Dread-headed Texan

Is this a young team or is Elliott always coach with a let them play through it demeanor?

All it took was for Louisville's 13 to have a seat. I'm not sure of how the sub patterns work, but 13 should have more seats. Sheesh she blocks everything.

This is a different team in the second set.

Other than basketball, and track I wasn't one to give girls/women sports much of a chance. Now when my neices coming into their own I'm at cheer camps, soon to be softball games, track meets, volleyball games, soccer, and basketball. 🤣 half of the time I don't know what's going on, I just cheer and clap when the parents who have the same colors on that I'm wearing do.

It's silly to give up on anyone on this roster right now, those who do, will always be looking for the next best thing.

During the Quinn years, I never had the confidence we had the roster to win a championship. I did believe we were talented, but I felt there were teams we didn't match up well against. This year I have that confidence in the roster, that doesn't mean I think they will win it all just that they can. There are some things I need to see to shore up that confidence, but I realize this is a young team and there will be ups and downs. So buckle up buttercups 🤣 it's going to be a wild, bumpy ride🤘🏿

Vision is something you have or you don't. If Simon has it, contrary to how many here feel here, this is the line you want to run behind. 🤣 Arch however, may have nightmares for awhile.

Sounds like Rod fixed it, on 3rd and 4 or more, throw it to Parker. He down there somewhere.

We won't know until SEC play Sark isn't going to give us much. But I don't expect many explosive runs until he comes back, Baxter isn't an explosive back he's a bruiser and inside/gap scheme back.

Tre would of had 130 easy that game.

I just finished the State of the Program video and immediately went to watch the run game. The run game flaws were do to running back vision just as much if not more than blocking. We missed Wisner that game. On the second drive of the game, I forget which back was in, but on 1st and 10 we gain 2 yards where if the back cuts outside between the TE/T it's blocked for 5-7 yards. The next play the line gets push but the back is dancing in the whole instead on putting his foot in the ground. He gained 5, where Tre would have gotten 15. There's many like that throughout the game. The line whiffed here and in on run blocks, but it was better than most give credit for.

This graph explains who Arch is as a passer right now. The intermediate passing in the middle of the feild was an area of concern going into the season. Arch works best according to the chart and eye test outside the numbers and when in the RZ on waggles, flood concepts, and boots. Good thing is if teams want to play middle of the feild closed defenses they're playing to his strengths.

Sark has his recievers learn all positions. So it's not necessarily who comes out, but more how does the rotation go. It all depends on what Sark wants out of certain plays. You can get an infinite amount of combinations of Mosely, Livingstone, Wingo, and Moore who are the lead recievers right now.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.🤘🏿

People did the same thing when we didnt get Evan Stewart out of the portal or high-school. DK is good where he's at, we'll see how good he is when team scheme against him and have the talent to limit him. Once conference play starts his numbers will drop because the quarterback he has will be facing stiffer competition.

Remember how fast and good 17 year old Ryan Williams looked? Then he disappeared later in the season and now to start the season he's hurt.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Once the ink is dry on signing day, the guys you missed on are irrelevant. At most if they become the players you we expected them to be and end up in the same conference you'll only see them 3 times. No amount of should of, could of is going to change that.