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1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Ewers was a statue at QB and limited the ability of the O line against elite D lines. IF Ewers had even slight mobility we couldve moved the pocket and made the O line's job easier. 

They were rushing 4 and still getting home. Oline sucked

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1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

Damn... there were 5 defenders that had a chance to stop that play. 

We ran this play against someone else toward the end of the year. Maybe UGA?

Outnumbered and asking a G to beat the much faster safety to the point and leave the RB with one to beat... It didn't work then, either. 

Check into a straight up RPO and hand the ball off on the dive. They can't sell out to play run because of the pass threat (that we never run in that spot).

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54 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

That safety we took last game - all the close tacklers were to Quinn's right. A hundred times a year we all see good QBs run out of trouble, arc around a linebacker or defensive end and race to the sidelines for a short gain. If Quinn had any quickness at all, he'd have darted to his left, run deeper into the end zone and arced out of it at the sidelines.

You’re getting dumber by the hour tonight.

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2 hours ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

All coaches make bad calls. Sark makes a lot of good ones. One quality Manning seems to have that Ewers doesn't is the ability to take a play gone bad and turn it into something amazing. He has instincts and can turn on the speed like that, outrun even D backs. That safety we took last game - all the close tacklers were to Quinn's right. A hundred times a year we all see good QBs run out of trouble, arc around a linebacker or defensive end and race to the sidelines for a short gain. If Quinn had any quickness at all, he'd have darted to his left, run deeper into the end zone and arced out of it at the sidelines. He doesn't have that raw ability to make something happen when a play breaks down.

Arch does, and I think Sark is a good enough coach to take full advantage of his size, speed and elusiveness. That seven yard run he made tonight on fourth down could have easily been stopped at or before the LOS. He's a gamer. He will rally teams around him just like his uncles did. Good coaching, fired up players, a couple of hot RBs and a star QB. We're gonna be sitting pretty next year. We'll probably be ranked Top 10 most of the year.

Imagine writing this about Arch's play. He played in two games and came in for two series vs Georgia and looked worse than the starting QB. If you think a QB is going to save you when you run for 20-60 yards every week you are in for a big surprise. Ohio State busted that run with their QB on a designed QB run. I am not sure I have ever seen Sark call QB Power. Bottom line, the team that runs the football better wins these games. The three times we've lost this year have all been when we lost the rushing battle. Y'all are looking in the wrong location.

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7 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

We wasted this elite defense 

This elite defense set this crap up by failing asleep one play before half. A screeeen. 75 yds. Seriously? Situational let downs by offense, defense and ST put us in bad game situations several times this year. Like the fake punt in the asu game. Should not be happening. They are ALLOWED to happen.  

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7 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

I bet we end up #3 when all is said and done. tOSU mowed through their opponents and then they met their match. You know that will go into it. Yeah, we lost by 2 TD's, which one was a freak play and it should have been 21-14 at the end, but it is what it is. 

#3. Hmmm. Ewers wears that number. Past two years thats our finish. It is what it is. On to next year and being more like #1!!!! Hook em!

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7 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

Malzahn.  Fisher.  

Well. both those guys had generational, bizarro QBs. They’ve not won anything else nor coached their teams to as high a level as Sark has in 4 years. So far. I’ll bitch about Sarks play calls liked the rest. But he’s a hell of a coach who’s brought us out of the darkness. “The horror the horror.” Mack, Strong, Herman. Btw: Please don’t let Mack come back.  

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7 hours ago, boilerhorn said:

Quoting myself, but pointing out there were 3 (!!!) holds on that play that were "missed"

here's a screen-cap of the youtube link posted earlier.

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Refs pron should call at least one (1) out of the three tackles on this play. We don’t immediately win but they don’t drive down and score then. Bad missed calls (incompetence) can be game changers. 

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I'll take a shot.  We were not winning the game if we scored at the end because we would have kicked the extra point, and Chip Kelley is the OC for the other team.   I had forgotten how good he was.  He outcoached our team by himself.  Yes, this D was championship level, but picked the very worst time to give up a 75. yard TD.  We had 0 room for error, because we were playing a team as good as us.  It felt to me that not only were they equally talented as us, but that their QB was getting incredibly lucky throwing into double coverages the first half. 

2nd half, when his luck wore out, the refs bailed him out by not calling holding, at least that one third down.  And kudos to the commentators, they realized Howard had not run any in the game and actually predicted he would run on that very important down, either a 3rd or 4th down. 

Our OL?  Were they injured? worn out? Or was OhioSt. just better?

About the fourth and goal.  I flashed back to GD, because GD would have used any QB as a battering ram to get that last yard.  Never forget how he called two or three strait QB sneaks for Colt to get that last yard against kState, and that was with an inferior OL.  I don't know anything, but I always felt like the Arch package had to have some passing in it, maybe a jump pass or something.  

I missed last year's game against Washington, on a flight to Alaska, so this is what it feels like, huh?

I kept getting the same feeling, we need a break.  

Seriously, we just needed the 1983 defense to magically appear and return an interception.  I keep repeating myself, but this team wasting this D is not the worst example.  The 1983 D was so good, it outscored the offense in a game against TCU.  The D scored two TDs and the O scored one TD.   That team was the #1 D in the country and we lost the NC game by one point, 10-9.  

Plug in an int returned for a TD and this game is different.  

Overall, I would much rather be in this situation than before.  With NIL we will get the players.  Our exposure will be great because we should be in the playoffs every year.  It may all come down to coaching.  It did last night.  

 

 

 

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23 minutes ago, Bobby Layne said:

#3. Hmmm. Ewers wears that number. Past two years thats our finish. It is what it is. On to next year and being more like #1!!!! Hook em!

Next yeae we're making few final and winning t that trophy! Arch ain't losing no games. He's gonna get revenge against Ohio State first game of the season and urinate on their field while Wingo plants the flag on their logo. 

 

25 minutes ago, Bobby Layne said:

#3. Hmmm. Ewers wears that number. Past two years thats our finish. It is what it is. On to next year and being more like #1!!!! Hook em!

 

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6 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

That game was well within our reach, despite people predicting we’d be blown out. Still, it was a very good season. 
 

We have gone deeper in the playoffs than any team in SEC history.

We’re the only SEC team to make the national semifinal in the 12 team playoff.

We’re the only SEC team to have ever won a game in the 12 team playoff.

We’re the only SEC team to have won 2 playoff games in the 12 team playoff.

We’re the only team to beat 2 conference champions in the 12 team playoff.

We’re the only team to have won all 6 NY6 bowls. Not too shabby. 

Quit w sec shit. 2 of these things are accurate. F the sec! We’re Texas! That is all we need to be. 

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7 hours ago, naija said:

I think it's harder when the coach has the direct keys to handcuff you via his playcalling.

The 2nd and third down was everything at the one, time out should have been called bring whole offense over explain it and again this is where the so called offensive wizard dials up something special but no no we get awful pitch play to the short side, garbage.

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5 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Ewers was a statue at QB and limited the ability of the O line against elite D lines. IF Ewers had even slight mobility we couldve moved the pocket and made the O line's job easier. 

Agreed. But that doesn’t explain the poor run blocking so many times this year. 

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5 hours ago, ATLLonghorn said:

two things on the first and second down plays:

1st down: look next to Banks. Texas brings in another blocker wearing #99 but he doesn't have a name plate on the back of his jersey. #99 is Jermayne Lole and teams will use DTs to block, but if it's him, wouldn't he have a nameplate? Who is this mystery man? The mystery man is either supposed to double team Tuimoloau with Helm and get to the linebacker or he's supposed to block Tuimoloau and fucks it up. WHO IS THAT??? 

2nd down: in his presser Sark says if it's blocked well it's in the endzone and from his vantage point he couldn't see where they were leaky. It was not blocked well, but the biggest problem is that Caleb Down fills the space vacated when Banks pulls so even if it WAS blocked well, Downs was going to blow it up. It was a bad play call and Knowles kicked his ass on it.

 

First time Ive sent this angle. RB actually runs into Majors (C). If he fits back to right, he walks in. Good peripheral vision allows good RBs to “run to daylight” (see Vince Lombardi). Analyst in booth, run th eplay again and look for osu overpursuit. Dont give up on punching it in. Plays set up next play. Slow hitter (pitch play) rewards aggressive defense. Need to punish, not reward this. 

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7 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

I think Sark COULD see it, and game planned around Quinns weaknesses. Why he never replaxed Quinn is a different discussion altogether. What was bad was not giving Arch, our starter next year, more meaningful playing time THIS year.

Game planning around someone’s weaknesses (Quinn’s and or the OLine’s) means calling plays they can execute consistently. I don’t think Sark did that in critical situations throughout this year. It is clear to me at this point he expects the offense to execute the plays he calls. Is it hubris? Maybe but it is what got him to where he is and I don’t see him changing. 
 

Leach famously was  asked how to make a QB better and to paraphrase he said you recruit a better QB. And that’s a guy known for doing more with less. That applies to every position. We need to get better at QB, in the OL and at LB and we need depth everywhere. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, Bobby Layne said:

Well. both those guys had generational, bizarro QBs. They’ve not won anything else nor coached their teams to as high a level as Sark has in 4 years. So far. I’ll bitch about Sarks play calls liked the rest. But he’s a hell of a coach who’s brought us out of the darkness. “The horror the horror.” Mack, Strong, Herman. Btw: Please don’t let Mack come back.  

Well he’s left Chapel Hill (where i live) and has moved back to Austin 

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Had hard time falling asleep last night just replaying the ridiculous defensive gaffe at end of 1H and then having 1st and goal from the one turn into a 4th and goal from 8 that ended up in points for OSU. 
 

Just an incredibly bad series of events that will haunt Sark forever. 
 

Why did deep safety run themself out of position altogether and give up TD? Why blitz at all?

Why not just keep pounding ball up middle on 2nd goal? Why not use Arch there or a DL as FB to open something? When OL was needed most they failed. 

Really shitty way to end season. 

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God our defense is so sick! We held rbwm to 21 points until until Quinn fumbled (shocker, I jknow). I'm not adding that last freak TD). They met their match and found out this wasn't a team they want to play against. If we had Baxter, Wianer, and Blue we win. But God damn I'm so fucking tired  we once target Wingo just 1-2-} times. Maybe, Sark, you should probably get him reps?.it's absolutely criminal Wingo got 1 pass thrown to him. We're gonna miss Helm. So let's hiooe Jordan Washington. Is ready and Townsend comes in already a freak. Golden caught 2 passes ;that one handed catch was insane, legend.).

I hope he zones back (wish casting. 

We lose Banks and Cam. But Goosby ha looked pretty awesome, and Banks will take over at RT. DJ Campbell will be back, as will Hutson. Now it's up to Robson or. Cruz to battle it out for C. 

 

 

At least Blue was the standout. I didn't see that one coming. 

Regardless, they don't want to play us again next season. They're losing all of their seniors, breaking in a frosh QB, and losing both RB'S., andl  Emeka Egbuka., Donovan Jackson?Definitely), maybe Carson Hinzman (draft definitely;) Tegra Tshabol (draft eligible(, and Josh Fryar (definitely)

Thier entire defense that are seniors. They return Caleb Downs. But their interior and edges are gone. 

Regardless, they now respect us I bet the media slobes both our of our knobs since we're the ones who went tow to toe wifb them, and iit  was close.. We shut down their WR's in Smith (1 for 2 yards) and Egbuka (5 for 50 yards). We're the only team to do that. No close to 100 yards for either RB's.

it hurts. But we gotta keoo the building classes and it'll be our turn. Next year will be better with the deep ball accuracy. Ou defense will bs fine. But it will be hard as fuck to replace Mukuba and Barron. Kobe Black has looked damn good, we get Jelani Mcdonald black. 

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13 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I woke up disappointed, obviously, but really proud of my team.When I heard about Baxter's injury, I wondered way back then if that had cost us a championship.  Then the injuries kept coming.  And we still got this close to winning the SEC (in spite of a lot of fuckery) and a national championship game.

This team overcame a lot this year.  And a lot of them will be back.

Next year, we take the next steps.

Agreed 100 percent.  Sark got all the mileage he could from Q.  Everyone knows 2 things now.  One, Q isn't the guy for this offense.  Two, if you are gonna play QB for Sark you had better be mobile.  Losing Baxter was a real punch to the dick.  I mean damn, we know how valuable his speed is.  Wisner stepped up and gave everything he could.  IMO, he carried the team for most of the year.  Helm is most certainly the most improved offensive player.   Now, let's work on improving that O line. 

 

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13 minutes ago, Honeysucklerose said:


At the 1

Why are we the only team with elite players that even score from the 1?

Is this a Sark issue? It's absolutely crazy dumb we are are 4 years in and it doesn't work. Sark needs to stop being stubborn and hire a great OC. It's clear he can't be a HC and|or a HC.. This madness. We are either the dumbest  team, or it'sva Sark/Ewers issue 

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7 hours ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

I was at the game in the opposite endzone so didn’t have a great look- sure looked like there should’ve been a flag for PI in the endzone on 3rd down that should’ve given us another first down at the 1 yard line but no one seems to be talking about that play so I may be wrong.

I saw it too and initially thought the the CB interfered with the WR's ability to come back to the ball.  On the replay, it looked like the defender accomplished it with body position and not contact.  Probably a good no call if we're being fair.

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