2024 WR Silas Bolden (Transfer)

[Hank_Hill 18785]

34 minutes ago, Xminus6 said:

Marquise? Looks like he ran a 10.43.

We also just had a receiver literally run the fastest 40 ever 

[Tex Long 4382]

1 hour ago, BigHorn'13 said:

Yards after catch is already a stat. 

It is, but it doesn't get shown much, and Air Yards not at all. I'm fucking lazy, show it to me, don't make me go through the p-b-p to calculate it. 

[Hiphopopotamos 20869]

8 hours ago, Tex Long said:

It is, but it doesn't get shown much, and Air Yards not at all. I'm fucking lazy, show it to me, don't make me go through the p-b-p to calculate it. 

Bolden's 2023 Receiving numbers from PFF:

[Tex Long 4382]

41 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Bolden's 2023 Receiving numbers from PFF:

Looks like nice stuff. Ima go get a magnifier and see if I can read it. Thanks.

[Bevo 13558]

7 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

Looks like nice stuff. Ima go get a magnifier and see if I can read it. Thanks.

 

Or you could use a desktop.

[Tex Long 4382]

2 minutes ago, Bevo said:

 

Or you could use a desktop.

II'm using a desktop right now. I'm sitting with my face about 3 feet from a 40" screen. I can read the text okay, pumped up a couple CTRL+ times. But I can't read the text size in the image. I can probably save it and use irfanview to plow it up where I can read it, but I haven't done that yet. Putting eighty-lebben columns of data on one view doesn't help at all.

I've been getting needles in the eyeballs monthly for oh, 5 or 6 years to fight off AMD, and it's a losing battle. I'll try to not complain so much.

Thanks for the advice. Yes, I know there's a magnify function bult into the OS, and it sucks.

[Bevo 13558]

4 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

II'm using a desktop right now. I'm sitting with my face about 3 feet from a 40" screen. I can read the text okay, pumped up a couple CTRL+ times. But I can't read the text size in the image. I can probably save it and use irfanview to plow it up where I can read it, but I haven't done that yet. Putting eighty-lebben columns of data on one view doesn't help at all.

I've been getting needles in the eyeballs monthly for oh, 5 or 6 years to fight off AMD, and it's a losing battle. I'll try to not complain so much.

Thanks for the advice. Yes, I know there's a magnify function bult into the OS, and it sucks.

 

I get it - but the font isn't too bad - it is definitely a problem with your AMD, not with the content - could be your screen resolution though.

[Tex Long 4382]

5 minutes ago, Bevo said:

 

I get it - but the font isn't too bad - it is definitely a problem with your AMD, not with the content - could be your screen resolution though.

I get it, too. Like about 90% of what we see on Surly, it's a matter of my opinion is right and yours is wrong. Fire the coach and then quit posting for a week. Oh, and buy a new monitor.

 

[Mr. Mojo Risin' 2205]

44 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

II'm using a desktop right now. I'm sitting with my face about 3 feet from a 40" screen. I can read the text okay, pumped up a couple CTRL+ times. But I can't read the text size in the image. I can probably save it and use irfanview to plow it up where I can read it, but I haven't done that yet. Putting eighty-lebben columns of data on one view doesn't help at all.

I've been getting needles in the eyeballs monthly for oh, 5 or 6 years to fight off AMD, and it's a losing battle. I'll try to not complain so much.

Thanks for the advice. Yes, I know there's a magnify function bult into the OS, and it sucks.

I clicked the image from my phone. It's a link. Zoomed in just fine

[Bodacious Bevo 3583]

On 5/21/2024 at 2:29 PM, Tex Long said:

Someone in the stats biz oughta break down passes into Air Yards and Ground Yards. Find out that 75 yard passing TD was 5 Air Yards and 70 Ground Yards, and the next one was 45 Air Yards and 2 Ground Yards...

 

10 hours ago, Tex Long said:

It is, but it doesn't get shown much, and Air Yards not at all. I'm fucking lazy, show it to me, don't make me go through the p-b-p to calculate it. 

 

1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

Looks like nice stuff. Ima go get a magnifier and see if I can read it. Thanks.

 

45 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

II'm using a desktop right now. I'm sitting with my face about 3 feet from a 40" screen. I can read the text okay, pumped up a couple CTRL+ times. But I can't read the text size in the image. I can probably save it and use irfanview to plow it up where I can read it, but I haven't done that yet. Putting eighty-lebben columns of data on one view doesn't help at all.

I've been getting needles in the eyeballs monthly for oh, 5 or 6 years to fight off AMD, and it's a losing battle. I'll try to not complain so much.

Thanks for the advice. Yes, I know there's a magnify function bult into the OS, and it sucks.

 

31 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

I get it, too. Like about 90% of what we see on Surly, it's a matter of my opinion is right and yours is wrong. Fire the coach and then quit posting for a week. Oh, and buy a new monitor.

Incredible

[Tex Long 4382]

10 minutes ago, Mr. Mojo Risin' said:

I clicked the image from my phone. It's a link. Zoomed in just fine

I'm happy for you. Yes, I know it's a link. In Chrome on desktop it doesn't zoom for shit. If I save it and use a graphics software, I can zoom it. I think I already said that, but whatever. 

Thanks for your help.

 

[Tex Long 4382]

14 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

Incredible

Your incredulity appears to know no bounds.

[Funk Doctor Spock 12175]

Man I cannot express just how fucking sick our receiving crops is with Bolden here now. 

[derp 755]

On 5/28/2024 at 5:22 PM, Spider2YBanana said:

Man I cannot express just how fucking sick our receiving crops is with Bolden here now. 

Which kind of crop?

or 

[Degenerate Gardner 4085]

Hook’em! His were decisive moments.

[Reynolds Woodcock 4738]

This man should never pay for a beer in Austin. Amazing play 

[Surly Bevo 24908]

Man of the match today.  Not just sitting there scratching his ass watching the play in front of him was huge.  

[deech 2269]

Watching the overhead angle on the td recovery and seeing where he was on the field when that play started.....holy hell that was some incredible hustle. 

[tx 3 putt 76859]

transfers matter !

[ousux 5595]

Silas doesn't do anything half assed, he's 100% locked in when he's on the field.

[Michael Knight 12976]

Silas fucks

[linux 1660]

Man JWhit, Moore and Bolden our slot wide recievers are pure motor.

[RomaVicta 29891]

Such confidence with such ability with such effort in every aspect of the game. Fantastic Longhorn.

[TexasMan 10891]

2 hours ago, deech said:

Watching the overhead angle on the td recovery and seeing where he was on the field when that play started.....holy hell that was some incredible hustle. 

Every coach across the country in college football is going to take that piece of video at that angle and show it to their teams in film room to reiterate why they should hustle on every single play. 

[Michael Knight 12976]

32 minutes ago, TexasMan said:

Every coach across the country in college football is going to take that piece of video at that angle and show it to their teams in film room to reiterate why they should hustle on every single play. 

I know one coach who won't

[ATXbronco 4062]

Silas Bolden had the presence of mind to hustle to the ball and then SLOW down just before getting to it, to ensure he could actually grab it.

The play will be talked about for a long time to come.  
Congrats, kid!

[Sabalo 994]

https://youtube.com/shorts/g-9GFnu6Amo?si=nsWerjMgybPkdLKH

[PTINS 3459]

2 hours ago, Sabalo said:

https://youtube.com/shorts/g-9GFnu6Amo?si=nsWerjMgybPkdLKH

And just like that Silas Bolden is memorialized among the greats in the history of Texas-OU.

He makes a key block on the edge to create the gap for Tre, follows the play, and uses his speed to recover a fumble and score a TD. Silas capped a play that had two 180 degree emotional swings in 2 seconds. 

Great day for that young man!!!

[allrightallrightallright 67]

Does bolden have a fifth year if he wants it?

[Scholz 11938]

Happy for Silas. Took a reduced role transferring here, fought through disappointment, stayed positive and kept working hard. Great job, kid.

[RomaVicta 29891]

4 hours ago, Sabalo said:

https://youtube.com/shorts/g-9GFnu6Amo?si=nsWerjMgybPkdLKH

Thanks for posting this. I hadn't noticed that he managed to turn over with the ball under control so that it wasn't on the ground when he slid out of the end zone. This and his wild courage and confidence fielding kicks has put him on the radar. 

Fabulous.

[Hornius Emeritus 12448]

 

 

 

[Gut Wagon 8064]

4 hours ago, allrightallrightallright said:

Does bolden have a fifth year if he wants it?

Not sure. But he definitely has a fifth gear. 

[Reese Bennett 3608]

That was just an incredibly awesome play. Silas is fearless too.

[Xminus6 790]

1 hour ago, Reese Bennett said:

That was just an incredibly awesome play. Silas is fearless too.

I don’t know if they were varying the speed on that playback but you can see his graphic speed way the hell up when he saw the fumble.

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

1 hour ago, Reese Bennett said:

That was just an incredibly awesome play. Silas is fearless too.

Sarkisian said that all summer but, damn, huevos of titanium fielding some of those punts without a fair catch. In its way, that’s even more impressive to me than his threat as a returner, which is substantial itself. 

[Pato del Muerto 52484]

Not often you get a block, a fumble recovery, and a td on the same play. Especially when the block happens 45 yards upfield from the other two. 
 

Kid from Kentucky did it a couple of weeks ago but that was a play that began on the goal line. 

Edited October 14 by Pato del Muerto

[someguy 1508]

9 hours ago, allrightallrightallright said:

Does bolden have a fifth year if he wants it?

unfortunately not

[TXRed 3247]

17 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

 

 

 

One of the best parts about that play is that Cucksman had a shot at it and watched Bolden fly right past him for the recovery. 

[Pato del Muerto 52484]

5 minutes ago, TXRed said:

One of the best parts about that play is that Cucksman had a shot at it and watched Bolden fly right past him for the recovery. 

When it was laying there, I just assumed that the first player to dive on it would just knock it out of bounds.  For him to have the sense to be able to get his body beyond the ball, cradle it in, and roll over to show control in bounds before sliding out was incredible. 

[campcrunk 2434]

39 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

When it was laying there, I just assumed that the first player to dive on it would just knock it out of bounds.  For him to have the sense to be able to get his body beyond the ball, cradle it in, and roll over to show control in bounds before sliding out was incredible. 

I thought the same thing. When the ball squirted out, I was immediately resigned to it rolling out of the end zone for a touchback. REALLY heads' up play by Bolden to save the touchdown

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

33 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

When it was laying there, I just assumed that the first player to dive on it would just knock it out of bounds.  For him to have the sense to be able to get his body beyond the ball, cradle it in, and roll over to show control in bounds before sliding out was incredible. 

Exactly. First, he was following the play the way he was taught. Second, he was actually watching the play and you can see the exact moment he quickly changes his angle to go for the ball. Third, he absolutely busted his ass to be the first one there while the Sooners fucking jogged. Fourth, you can see him come under control to recover the ball and not just slide out of bounds with it. Fifth, he rolls over with the ball and the whole fucking world can see he possessed it in bounds. 

Athletic skills. Awareness. Hustle. Football smarts. It was a bad ass play and the stories of it will probably outlive him. Any coach at any level could show that play and say, “This is how you play the game.”

[Bodacious Bevo 3583]

To further contextualize it: 

OU could have had 1st and 10 at their own 25, down 7-3, with 2:21 to go in the second quarter

Instead, they had 1st and 10 at their own 25, down 14-3, with 2:21 to go in the second quarter

Bolden put 7 on the board through pure hustle/heart/etc. He took away OU’s opportunity to go into the half with the lead. Without his play, does Hawkins feel as much pressure to make a play and cough up the ball scrambling? Does Sark trust Wisner enough to give it to him on the next offensive snap? Does Wisner keep his confidence and score? OU received the ball to start the third. The lead or small deficit completely changes the dynamics on both sides in their favor (though we probably still win handedly). 

Legend

Edited October 14 by Bodacious Bevo

[hookemATL 11700]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

When it was laying there, I just assumed that the first player to dive on it would just knock it out of bounds.  For him to have the sense to be able to get his body beyond the ball, cradle it in, and roll over to show control in bounds before sliding out was incredible. 

I said and described what happened to my eldest the same exact way. It was just an incredibly smart play, and he has now cemented himself into lore with that effort.

i CANNOT wait until he houses a long PR / end around / TD catch. 

[Tex Long 4382]

What a Play!

Took just a few seconds to go from 

Shit YEAH! to

Awwww SHIT! to

Holy SHIT!

Like Stonie Clark's Sudden Stop, this is a Forever Highlight for Silas. Congratulations to him.

This is why you Play the Game. This is why we Follow the Game.

[Pam Cummings 9639]

1 hour ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Exactly. First, he was following the play the way he was taught. Second, he was actually watching the play and you can see the exact moment he quickly changes his angle to go for the ball. Third, he absolutely busted his ass to be the first one there while the Sooners fucking jogged. Fourth, you can see him come under control to recover the ball and not just slide out of bounds with it. Fifth, he rolls over with the ball and the whole fucking world can see he possessed it in bounds. 

Athletic skills. Awareness. Hustle. Football smarts. It was a bad ass play and the stories of it will probably outlive him. Any coach at any level could show that play and say, “This is how you play the game.”

Yep. Was watching the game with a friend. First of all, when it happened we went nuts. But going back and looking again, our first thought was "you put this play as the first thing you watch in film study". That's how you play the game. That's a culture play.

Edited October 14 by Pam Cummings

[FloridaHorn 4752]

Luckily for us in Florida, Buffalo Wild Wings down the street got power back on Friday afternoon. My son and I set up shop at 11:30 AM on Saturday to ensure that we had a place to see the game. By the time the game kicked off, we had amassed a $200 bar tab and were easily the loudest people in the place. When this play happened, the entire place became Texas fans and cheered with us. Hurricane Milton had beaten us down pretty good, but on Saturday afternoon, all was right in the world for about 4 hours. 

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

9 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

Yep. Was watching the game with a friend. First of all, when it happened we went nuts. But going back and looking again, our first thought was "you put this play as the first thing you watch in film study". That's how you play the game. That's a culture play.

That’s exactly what Sarkisian just said. He didn’t use the same words, but he basically said that a guy Bolden’s size doesn’t get where he is without needing a wheelbarrow to haul his ball around. And that that absolutely was a culture play. 

[utfan87 408]

1 hour ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

To further contextualize it: 

OU could have had 1st and 10 at their own 25, down 7 - 3, with 2:21 to go in the second quarter

Instead, they had 1st and 10 at their own 25, down 14-3, with 2:21 to go in the second quarter

Bolden put 7 on the board through pure hustle/heart/etc. He took away OU’s opportunity to go into the half with the lead. Without his play, does Hawkins feel as much pressure to make a play and cough up the ball scrambling? Does Sark trust Wisner enough to give it to him on the next offensive snap? Does Wisner keep his confidence and score? OU received the ball to start the third. The lead or small deficit completely changes the dynamics on both sides in their favor (though we probably still win handedly). 

Legend

Touchback on anything but a KO starts at the 20

[PTINS 3459]

1 hour ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Exactly. First, he was following the play the way he was taught. Second, he was actually watching the play and you can see the exact moment he quickly changes his angle to go for the ball. Third, he absolutely busted his ass to be the first one there while the Sooners fucking jogged. Fourth, you can see him come under control to recover the ball and not just slide out of bounds with it. Fifth, he rolls over with the ball and the whole fucking world can see he possessed it in bounds. 

Athletic skills. Awareness. Hustle. Football smarts. It was a bad ass play and the stories of it will probably outlive him. Any coach at any level could show that play and say, “This is how you play the game.”

FIFY.

Pre-First. He is the smallest guy on the field, and makes the block that opens the hole, and then ... he personifies "turning on the jets."