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5 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I guess?  For unanimous “perfect” recruits ?

They were graded for being college recruits, not NFL players. I don't think any were graded as perfect by NFL scouts...well maybe Clowney was.

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A lot of people taking the opportunity to kick Ewers while he’s down and exaggerate their grievances. He’s far from the elite talent we were told he was coming out of high school and I think some will forever be bitter about that. Nevertheless, if he chooses to work hard, make some difficult adjustments to his inner-circle, and adapt, he’ll make a career out of quarterbacking in the NFL about on par with Drew Lock. He’ll likely never be a franchise guy, but few are. That’s okay. I’m just thankful he was a Longhorn.

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19 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Seriously dude, that’s sad. This is a sports board; what did you ‘win’?

i just spent the last 15 minutes going over posts from november of 2023 where the people on this board *crushed me*, and not in an, “i disagree with your takes” type of way, but in a, “i fucking hate you, nobody loves you, you’re a piece of shit” type of way, all because i had the gall to not blindly anoint QE and to have a differing opinion. i attacked no one; i was not insulting; and yet not only was i relentlessly attacked with personal shit talk, but i was then blamed for “derka’ing the thread”, when in fact i was the only civil person among the dozen+ people posting in the conversation. oh and in the end, i was right after all. and now you suddenly have a problem with me bringing that back up and pointing it out? too fucking bad. walk a mile in my shoes and then get back at me.

oh yeah, the cherry on top? not only was i posting non-combative, non-insulting, earnest football takes and getting relentless personal shit talk in return, someone even posted, “no one here is attacking you, people are just disagreeing with you and you can’t handle it.” i then quoted 10 different ad hominem personal attacks aimed at me from that day alone, and absolutely nobody even acknowledged it. it’s maga levels of self delusion and hatred that i’ve had to put up with. and you want me to just sit back and take it? no thank you. 

this routine where you guys get to be humongous pieces of shit to me for my (again, CORRECT but unpopular) football takes, but then you’ve suddenly got a huge problem with when i decide to call those people out for it? yeah, fuck all that. don’t start none won’t be none. you don’t get the moral high ground when you’re the asshole.

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8 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

Thank you Quinn. Hook'em!

 

back to back final fours, he raised the bar 

4 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

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just like old coach mack, he made winning here look easy 

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3 minutes ago, Derka said:

i just spent the last 15 minutes going over posts from november of 2023 where the people in this board *crushed me*, and not in an, “i disagree with your takes” type of way, but in a, “i fucking hate you, nobody loves you, you’re a piece of shit” type of way, all because i had the gall to not blindly anoint QE and to have a differing opinion. i attacked no one; i was relentlessly attacked with personal shit talk; and in the end, i was right. and now you suddenly have a problem with me bringing that back up and pointing it out? too fucking bad. walk a mile in my shoes and then get back at me.

oh yeah, the cherry on top? not only was i posting non-combative, non-insulting earnest football takes and getting personal shit talk in return, someone even posted, “no one here is attacking you, people are just disagreeing with you and you can’t handle it.” i then quoted 10 different ad hominem personal attacks aimed at me from that day alone, and absolutely nobody even acknowledged it.

this routine where you guys get to be humongous pieces of shit to me for my (again, CORRECT but unpopular) football takes, but then you’ve suddenly got a huge problem with when i decide to call those people out for it? yeah, fuck all that. don’t start none won’t be none. you don’t get the moral high ground when you’re the asshole.

That's just kind of the Internet. 

I've been calling out Ewers here since the 2023 season when he just wouldn't take the next step and wasn't showing improvement. People shit all over me for it. Blacklab bans me about once every month or two. 

Who cares? It was obvious to anyone who could put aside the homer blinders that the guy wasn't improving, and especially this 2024 season where he held the offense back a ton. Everyone wanted to believe he was the perfect 1.000 rating QB they were told he was. I wanted to see him develop into that guy and win us a national championship with the best defense in the country this season. He never did it. 

We ended up being right.  So just bring it up, take some shots, and move on. No reason to get upset about it. 

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1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

back to back final fours, he raised the bar 

 

just like old coach mack, he made winning here look easy 

He had a top rated defense and 22 draft picks in '23 and '24 carrying him. He wasn't Ehlinger out there trying to do it with only a couple of dudes that would even be drafted. 

Sark, PK, and the defense raised the bar. The QB and offense lagged. It's time to for that to be corrected in 2025. 

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2 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Who cares?

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“that’s just kind of the internet.” exactly. so when i catch a bunch of hell for having a dissenting opinion that ends up being correct, i now get to respond. that’s how it goes. 

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1 minute ago, Hermanator said:

He had a top rated defense and 22 draft picks in '23 and '24 carrying him. He wasn't Ehlinger out there trying to do it with only a couple of dudes that would even be drafted. 

Sark, PK, and the defense raised the bar. The QB and offense lagged. It's time to for that to be corrected in 2025. 

the back half of the year i seem to recall us struggling to get first downs after half time, forget scoring TDs. we had some incredibly ugly, frustrating, ineffective second halves from our offense, meanwhile the defense was the best we’ve had in a decade+, and probably one of the 5 best in school history. the imbalance in what the defense did for us vs how QE and Auburn failed to fulfill their duties was a shame.

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1 minute ago, Derka said:

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“that’s just kind of the internet.” exactly. so when i catch a bunch of hell for having a dissenting opinion that ends up being correct, i now get to respond. that’s how it goes. 

So respond like you did. But no one is ever going to tell you that you were right and they were wrong. That doesn't happen. People will stick to the dumbest of ideas and stupidest of decisions (look at Washington DC) for life just to avoid admitting they were wrong. 

So rub it in and move on. It's fun 

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3 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

But no one is ever going to tell you that you were right and they were wrong.

don’t need them to. rubbing their noses in their giant pile of feces will suffice. all they had to do was disagree without being insulting. oopsies. maybe next time.

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48 minutes ago, Derka said:

oof. i’m currently taking screenshots for my victory lap, but i had to stop to quote this one. hope you’re hungry for some crow.

 

I could bait you further, but this was clearly a 1.5 year old troll post. Hope you get the help you need, bud

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Hook 'em, Quinn. You were the best we've had since Colt. Thanks for helping us return to prominence. You're a really great person and are a fantastic representative of our university. I'll always be grateful that you came to Texas after Turtle Tom was ousted and I'm excited to see what you do on the next level.

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4 minutes ago, Atticus said:

I could bait you further, but this was clearly a 1.5 year old troll post. Hope you get the help you need, bud

He said he woke up at 5pm today. Y’all ain’t ready for his retribution!!

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35 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

So respond like you did. But no one is ever going to tell you that you were right and they were wrong. That doesn't happen. People will stick to the dumbest of ideas and stupidest of decisions (look at Washington DC) for life just to avoid admitting they were wrong. 

So rub it in and move on. It's fun 


@DerkaYou were right and most of the idiots on this thread, including @Hermanator , were wrong.

I will admit it. Hermanator was wrong.

 

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Napoleon said:

 

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Why would you think that a 7th round pick is automatically going to be the 2nd string QB?

He’s 2nd string. Tua injured and Zack Wilson will suck or be injured and he’s gonna play next year. 

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i'm fucking tired of you guys shitting on Quinn so much. Garrett Gilbert didnt get this much disrespect. Quinn brought us to the playoffs 2 years in a row. Gilbert threw 4 INTs in the NCG and said he was the savior after Colt. No offense, we had CASE MCCOY as QB1 recently. Quinn could Tom Brady/Brock Purdy this draft and fuck the haters.

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2 minutes ago, Intercourse With Gray said:

i'm fucking tired of you guys shitting on Quinn so much. Garrett Gilbert didnt get this much disrespect. Quinn brought us to the playoffs 2 years in a row. Gilbert threw 4 INTs in the NCG and said he was the savior after Colt. No offense, we had CASE MCCOY as QB1 recently. Quinn could Tom Brady/Brock Purdy this draft and fuck the haters.

This thread has given me the aids 

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14 minutes ago, Intercourse With Gray said:

Quinn could Tom Brady/Brock Purdy this draft and fuck the haters.

I would love for him to do that if it is not against the Saints. I'll support QE forever. He brought us to two semifinal games. He got us in a position to win both of them, but unfortunately, things didn't go our way. I believe there is a mental block going on with him since that injury and it plagued him throughout the year. I hope he blossoms in the NFL.

 

It is crazy how much love Sam got; he never brought us anywhere close to what Quinn did.

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9 minutes ago, Intercourse With Gray said:

It’s depressing how many UT fans believe Ewers is trash. Hes quite good compared to QBs we had the past 10 years

Idk man. The league jet spoke in a big way. From perfect recruit to barely drafted. It’s cool he played QB at Texas but he was not a strength of the team. Ehlinger was drafted higher for reference. 

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1 hour ago, Intercourse With Gray said:

Its depressing how many UT fans believe Ewers is trash. Hes quite good compared to QBs we had the past 10 years

he’s on par with the likes of sam ehlinger, james brown, and major applewhite, but with none of the moxie, or ability to make plays outside of script. he was one of the poorer starters on two of the best teams we’ve ever had, and he failed to improve as his career went on. he had every advantage that any qb could ask for, from coaching, to supporting cast, to schedule, and he underachieved despite all of that. 

it’s really this simple: the people who think that QE was some legend, or that he “led” Texas to the playoffs, or that the people who criticize him are crazy, simply credit QE with “bringing Texas back” because he’s the QB and we won a bunch of games the past two years. some of you can’t separate our w/l record from QE’s personal performance. we won a lot, therefore QE must be great, and must be responsible for all of those wins. except that we won in spite of him, not because of him.

this was where PFF ranked quinn ewers after week 12 (i would have posted the final numbers, but this was the the most recent ratings i could find):

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through 12 weeks of football, quinn ewers was rated as the 13th best qb in the sec, and the 200th best qb in america according to PFF. this is who he is. yes, we won a ton of games the last two seasons. we also had more nfl talent than anyone in CFB, we have one of the ~3 best coaching staffs in football, and last season we had the best defense in cfb, with stars at all three levels. easy schedule, loaded team, all star coaching staff- mediocre, undependable qb.

at this point, anyone who still can’t see that quinn ewers was an obvious weak link for these last two teams is probably self deluded beyond repair. i don’t know how many more experts have to tell you that he wasn’t good, how much more analytical data you need to see, or how many hundreds of players have to be drafted ahead of him before you people wake up from your burnt orange kool-aid stupor and realize that quinn ewers was absolutely nothing special at Texas, and that nobody outside of this echo chamber sees him the way you do.

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Posted
1 hour ago, 6th Street said:

Weak arm, poor deep ball accuracy, bad pocket presence, and turnover prone. Can't believe we wasted a championship level defense on this bum.

No need for use of words like “bum”.

You can point out deficiencies without the dig at the end. 

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5 hours ago, Intercourse With Gray said:

Its depressing how many UT fans believe Ewers is trash. Hes quite good compared to QBs we had the past 10 years

He's not better than Ehlinger. 

But other than that, the previous 10 years aren't the bar anymore. The day that NIL was instituted, the portal opened, and an army of Texas money came in to give Sark the ability to build the best defense since national championship game level teams the entire program changed. 

Quinn was solid in 2022 with what he had. He was solid in 2023 with what he had. He was below average in 2024 with the greatness he had around him. 

And twice he was in the semi finals with the ball, and potentially the game, in his hands inside the 15 yd line. And twice he failed to deliver. 

Once the NIL and portal hit that no longer became good enough at the QB position for this program. The bar is raised to the heights of the best programs in the country. Being a solid college QB won't get it done. This program has greatness all throughout the roster now. It needs it at QB. 

I do not know how Ewers will fare at the NFL level, but as has been pointed out for months now, he has a ton of holes in his game that doom QBs at that level. The NFL draft proved that out. Hopefully he does improve a ton and stick in the league for a while, but none of us should hold our breath for it. He's a 7th round flyer on a practice squad spot. Now it's time to look to a better and brighter future with sustained NIL fueled success and hope Arch can deliver where Ewers did not. 

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5 hours ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

 

 

It is crazy how much love Sam got; he never brought us anywhere close to what Quinn did.

You do realize there's 21 other starters, and dozens of backups, on the team other than QB, right? 

Plus there's different levels of coaching staff. 

Look at what Ehlinger had to work with, what coaches he had, and compare to what Ewers had. 

It's like saying someone is a great driver because he did better in a race with a Ferrari compared to another guy driving a minivan. 

Ehlinger had a team and coaches so full of "don't give a shit" they left his ass alone on the field for the playing of the "Eyes" in the cotton bowl. 

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