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I'm curious about Tennessee, as I didn't see any of their game.

We can all rejoice at Bama's shitting of the bed.

I'm curious about Tennessee, as I didn't see any of their game.

We can all rejoice at Bama's shitting of the bed.

Aguilar looks like a fit, and huge upgrade over Nico. Not scared.  Will cost us sometimes, but more big plays hopefully offset the mistakes.

3 headed monster at RB. Running game doesn’t look to be missing a beat without Sampson. 

O-Line was strong, even missing starters and shuffling bodies.  4 new starters. 

D-Line not near as strong or deep as last year.  A few DT’s banged up in the game as well. One season ending injury anticipated making them thinner. 

Edge rushers, Josh Joseph’s in particular, looks like Pearce’s replacement.  Pressure generated all day.  Team had 5 sacks, but I think 3 were from LBs.

LB’s and DB’s performed well.  Thank you Deion for Colton Hood.

Will be better on offense this year, but looks like a step taken back on defense due to depth on the DL.

Texas sucked it up.  Arch is either hurt, or terrible.  Maybe both. 

Offensive playcalling continues to be a crapshoot, redzone playcalling continues to be terrible, redzone execution continues to be terrible, and Sarkisian continues his dumbassery of not taking field goals and instead gambling away any potential at winning.

Texas is 0-4 in the past 11 months against the elite teams they've played.  Many other teams would go 0-4 in those same games so overall it's not the worst thing in the world, but it does indicate that Texas continues to be a tier below the best.  That's not just a today thing, that's a 3-season long trend.

Horn defense should be okay.

Hey, OAM did specify OVERreactions thread.

Tennessee looked really good by my reckoning.  Joey is a huge upgrade over Nico.  Nico, who I watched later, took that same vibe with him to UCLA- looking lethargic, indecisive, and with an air of wonder why the defense just doesn't fall at his feet in defeat at his very name.  amazing how ESPN lowered the Vols in their FPI rankings?  Sorta like how they broke from the game to shift over to Bama's shame er uh 'game'... and how the recently acquired five stars will no doubt be downgraded to two or three stars before the week just because they chose the Vols.  the bias is real... even the announcers, as i mentioned in the shout box, were pro 'cuse most the game even as they were being manhandled. 

UF is hard to tell- they played a literal lower tier juco team. 

Marshall is not much clear of that distinction, but UGA handled them easily.  

Bama needs to re-tune and remember who they were... that arrogant coach isn't the one.  they absolutely don't deserve to be in the top 25.. .maybe the top 40... maybe... FSU isn't that good and still managed to body slam them at will.  the real question is how long does that coach last?  i think i read his buyout is north of $60M.... the bammers will more than likely pull together, sell a few yard ornament cars for scrap, register a few lawsuits against rivals, and come up with the $$ by November to send that clown back out west.  he's that bad, by my reckoning... and I love it.  let them feel what UT felt after the debacle they endured for 20 years. 

why all the USCe love?  they struggled until late with a flopping about VT team... Shane Beamer is a pale shadow of what his father was, and most of that shadow is lost to ethics and integrity. 

ahhhh and then Texas and that QB who I forget his name.... i'm thinking that game was overly harsh on him, and I mean that.  Sure he could have made better decisions, but that's easy to say from the lazyboy.  real time, and from his vantage if you can imagine, he was in an almost impossible situation.  It causes me great pain to say it, but tOSU IS 'all that'.  They'll make many teams O's look like that this season.  that said, i think Texas bought into their own hype, too... they've never heard of rat poison. 

ahhhh and then Texas and that QB who I forget his name.... i'm thinking that game was overly harsh on him, and I mean that. Sure he could have made better decisions, but that's easy to say from the lazyboy.  real time, and from his vantage if you can imagine, he was in an almost impossible situation.  It causes me great pain to say it, but tOSU IS 'all that'.  They'll make many teams O's look like that this season.  that said, i think Texas bought into their own hype, too... they've never heard of rat poison.

Actually his decision making looked pretty good.  He checked down too early and too often, but he didn't make a lot of mental mistakes.  Even on the interception it's not like he forced it into double coverage or something dumb like that, he just threw a terrible ball that was either too overthrown for the underneath receiver, or too underthrown for the far receiver.  So it fell into a gap that had only one guy, who happened to be from the other team.

No it wasn't his decision-making, it was his inaccuracy, largely stemming from his abnormally poor mechanics in both footwork and arm positioning.  It was bizarre, it was like nothing he's ever shown before, which is why I'm suspicious it's an undisclosed shoulder injury.

Yeah I mean I get it why players and coaching staffs don't talk about injuries.  If the player wants to play hurt and the coaching staff thinks it has no better options, then the kid's going to play.  No need to give opponents any extra insights into how to attack him.

Last year for example, for sure Texas hid the extent of Quinn Ewers' injuries which hampered him all season long.  Ewers talked openly about it after the season.

So it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were some issue, and the team just isn't going to talk about it.