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MikeDeTiger

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1190 on: December 28, 2023, 09:33:26 AM »
Be it known here on this 28th day of December in the Year of Our Lord 2023, that since utee94 has always claimed LSU's 2011 match against Oregon in Jerry-World was a home game for LSU, who benefitted from the major homefield advantage, it then follows that this game between Texas and Washington in the Dome is a home game for the Longhorns, with all the rights, privileges, and appurtenances pertaining thereto. 

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1191 on: December 31, 2023, 11:47:47 AM »
Rumors that LSU wants to bring Bo Davis home when Texas' season is done.  I wonder 1) if it's true, 2) would he come home, and 3) how much of the Longhorn's DL success was due to him and how much was that the tackles were just studs?  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1192 on: December 31, 2023, 12:18:07 PM »
Rumors that LSU wants to bring Bo Davis home when Texas' season is done.  I wonder 1) if it's true, 2) would he come home, and 3) how much of the Longhorn's DL success was due to him and how much was that the tackles were just studs? 
does he only have a one year contract? If he went it wouldnt be because of money cause UT could match anything if they want him to stay

There are a lot of very good DL coaches out there


makes me wonder if this is just a negotiation game for a raise

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1193 on: December 31, 2023, 02:18:47 PM »
I haven't heard that he's interested, only that LSU is.  Which, if true, probably rules out a negotiation tactic on his part. 

As for $, UT can certainly outbid us, but LSU is home for him and sometimes that matters.  Depends on if Kelly really is interested, then we'll see if Davis is.  He's got to be better than the makeshift DL coach we had this year, but that doesn't mean he's really on Kelly's radar.  Any successful coach with ties to LSU is going to have rumors started about them when their counterpart at LSU sucks.  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1194 on: January 02, 2024, 01:11:45 AM »
Well shit.  

Heck of a season anyhow.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1195 on: January 02, 2024, 01:15:27 AM »
Well shit. 

Heck of a season anyhow.

Happy new year to all!
Happy New Year Back at ya

I think next year will be our year

anyway it will be interesting to see how Michigan does against Washington's passing attack
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1196 on: January 02, 2024, 09:25:52 AM »
I was most surprised the Texas defense couldn't get more pressure on Penix

I know the Husky O-line won an award, but thought the Horns D-line would get more push and disruption

I'm guessing the Horn D coaches were also surprised and didn't practice blitz packages coming into the game.
I'd have turned up the heat on Penix, that kid is too good.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1197 on: January 02, 2024, 11:03:08 AM »
I don't feel like the real Texas Longhorns team showed up.  I expected the pass defense to struggle with Penix and Washington's slew of receivers....those guys are incredible (they're nearly as good as our guys :-D ).  I didn't expect the backs to turn the ball over twice, and I really didn't expect the Texas passing game to struggle so much to get going.  If it would've been just me, I would've switched over to the all-22 coverage to see what was going on down the field, but that would've disrupted the wife's viewing enjoyment.  Anyway, I don't know if UT's receivers weren't getting separation, and if not, why not, or if Ewers just wasn't finding them, or what.  And if the latter, I'm not sure why he couldn't find them, and I'm not sure why it seemed he got a bazillion balls batted down at the line. 

Most of all, the Longhorn swagger, present for so much of the season, was missing.  They seemed like they were sleepwalking through all but the last couple of minutes.  Just felt like Sark didn't have the team prepared, "up," and playing with urgency the way I've seen before. 

Also felt like the refs had money on Washington.  I don't mean that Texas' penalties were wrong, per se, but there were multiple fouls I thought were coming against Washington, and....they just didn't. 

When a team plays its game and comes up short, that sucks, but it leaves me feeling like things went how they were supposed to.  When it looks like a team came up short their best was never present, it feels hollow and wrong.  Not a fitting end to their season, to me.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1198 on: January 02, 2024, 11:03:50 AM »
I think next year will be our year

How many O and D linemen come back?  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1199 on: January 02, 2024, 11:04:51 AM »
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I was most surprised the Texas defense couldn't get more pressure on Penix



Yup I was surprised too.  And I only saw a few really bad non-called holding on their o-line, not dozens like in most games.  Sweat went off the field hurt a couple of times, might have something to do with it.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1200 on: January 02, 2024, 11:10:30 AM »
I don't feel like the real Texas Longhorns team showed up.  I expected the pass defense to struggle with Penix and Washington's slew of receivers....those guys are incredible (they're nearly as good as our guys :-D ).  I didn't expect the backs to turn the ball over twice, and I really didn't expect the Texas passing game to struggle so much to get going.  If it would've been just me, I would've switched over to the all-22 coverage to see what was going on down the field, but that would've disrupted the wife's viewing enjoyment.  Anyway, I don't know if UT's receivers weren't getting separation, and if not, why not, or if Ewers just wasn't finding them, or what.  And if the latter, I'm not sure why he couldn't find them, and I'm not sure why it seemed he got a bazillion balls batted down at the line. 

Most of all, the Longhorn swagger, present for so much of the season, was missing.  They seemed like they were sleepwalking through all but the last couple of minutes.  Just felt like Sark didn't have the team prepared, "up," and playing with urgency the way I've seen before. 

Also felt like the refs had money on Washington.  I don't mean that Texas' penalties were wrong, per se, but there were multiple fouls I thought were coming against Washington, and....they just didn't. 

When a team plays its game and comes up short, that sucks, but it leaves me feeling like things went how they were supposed to.  When it looks like a team came up short their best was never present, it feels hollow and wrong.  Not a fitting end to their season, to me.

Yeah I felt like that too.  That's the main reason I really have little to say about this game.  As near as I can tell, it never really started.  I felt similarly about the UT-Alabama NC game a few years back.  We never got a chance to see Texas in that one either, although for a different reason.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1201 on: January 02, 2024, 11:32:14 AM »
I don't feel like the real Texas Longhorns team showed up.  I expected the pass defense to struggle with Penix and Washington's slew of receivers....those guys are incredible (they're nearly as good as our guys :-D ).  I didn't expect the backs to turn the ball over twice, and I really didn't expect the Texas passing game to struggle so much to get going.  If it would've been just me, I would've switched over to the all-22 coverage to see what was going on down the field, but that would've disrupted the wife's viewing enjoyment.  Anyway, I don't know if UT's receivers weren't getting separation, and if not, why not, or if Ewers just wasn't finding them, or what.  And if the latter, I'm not sure why he couldn't find them, and I'm not sure why it seemed he got a bazillion balls batted down at the line. 

Most of all, the Longhorn swagger, present for so much of the season, was missing.  They seemed like they were sleepwalking through all but the last couple of minutes.  Just felt like Sark didn't have the team prepared, "up," and playing with urgency the way I've seen before. 

Also felt like the refs had money on Washington.  I don't mean that Texas' penalties were wrong, per se, but there were multiple fouls I thought were coming against Washington, and....they just didn't. 

When a team plays its game and comes up short, that sucks, but it leaves me feeling like things went how they were supposed to.  When it looks like a team came up short their best was never present, it feels hollow and wrong.  Not a fitting end to their season, to me.

or wash is better than we gave them credit for.  i thought tx would win too & it went down to the wire.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1202 on: January 02, 2024, 11:48:38 AM »
I like to think I've given Washington a lot more credit than most.  I poo-poo'd on the notion Oregon was going to win a rematch and should've won the first meeting.  I also said they were going to shred the Longhorn secondary.  They do continue to be a more physical team than my biases want me to think they are, so there's that.  

But that's all separate from watching Texas all season vs. Texas last night.  Undoubtedly Washington forced Texas into bad plays and made great plays of their own, but I'm just talking about straight up body language....all the visual cues and tell-tale signs of where a team's head is.  The penalties UT was drawing, their observable sense of urgency and energy.....none of it seemed right and it all reeked of a team whose head wasn't in the right place.  I had to wonder if Sark wanted to guard against getting too amped up, fearing that would cause jitters and bad execution, and so he over-corrected and got the team too calm. 

I don't mean the tired old "they weren't up for it" or "they didn't want to be there."  Obviously that's false in a playoff game.  But mental headspace management is a real thing, and coaches do have some control over it.  Ewers has always had a "I just smoked a joint and even though the house is on fire, I'm just chillin', why u so excited bro?" vibe to him, which has sometimes been to his detriment, I think.  It felt like the entire team adopted his attitude last night. 

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1203 on: January 02, 2024, 11:59:29 AM »
The long layoff sometimes helps, and sometimes hurts.

I think the game might have gone differently if Texas had played a week after demolishing OkState in the B12 CCG which was a week after demolishing Tech in Austin.  That Texas team was spitting blood and breathing fire.  Last night's Texas team showed very little life until the final few minutes of the game.  I actually fell asleep for a few minutes in the 3rd quarter and, unfortunately, so did the football team.

 

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