on the left and the safeties bought early.

Agreed. If Sark wanted to break his tendency,  that’s  is a great time to do it. Bellichek. Pete Carroll …

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16 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

why isn't ut making a move like this ? they have the money

 

 

Banks is widely regarded as one of, if not the best special teams coach in college football. And we pay him a lot for it. While their were some key fuck ups this year, in general special teams have been good under Banks. Changing a rainmaking position to an NFL guy that knows shit about college recruiting would be fucking stupid. 

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Banks is widely regarded as one of, if not the best special teams coach in college football. And we pay him a lot for it. While their were some key fuck ups this year, in general special teams have been good under Banks. Changing a rainmaking position to an NFL guy that knows shit about college recruiting would be fucking stupid. 

Coaching special teams is like on the water boy. Just run some laps with farmer Fran.
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13 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


Coaching special teams is like on the water boy. Just run some laps with farmer Fran.

It's insane to me that this sport has an aspect of the game kicking/punting evolve so that insanely specialized players are the only ones capable.  Special teams coaches are responsible for coaching the other 10 players on the field, but just cross their fingers with the most important.  They should have just phased kicking out of the game 30+ years ago.

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2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

A good buddy of mine from HS was the deep snapper at A&M for 4 years. He said he, P, and K all would dip Copenhagen and fart around most of the time at practice. And they were all good at their positions. Maybe things have changed in last 30 years, but seemed to be pretty low stress. 

 

 

I'm sure it's changed, but probably just someone that tries to get them to focus on keeping things consistent for the most part.  I doubt many special teams coaches are actually giving useful instructions on kicking mechanics.

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Jim Rome was interviewing someone from NFL Network today and Rome says something to the effect that the name he keeps hearing coming up for the Cowboys job is "Sark, Sark, Sark."

NFL Network guy said he thought Texas job a better job than the Cowboys job.  I was a little surprised they spent a couple minutes discussing pros and cons for Sark taking that job.

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4 hours ago, 7KHorn said:

Jim Rome was interviewing someone from NFL Network today and Rome says something to the effect that the name he keeps hearing coming up for the Cowboys job is "Sark, Sark, Sark."

NFL Network guy said he thought Texas job a better job than the Cowboys job.  I was a little surprised they spent a couple minutes discussing pros and cons for Sark taking that job.

To me the NFL is a much better gig at this point but I suppose that's personal preference.

I actually don't think Sark would be a particularly good NFL HC. Much of his success here has simply been an effect of the roster he's built; which of course he gets a ton of credit for as a college coach, but it would not work like that in the NFL. His track record in games where the other side has something approaching a similar talent level isn't great and he was a mediocre NFL OC.

I'm not real worried about him leaving because he seems like a pretty self aware guy and probably knows that. And he's put so much into Texas and is now so close, with Arch fucking Manning about to take the keys, I have a hard time seeing him walk away from that.

Especially to work for NFL aggy lol.

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Nobody gives a shit, but after some time for thought, here is where I am at with the past season.

Our OL was pretty good, but struggled against elite defensive lines.  Our QB was pretty good, but was never very mobile, had to play hurt much of the time and became very jittery in the pocket as the year went on.  Quinn being the statue he is was a less than ideal QB for our line given their limitations, and our line was less than ideal for Quinn given his limitations.  A mobile QB would have had a better chance of success behind that line.  This really only mattered when we played our two toughest opponents -- Georgia and Ohio State -- though it did help make some other wins unnecessarily close.

Well we played those two opponents three times and lost all three, two of those losses costing us championships.  In all 3 of those losses, an ineffectual offense was the primary factor.  The damming thing about that to me, and its all on Sark, is that we had a mobile QB on the sideline that we could have meaningfully tried at any point during those 3 losses to see if their mobility made the difference.  We never meaningfully tried.  I say meaningfully because a couple series in the first half in the first GA game is not a meaningful attempt to see if an Arch offense could be more successful.

I love Sark.  He's our guy for the foreseeable future (if he wants to be) and rightfully so.  But he needs to fucking reflect on that.

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It seems some on here are banking on Arch running around and saving us like Klubnik or Leavitt and I think they are in store for disappointment. Wasn’t the thought during his recruitment that they ruled out places like Clemson and Ole Miss because they didn’t want Arch to be a battering ram or hero ball QB?

The Manning’s didn’t send him here to be Sam Ehlinger and I was honestly pretty surprised we used him in the role we did this year but that probably speaks volumes to the short yardage/redzone issues and it was such a specialty role. Some of the stuff he did against Georgia the first time was him just being a young QB facing Georgia running around like a chicken with his head cut off.

Now that he is the full time guy it is going to be hammered in his head to avoid big hits and scramble to throw. His mobility will be nice and likely open up the playbook a little bit more and I’m sure we will mix in some QB run more often than we ever did with Ewers, but those expecting him to regularly register 10 carries a game are probably going to be screaming after games about why we “didn’t run Arch more??”

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12 hours ago, 7KHorn said:

Jim Rome was interviewing someone from NFL Network today and Rome says something to the effect that the name he keeps hearing coming up for the Cowboys job is "Sark, Sark, Sark."

NFL Network guy said he thought Texas job a better job than the Cowboys job.  I was a little surprised they spent a couple minutes discussing pros and cons for Sark taking that job.

Jim Rome is still around? The surprise of the year.

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18 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

It seems some on here are banking on Arch running around and saving us like Klubnik or Leavitt and I think they are in store for disappointment. Wasn’t the thought during his recruitment that they ruled out places like Clemson and Ole Miss because they didn’t want Arch to be a battering ram or hero ball QB?

The Manning’s didn’t send him here to be Sam Ehlinger and I was honestly pretty surprised we used him in the role we did this year but that probably speaks volumes to the short yardage/redzone issues and it was such a specialty role. Some of the stuff he did against Georgia the first time was him just being a young QB facing Georgia running around like a chicken with his head cut off.

Now that he is the full time guy it is going to be hammered in his head to avoid big hits and scramble to throw. His mobility will be nice and likely open up the playbook a little bit more and I’m sure we will mix in some QB run more often than we ever did with Ewers, but those expecting him to regularly register 10 carries a game are probably going to be screaming after games about why we “didn’t run Arch more??”

I expect QBs to make plays with their feet in modern football. I do not expect tons of designed runs or QB power from our QBs. I expect Arch to be a better playmaker and extender of drives with feet and moving around the pocket. 

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13 minutes ago, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

I expect QBs to make plays with their feet in modern football. I do not expect tons of designed runs or QB power from our QBs. I expect Arch to be a better playmaker and extender of drives with feet and moving around the pocket. 

I think the main thing I expect from our offense with Arch at the helm is to have that QB sneak (ten-wedge, anyone?) on tap, a better deep ball, running plays where the QB actually has to be accounted for by at least one of the defenders, and a few, or even several, fewer plays where the QB doesn't seem resigned to being sacked. 

Oh, and Arch or no Arch, let's not lose any games because we don't have a red zone ability. 

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11 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

I think the main thing I expect from our offense with Arch at the helm is to have that QB sneak (ten-wedge, anyone?) on tap, a better deep ball, running plays where the QB actually has to be accounted for by at least one of the defenders, and a few, or even several, fewer plays where the QB doesn't seem resigned to being sacked. 

Oh, and Arch or no Arch, let's not lose any games because we don't have a red zone ability. 

The QB sneak is definitely in the playbook with him. Ran (or tried to run it) it 4 or 5 times this year with him under center (CSU, Miss State a couple of times, Clemson).

Ewers sucked at it (the few times we tried it last year) and was so fragile this year that they didn't trust him to take hits.

It should also probably be noted that you need a good center when executing a QB sneak. Majors was only in there for a few of the attempts, so it's tough to know if he was good at it or not, but we need to hope his replacement is. 

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No doubt QB sneak is back on the table. As mentioned, we ran it with ease for Arch vs. Colorado St, but had some issues with it later on. Sark was chewing Arch out when it took multiple attempts vs. Miss St. 

Feel pretty comfortable we will get that sorted out this offseason. 

 

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The easiest way to get yards, especially in the red zone, is a straight line up the middle.  The easiest way to blow up plays is once again a straight line up the middle.  We can talk about Quinn, Arch, blah blah blah whatever but this Oline has to be better straight up the middle than they have been.  1.  It enables the running scheme Sark really wants to use and 2.  Well that's just football.  

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I expect QBs to make plays with their feet in modern football. I do not expect tons of designed runs or QB power from our QBs. I expect Arch to be a better playmaker and extender of drives with feet and moving around the pocket. 

Yeah, I don’t expect him to be ran like Sam. But doing what Colt did by keeping defenses honest or scrambling for available yards as opposed to being sacked or throwing it away is definitely what needs to happen.
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