Bunk Moreland

Strongly disagree. With Wingo and Coleman gone, we need an older, experienced receiver who can make critical plays in critical moments. If Arch leaves and we don’t get a starting QB out of the portal, that becomes even more essential. Plus, Mosley should have at least some chemistry with both Lacey and Bell at this point. I think we also dramatically underrate Mosley.

QB: Lacey, Bell RB: Cooper, Terry (I would evaluate the portal for an upgrade over Smothers) TE: Townsend (burn the rest to the ground) WR: Mosley, Bishop OL: Christian, Turntine, Sikorski, Coleman, Cojoe (but push him inside), try to convince Siani to come back. Look for 2-3 major upgrades in the portal DL: Geffrard, Watson, January, Terry, Sharma, Wesley, Spence, Carlton, Jackson. Look for a badass edge in the portal. LB: keep the entire core. Try like hell to convince Biles to come back DB: D Williams, Littleton, Meredith, Phillips, Davis, Matthews To me, that is an extremely strong core team to build on. Gotta try to get an elite outside receiver, an explosive RB, a dual-threat TE, 2-3 high-level OL, a badass edge, and. 1-2 proven DBs from the portal. If I’m Sark, I take a HARD look at portal QBs to see if there are any guarantees that provide an immediate upgrade over my young guys.

Everyone is talking about how Texas hasn’t faced as talented or complete a team as LSU. But LSU hasn’t seen a defense like Texas.

13-10 Texas

A lifetime supply of street tacos

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.