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[Layton_Sharp]

2 hours ago, graemakin said:

So calling out Texas for having a "weak finish" to their portal class isn't bashing even though they brought in a potential starting RT in Siani as their latest portal edition? And yet when i pointed out that they still have months to bring in more players you don't want to bother with the "whatever players" like landing Hero from last year?  But now it's how dare we defend this point by trying to be positive even though we're still months away from the start of the 2026 season?  Keep on backtracking and wallowing in your doom & gloom bro. 🤣🤘🏼😂

You say doom and gloom and ignore the part where I said it’s been a great class overall. Let’s just hope we don’t have injuries on the OL so we don’t have to watch arch get absolutely smashed again. I’ll take back what I said if we end up getting someone in the portal who can challenge for a starting spot on the IOL. I’m 100% pumped about every aspect of this team EXCEPT the OL (which I do think has improved). Acting like I’m some terrible fan or some doomsday fan is stupid. Been a fan since day one and always will be, but acting like we absolutely killed it in the portal for OL is ignorant, it was decent to good at best. Keeping Goosby is the saving grace.

[Realist Horn]

1 minute ago, CoachBobbyFinstock said:

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Clearly depth - probably a scholarship only guy. 

[graemakin]

25 minutes ago, Layton_Sharp said:

You say doom and gloom and ignore the part where I said it’s been a great class overall. Let’s just hope we don’t have injuries on the OL so we don’t have to watch arch get absolutely smashed again. I’ll take back what I said if we end up getting someone in the portal who can challenge for a starting spot on the IOL. I’m 100% pumped about every aspect of this team EXCEPT the OL (which I do think has improved). Acting like I’m some terrible fan or some doomsday fan is stupid. Been a fan since day one and always will be, but acting like we absolutely killed it in the portal for OL is ignorant, it was decent to good at best. Keeping Goosby is the saving grace.

Naw bro you had to backtrack from all the negativity you were originally trying to spew.  And the ignorance is from you proclaiming that this portal class is "weak" and done with additions.  Hopefully the Texas staff still has a pivot or two to unveil.  But a troll gotta troll I guess.  🤣🤘🏼😂

[Layton_Sharp]

48 minutes ago, graemakin said:

Naw bro you had to backtrack from all the negativity you were originally trying to spew.  And the ignorance is from you proclaiming that this portal class is "weak" and done with additions.  Hopefully the Texas staff still has a pivot or two to unveil.  But a troll gotta troll I guess.  🤣🤘🏼😂

Lmao! Go look at any of my other posts 😂😂 not a single negative comment about anything other than the OL. It’s a serious question that only time will tell how it plays out. Acting like I’m here just to troll is comedy. I would love to be wrong but you don’t have the common sense to have a real conversation about something that could be a potential problem. I never claimed the portal class was “weak” in fact I said it was great. But keep coping loser.

[graemakin]

16 minutes ago, Layton_Sharp said:

Lmao! Go look at any of my other posts 😂😂 not a single negative comment about anything other than the OL. It’s a serious question that only time will tell how it plays out. Acting like I’m here just to troll is comedy. I would love to be wrong but you don’t have the common sense to have a real conversation about something that could be a potential problem. I never claimed the portal class was “weak” in fact I said it was great. But keep coping loser.

Troll on hater.  Bye bye now. 🤣😂

[UT Longhorn]

Can we get the views to 75K? It's time for a new thread with a new bar/club name! 🤘🏼

[TimLamaster]

9 minutes ago, UT Longhorn said:

Can we get the views to 75K? It's time for a new thread with a new bar/club name! 🤘🏼

Yeah this bar/ club didn't do us much good. 

[arghookem56]

 

[CJ Vogel]

Let’s see if Seaton takes any visits after this LSU trip. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kiffin just landed himself a left tackle. 

[TheRoJoShow]

5 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Let’s see if Seaton takes any visits after this LSU trip. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kiffin just landed himself a left tackle. 

Yay

[ElCafetero]

1 hour ago, CJ Vogel said:

Let’s see if Seaton takes any visits after this LSU trip. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kiffin just landed himself a left tackle. 

cant wait for Colin to run circles around him 

[AusMOJO]

3 hours ago, arghookem56 said:

 

[diegozanna20]

9 hours ago, Layton_Sharp said:

Lmao! Go look at any of my other posts 😂😂 not a single negative comment about anything other than the OL. It’s a serious question that only time will tell how it plays out. Acting like I’m here just to troll is comedy. I would love to be wrong but you don’t have the common sense to have a real conversation about something that could be a potential problem. I never claimed the portal class was “weak” in fact I said it was great. But keep coping loser.

Why don't you have blind faith in the staff figuring out LG when it was the single position on the roster that killed our chances of making the playoffs?

[Here for the Wins]

5 hours ago, diegozanna20 said:

Why don't you have blind faith in the staff figuring out LG when it was the single position on the roster that killed our chances of making the playoffs?

Do you really believe this?

[diegozanna20]

49 minutes ago, Here for the Wins said:

Do you really believe this?

Please tell me a single position that hurt our chances more than LG did.
Before you do that, go back and watch the Florida game or even the Kentucky game.

[Here for the Wins]

2 hours ago, diegozanna20 said:

Please tell me a single position that hurt our chances more than LG did.
Before you do that, go back and watch the Florida game or even the Kentucky game.

You said initially it was the single position that killed our chances.  I don’t believe it’ll ever come to down to one position.

I have watched those games just in the last week.  I’d stand on the thought any one win versus Ohio State, UF or Georgia gets us in the playoff.

With that said, versus OSU, Baker allowed the most pressures and the most penalties.  Campbell had a hold that negated a 2nd and 3 inside the OSU 35 or so.  A play or two later we throw a pick.  On drive 1 and and the late drive from the 1, they were snuffed from the right side of the line.  So certainly not all on the LG. 
 

UF is crazy one.  The defense wasn’t good.  I’m still baffled by the Brooks play.  I don’t blame him but, yes, that was individually the most problematic position in this game.  But we seemingly have some momentum then Brooks gets back to back penalties then we throw a pick.  I can’t begin to understand the decision here but even so the defense didn’t do their job.  I think special teams gave up 2 but also failed to kill a punt inside the UF 5, if I remember correctly.  In my opinion, this was a total team cluster.

Then Georgia.  There were a number of good individual plays but tons of missed opportunities here.  We struggled to pass protect from the LG spot but likely less egregious than the drops and the defense and special teams falling apart.  Also, pass protection had some losses at multiple positions.

LG was certainly the most curious and at times some of the ugliest play.  Much of the critique falls on Stroh, when the precipitous drop was Brooks.  Brooks had the 2nd lowest pass efficiency rating in the past 5 years.  I do not think we’ll have that again.  We didn’t get that out of Stroh.  We didn’t get it out of Hutson.  We didn’t get it out of Neto in his short tenure.  I can’t imagine we would have gotten it out of Kibble.  I don’t imagine we’ll get it next year.  But no guarantees.

All that said, I can’t blame our failures on one position.  Far too many snaps for someone else to make that game changing play.

[Matthew McClure]

3 hours ago, Here for the Wins said:

You said initially it was the single position that killed our chances.  I don’t believe it’ll ever come to down to one position.

I have watched those games just in the last week.  I’d stand on the thought any one win versus Ohio State, UF or Georgia gets us in the playoff.

With that said, versus OSU, Baker allowed the most pressures and the most penalties.  Campbell had a hold that negated a 2nd and 3 inside the OSU 35 or so.  A play or two later we throw a pick.  On drive 1 and and the late drive from the 1, they were snuffed from the right side of the line.  So certainly not all on the LG. 
 

UF is crazy one.  The defense wasn’t good.  I’m still baffled by the Brooks play.  I don’t blame him but, yes, that was individually the most problematic position in this game.  But we seemingly have some momentum then Brooks gets back to back penalties then we throw a pick.  I can’t begin to understand the decision here but even so the defense didn’t do their job.  I think special teams gave up 2 but also failed to kill a punt inside the UF 5, if I remember correctly.  In my opinion, this was a total team cluster.

Then Georgia.  There were a number of good individual plays but tons of missed opportunities here.  We struggled to pass protect from the LG spot but likely less egregious than the drops and the defense and special teams falling apart.  Also, pass protection had some losses at multiple positions.

LG was certainly the most curious and at times some of the ugliest play.  Much of the critique falls on Stroh, when the precipitous drop was Brooks.  Brooks had the 2nd lowest pass efficiency rating in the past 5 years.  I do not think we’ll have that again.  We didn’t get that out of Stroh.  We didn’t get it out of Hutson.  We didn’t get it out of Neto in his short tenure.  I can’t imagine we would have gotten it out of Kibble.  I don’t imagine we’ll get it next year.  But no guarantees.

All that said, I can’t blame our failures on one position.  Far too many snaps for someone else to make that game changing play.

Really strong analysis and 100% agree with your points.  Just like no single play determines the outcome of a game, no single player/position determines the outcome of a game (not even QB).  The other thing that comes to mind, is if I noticed a single weak link in the armor I'd be far more concerned about the lack of schematic adjustment to mitigate the issue.  I mean we're talking about an interior lineman here, short of Safety, perhaps the least critical position on the field.

[Here for the Wins]

Just now, Matthew McClure said:

Really strong analysis and 100% agree with your points.  Just like no single play determines the outcome of a game, no single player/position determines the outcome of a game (not even QB).  The other thing that comes to mind, is if I noticed a single weak link in the armor I'd be far more concerned about the lack of schematic adjustment to mitigate the issue.  I mean we're talking about an interior lineman here, short of Safety, perhaps the least critical position on the field.

Agree on the single play, even if it’s the last one.  
 

Guards should be somewhat easy to hide.  I’m certain there are quite a few out there that aren’t good.  I’d love to hear the behind the scenes discussion here.  Part of me feels like there was internal conflict amongst the staff.  But in spite of what happened there, it was that we weren’t rock solid other places.

For me, I’d expected better play across the board early and really that LG had the lowest expectations.  Guys just need to pick each other up, and it didn’t happen enough.