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My Stings are in a tough district now I ll be happy if we finish in the top 4 or 5 in the district lol

Drowning Pool Let the Bodies Hit the Floor!🤘

Hell’s Bells entrance https://m.youtube.com/shorts/FfZ-6mr_83k

Maybe the most important or irreplaceable person on any team.

Partial to the crescendo of welcome to the jungle. It’ll amp you up but maybe that’s not what you’re looking for Gerry 😴 Hamilton. Just having fun.

The song is terrible. Slow and sleepy. Remove the video and its audio melatonin. How does the king of crotch clipping choose this…

That to go along with the fact we now know he got some lasik, the sack record may not be too crazy to think about now 😂

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Justus Terry gonna be an amazing addition to our defense “this” year .

Haha. Definitely Krista’s. I’m an On Cloud guy.

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Link to story: https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2025/07/29/for-chris-and-carter-stewart-life-and-football-is-a-never-ending-competition?ref=home_feature_article

From my buddy Carter Yates at Dave Campbells Texas Football…. Life, Football a Never-Ending Competition for Stewart Brothers These late summer days, sleep is the only time off Chris Stewart allows himself. Chris has unfinished business before he attends the University of Texas on a football scholarship. Last fall, he earned District 22-6A Offensive MVP with 60 catches for 922 yards and 15 touchdowns. But Chris would trade that individual award for Alvin Shadow Creek’s season to not have ended like it did: the district champions lost in the first round of the playoffs to four-seed Fort Bend Elkins. It’s haunted him all offseason. He can only rest easy by reminding himself that the revenge tour kicks off in less than a month. But just as his breathing starts to calm and his racing mind slows to a crawl, a rustling in the room yanks Chris out of sleep’s abyss. He whips his head around to find his brother, Carter, cranking out sit-ups before bed. Carter is a First Team All-District safety who’s committed to the University of Utah. The sight of another Division I recruit improving while he’s resting shakes Chris awake. He can’t get caught napping. Chris’ elite trait is not the route-running or catch radius, but the refusal to lose. When he lines up at wide receiver, he can’t just beat the defensive back; he needs to burn the DB over and over until he knows before the snap it’s about to happen again. Carter knows this better than anyone, not just because he lives with Chris, but because he shares the same drive. “I cannot take a man sitting in front of me thinking he’s going to be able to stop me,” Chris said. “That’s not me at all. I try to go undefeated in everything, it doesn’t matter what we’re doing – (it could be) whoever finishes their food first.” For years, that sibling rivalry played out on the family’s driveway basketball hoop. Now, the brotherly battle has found a new arena - Alvin ISD’s Freedom Field. Shadow Creek’s 9-2 record was, in part, powered by an unofficial scoreboard between the Stewart brothers. “If I see Chris go and catch a deep ball, I’ve got to go and catch a pick or make a big tackle,” Carter said. “We don’t actually try to one-up each other, but when it comes to the game, that’s kind of the mindset we get into.” While both brothers are high-level Division I recruits, their college prospects launched at different times. Chris broke out as a sophomore and is currently the No. 54-overall prospect in the DCTX Hot 100 after compiling two years of tape. Carter was Shadow Creek’s backup quarterback before switching to safety in the spring of his sophomore year. But instead of letting colleges that offer one brother over the other drive a wedge between them, the Stewart brothers have used it as motivation to perfect their craft. “If they didn’t offer Chris, or didn’t offer me, they must have seen something that Chris had that I didn’t,” Carter said. “Now I’ve got to go get that. I’ve got to get in the weight room, got to go get on the field to make them realize, ‘You need to wake up and offer me too.’” The Stewart brothers have always worked hard, but Shadow Creek head coach Tyrone Green has seen a different sense of urgency from the two this offseason. They used to attack the workouts the coaches assigned. Now, they do that and then ask for more. “They’re very vocal about what’s going on with the heartbeat of the team,” Green said. “It kind of opened my eyes to certain team issues. They helped me become more of a players’ coach because they’re not afraid to walk into my office and say, ‘Hey, Coach, we need to be doing this. You’ve got to be harder on them.’” The Stewarts have reached the level they have because they’ve spent years competing against each other, but also because they’ve competed with each other. This will be their last season together before they play college football apart. Falling short of a state championship is not an option. “Now, you’ve really got to come kill me,” Chris said. “Because if you don’t kill me, you’re not going to stop us.” He’s obviously exaggerating, but he says it with such certainty that you’re convinced he’s not joking.

Kinda cold blooded on the sound track

Mateer rushing stats last year:

Big X Texas

This Time of Year by Better than Ezra https://youtu.be/jwWCPc4TMls?si=eJmH9nc6u5VERHVt

This is my crack a beer for breakfast era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJAChNn9RY

Run N Shoot — Houston Gamblers song https://youtu.be/-Py3GcvPz9M?feature=shared We Believe — ECU song https://youtu.be/o7W1Z2YHfbw?si=AFhxVpTphQ02C6O7 Larry Shannon Hargrove — I’ve Got Burnt Orange Running Through My Veins https://youtu.be/jIExf6pL4nQ?si=UgoD0jAkrUxrxzrU

This quote from LaAllan Clark on Colin Simmons might've been the line of the day today: "An elite player who left a lot on the bone last year"

And the strides the pass rush has made when it comes to the season leader... 2021: Ben Davis, 2.5 2022: Barryn Sorrell, 5.5 2023: Ethan Burke, 5.5 2024: Colin Simmons, 9

Here's how the Texas pass rush has improved under PK from a team standpoint... 2021: No. 98 nationally (20 total sacks, 1.67 sacks per game) 2022: No. 77 (27 total, 2.08 per game) 2023: No. 52 (32 total, 2.29 per game) 2024: No. 15 (46 total, 2.88 per game)

AUSTIN, Texas — Pete Kwiatkowski enters his fifth season as Texas defensive coordinator with the pass rush in a much better place than where it stood three years ago. Kwiatkowski’s first season on the Forty Acres was largely forgettable. While allowing the second-most yards per rushing attempt (5.15) of any Longhorn defense and third-most yards per play (6.03) and points per game (31.1) in school history, Kwiatkowski’s first season saw Texas record 20 sacks in a 12-game campaign, good for a No. 98 finish nationally (1.67 sacks per game). “What pass rush?” Kwiatkowski quipped before the start of the 2022 season when reflecting on the worst Texas pass rush since 1997 (15 sacks total and an average of 1.36 per game). The Longhorns improved over the next two seasons, averaging 2.08 sacks per game (No. 77 in FBS) in 2022 and 2.29 sacks per game (No. 52) in 2023 before the pass rush took off with authority in 2024. “We’ve come a long way from whenever that was,” Kwiatkowski said Tuesday, when he and fellow coordinators Kyle Flood and Jeff Banks met with the media ahead of Wednesday’s first camp practice. After sacking opposing quarterbacks 46 times (2.88 sacks per game, which was good for a No. 15 FBS ranking) en route to a second consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff semifinals, Texas heads into the 2025 season boasting arguably the nation’s fiercest pass rush. The returns of Colin Simmons (nine sacks as a true freshman), Anthony Hill Jr. (eight) and Trey Moore (5.5) account for the bulk of the 32 sacks the Longhorns welcome back from last season. With Kwiatkowski stewarding the expansion of Moore’s job description to include more snaps at the second level of the defense, along with the shift of transfer Brad Spence (4.5 sacks with Arkansas in 2024) from linebacker to EDGE, the Longhorns have added more pieces to the chessboard. Kwiatkowski said he’s excited about the possible sub-package looks and lineup combinations he can put on the field, even if maximizing his personnel is easier said than done. “It makes it difficult because you've got all of these guys that you’re trying to put into position to make plays,” Kwiatkowski said. “It’s a good problem to have.” An elite pass rush might be most responsible for the success Texas enjoyed on defense last season. The Longhorns allow the third-fewest points per game (15.3), total yards per game (283.4) and yards per play (4.4) in the nation. Texas was ranked in the top 15 nationally in rushing yards allowed per game (109.6) and yards per rushing attempt allowed (3.24), which opened up more pass-rushing opportunities. With quarterbacks feeling the heat more often, the Longhorns led the SEC and were No. 2 nationally in takeaways (31), including 22 interceptions (tied for the FBS lead), and fielded the country’s No. 8-ranked third-down defense (31.4 percent conversion rate allowed). With that said, there are two reasons to believe the encore could pack more of a punch. For starters, Kwiatkowski said understanding and putting into practice the details of the EDGE position will lead to more consistent production from Simmons. “He's a playmaker. He's got great ability and skill. It's just attention to the details; being more physical when we need him to be more physical,” Kwiatkowski said. Even after Simmons won the Shaun Alexander Award and began an ascent toward an early selection in the 2027 NFL Draft, what LaAllan Clark said when asked for his initial impressions of the 6-foot-3-inch, 240-pounder should have the Texas faithful giddy for what’s to come. “An elite player who left a lot on the bone last year,” said the man working with Simmons and the other Longhorn edge defenders. “He’s ready to take that next step. “He’s just scratching the surface.” Then there’s Hill, whose next step, Kwiatkowski said, is growing his game in pass coverage. Hill expanding his skill set could allow Kwiatkowski to use him as a decoy to open things up for other Texas defenders and make it tougher for offenses to try and exploit him when hunting matchups. “He has a nose for the ball, plays his tail off and has a knack for big plays,” Kwiatkowski said of Hill, a second-team All-American linebacker as a sophomore and a projected first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. “It's just the consistency in his pass coverage. That’s the next step, and he's doing a good job with that.” If Kwiatkowski can do more with Simmons and Hill, it’s hard to imagine any collegiate defensive front being harder to deal with than the one the Longhorns will deploy. Kwiatkowski didn’t tip his hand on what he’s cooking up for the Cotton Bowl rematch with Ohio State in 32 days. Still, it was hard for Kwiatkowski to hide his excitement about the personnel he’ll be working with in camp as he and the defensive staff begin molding the ball of clay that is the 2025 defense. “I feel really good about what we've got personnel-wise,” Kwiatkowski said. “Guys coming off the edge, 'backers can rush the passer and we've got good D-tackles that can push the pocket.” View full news story

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