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No pressure. Should be a fun team to watch.

Brutal

I'm not loyal to anyone except winning. And I'll opine and give analysis if I want. And don’t worry the tailgate is always fun.

Georgia Tech OL is better than Texas OL though

Texas will start the season in the others receiving votes category IMO From what I'm hearing, I do think the Horns have chance to be top 25 team this season.

Your loyalty is admirable , delusional at times but aren't we all. Time will tell if Arch gets sat down awhile, it won't ruin him if he is the competitor we think he is etc. Good to see you chime in finally since you been AWOL from IT since this pathetic excuse for an offense Sat 🤣🤣. Just work on those tailgates and leave the analysis to others for real!!

That sucks. Best of luck, Vernon!

I would expect Wisner and Moore back for Florida. I think Sark and Texas believe they can win these games without their key guys who are battling injuries, and they are right. On top of that, I think they are hoping to get the young TEs up to speed and looks at Simon + the WR room.

Give me James Simon at RB1 this weekend. Dude can be a real weapon. Even if C4 doesn’t get 100% we can still have a 1-2 punch with Wisner and Simon

Last year RBs stuff was popping, this year just straining, so that’s an improvement I guess.

We don't have a RB issue. We have a new OL issue. Right now, teams are dropping safeties to contain Arch and we still can't run. If Arch continues to struggle, then it'll get even harder to run. We just need this OL to gel.

Looks like someone’s kid just left their Texas action figures laying on the ground.

The remarkable thing to me is that this program has had many of the same issues since Sark arrived and none of them have been addressed. The extremely experienced 2024 OL couldn’t get any push in the run game against any decent defensive lines. It took three high-level nfl players (Bijan, Roschon, and Brooks) who were elite at breaking tackles to overcome the problem. I think Sark looked at the results (really good running game 2021-2023) and trusted his buddy Flood without actually reviewing the tape and the advanced analytics. This has been a problem for years that was going to rear its head the second either the OL or RB experience or talent dipped just a bit. This year, unfortunately, both happened. The same is true of penalties. The number of penalties the OL creates is completely unacceptable. That’s a Kyle Flood problem. But we also get a ton of ST penalties and boneheaded plays. That’s a Banks problem. The same is true of Milwee and qb development / mental makeup. I’ve said it before, but Sark has a problem with delegating too much to his buddies on the coaching staff and not holding them accountable. When the same problems keep popping up year after year across multiple position groups and dozens of different players, the problem is systemic. And it stems from the coach who oversees the entire offense.

CJ is Texas just being extra cautious with their injured players given the level of opponents they’ve been playing? I’m wondering how many of them will be active vs Florida

That’s pitiful

Sit Baxter and Wisner. Need them for UF/OU. Unleash Simon!

Most depressing thread of the day.

I think that a QB being "protected" from hits is a luxury that the QB must earn by being invaluable in the passing game. What Arch has shown thus far is that his legs are his best attribute and the passing game is middling at best. Until that changes it's nonsensical to avoid QB runs for the sake of protecting him. He either needs to sit on the bench or do what the team needs to win games, and that is use his legs. If the passing game turns around then we can reevaluate this later.

Great. Arch is now DJ Ukulele.

Last season, Arch played with confidence and was growing into a really good player. Not being the starter and not having all the outrageous expectations put him in a good place mentally. This year is not last year. Not sure why that is so difficult to understand.

Dumb question: should Sark get Arch warmed up by calling a bunch of early deep shots? Just like he warmed up Quinn by calling a bunch of short, quick throws and screens, which was Quinn’s comfort zone, I wonder if it would get Arch going to hit a couple of deep shots. Sark barely called any deep shots in the first half against UTEP, but maybe that would actually benefit Arch. Some combination of giving him 7-10 designed runs and 5-10 deep throws a game might get him some success and feeling a rhythm.