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Murphy has deceptive speed and presents a pro style approach

Hes 6'5" and 235 pounds and he has a much quicker release then Ewers which is fine as long as he reads the def correctly and stays away from picks

I think under him our rushing game will increase

Air Raid teams like Houston live with the embarrassing defeats to the Ball States of the universe in order to maintain a hope to beat the Texas and OUs of the universe. Once Houston's QB realized that the only tackling in the backfield was going to be done by his own OL, he settled in nicely.

But seriously, Texas knows the only way to handle these teams is to keep scoring. The wasted possessions with ill timed A gap runs stopped a lot of drives. Houston putting up 24 with a silly passing display only draws a chuckle if we've got 45 on the board.

Houston followed up the bad spot with a bad play. They faked themselves out with some weird "Boot action y-zig flat" thing. It relied 100% on Texas selling out to stop a run that they didn't even show.

Partly because Bama's OL has turned out to suck, but yes, point taken.

Odd thing is, our DL can't buy a holding call with those same SEC crews.  The front has certainly had its problems this year, but one of them is failing to get any flags on plays where their jersey is grabbed after blowing by their man.  A sack or two in the Ole Miss game and who knows, we might be sitting at 7-1.  

That brings up memories that make me angry and sad.

There's a screen-grab much like that with players circled from the 2016 contest with lsu/bama, illustrating 3 blatant holds from the bama OL which comes right before Hurts escaped the pocket and scampered for the game's only TD. 

I had nothing against Jalen Hurts, but I always thought he was just okay and if he didn't play on a team where everybody around him was substantially better than everyone else, he'd prove it.  Sure enough, he gets to LSU who has a line that couldn't be put on skates and DBs who can cover, and whaddaya know, they score 10 pts, which should've been 3 or 6, depending on if they hit a FG there.  But definitely shouldn't have allowed that TD to stand...you know....with the 3 blatant holds. 

I still think of him that way with the Eagles.  He's a better NFL qb than I thought he'd be, but he's still just okay at that level, but somehow the dirty birds have amassed the best lines in the NFL, which make everybody else that much better, and it frustrates me to hear broadcasters slobber over him.  My only consolation was watching him at OU running into a team in the playoffs that forced him to be great and elevate team beyond the sum of its parts.  He couldn't do it, or even come close. 

But the thing that makes me the most angry and sad about those 3 unflagged holds is that even if they rightfully took that score away......we'd still have lost 3-0

Interesting stat

Penalties

UT      6 for 60 yards

U of H 1 for 15 yards


U of H had 38 penalties for the first 6 games of this season

Nope, we knew there'd be shenanigans.  

Just gotta play that much better, to ensure a finger on the scale doesn't tilt it too far.