Game Thread Roadkill vs trampling longhorns LHN 7 PM

[Sawbonz 27551]

35 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Man, we should probably just do that every time.

Too much winning isn’t good for the kids 

[stork642 4498]

8 hours ago, 6th Street said:

They should be embarrassed. Lost to a QB that can't complete a pass longer than 5 yards. 

Even in victory you suck.  

[TexasRenegade 2435]

It looked like to me at least, Card wasn't stepping into his throes yesterday.

 

That may have been his ankle I don't know, but it sure seemed like he was short stepping a bubch?

[Treefidy 1463]

1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The weird thing is I've never seen that type of burst from Card even when healthy. 

If Card can move like that and QE isn't back the offense should definitely be more focused on using Card's legs. 

He was an outstanding WR playing opposite of Garrett Wilson in HS, fast, elusive and athletic.   Once he transitioned to QB he stopped that for the most part, he was never going to grow into a frame that could take the punishment of a dual threat in college.  

[Bobby Layne 268]

10 hours ago, Texasrocks said:

I was impressed by Traylor. He certainly out coached Sark. UTSA was well prepared and fired up. They had a good game plan and did really well for having a patchwork o-line. Harris torched our corner blitzes like he knew what the play call was. They obviously scouted our kick off team and looked for Watts all night. UTSA coaches did their homework. Fortunately, they don't have a RoJo or a Bijan. 

I agree Traylor outfoxed the Horns for 1.5 quarters. Ummm. Seems like, after that we shut them down all second half (3 pts?) and found ways (coaching) for our playmakers to win by 21. You are correct about Watts. He seems to be the new Chykie Brown. Great hitter but can’t cover a headstone. We did win tho. Big. 

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

3 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The Traylor infatuation is very similar to Herman at this point. 

He lost by 21 points to a team with their backup QB and it would have been worse if Texas kept their starters in. Traylor is a fine coach but acting like he did anything special in this game is stupid. 

no it's not stupid. The game was in the balance deep into the q3 until the pick 6 which decided it.  UT has to make some sensational plays to win it where they had the talent at almost every position except QB and TE.  Their fatass OL and DL gave UT all they could handle. 

[Rickylovesweed 14297]

5 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

no it's not stupid. The game was in the balance deep into the q3 until the pick 6 which decided it.  UT has to make some sensational plays to win it where they had the talent at almost every position except QB and TE.  Their fatass OL and DL gave UT all they could handle. 

What exactly do you think Traylor did in this game that was spectacular? 

The only reason this wasn't a 40 point win for Texas is because Frank Harris is a magician. Texas still won by 21 and it would have been closer to 30 if Sark didn't pull the starters. With a backup quarterback. 

This is so Herman-esque where people will find anything to support their love for Traylor. 

Edited September 19, 2022 by Rickylovesweed

[Valmy77 13226]

2 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

no it's not stupid. The game was in the balance deep into the q3 until the pick 6 which decided it.  UT has to make some sensational plays to win it where they had the talent at almost every position except QB and TE.  Their fatass OL and DL gave UT all they could handle. 

I mean those were certainly very successful plays but sensational? The ball went right to that DB. Those were pretty nice holes Bijan ran through. It wasn't like we were making circus one handed catches or spinning Barry Sanders like through 18 tackles. We rushed for 300 yards, they recorded zero sacks...yet their DL gave us all we could handle? Then fucking hope every defensive line gives us all we handle if that is what counts as domination these days.

Our defense was all over their QB all day, they rushed for three yards a carry. Sure we never could actually get to the guy but that is their OLine giving us all we could handle? Well I hope every OLine gives us all we can handle then.

This is crazy talk. UTSA played well but stop smoking crack, this was not some UTSA domination overcome by circus impossible plays by UT. That's fucking ridiculous. You are just making shit up.

[Duane Moore 5237]

Iowa, Notre Dame, Florida, Arkansas, ATM, UCLA - all big name programs that have lost to or eked out narrow victories against teams similar to or lesser than UTSA’s quality. Not to mention Nebraska’s complete immolation. 
 

I’m not going to be upset about that win at all. 

[Codaxx 5738]

9 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

no it's not stupid. The game was in the balance deep into the q3 until the pick 6 which decided it.  UT has to make some sensational plays to win it where they had the talent at almost every position except QB and TE.  Their fatass OL and DL gave UT all they could handle. 

Hmm. Texas leading rusher had 20 carries for 183 yards and UTSA had 21 for 70. Texas had almost 300 yards rushing and didn’t give up a sack, but yeah UTSA DL gave them all they could handle. 

[Mo Horn 8833]

I don't remember hearing JT Sanders named called Saturday night. Maybe once. It seems like Quinn looked for him and understood how important he is to us. I don't think Card has targeted him once since he replaced Quinn. He's gotta be a big part of our offense, and the sooner he is the better we'll be, but probably not as long as Card is in there. 

[ztejas 43420]

5 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

I don't remember hearing JT Sanders named called Saturday night. Maybe once. It seems like Quinn looked for him and understood how important he is to us. I don't think Card has targeted him once since he replaced Quinn. He's gotta be a big part of our offense, and the sooner he is the better we'll be, but probably not as long as Card is in there. 

Card only completed 15 passes. JT had a catch and at least one more target on top of that. 

[immamac 42847]

10 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

I don't remember hearing JT Sanders named called Saturday night. Maybe once. It seems like Quinn looked for him and understood how important he is to us. I don't think Card has targeted him once since he replaced Quinn. He's gotta be a big part of our offense, and the sooner he is the better we'll be, but probably not as long as Card is in there. 

JT has also been making some of the most clutch blocks taking his man and sometimes 2 out of run plays. He’s a devastating Blocker. 

[Levi 2586]

41 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

no it's not stupid. The game was in the balance deep into the q3 until the pick 6 which decided it.  UT has to make some sensational plays to win it where they had the talent at almost every position except QB and TE.  Their fatass OL and DL gave UT all they could handle. 

Wait, are you saying they had better talent at the TE position compared to us? 

[Pig Bellmont 8717]

2 hours ago, Hozz said:

He mentioned it towards the end of his post game presser.  He basically accused Texas of illegally piping in noise.

Maybe he forgot what 100,000 fans sounds like

[Auto Driller 2505]

29 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Maybe he forgot what 100,000 fans sounds like

He was here in 2015-16 right? He probably never experienced 100,000 fans in the first place.

[Sawbonz 27551]

32 minutes ago, DoneWithit said:

Wait, are you saying they had better talent at the TE position compared to us? 

If you are talking about for a pie eating contest then no question yes

[SilasCoade 2622]

Just now, Sawbonz said:

If you are talking about for a pie eating contest then no question yes

LOL they were lining up a guard in a number 9 jersey out there. And he was killing them.

[Sawbonz 27551]

39 minutes ago, immamac said:

JT has also been making some of the most clutch blocks taking his man and sometimes 2 out of run plays. He’s a devastating Blocker. 

JT was a beast in the run game 

[BERT 4358]

1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

no it's not stupid. The game was in the balance deep into the q3 until the pick 6 which decided it.  UT has to make some sensational plays to win it where they had the talent at almost every position except QB and TE.  Their fatass OL and DL gave UT all they could handle. 

[Knighthawk 284]

Don’t hire Traylor.   Hire Frank fuckin Harris.   Without that dude, this was going to be a 50 point win if not more even with Card at QB.   That dude played his ass off.   Traylor better find a new gig at the end of the year before getting exposed next year without Harris and those receivers. 

[TexasMan 10891]

10 hours ago, Axle Hongsnort said:

There were a shitload of annoying UTSA fans in section one.

Same in section 14. Reminded me of U of H fans 

[Walte464 450]

3 hours ago, Hozz said:

He mentioned it towards the end of his post game presser.  He basically accused Texas of illegally piping in noise.

We have 6 band speakers on the left side of the bench next to the cannon that blare when the band is allowed to play. I wouldn’t doubt that the piping in that traylor is talking about. It was cranked to the max this game.

[hookem48 4687]

didn't get to see the game due to my daughter's wedding, just got through watching the replay and if you look at that game as anything other than Texas taking care of business with a backup QB after a huge fucking letdown against Bama then you're a special brand of stupid.

[Loop 1604 227]

4 hours ago, Hozz said:

He mentioned it towards the end of his post game presser.  He basically accused Texas of illegally piping in noise.

Fuck Traylor. He’ll never coach here again I hope. Herman 2.0.
 

Seems like Baylor or Houston is more his speed anyway. He’s toast once Harris is gone.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Loop 1604

[83Horn 1640]

48 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

He was here in 2015-16 right? He probably never experienced 100,000 fans in the first place.

Notre Dame in 2016 had something like 102,000 and it was very loud.

[Mitch Cumsteen 18549]

12 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

didn't get to see the game due to my daughter's wedding, just got through watching the replay and if you look at that game as anything other than Texas taking care of business with a backup QB after a huge fucking letdown against Bama then you're a special brand of stupid.

Congratulations but I think we’re all disappointed in your parenting allowing your daughter to get married during a UT game.

[boilerhorn 1377]

7 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

According to Reddit, sometime in the post game it was discussed that Traylor was unhappy about the speakers being so loud next to their bench they couldn’t communicate. Traylor also said it was the loudest stadium he’s ever been in. That must have been the discussion. 

We fans have been complaining about how loud (and shitty) the music has been - from the jumbotron and otherwise - for years.  Traylor should be thankful he only has to deal with it once every 2 or so years.

[dcar00 14182]

Did someone tell Traylor that "if it's too loud, he's too old"?

[Huckleberry 32859]

Hey Traylor, take the loss pussy

[Loop 1604 227]

13 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

We fans have been complaining about how loud (and shitty) the music has been - from the jumbotron and otherwise - for years.  Traylor should be thankful he only has to deal with it once every 2 or so years.

[bullet 1596]

4 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The constant complaining about the band being put in the upper deck, no AC in the locker rooms, and "piped in noise" always makes me roll my eyes. 

I guess Texas is the only school that's not allowed to make things difficult for a road team. 

Georgia brought in a full A/C system for their locker rooms at South Carolina.  Will Muschamp is now D-coordinator at Georgia and used to coach at South Carolina, so I guess he knew what to expect in the locker rooms.

[honolulu horn 6158]

4 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The constant complaining about the band being put in the upper deck, no AC in the locker rooms, and "piped in noise" always makes me roll my eyes. 

I guess Texas is the only school that's not allowed to make things difficult for a road team. 

We're supposed to be the classy kind of school that welcomes the opposing band to great seats, treats other fanbases with generosity, and then tells our outside linebacker to put a dirty hit on the opposing QB so that you ruin his shoulder for a few games. 

[HtownHorn 14678]

2 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

I don't remember hearing JT Sanders named called Saturday night. Maybe once. It seems like Quinn looked for him and understood how important he is to us. I don't think Card has targeted him once since he replaced Quinn. He's gotta be a big part of our offense, and the sooner he is the better we'll be, but probably not as long as Card is in there. 

Card still can't get through his progressions, so Sanders would only get a look if it was Card's 1st read, and it was usually covered. He also did deliver a couple of balls down the field that were late to Sanders. One was an incompletion and the other was a contested catch in the EZ, that was coming back due to a penalty. Card just isn't accurate more than 12-15 yards down the field.

[bullet 1596]

2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

Hmm. Texas leading rusher had 20 carries for 183 yards and UTSA had 21 for 70. Texas had almost 300 yards rushing and didn’t give up a sack, but yeah UTSA DL gave them all they could handle. 

We started wearing them down at the end, but Bijan was 18 for 64 other than the two big runs in the 2nd half.

[cmontexas 3271]

Sanders was blocking his ass off

[Dahobbs 17534]

3 minutes ago, bullet said:

We started wearing them down at the end, but Bijan was 18 for 64 other than the two big runs in the 2nd half.

A lot of that is on the complete absence of a down field (or really even mid field) passing game. Our interior was definitely struggling with run blocking though. 

[Sawbonz 27551]

7 minutes ago, bullet said:

We started wearing them down at the end, but Bijan was 18 for 64 other than the two big runs in the 2nd half.

Other than that Mrs Lincoln how did you enjoy the play?

[hookem48 4687]

47 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

Congratulations but I think we’re all disappointed in your parenting allowing your daughter to get married during a UT game.

the venue she wanted was going to be this week or OU week so she did good. I could have done without my son telling me the Horns were losing right before half and killing my buzz.

[DanTheHorn 4922]

1 hour ago, 83Horn said:

Notre Dame in 2016 had something like 102,000 and it was very loud.

I was there and about 35K were Texas fans.

[Valmy77 13226]

23 minutes ago, bullet said:

We started wearing them down at the end, but Bijan was 18 for 64 other than the two big runs in the 2nd half.

The end? The 78 yard run was three minutes into the second half?!

Since when is that the end of the fucking game? And no shit if you take away all a players best plays the remaining plays aren't as impressive. What a fucking genius piece of analysis.

I bet if you took away all of Ricky Williams' runs that were 10 yards or more he wasn't that great. What a goddamn surprise.

[Valmy77 13226]

26 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

A lot of that is on the complete absence of a down field (or really even mid field) passing game. Our interior was definitely struggling with run blocking though. 

A lot of it is that is just how running the damn football goes in every fucking football game. You grind until you break through. Nobody is out there banging out 15 yards on every carry. This is completely stupid.

[PTINS 3467]

12 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

 

Texas tackling and rush containment was terrible in the 1st half.  Pretty sure Utsa had a long  20 play possession in the 1st half.

UTSA had 8 returning offensive starters from a 12-2 team (Sr QB and 3 Sr WR w/ 5,000 receiving yards between them). 68 yd, 20 play drive, included a few Texas penalties ... ~ 3 yards/play.  UTSA QB was sllppery, and made a lot of good, short throws on the run. Not much you can do about that.  Nothing was terrible.

12 hours ago, Atticus said:

You're fucking retarded if you think Traylor outcoached Sark in a game where he lost by 21.  

Sark was damn near playcalling with his hands tied due to QB. 

Texas game plan was to run the ball, knowing UTSA would stack the box.  UTSA started well, used their trick plays, and got their butts kicked. Sark did well.

12 hours ago, Hozz said:

I was super pissed off during the first half.  No excuse to play like that against this shit commuter school.  Second half obviously much better but to me it felt like without the pick 6 and Bijan, this is a 1 score game and we might have gotten the short end of that stick.  Defense just could not get off the field and all the impotent secondary blitzing gave me Todd Orlando PTSD.

Texas did not play bad. UTSA made some plays.  Yes, without our offense and defense we may have got the short end of the stick. Dumbass! UTSA QB is better than the majority of P5 QB's.  UTSA is a feeder school for UT Austin.    

12 hours ago, ryskey said:

How many starting quarterbacks in the country are clearly better than Frank Harris? 5? Dude is so consistent, every time he got flushed from the pocket you just knew he'd find someone half a yard past the first down marker.  Frustrating as hell for UT fans but that dude is amazing.  

Bingo! Frustrating to watch, but you have to give UTSA credit. UTSA will finishing w/ 10 wins this year, again. 

1 hour ago, hookem48 said:

didn't get to see the game due to my daughter's wedding, just got through watching the replay and if you look at that game as anything other than Texas taking care of business with a backup QB after a huge fucking letdown against Bama then you're a special brand of stupid.

Yeah, based on the postings here, we got lotsa of stupid here. 

[SHOOTER12 8806]

1 hour ago, hookem48 said:

the venue she wanted was going to be this week or OU week so she did good. I could have done without my son telling me the Horns were losing right before half and killing my buzz.

Refuse to pay for the wedding. Then YOU schedule the date.

[SamMan 1362]

My (long) take 24+ hours after—If you can’t see how a few very minor outcomes could have totally changed the trajectory of that game, you are probably going to have a very different outlook on how the game transpired. Traylor had his guys ready. He’s a pre snap penalty from possibly getting a td on the opening drive on two separate occasions. He’s a couple of offsides calls away from keeping Texas out of the end zone on their first score. If that happens, you are looking at possibly being down 21-0 in the first half before you even know what happened. They moved the ball at will in the first half despite their offensive line being depleted by injury seemingly every other snap. 

Second half, you are two (three really) passes off the receivers’ hands away from it being a very, very tight finish. Yeah, you look at the box score and it says Texas did what Texas should have done. The more discerning observer realizes that UTSA played quite well and performed surprisingly well on both lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game (like we gave Texas credit for last week despite the 81 yd run, the 20 yd scramble, and the late sack of Card). Robinson hitting a couple big runs, Johnson making a circus catch and generally just being the baddest motherfucker on the field, and Card having a timely scramble were the difference on offense. 

The secondary play was average at best. They did a better job of tackling in the second half, but both corners were beaten badly on the same double move. I thought the line play was decent, but they were getting moved in the run game early, and if there were better athletes at rb, it could have been bad. Not sure what to make of the pass rush. I liked Moro’s intensity in the second half and Murphy’s effort throughout the game. I feel like even if the edges had gotten home more, the qb would have escaped and hurt them even more. He was as advertised. Seeing Bush or Ford in coverage makes me pretty queasy. 

It was a damn good win against a quality opponent, and the game was closer than most would care to admit for the first three quarters. The difference really was depth (which injuries exacerbated during the game), mental focus (untimely penalties & drops), and a couple of elite backs toting the rock. Credit to UTSA for playing hard. Credit Texas with keeping their composure and raising their game in the second half. There is no need to denigrate UTSA, Jeff Traylor (if you want to make doomsday predictions for his coaching career, at least get the comp right—it’s Chad Morris (or is it Art Briles, who just lucked into Kevin Kolb flipping to UH from OSU?/s) not Charlie Strong), or Hudson Card (he’s QB2 for a reason; what’s the fucking alternative?) for that matter. I’d say they all performed admirably, but right in line with where they were expected to perform. 

Good game. Now let’s focus on stomping the dog shit out of tech in front of all of their syphilitic fans, and stop bitching about how the backup qb, who is playing through his own injury, and who was the same qb we saw last week and most of last year, sucks. 

On Card—Stop acting like you had higher expectations for the kid when you knew or should have known what to expect for quite a while now. Some of you sound a lot like the aggies last year. He’s not Ewers. Sark knows that. Everybody knows that. Ewers is hurt, that’s why Card is in. He’s still at Texas. He certainly didn’t have to be. He’s doing the best he can (while injured) and he’s not turning the ball over (btw, a QBR in the 70s isn’t bad & Worthy definitely gave up on one of the deep balls). Deal with it..or be prepared to happily watch Wright or Murphy, if he weren’t injured, play like qbs who have never thrown a pass at the collegiate level (as we’ve seen, Ewers is the exception in this scenario). It can always be worse. Card is not fantastic, particularly on the deep balls. We knew that going into fall camp. Does it limit the offense in terms of what the defense has to protect against? Absolutely. It’s not ideal. We get it. It is what it is. Let’s move on and hope Ewers has a swift recovery.

[Loop 1604 227]

[6th Street 6392]

14 minutes ago, SamMan said:

My (long) take 24+ hours after—If you can’t see how a few very minor outcomes could have totally changed the trajectory of that game, you are probably going to have a very different outlook on how the game transpired. Traylor had his guys ready. He’s a pre snap penalty from possibly getting a td on the opening drive on two separate occasions. He’s a couple of offsides calls away from keeping Texas out of the end zone on their first score. If that happens, you are looking at possibly being down 21-0 in the first half before you even know what happened. They moved the ball at will in the first half despite their offensive line being depleted by injury seemingly every other snap. 

Second half, you are two (three really) passes off the receivers’ hands away from it being a very, very tight finish. Yeah, you look at the box score and it says Texas did what Texas should have done. The more discerning observer realizes that UTSA played quite well and performed surprisingly well on both lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game (like we gave Texas credit for last week despite the 81 yd run, the 20 yd scramble, and the late sack of Card). Robinson hitting a couple big runs, Johnson making a circus catch and generally just being the baddest motherfucker on the field, and Card having a timely scramble were the difference on offense. 

The secondary play was average at best. They did a better job of tackling in the second half, but both corners were beaten badly on the same double move. I thought the line play was decent, but they were getting moved in the run game early, and if there were better athletes at rb, it could have been bad. Not sure what to make of the pass rush. I liked Moro’s intensity in the second half and Murphy’s effort throughout the game. I feel like even if the edges had gotten home more, the qb would have escaped and hurt them even more. He was as advertised. Seeing Bush or Ford in coverage makes me pretty queasy. 

It was a damn good win against a quality opponent, and the game was closer than most would care to admit for the first three quarters. The difference really was depth (which injuries exacerbated during the game), mental focus (untimely penalties & drops), and a couple of elite backs toting the rock. Credit to UTSA for playing hard. Credit Texas with keeping their composure and raising their game in the second half. There is no need to denigrate UTSA, Jeff Traylor (if you want to make doomsday predictions for his coaching career, at least get the comp right—it’s Chad Morris (or is it Art Briles, who just lucked into Kevin Kolb flipping to UH from OSU?/s) not Charlie Strong), or Hudson Card (he’s QB2 for a reason; what’s the fucking alternative?) for that matter. I’d say they all performed admirably, but right in line with where they were expected to perform. 

Good game. Now let’s focus on stomping the dog shit out of tech in front of all of their syphilitic fans, and stop bitching about how the backup qb, who is playing through his own injury, and who was the same qb we saw last week and most of last year, sucks. 

On Card—Stop acting like you had higher expectations for the kid when you knew or should have known what to expect for quite a while now. Some of you sound a lot like the aggies last year. He’s not Ewers. Sark knows that. Everybody knows that. Ewers is hurt, that’s why Card is in. He’s still at Texas. He certainly didn’t have to be. He’s doing the best he can (while injured) and he’s not turning the ball over (btw, a QBR in the 70s isn’t bad & Worthy definitely gave up on one of the deep balls). Deal with it..or be prepared to happily watch Wright or Murphy, if he weren’t injured, play like qbs who have never thrown a pass at the collegiate level (as we’ve seen, Ewers is the exception in this scenario). It can always be worse. Card is not fantastic, particularly on the deep balls. We knew that going into fall camp. Does it limit the offense in terms of what the defense has to protect against? Absolutely. It’s not ideal. We get it. It is what it is. Let’s move on and hope Ewers has a swift recovery.

[Rickylovesweed 14297]

20 minutes ago, SamMan said:

My (long) take 24+ hours after—If you can’t see how a few very minor outcomes could have totally changed the trajectory of that game, you are probably going to have a very different outlook on how the game transpired. Traylor had his guys ready. He’s a pre snap penalty from possibly getting a td on the opening drive on two separate occasions. He’s a couple of offsides calls away from keeping Texas out of the end zone on their first score. If that happens, you are looking at possibly being down 21-0 in the first half before you even know what happened. They moved the ball at will in the first half despite their offensive line being depleted by injury seemingly every other snap. 

Second half, you are two (three really) passes off the receivers’ hands away from it being a very, very tight finish. Yeah, you look at the box score and it says Texas did what Texas should have done. The more discerning observer realizes that UTSA played quite well and performed surprisingly well on both lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game (like we gave Texas credit for last week despite the 81 yd run, the 20 yd scramble, and the late sack of Card). Robinson hitting a couple big runs, Johnson making a circus catch and generally just being the baddest motherfucker on the field, and Card having a timely scramble were the difference on offense. 

The secondary play was average at best. They did a better job of tackling in the second half, but both corners were beaten badly on the same double move. I thought the line play was decent, but they were getting moved in the run game early, and if there were better athletes at rb, it could have been bad. Not sure what to make of the pass rush. I liked Moro’s intensity in the second half and Murphy’s effort throughout the game. I feel like even if the edges had gotten home more, the qb would have escaped and hurt them even more. He was as advertised. Seeing Bush or Ford in coverage makes me pretty queasy. 

It was a damn good win against a quality opponent, and the game was closer than most would care to admit for the first three quarters. The difference really was depth (which injuries exacerbated during the game), mental focus (untimely penalties & drops), and a couple of elite backs toting the rock. Credit to UTSA for playing hard. Credit Texas with keeping their composure and raising their game in the second half. There is no need to denigrate UTSA, Jeff Traylor (if you want to make doomsday predictions for his coaching career, at least get the comp right—it’s Chad Morris (or is it Art Briles, who just lucked into Kevin Kolb flipping to UH from OSU?/s) not Charlie Strong), or Hudson Card (he’s QB2 for a reason; what’s the fucking alternative?) for that matter. I’d say they all performed admirably, but right in line with where they were expected to perform. 

Good game. Now let’s focus on stomping the dog shit out of tech in front of all of their syphilitic fans, and stop bitching about how the backup qb, who is playing through his own injury, and who was the same qb we saw last week and most of last year, sucks. 

On Card—Stop acting like you had higher expectations for the kid when you knew or should have known what to expect for quite a while now. Some of you sound a lot like the aggies last year. He’s not Ewers. Sark knows that. Everybody knows that. Ewers is hurt, that’s why Card is in. He’s still at Texas. He certainly didn’t have to be. He’s doing the best he can (while injured) and he’s not turning the ball over (btw, a QBR in the 70s isn’t bad & Worthy definitely gave up on one of the deep balls). Deal with it..or be prepared to happily watch Wright or Murphy, if he weren’t injured, play like qbs who have never thrown a pass at the collegiate level (as we’ve seen, Ewers is the exception in this scenario). It can always be worse. Card is not fantastic, particularly on the deep balls. We knew that going into fall camp. Does it limit the offense in terms of what the defense has to protect against? Absolutely. It’s not ideal. We get it. It is what it is. Let’s move on and hope Ewers has a swift recovery.

This was an adventure to read. 

[Hank_Hill 18804]

2 hours ago, SamMan said:

My (long) take 24+ hours after—If you can’t see how a few very minor outcomes could have totally changed the trajectory of that game, you are probably going to have a very different outlook on how the game transpired. Traylor had his guys ready. He’s a pre snap penalty from possibly getting a td on the opening drive on two separate occasions. He’s a couple of offsides calls away from keeping Texas out of the end zone on their first score. If that happens, you are looking at possibly being down 21-0 in the first half before you even know what happened. They moved the ball at will in the first half despite their offensive line being depleted by injury seemingly every other snap. 

Second half, you are two (three really) passes off the receivers’ hands away from it being a very, very tight finish. Yeah, you look at the box score and it says Texas did what Texas should have done. The more discerning observer realizes that UTSA played quite well and performed surprisingly well on both lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game (like we gave Texas credit for last week despite the 81 yd run, the 20 yd scramble, and the late sack of Card). Robinson hitting a couple big runs, Johnson making a circus catch and generally just being the baddest motherfucker on the field, and Card having a timely scramble were the difference on offense. 

The secondary play was average at best. They did a better job of tackling in the second half, but both corners were beaten badly on the same double move. I thought the line play was decent, but they were getting moved in the run game early, and if there were better athletes at rb, it could have been bad. Not sure what to make of the pass rush. I liked Moro’s intensity in the second half and Murphy’s effort throughout the game. I feel like even if the edges had gotten home more, the qb would have escaped and hurt them even more. He was as advertised. Seeing Bush or Ford in coverage makes me pretty queasy. 

It was a damn good win against a quality opponent, and the game was closer than most would care to admit for the first three quarters. The difference really was depth (which injuries exacerbated during the game), mental focus (untimely penalties & drops), and a couple of elite backs toting the rock. Credit to UTSA for playing hard. Credit Texas with keeping their composure and raising their game in the second half. There is no need to denigrate UTSA, Jeff Traylor (if you want to make doomsday predictions for his coaching career, at least get the comp right—it’s Chad Morris (or is it Art Briles, who just lucked into Kevin Kolb flipping to UH from OSU?/s) not Charlie Strong), or Hudson Card (he’s QB2 for a reason; what’s the fucking alternative?) for that matter. I’d say they all performed admirably, but right in line with where they were expected to perform. 

Good game. Now let’s focus on stomping the dog shit out of tech in front of all of their syphilitic fans, and stop bitching about how the backup qb, who is playing through his own injury, and who was the same qb we saw last week and most of last year, sucks. 

On Card—Stop acting like you had higher expectations for the kid when you knew or should have known what to expect for quite a while now. Some of you sound a lot like the aggies last year. He’s not Ewers. Sark knows that. Everybody knows that. Ewers is hurt, that’s why Card is in. He’s still at Texas. He certainly didn’t have to be. He’s doing the best he can (while injured) and he’s not turning the ball over (btw, a QBR in the 70s isn’t bad & Worthy definitely gave up on one of the deep balls). Deal with it..or be prepared to happily watch Wright or Murphy, if he weren’t injured, play like qbs who have never thrown a pass at the collegiate level (as we’ve seen, Ewers is the exception in this scenario). It can always be worse. Card is not fantastic, particularly on the deep balls. We knew that going into fall camp. Does it limit the offense in terms of what the defense has to protect against? Absolutely. It’s not ideal. We get it. It is what it is. Let’s move on and hope Ewers has a swift recovery.

That’s a lot of words to say the little things that happen in every football game also happened in this one and Traylor couldn’t overcome it, but we did.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Hank_Hill

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4 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

A lot of that is on the complete absence of a down field (or really even mid field) passing game. Our interior was definitely struggling with run blocking though. 

   UTSA's defense was all inside of 10 yards. By the time one of our backs hit the line of scrimmage someone completely clean was there to see to it that was all he got. You gotta throw your way out of that and we couldn't. Instead we inserted Rojo at the QB spot and used the read game to equalize the numbers, and Bijan took full advantage of that.