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That's actually a good topic for @Gerry Hamilton @Bobby Burton and @CJ Vogel. What position groups on the team have gotten better, worse or are treading water from where they were at the Cotton Bowl earlier this year. I'll go first: QB - Treading water. I think Arch has a higher ceiling but third start vs. Quinn's last game at Texas you have to call at best a push. RB - Treading water. For better or worse the staff decided to roll with our roster from last season. It'll be a heavy dose of Wisner and some smaller percentages of Baxter and Clark. Losing Blue's production from the Cotton Bowl also hurts. WR - Downgrade from the Cotton Bowl. Golden alone gives the 2024 squad the advantage. Moore is Moore. Wingo can unseat Golden for sure this season but he hasn't done it yet. TE - Downgrade. Edge to Helm at this point over Endries. OL - Downgrade. Gotta go 2024 until we see what's up with this new OL arrangement. So many mixed reports from camp about DL all over the backfield. We really won't know until Columbus, but I'll take Banks, Majors and Williams as known the known commodity. DT - Push. We are much deeper now but i'm not sure any two of the current DT stack up to Collins and Broughton as a pure duo on the field yet. Edge - IMPROVEMENT! Gotta love the depth and development here. A big advantage over the Cotton Bowl. LB - IMPROVEMENT! Another year of Ant. More supporting cast around him. Looking really good here. DB - Push. Hard to not say it's a downgrade when you lose Makuba and Barron, but we seem stacked with options and another offseason with Manny in a possible contract year, another offseason with a hugely motivated Taaffe, and development from the youth movement around them and I think this is a push with potential to be a better position group by year's end. SPECIAL TEAMS - HUGE UPGRADE. I'd also like to see a huge upgrade from kickoff and punt returns this season. Might as well start with a game breaker in Columbus.

Brother, this isn’t our first rodeo

Now I understand. You’re doing your critical thinking at a 4th, 5th, or 6th grade level.

That's Oz Pearlman-level mentalist stuff. Interesting Joe Rogan episode where Oz explains (sort of) how he does it. https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/41499733 This one ^ is wild... well they all are

If Lefau isn't starting at LB (he is) then that's Smith.

Lol. Sure it will.

I read an article today about Coach O and one of the things about him noted was his consumption of Red Bull. At his height as HC in Baton Rouge he said he downed 12-15 of the small cans every day. So we know he was sharp in his observation of Arch when he visited Texas!

Sleeping on Wingo and Endries.... from the sounds of it, probably Spence as well. 🤘

His best magic trick was making Oregon first half points disappear in the CFP

"Bro what?" lol

https://youtu.be/8vYJfOM_JXA?feature=shared Needless to say he’s a fan. Always love when Brooks talks about the horns.

I think some of Eddie Robinson's teams at Grambling might have been invisible to everyone except the student body and the NFL.

@Joe Zura really wowed them.

Who could forget that one lol

Texas just needs to get the 2025 Natty and go from there…

Holy Crap. Mind blown 🤯

At least their reaction was better than Conner Weigman’s

Wingo

Agreed. Other names contributing depending on formational subs will be Liona Lefau at linebacker and Brad Spence at edge.

This is good stuff right here! Worth the watch.

Two areas I think we improve in for this game versus the Cotton Bowl are giving up TFLs and Passes Deflected. Arch should be able to clean both of these up with his height in the pocket and athleticism. I see sacks as a different story... if the pocket collapses, the pocket collapses. OTs can get beat. But Arch's athleticism should help him escape TFLs and his ability to spread the field should help the run game negate this issue. Sonny Styles ate us alive in these two categories... 3 TFL, 1 PD, 1 Sack We gave up 9 TFLs, 6 PDs, 4 Sacks. Gotta improve there