Game Thread Rice at Texas - Game 1

[Hagbard Celine 10749]

defense allowed  3 non-garbage points  all good there

1st half O-line was a horrid and couldn't keep the pocket clean for ewers

2nd half first drive clean pocket all the way down the field, and so on, and so on, 3 tds, game over

[ousux 5586]

worst thing about this game by fucking far is Baxter getting hurt.

And I still don't know how, he didn't even really get hit.

[Horn80 6075]

10 minutes ago, beer said:

Seriously? 

[markstanco 12501]

Don't look now but Georgia is up 7-0 in the 2nd the quarter

And they will grind out a 30 point win like every good team does game one.

[Burntcowboy 1845]

It was a lackluster win with a lo of errors. Hopefully they get it fixed 

[hobbes2702 12790]

28 minutes ago, ousux said:

29 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

My YouTube TV says the HD broadcast is 720p. WTF. Yes, I do pay for 4k.

You're always going to get fucked with anyone who advertises 4k. You'll be lucky to get 30% of your content at that restaurant.

Only if your network sucks. It only takes like 30mb to stream 4k content 

[ousux 5586]

a couple of cheer
no pom that i saw

There were some incidental shots that were dependent on game action getting near them. I question the orientation of the Fox crew.

[sith_horn 2369]

2 minutes ago, ousux said:

20 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

worst thing about this game by fucking far is Baxter getting hurt.

And I still don't know how, he didn't even really get hit.

Might have landed wrong.

[msucolt45 3988]

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

[Hermanator 6928]

15 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Don't look now but Georgia is up 7-0 in the 2nd the quarter

That's embarrassing. They need to prove to themselves they're not the same team that's had 13 straight years of mediocrity and they're on the come up, and they're coming out flat early like they think they're the back to back defending champs or something. 

[Vic Mackey 46927]

19 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

I’ve said it over and over, Sark can’t focus on 2 things at the same time. Either be an OC or a HC. Don’t do both. 

Agreed. Would love him to be a full time OC here. He's not HC material. 

[BigHorn'13 3352]

3 minutes ago, ousux said:

21 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

worst thing about this game by fucking far is Baxter getting hurt.

And I still don't know how, he didn't even really get hit.

Looked like an ankle sprain or something foot related on TV. 

[Ignatius 4000]

Apparently Baxter’s issue was rib-related from landing on the ball….

From Sark’s PC…

Edited September 2, 2023 by Ignatius

[Don Hornleone 530]

Has it been talked about why Cole Huston didn’t come out and replace DJ after he got hurt?

[D3zii 3641]

17 minutes ago, beer said:

[Hank_Hill 18484]

16 minutes ago, beer said:

I love this. Found one on eBay. 

[Modessit 5595]

Looked like an ankle sprain or something foot related on TV. 

When he got tripped, he went down hard on his shoulder and his head hit the turf. At full speed I thought he faceplanted hard and was worried about it when he was slow to get up.

[Gene Parmesan 3993]

2 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

Looked like an ankle sprain or something foot related on TV. 

Landed on his shoulder 

[ousux 5586]

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

If Quinn had Travis Hunter to throw to he would have looked much better. Oh, and also against the pathetic froggy defense...Gare isn't in FW anymore.

[Gene Parmesan 3993]

Just now, ousux said:

6 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

If Quinn had Travis Hunter to throw to he would have looked much better. Oh, and also against the pathetic froggy defense...Gare isn't in FW anymore.

The receivers were open he couldn’t hit them

[Don Hornleone 530]

Just now, ousux said:

5 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

If Quinn had Travis Hunter to throw to he would have looked much better. Oh, and also against the pathetic froggy defense...Gare isn't in FW anymore.

Really, so QE looks uneasy, unsure, and woefully inaccurate at the deep ball because of the talent at WR? Huh …

[ousux 5586]

Really, so QE looks uneasy, unsure, and woefully inaccurate at the deep ball because of the talent at WR? Huh …

First game jitters, it's a real thing. If he comes out the same way against Bama you may have a point.

[VaLonghorn99 340]

Why does Rice play Texas - JFK

Well Rice did bring in a veteran squad and kept it close in the first half - Horns were too much in the 3rd Q with 21 points. Overall a respectable outing for the Owls IMO. Horns Win \m/

[tonedeaf 56]

11 minutes ago, ousux said:

13 minutes ago, Don Hornleone said:

Really, so QE looks uneasy, unsure, and woefully inaccurate at the deep ball because of the talent at WR? Huh …

First game jitters, it's a real thing. If he comes out the same way against Bama you may have a point.

First game jitters? Wasn't that last year?

[Huckleberry 32694]

14 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

The receivers were open he couldn’t hit them

Pretty simplistic take. This was true on a few plays. On others they weren't open. On at least one play that should have been a touchdown the guy was open and he hit him perfectly but it was dropped. 

[crash_davis 23081]

Got back from the game. Our O has serious issues. Can't run on Rice, we aren't running on Bama.

Quinn is ok if the first read is there. If it's not he SUCKS at going through his reads. A few times, there were receivers open. He just did not see them because he folded after the first read wasn't there. 

Our D is legit. Next's week game may be a 10-3 game.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10138]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Pretty simplistic take. This was true on a few plays. On others they weren't open. On at least one play that should have been a touchdown the guy was open and he hit him perfectly but it was dropped. 

Many plays he threw to guys who weren't open, missing the dudes who were though

[Funk Doctor Spock 11918]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Pretty simplistic take. This was true on a few plays. On others they weren't open. On at least one play that should have been a touchdown the guy was open and he hit him perfectly but it was dropped. 

How dare you besmirch Brooks' good name like that. How dare you, sir! 

[Codaxx 5591]

22 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

I liked how Colorado called the game. Lot of quick game and occasionally threw it deep. They let the offense get in a rhythm and the shots came naturally. I thought the Texas passing game looked good in the quick game. Just feels like Sark hates it at times. Gets 1-2 nice quick plays and then needs to dial up a max protect deep shot. It’s early, but the offense seems more comfortable spreading it out 

[Huckleberry 32694]

2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Quinn is ok if the first read is there. If it's not he SUCKS at going through his reads. A few times, there were receivers open. He just did not see them because he folded after the first read wasn't there. 

This is the genuine concern with him. Third year in a college program it might not get better. Of course we've seen guys get it from their 3rd to 4th year (McCoy) but it's not something you should count on. 

There weren't other guys open on plays where he wasn't pressured that often today though. Handful of plays. 

[crash_davis 23081]

Watching the USC game. I don't know how much of it is Williams or how much of it is Riley but they make passing look so fucking easy. Receivers are always open. I'm leaning towards Riley since his QBs seem to be plug and play.

Which leads me to this. Sark's play designs sometimes work but they aren't remotely what Riley has going. Sark seems a bit mediocre. He's supposed to be a genius but I'm not seeing it. He called and designed a beautiful Bama NC game. Since then, it's been pretty meh.

[Atticus 3920]

Quinn isn't Caleb WIlliams. Riley's offense looks much better when he has a mobile QB who can scramble and extend plays.

Quinn also has below average pocket presence, not as bad as Card, but not good there at all.

The offense works, and will work better as the season goes on. Getting better up front helps everything work better.

[crash_davis 23081]

7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

This is the genuine concern with him. Third year in a college program it might not get better. Of course we've seen guys get it from their 3rd to 4th year (McCoy) but it's not something you should count on. 

There weren't other guys open on plays where he wasn't pressured that often today though. Handful of plays. 

On the drive leading to the first FG where he overthrew a double covered Sanders, the slot receiver was running wide fucking open at the 10. He locked on to Sanders no matter what and didn't even look at his reads. Sanders was bracketed. This was fucking horrendous.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10138]

I guess a plus today since it's been awhile, but we had the better playing QB.

[lilMAC25 3777]

Management wants to know what the difference is between these two photos

[crash_davis 23081]

2 minutes ago, Atticus said:

The offense works, and will work better as the season goes on. Getting better up front helps everything work better.

He has more weapons on offense and looks exactly like late season Quinn.

On the pass to high Worthy which was overturned, he had Mitchell alone one on one on a post route. Mitchell had his man beat. Quinn locked on Worthy as he always does.

[MissingInAction 24806]

35 minutes ago, ousux said:

40 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

If Quinn had Travis Hunter to throw to he would have looked much better. Oh, and also against the pathetic froggy defense...Gare isn't in FW anymore.

You should not post another post.

[Murfdogg21 4412]

35 minutes ago, ousux said:

40 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

Hook’em!!!

If Quinn had Travis Hunter to throw to he would have looked much better. Oh, and also against the pathetic froggy defense...Gare isn't in FW anymore.

My sarcasm meter is broke. Ewers has a $1 million NIL receiver in Worthy plus whatever Whittington got paid to stay, and the other highly rated WRs and TE playing against Rice, and you’re saying playing @TCU is an easier matchup for Shadeur Sanders because Travis Hunter is on his team?

[Longhornstampede 3173]

1 hour ago, beer said:

Always look on the bright side of life.... 

[Valmy77 13093]

The offensive line looked bad like last year. Ewers also strongly resembled his 2022 self. So that's concerning.

Everything else looked good. I worry those other two issues will hold us back.

But hey it was just game one. Let's see what the season holds. 

I would say we will learn a lot next week but weirdly the Bama game last year turned out to be a bit of a mirage.

[TwiceHorn 31240]

1 hour ago, Atticus said:

We got plenty of lessons to learn from this game. This is the game to learn from. Lots of depth got experience, but that OL got many much needed reps and, despite the OR, Campbell got pretty much all the reps with the first team.

Good win overall, they will definitely hit the week hard after all that struggling.

This is this first Texas team in quite a while that anyone has said anything real positive about after the offseason.

I think it has probably been well established that we haven't really known how to win for some time, so I imagine that believing your own bull can be a factor, too against a team like Rice.  The announcers kept referring to communications problems on the OL, the board pretty much said they were dogging it, so maybe they can actually take a big step forward this week after facing a little reality.

And, this may be the first time since Sark's been at Texas that we looked and performed considerably better in the second half than in the first.  I do recall not looking so sharp against ULM last year, but it was a 24 pt first half and a 28 pt second.  So, that's something I guess.

Edited September 3, 2023 by TwiceHorn

[Brisketexan 104537]

The offensive line looked bad like last year. Ewers also strongly resembled his 2022 self. So that's concerning.
Everything else looked good. I worry those other two issues will hold us back.
But hey it was just game one. Let's see what the season holds. 
I would say we will learn a lot next week but weirdly the Bama game last year turned out to be a bit of a mirage.

OL was shit. Ewers was pedestrian. And bad if he couldn’t go to his first target.
Being shit on third down is now officially deeply woven into our DNA. It’s not what we do, it’s what we are. I fucking hate it. But I should I be used to it.

[Hookem2147 20925]

Convert one of those 4th downs early and things look pretty different probably. Yardage was fine in the first half, situational football was poor. All that said we still were up 37-3 heading into the 4th before putting in backups.

Worthy had a great game and seems to have his head on straight. I thought most of Ewers deep balls looked okay mechanics wise outside of the rushed one to Mitchell that should have been PI. The RPO game needs to be our bread and butter and I think we realized that in the second half.

OL wasn’t good but I thought Ewers self sacked himself at least once when he tried to move up unnecessary in the pocket.

We played a pretty clean game penalty wise until the 4th then things got sloppy.

 

[Braff Zacklin 13406]

 

1 hour ago, Jiggy-Z said:

1 hour ago, beer said:

Jesus!!!

[Nope 3111]

1 hour ago, Ignatius said:

Apparently Baxter’s issue was rib-related from landing on the ball….

From Sark’s PC…

Sounds good until you watch the replay and realize the ball was in his left hand and he landed on right side…Sark just flat out lied lol

[D3zii 3641]

It’s really concerning because every phased other than the running game looked better except for the phases we thought would be legit 

O-Line and QB play

is just game one though, and hopefully it was first game jitters/heat but I really hate making excuses 

[crash_davis 23081]

9 minutes ago, Nope said:

Sounds good until you watch the replay and realize the ball was in his left hand and he landed on right side…Sark just flat out lied lol

I saw Baxter walk off to the locker room during the game. He looked dejected and pissed. He looked like he was favoring his right shoulder/side. 

[Nope 3111]

1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

I saw Baxter walk off to the locker room during the game. He looked dejected and pissed. He looked like he was favoring his right shoulder/side. 

Yeah it’s clearly a collarbone or shoulder

[conVINCEd 21468]

Looked like Baxter landed with his arm at a weird angle while supporting all of his body weight.  That screams wrist, elbow, or shoulder injury.  Hopefully it’s minor.

[kingkoopa6 8312]

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