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Just me … but there were some key coaching changes impacting teams early season Clemson D will be better. Allen is a big upgrade at DC. They were bad last year. They will be competitive this year. But they don’t portal enough … see RB issues. Miami has new DC and multiple new starters at DB from portal. Stud LB from portal too. Bain is healthy too, which helps a lot for a new DC. They have 2-3 NFL draft picks on the DL. Their OL is terrific though IMO. Multiple NFL guys, including 1st round OT. Got one back from injury that missed all of 2024 too. I really like ND long term this season. Big fan of what I saw from CJ Carr in first ever game action. ND has that covered the next three years. They have talent at the right spots IMO, and a tremendous young coach. With that said, everyone will knock each other off throughout the season. And injuries can truly impact teams long term

Exactly

Totally disagree on Miami and ND. It will play out over the season 100% agree on Texas defense. Have been saying that repeatedly. But offense wasn’t just bad Saturday, it was 8-4/9-3 bad because of putrid passing game. Run game has chance to draw 7 to box and help as season moves along. How much Arch improves will tell the story. Hate to put so much on him, but he was that putrid in game one (against a top 5 talented roster)

You must have missed the part where he had guys in purple and gold chasing his ass on every play.

Miami’s OL gives them a shot, and their pass rush. Legit good look for them last night. And I believe ND is a damn good team they beat … that will show September 13 IMO If Miami OL gives Beck time, he’ll have a good year. Where things get dicey with Beck is off schedule under duress - he gets more TO prone … but will that happen in the ACC? Not like the SEC IMO

I was a little afraid to click the link for this tread. Thought I might end up chained in a basement forced to watch Arch miss easy passes on a loop until my eyes bleed

Not having a gadget back who runs a 4.4 is an issue. We’ve had Blue or Robinson to get explosives and we don’t have that this year. We have one receiver who can strike fear in people because of his speed. But that guy doesn’t seem to get open deep very much. Who on this offense scares a DC? Who do you have to gameplan for?

Gerry we get it YOU ARE SALTY it’s going to be ok. Go take a mayo bath and breathe my guy!

Too small a sample size. Ask the question again in 6 weeks.

Yeah I corrected myself in another comment, couldn't edit that one for some reason.

I disagree. This was Joe Burrow’s first start against Miami at LSU, in Baton Rouge, with JJ and JaMar Chase to throw to. We don’t have a JJ and JaMar to throw to, and Miami finished 7-6 that year. Point is, development takes time. Even for a guy who would go on to have the best and most accurate season ever

Listen im as frustrated as anyone with the game but this just feels like over correcting on Texas because you watch them more closely. Klubnik was horrendous at home against a worse defense. Horrendous. Not since Quinn vs UGA have I seen a QB navigate a pocket that poorly. plus Miami and ND are both average. I’d put us behind Ohio st and lsu. Comfortably 3rd but could make an argument for 4th if you want to put us behind Miami because they won then fine. and if you want to use random facts it’s also the fewest yards Ohio st has gained since 2015. Unless we’re only ranking these teams based on offense.

Of those guys only Worthy and in limited snaps before injury bond looked explosive. No one expected AD or Golden to be as fast as they were at combine because they didn’t look explosive.

I'd bet 100k that Arch is in the film room this very minute looking at what he did wrong.

He's injured. He forgot all about footwork and mechanics. He imploded. After fifteen years of QB training he forgot how to throw. You guys will buy anything if it's on the internet.

This was great and educational. One other take away is OSU is good.

150 LB sow.

Gerry is now on the "we don't know about Arch" bandwagon too. He warned against it all off season, and now he's jumped right on to it. Couple of quarters makes the Ger jump ship too. Gerry would rather talk up CJ Carr and Marcus Freeman while they were getting beat by those chumps in Miami.

This is what we call an overreaction. How quickly do we forget what Xavier Worthy, Adonai Mitchell, Matthew Golden, and a healthy Isaiah Bond looked like in this offense.

He is a guard it's what he does when he moves to the second level or pulls, end of convo..

I've been public land hunting for mule deer in New Mexico, Wyoming and Idaho. I had two hunts in New Mexico (2008-2009), one in Wyoming (2011), and one in Idaho (2014). I also called coyotes all four times and took about a dozen total. I got one muley in New Mexico in 2009 and one in Idaho in 2014. Won't go into the details unless you want to know about mule deer hunting. Going out for wild hogs on my place here in east Texas in about two hours. I haven't taken one since I think May. Only have about twenty pounds left in the deep freezer anyway.

In the analytical power rankings (e.g FPI and SP+) we're going to move *up* after the game vs OSU. We significantly out gained them not only in total yards but also per-play. We lost because of a few 4th downs and penalties, which an analytics person would call bad luck. I do think Arch obviously has to play much better but the team around is pretty damn well positioned. And we have 3 weeks of patsies to tune up the passing game on. Personally I'd put us #2 of this group. Neither Clemson nor LSU was particularly great last year, so I'm not a believer on them yet. Remember how pathetic that Clemson defense was? Notre Dame lost a lot and doesn't recruit like OSU and Texas. Do we really believe Miami has a good defense now, or was ND just a bit limited themselves? We'll see how it plays out.

there’s a difference in firing out of a stance, and running and hitting a moving target

I felt they tried option one and will continue to develop iterations on top of it. It was relatively basic and plays were there that Arch simply missed. I don't think its a talent issue, simply an execution issue. This team is going to be elite.

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