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Eval misses happen which is why the lack of portal action is so surprising. But there were some big fish (humans) that this staff did not reel in for whatever reasons, and Cam and Banks flips from Oregon required luck of Cristobal leaving (which in a small world twist, Mario now has James Brockermeyer starting at Center). I hope Saban offers Sark some advice on this front.

All I can see in my head when I hear him is John Witherspoon.

Didn’t help that we didn’t generate any pressure, at all. I’ve said in other places, this is what happens when we play HS teams for a month. Not ready to play, not ready for the environment, not ready for the size and speed of the game, not ready to match physicality, and not ready for a program that doesn’t give a tihs about our “brand”.

Horrible day at the office. Both lines of scrimmage were beat into submission.

We definitely should've gone all in on that kid from USC that's at Oregon and the Rice transfer that is at Ohio State, both of those guys would've started for this team. There was also experienced C's that we didn't even go after in the portal. I'm not sure that Sark and Flood really thought about that or maybe Sark just blindly trusted Flood to get it done? I'm not sure, seems like a complete failure on both of their parts. Same with RB. They could've grabbed the guy that's at Missouri or Miss State both of those guys are better than any RB on our roster, imo. I know people will say we can't get everyone but when you need help on that side, you don't take no for an answer.

He wasn’t at all…in fact and quite a few times they ran 2 man routes and we still lost. He hit guys that were wide open on crossers ala 2022, or Dallas beating our guys.

It feels like PK regressed a bit in this one. Maybe it's the new DB coaches? Who knows. But he's not very good at dialing up pressure with the talent he has there. I thought he was just taking it easy for several weeks but that really is the D we have and they aren't as good as we assumed. So if our O is dog water and our D is overrated, that's not a good recipe for success.

Yes, but again, it wasn't like Lagway was threading needles down the field. Those 8 in the box is exactly where the majority of Lagway's passes ended up.

Even at 100% he's not t hat great of RB, imo. He's a good RB but that's about it. But him and the OL combined were not good, at all.

Run the ball, stop the run…let’s go CJ 😂

Absolutely.

The offensive line, recruited and coached for four years under Sarkisian, is regressing, playing soft and undisciplined football. Play-calling lacks creativity and needs immediate improvement. Texas has recruited too highly to be this poorly developed and undisciplined. This reflects poor coaching, particularly across the entire offensive side of the ball. Rebuilding year or not, Texas is likely a 5-7 win team, despite a roster too talented for such mediocre results. Sark is facing a monumental fail at his current pace.

If can’t stop the run, game planning is simplified. Run ball, run ball more get 8+ in the box throw ball game plan complete

Preseason No. 1 to rebuilding year by week six is nothing short of a failure by everyone involved.

DJ Lagway had the 4th shortest time to throw rate in the country for week six quarterbacks. The average time from snap to release of the football took just 2.32 seconds. As a result, the Texas pass rush was able to generate a season low six pressures on the quarterback. Four of which coming from Colin Simmons. The Longhorns did not sack the quarterback for the second time this season, both of which occurring in losses. Lagway was 15-16 on passes under ten yards downfield for 109 yards and most importantly, zero passes were put in harms way. *** I guess my biggest question to this is, after two weeks of game planning for a team that was the very worst in the country in attempting and completing deep shots, what did you expect was going to happen in this game?

100%. And the guys they have are not progressing. I mean, we can not run the ball.

Too many recruiting whiffs on the offensive line and Defensive tackle

We need a front office that can play moneyball. we blew our NIL budget on retaining a bunch of guys that had proven nothing, and it turns out they aren't great.

No

I’m generally more upbeat about the season prospects than most on here making themselves miserable. But…. Just odd we run a guy at LG that really hasn’t been playing there. Niblett seemingly got a fair amount of time early. If we were going to do that, maybe run it a bit more leading up to this game. Again, I’d sssume a fair amount of practice time was allocated here. Not the best use of time. Our short yardage O was 1-2 attempts. How about that. I am not overly concerned about the D. That wasn’t the UF team that anyone else faced. UTEP and SHSU offenses were not discussed much. They are poor then throw in an off and our early game tackling was poor. Obviously Manny being out didn’t help.

The fact that the offensive line isn’t rolling at this point is pretty alarming. Flood has had 5 years, an incredible budget, and plenty of time and staff to work with these guys and develop them. There’s no excuse for us to have a bottom 2-3 OLine in the SEC. I know Sark and Flood are tight but Sark can’t let friendship cloud his judgement. I’m not a “Fire the coach!” guy but this one is getting to the point of being obvious. I’m ok giving Flood a soft landing in management if that helps.

Do you think the guys was kind of overlooking Florida thinking ahead of the Oklahoma game.

Great game guys, and wishing Parker Livingstone a speedy recovery, he’s a beast

Exactly what I’d do, play a 2-3 deep shell, make us try to run it. 15 freaking yards guys

From here on out we will see two or three deep and every team thinking they can stop the run and whip our offensive line and if we can’t run the ball we are in for some long days.