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The Power Five => Big XII => Topic started by: longhorn320 on September 07, 2017, 11:56:05 AM
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UT might be starting a new QB for this game
Should be interesting
Could be a good thing for future
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UT might be starting a new QB for this game
Well, I'm just going to sit tight and be a fan for now, but I can't see what Buchelle did to warrant not starting. Given time to throw, he threads the needle. Maybe it's his sore shoulder? I haven't been keeping up.
Although all 3 were troubling - I would prioritize as defense, special teams, and then offense.
Or maybe just defense, defense, defense.
One day I would like to see us recruit a 6'3", 6'4" hoss QB instead of these 5'11" kids we keep trotting out there.
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Hey BC,
It's doubtful Buechele will start simply because he's been injured all week and unable to practice. Ehlinger has been working with the 1s.
I have heard a lot of different reports about Jerrod Heard. I've heard he's splitting time at QB and receiver. I've heard he's working with the 2s. I've heard he's only practicing out of the wildcat. I've heard he could possibly even start over Ehlinger. Conjecture is all over the place.
I'd imagine Ehlinger will start and I suspect the coaching staff will have fewer qualms starting him against San Jose State than they would against USC.
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Never meant that Buechele should not start
Hes just hurt thats all
I like Buechele but one of the biggest faults I found with Mack was that our 2nd string QB didnt
get enough game time to be ready just in case
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Yep
Did you keep your nose above water, 320?
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sure did CH
my street didnt even cover over
very lucky
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Other than not pulling the trigger to his swing man on that first play sack, Buchele didn't do much wrong. He made the plays in the direction that the defense gave him. He won't ever be a power runner, so if that's what Herman wanted on 4th and short, using a receiver or Heard in the Wildcat would be the way to go in the future.
I need the OL to ask themselves how they're gonna come (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcizZebcaU) this season. This is the game to set that answer.
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sure would be nice if we could reduce our OL holding penalties
I think that problem alone cost us 2 TDs last Sat
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sure would be nice if we could reduce our OL holding penalties
I think that problem alone cost us 2 TDs last Sat
I'm also wondering about the TWO offensive pass interference penalties.
Is that a point of emphasis this season? One was hardly any contact at all, and the other was a usually acceptable release. Yes, they're pick plays, and could all be flagged, but just like holding, have historically enjoyed a lot of leeway.
The Big 12 kind of uses the WR switch as their calling card. If those are going to be removed, we'll need to rethink our strategies.
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these were definite picks but as you said wouldnt have been called last year
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Defensive front line needs to stop the run and play up to its potential. Is it our defensive front line or our secondary that is the detriment on defense? Both were below average last weekend.
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One of those picks was so poorly run that our receiver literally ran into their defender. It was an obvious pick and gets called every time. I think that was the one on the TD that got called back, which is why I remember it.
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Defensive front line needs to stop the run and play up to its potential. Is it our defensive front line or our secondary that is the detriment on defense? Both were below average last weekend.
My contention is that the DL is trying to guess the play, the LBs are trying to guess what the DL is going to do, and the safeties are trying to guess what the LBs are going to do.
If everyone would trust their teammates and their coaches and execute the call, this crud would be largely cleaned up.
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Hmmmmmm lets see UT was favored by 18 over Maryland and lost by 10
This week UT is favored by 25
Should I be worried
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I've been worried every time Texas takes the field, for the past 6 or 7 years.
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I was pleased Texas played so well last Saturday against San Jose State. I have no complaints. I am of the arrogant and entitled opinion that Texas should dominate 9 or 10 teams a year in that very same fashion.
But I'm pleased.
However, pleased though I am, I will withhold my hoopla until Texas actually beats somebody besides San Jose State.
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They played to their abilities on Saturday. They executed their game plan, caught a couple of breaks, and dominated a lesser opponent.
USC is going to land some haymakers this week. I don't think it's an impossible task for Texas, but I need a couple of things:
(1) Specifically, I need Brandon Jones to know his role at Safety. He has fantastic skills, but has been caught wondering if he should have played coverage instead of looking inside. Too many opponent receivers have run seam routes away from the CBs only to find lots of green grass where the Cover-2 help should have been.
(2) Execute your role as a team. Mike Tyson said, "Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth!". USC is going to hit Texas in the mouth. In seasons past, Texas has abandoned their defensive schooling and started playing on tilt. I'm hoping the SJSU game will remind them of what they can accomplish when they play as a team. Trying to cover USC with a series of individual athletic performances on defense will lead to another embarrassing score line (see point 1 above).
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Mike Tyson said, "Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth!". USC is going to hit Texas in the mouth.
My old HS coach used to say "you gotta do it to him before he does it to you.... cuz you can betcher sweet fanny he's gonna do it to ya"..
In other words, Texas needs to come out punching.
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Well, at least our "survive the surge" coach is gone.