Reason For DC Switch?

[SpaceCityWrangler]

Texas has been sooooo bad on offense, I would hate to call defense the last three seasons.  14-7 at Ohio State.  6-3 at halftime in Dallas.  13-13 at Kentucky going to OT.  That’s last year alone. 

Oh, thE Mississippi State game… we gave a Lebby offense 9 possessions in the first half.  Mainly because we had 5 possessions less than 90 seconds.  That’s the kind of stuff that made Buddy Ryan go over and smack Kevin Gilbride.  Literally, Texas would have been better off taking three knees and punting.  It would have shortened the half. 

Then Georgia… 14-10 and Texas has forced 4 straight three and outs all less than 10 years to start the 3rd and our offense can’t do anything after the D came up big in ten first four Georgia drives  after halftime.

The good news… Texas should be vastly improved on offense.  The defense in turn will play less minutes and be able to take more chances.  A year ago or even the season before, you could lose a game taking chances.  
 

 

[GQ03]

4 minutes ago, SpaceCityWrangler said:

Texas has been sooooo bad on offense, I would hate to call defense the last three seasons.  14-7 at Ohio State.  6-3 at halftime in Dallas.  13-13 at Kentucky going to OT.  That’s last year alone. 

Oh, thE Mississippi State game… we gave a Lebby offense 9 possessions in the first half.  Mainly because we had 5 possessions less than 90 seconds.  That’s the kind of stuff that made Buddy Ryan go over and smack Kevin Gilbride.  Literally, Texas would have been better off taking three knees and punting.  It would have shortened the half. 

Then Georgia… 14-10 and Texas has forced 4 straight three and outs all less than 10 years to start the 3rd and our offense can’t do anything after the D came up big in ten first four Georgia drives  after halftime.

The good news… Texas should be vastly improved on offense.  The defense in turn will play less minutes and be able to take more chances.  A year ago or even the season before, you could lose a game taking chances.  
 

 

I agree but in that Georgia game once the offense finally got into the endzone, the defense immediately goes out and gives a score back. Then the special teams falls asleep and the defense gives up another score. Complimentary football was anything but that last year.

[GQ03]

5 hours ago, Bdub12 said:

Thank you!   Another person who watches the games.  If Sark’s offense was anywhere near our defense we have a natty.  Hopefully this is the year

Would you say the same for the '23 season when PK's secondary was getting carved up by OU, Washington and (checks notes) Houston??

[Here for the Wins]

3 hours ago, GQ03 said:

Would you say the same for the '23 season when PK's secondary was getting carved up by OU, Washington and (checks notes) Houston??

 

[Here for the Wins]

Disregard for context.  The offense threw a pick on possession 1 versus OU.  Very short field.  Texas had 1st and 10 on the OU 30 or so with roughly 3 minutes to go.  One more first down and chances OU scores go down significantly.  That didn’t happen.

Now OU’s TD drive started with the LBers being attacked.  First down, stoppage of clock.  2nd play, Manny misses tackle first diwn.  Starting corner Watts out the whole game.  The big play was the 28 yarder in which the pass rush helped cause the issue.  I believe the TD was a LB miss.  So blaming the secondary is not completely accurate.
 

As for Washington, that was a boatload of offensive talent.  I’m not even sure that the entire regular season in 2024 schedule included as many first round picks as this UW team.  Maybe not even as many NFL guys as that UW team.  I don’t think that’s true cause Georgia.  But no sacks.  Penix had several great throws with pretty solid coverage.  And still the offense had 4 shots inside the 20 in the final minute.

Houston wasn’t good, but Barron and I think Watts were hurt.  M Golden was better than given credit.  And Houston only scored 20- something points.  And one of their TDs came when PK dialed up a free blitzer that missed.

Maybe the defense wasn’t great, but it absolutely gave the offense a chance.  And in the two losses, there were 4 turnovers that impacted the scoreboard.