Bunk Moreland

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F that. It’s the last SEC CCG ever. Do whatever it takes to win. We also need to beat Georgia or it’s going to hang over our heads forever.

I love that this will keep half the country fully engaged and hopeful until the very end. It makes even more regular season games meaningful. It also means that roster depth will become more critical than ever.

Take it up with OpenAI.

Epic

His season stats remind me a lot of Jaylan Ford’s 2023 season—he was just always around the ball. But at this pace, Biles could end the season with even more than the 7 takeaways (INT + FF) that Ford had.

I actually think I’m coming around to the view that this is much more of a Kyle Flood issue. Arch was pretty much on track at the beginning of the season until that hit to the head against UTSA. Ever since then, the line cannot keep interior pressure off of him. He’s clearly spooked and seeing ghosts. The same thing happened with Quinn. I think we all recognize that Quinn was never an elite QB, but part of that was because he was hurt so often and part of it was because he was under pressure constantly. When he had a clean pocket, he could execute the offense flawlessly outside of the deep ball. I think there’s definitely some truth to the idea that Sark isn’t quite the QB whisperer that his reputation would suggest, but I would like to see his offense perform with a competent offensive line. I don’t know how much of the OL scheme problems is on Sark vs Flood, but he needs to completely overhaul.

@Gerry Hamilton my biggest question is how Arch could have regressed so significantly from the second half of last year. The one thing he did NOT do was turn the ball over. Even at his best he was never a particularly accurate passer, so his inefficiency this year is not surprising aside from the fact that he has not seemed to improve his accuracy as a passer since he’s been at Texas. But what is surprising is how much worse his decision making has been this year compared to the second half of last year. How has he regressed so badly in that regard? And how is he so bad at seeing the field as a fourth year player?

If he’s going to hold PK accountable after PK put good to very good (and even borderline elite) defenses on the field year after year, then he’d damn well better hold himself and his offensive staff accountable. Because I don’t remember seeing him ever have a great or elite offense at Texas.

Meanwhile, CJ Baxter scores the winning TD against LSU while rushing for 100+ on 6 YPC. Maybe the issue with our run game isn’t the players, it’s the OL and Kyle Flood’s scheme.

Then CDC needs to make him give it up or tell him to take a hike.

42-3. We are going to break them. Their locker room is reportedly fracturing, and I think they will fold if they get hit in the mouth once. The offense finally puts it all together and the defense is smothering.

This is a bit off topic, but it is enormously frustrating to see Keelon Russell as a true freshman dramatically outplaying Arch in his 4th year at Texas. It makes me think that Deboer is much, much better than Sark at either finding guys who can succeed in his system, or adapting his system to fit his QB’s strengths. Sark has never had a qb at Texas in the same ballpark as Penix, but that’s what Quinn and Arch were supposed to be. I don’t know if it’s a Sark issue or a Milwee issue. But Deboer makes them look like amateurs at QB development and maximizing his QBs’ talents.