Improvement

[Dread-headed Texan]

A larger margin of victory than the previous game is not what constitutes improving, well, at least not in coaches eyes. You ever wonder why Sark doesn't seemed panicked as much or about the same things most of we fans are? First, you have to break the season down in terms of preseason and regular season. Winning out of conference games is great, but the goal is to beat the Ohio States of the world at the end of the season more than it is in game one. Back to why Sark isn't as panicked, concerned maybe, but that's because Sark is playing the long game. Could Sark had lined up and sped by or pushed San Jose State around, ummmm yeah, but that wouldn't do anything for improving. Sark is putting his team in situations during these games in order to get teach tape. These young guys don't learn from running by athletes they're better than, they learn from mistakes. As good as Oregon and Ohio State looked in week two, did they get better? No. If you have a little patience and put the game situations this team failed at in August and September in your memory bank, when you look back in December they won't be the same team. In sports you're either getting better or getting worse, nobody stays the same. Are there mental areas to clean up? Yes, especially the penalties, but that's up to each and every player to pay more attention to detail and be in position so you're not holding, to watch the ball so you're not leaving early, on Arch to make sure two players aren't shifting at the same time before he calls for the snap. So don't watch these next two games looking for score, watch for goal to go, early down success, third down conversions, forcing turnovers, and getting off the feild. Doing so will calm many of your worries.🤘🏿

[Hashtag]

12 minutes ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

A larger margin of victory than the previous game is not what constitutes improving, well, at least not in coaches eyes. You ever wonder why Sark doesn't seemed panicked as much or about the same things most of we fans are? First, you have to break the season down in terms of preseason and regular season. Winning out of conference games is great, but the goal is to beat the Ohio States of the world at the end of the season more than it is in game one. Back to why Sark isn't as panicked, concerned maybe, but that's because Sark is playing the long game. Could Sark had lined up and sped by or pushed San Jose State around, ummmm yeah, but that wouldn't do anything for improving. Sark is putting his team in situations during these games in order to get teach tape. These young guys don't learn from running by athletes they're better than, they learn from mistakes. As good as Oregon and Ohio State looked in week two, did they get better? No. If you have a little patience and put the game situations this team failed at in August and September in your memory bank, when you look back in December they won't be the same team. In sports you're either getting better or getting worse, nobody stays the same. Are there mental areas to clean up? Yes, especially the penalties, but that's up to each and every player to pay more attention to detail and be in position so you're not holding, to watch the ball so you're not leaving early, on Arch to make sure two players aren't shifting at the same time before he calls for the snap. So don't watch these next two games looking for score, watch for goal to go, early down success, third down conversions, forcing turnovers, and getting off the feild. Doing so will calm many of your worries.🤘🏿

I want to see us gash them in the run game consistently, 5 penalties or few(closer to zero the better obviously), I want to see our OL be able to pick up twist and stunts. 
 

 

[4thandFive]

I want Arch to be 30/30, Texas to win by 50+, 3 INT by the defense, and no penalties. 
 

You know…easy stuff. 

[Dread-headed Texan]

Just now, Hashtag said:

I want to see us gash them in the run game consistently, 5 penalties or few(closer to zero the better obviously), I want to see our OL be able to pick up twist and stunts. 
 

 

Sure there's things we all want to see, but at the same time you have to look at what Texas is in on either offense or defense situationally and put your headcoach hat on and ask, what is Sark trying to accomplish here and were they successful? 

[drag worm]

Regarding Sark, it was telling that he said in his PC yesterday that he got to get home and watch other games Saturday night and was watching them through the lens of wondering if any other teams were having the same kind of early season issues that we are. He said something like "i'm watching the games like, is it just us?" Everything is coachable and correctable within the margins of the talent on this offense, and I have a strong feeling he's going to use that two week break before UF to put together a new plan regarding what he's seen so far from this team, but as of now it does seem like he's feeling frustration regarding our early season offensive issues, team penalties, etc.

[Dread-headed Texan]

3 minutes ago, drag worm said:

Regarding Sark, it was telling that he said in his PC yesterday that he got to get home and watch other games Saturday night and was watching them through the lens of wondering if any other teams were having the same kind of early season issues that we are. He said something like "i'm watching the games like, is it just us?" Everything is coachable and correctable within the margins of the talent on this offense, and I have a strong feeling he's going to use that two week break before UF to put together a new plan regarding what he's seen so far from this team, but as of now it does seem like he's feeling frustration regarding our early season offensive issues, team penalties, etc.

Two weeks to prepare for the first SEC game after having a whole preseason to see what works, what doesn't, and what will work with some tweaks. I'm hoping that the penalties are because of all the expectations they were pressing to meet those expectations. As the season goes and the hype dies, I feel like the nerves will calm. I'm excited about this season. 

[Hashtag]

54 minutes ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

Sure there's things we all want to see, but at the same time you have to look at what Texas is in on either offense or defense situationally and put your headcoach hat on and ask, what is Sark trying to accomplish here and were they successful? 

Texas should be able to consistently win the LOS in run game this game so if we aren’t consistently getting chunks running the ball it doesn’t matter what Sark is “trying” to do. Lack of consistent run game is why we are 1-6 vs top 5 teams under sark. If you can’t do it vs utep you won’t be able to do it when it matter imo

[Dread-headed Texan]

7 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Texas should be able to consistently win the LOS in run game this game so if we aren’t consistently getting chunks running the ball it doesn’t matter what Sark is “trying” to do. Lack of consistent run game is why we are 1-6 vs top 5 teams under sark. If you can’t do it vs utep you won’t be able to do it when it matter imo

Sure but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the way I look at it is game to game, down to down, and situational. What happened in the past happened already, like the original post says, you don't stay the same you're either getting better or getting worse. If the offensive line isn't consistently pass protecting or generating push then they're not getting better. UTEP hasn't happened yet, we don't know what changes and tweaks have been made. I'm waiting to see what happens, from there I'll know if they improved.

[JMarquette]

15 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Texas should be able to consistently win the LOS in run game this game so if we aren’t consistently getting chunks running the ball it doesn’t matter what Sark is “trying” to do. Lack of consistent run game is why we are 1-6 vs top 5 teams under sark. If you can’t do it vs utep you won’t be able to do it when it matter imo

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[Hashtag]

8 minutes ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

Sure but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the way I look at it is game to game, down to down, and situational. What happened in the past happened already, like the original post says, you don't stay the same you're either getting better or getting worse. If the offensive line isn't consistently pass protecting or generating push then they're not getting better. UTEP hasn't happened yet, we don't know what changes and tweaks have been made. I'm waiting to see what happens, from there I'll know if they improved.

But your identity and from what sark says in his press conferences is not viewed on game to game basis. It’s something that should be every game. Consistent run game every game is key no matter what regardless of game 1 or game 3. For instance our defense doesn’t magically do something different from game to game. They are consistent in their fundamentals and approach to the game. Yes some details may change depending on opponent but they are still consistent with their identity. 
 

Simply put being consistent on offense is vast improvement for the offense as a whole. Because the entire tenure of Sark and his offense here has been inconsistency, it’s a proven fact at this point. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Hashtag

[Cujonation83]

1 hour ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

A larger margin of victory than the previous game is not what constitutes improving, well, at least not in coaches eyes. You ever wonder why Sark doesn't seemed panicked as much or about the same things most of we fans are? First, you have to break the season down in terms of preseason and regular season. Winning out of conference games is great, but the goal is to beat the Ohio States of the world at the end of the season more than it is in game one. Back to why Sark isn't as panicked, concerned maybe, but that's because Sark is playing the long game. Could Sark had lined up and sped by or pushed San Jose State around, ummmm yeah, but that wouldn't do anything for improving. Sark is putting his team in situations during these games in order to get teach tape. These young guys don't learn from running by athletes they're better than, they learn from mistakes. As good as Oregon and Ohio State looked in week two, did they get better? No. If you have a little patience and put the game situations this team failed at in August and September in your memory bank, when you look back in December they won't be the same team. In sports you're either getting better or getting worse, nobody stays the same. Are there mental areas to clean up? Yes, especially the penalties, but that's up to each and every player to pay more attention to detail and be in position so you're not holding, to watch the ball so you're not leaving early, on Arch to make sure two players aren't shifting at the same time before he calls for the snap. So don't watch these next two games looking for score, watch for goal to go, early down success, third down conversions, forcing turnovers, and getting off the feild. Doing so will calm many of your worries.🤘🏿

Straight facts! Great post 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[Dread-headed Texan]

1 minute ago, Hashtag said:

But your identity and from what sark says in his press conferences is not viewed on game to game basis. It’s something that should be every game. Consistent run game every game is key no matter what regardless of game 1 or game 3. 

We're not even talking about the same thing anymore. I'm talking about team improving collectively in all phases. You're stuck on run game that's a different topic. I'm asking did the team improve from down to down, game to game in more areas than they didn't. 

[Joe Zura]

1 minute ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

We're not even talking about the same thing anymore. I'm talking about team improving collectively in all phases. You're stuck on run game that's a different topic. I'm asking did the team improve from down to down, game to game in more areas than they didn't. 

Bro you are arguing with a rock in hashtag he won’t quit. So he we result to calling you stupid or something wait for it 🤣

[DanielOnorato]

I honestly hope they do just line up and run by them this week a bit. Get Wingo going however you can and put up enough points to get the backups in early limiting the risk of injury to starters.

The youngsters need to see live bullets too and the team needs to prove that they are capable of just lining up and embarrassing a team because we haven't seen that yet.

[Hashtag]

1 minute ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

We're not even talking about the same thing anymore. I'm talking about team improving collectively in all phases. You're stuck on run game that's a different topic. I'm asking did the team improve from down to down, game to game in more areas than they didn't. 

For the team to improve collectively the offense needs to become consistent in their approach whether it is run game or pass game. Doing this inherently improves the team regardless of down to down, game to game, half to half, quarter to quarter. 

[drag worm]

28 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Texas should be able to consistently win the LOS in run game this game so if we aren’t consistently getting chunks running the ball it doesn’t matter what Sark is “trying” to do. Lack of consistent run game is why we are 1-6 vs top 5 teams under sark. If you can’t do it vs utep you won’t be able to do it when it matter imo

Hate to promote content from other networks on here but go check out the tape review on the OL that Paul and Ian did on the IT YouTube channel. Holy moly it ain’t pretty. Not sure what Flood has been doing for five years but it hasn’t culminated in a very good product in front of Arch. 

[Hashtag]

1 minute ago, drag worm said:

Hate to promote content from other networks on here but go check out the tape review on the OL that Paul and Ian did on the IT YouTube channel. Holy moly it ain’t pretty. Not sure what Flood has been doing for five years but it hasn’t culminated in a very good product in front of Arch. 

You don’t even have to go there for it. Bob, CJ, and Jeff all gave OL D grades last game. 

[Dread-headed Texan]

1 minute ago, Hashtag said:

For the team to improve collectively the offense needs to become consistent in their approach whether it is run game or pass game. Doing this inherently improves the team regardless of down to down, game to game, half to half, quarter to quarter. 

Yeah, but at the same time Texas could end up being better passing than running the ball. So the strides in pass blocking could be larger in that area. So Texas improved in that area and they just aren't as good run blocking or visa versa. We don't know which is why I'm saying instead of trying to predict or assuming let's let it happen and assess. 

[DanielOnorato]

4 minutes ago, drag worm said:

Hate to promote content from other networks on here but go check out the tape review on the OL that Paul and Ian did on the IT YouTube channel. Holy moly it ain’t pretty. Not sure what Flood has been doing for five years but it hasn’t culminated in a very good product in front of Arch. 

If you ever can't sleep, put on a video with Ian you'll be out in no time.

[Dread-headed Texan]

3 minutes ago, drag worm said:

Hate to promote content from other networks on here but go check out the tape review on the OL that Paul and Ian did on the IT YouTube channel. Holy moly it ain’t pretty. Not sure what Flood has been doing for five years but it hasn’t culminated in a very good product in front of Arch. 

It's not about being pretty right now. I keep saying and we all know that Texas is replacing all but one starter on the offensive line. I'm not talking about one play, one player, one game. I'm talking improving in season and because I feel like the team is improving, the team we see now isn't the team we will see in December. 

[Dread-headed Texan]

10 minutes ago, Joe Zura said:

Bro you are arguing with a rock in hashtag he won’t quit. So he we result to calling you stupid or something wait for it 🤣

I'm not arguing 🤣. I'm having a conversation. 

[Joe Zura]

3 minutes ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

I'm not arguing 🤣. I'm having a conversation. 

You just wait for it pal that’s all I’m saying 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[drag worm]

4 minutes ago, Dread-headed Texan said:

It's not about being pretty right now. I keep saying and we all know that Texas is replacing all but one starter on the offensive line. I'm not talking about one play, one player, one game. I'm talking improving in season and because I feel like the team is improving, the team we see now isn't the team we will see in December. 

its an interesting theory how much a position group can improve vs how much latent talent they have. On one hand you have five star generational LTs like Banks that didn’t take long at all to lock in and then you have players that are just never going to be talented enough to meet a championship level standard no matter how much coaching is involved. And then there are the inbetweens. One can hope we have the latent talent along the OL  that can become championship level standard but a few of the dudes like DJ and Neto have been around long enough that I think we know their upside. 

[Dread-headed Texan]

1 minute ago, drag worm said:

its an interesting theory how much a position group can improve vs how much latent talent they have. On one hand you have five star generational LTs like Banks that didn’t take long at all to lock in and then you have players that are just never going to be talented enough to meet a championship level standard no matter how much coaching is involved. And then there are the inbetweens. One can hope we have the latent talent along the OL  that can become championship level standard but a few of the dudes like DJ and Neto have been around long enough that I think we know their upside. 

So in the way I look at it, DJ and Neto are who they are going to be, but can the guys around them come into the players they will become? From there they get better not individually, but collectively. That goes for all groups, both sides of the ball, and as a team. Fact is Texas may end up better in some areas than others. The more they set the standard of who they are to become the more we can hold them to that and judge from there. We can't expect a team to just be who we think they should be when they show us who and what they are. Is all I'm saying.