Clearly, Texas fans are taking Sam for granted. Mind-bottling.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Ok, let's talk about the defense...)
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That poster a week or so ago had Sam basically just a bus driver. Very strange
Because women have not been playing soccer around the world like the US has. I lived in Mexico for 12 years and there were not any girls soccer leagues at the youth level. If a girl wanted to play, they played with the boys.
The thing you are not getting is that all over the world soccer academies start at early ages, just recently in the US, and this is much better training than college soccer. If you pay attention to the youth programs around the US, you see big name international teams setting up shop in the US looking for future superstars.
Fans, coaches, players all get so close and involved they cant see the light through the dark and in some cases the dark through the light. Mack couldn't see he had an issue towards the end. Today we have a case of some fans not being able to see the QB is not the issue. We have issues just not at QB currently. It's hard to make sure you dont get pulled in by the good or bad and not allow yourself to see things as they really are.
I don’t mean to nitpick, but that was hardly Colt’s best game. Look at Arky, Missouri, A&M and Okie State from 2008 and A&M from 2009. He was dominant. But I admit I may be selling Sam short.
The reward of making him so multiple (the tipped INT) wasn't worth the risk of not pass rushing him off the edge 95% of the time (573 yards passing). I'm surprised you haven't responded to some other posters suggesting Ossai become a full-time pass rusher but this defense can't get enough pressure with it. Orlando needs to watch a lot of film on how Muschamp used Orakpo and Kindle.
Colt was college football hall of fame caliber player . He was a 2 time Heisman finalist and won multiple player of the year awards .
His career passing rating was 155 .
His best year was 2008 when he had a 173 rating for the year .
Sam had a rating of 175 against LSU .
Still not really sold on Tua as watched him play terribly against both Georgia n Clemson last yr. Which were the only 2 games where the talent was even close on both sides. Most games he just gets to sit back there and throw to 3 1rst round picks and not get touched. Sam played much better than Lawrence did Sat as well. Is he as good as passer as either of them not even close. Now as an overall college QB he is pretty darn close.
He has definitely lost a step, either through a nagging injury, a few extra pounds, or trying to do too much and getting gassed early.
I played soccer my whole life. I was coached by a Brazilian guy that made it into their national program and was then cut. I was good enough to be offered as a walk-on at Duke. My point is that I understand what is going on in the rest of the world. My high school team had an exchange student on it, from Brazil, that was not even good enough to play futbol in brazil, only rugby, and he was by far the best player in our district, and it wasn't close.
The same thing is happening with youth baseball right now. But what America is missing is that the collegiate ranks should be a great place to deepen the talent pool. The collegiate opportunity gives girls the opportunity in America to get better. It gives them hope for a future with the sport. It gives young girls to get better at soccer and if they are not good enough for the USWNT, they still get a great degree. That right there keeps most boys from developing - there is no reason.
Men's soccer in the US is in a death spiral. The best players can try to go play overseas - I knew a bunch of kids that thought they were good enough. They all came back in tears. They were not even close to being good enough. The program has to be rebuilt from the ground up, and a robust collegiate environment has to be a part of the equation.
The same thing is happening in baseball. There are many kids that are drafted straight outta HS. But there are many more that go to college and develop and then go to the MLB - they were just late bloomers.
May be time to take a few days off of this site. The disrespect Sam is getting is pathetic.
That very nearly worked. He took a risk because he wasn’t confident in our pass rush.
At least that is how it looks to me.
He was trying a lot of DL guys trying to get a rush.
Burrow made a very difficult and unlikely throw to make that play.
Sometimes you have to be very good to get the type of recruits you need to get to elite.
The only wide open deep receivers that Sam had had this year were the 3 touchdown plays to Eagles .
Well actually if the DB hadn't tried to undercut Eagles on the 55 yard touchdown he would not have been open . The high throw over the DB essentially threw him open .
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They scored 74 including 7 overtimes . The score was tied at 31 at the end of regulation .
I literally just talked about this exact thing in the podcast I recorded and used the same example.
This play did not result in a touchdown.
Missing receivers and throws in general happen to every quarterback in the sport.
He reminds me of Sergio Kindle who started out at linebacker and then was a DE with great versatility to move him around.
Ketch, I know you are a huge Sam fan, as am I. My only point is that he missed, has missed, wide open receivers on deeper patterns time after time. He did it twice on Saturday night. While they are harder throws, he had open receivers who he could have easily hit by putting some air under the ball. Brewer was so open he could have lobbed the ball to him, but instead threw the ball hard into the ground nowhere near Cade. He also missed DD who was very open. He can and should learn from those game changing mishaps. Some practice and some coaching about how to complete long passes when the receiver is wide open would help. It's different from when he has to drill the ball into a tight window like the ball he completed to Jake. It would help us if he improved on this aspect of his game so I hope he does.
Colt had a crappy OL and no running game. It was amazing that we made it to MNC game and probably win it if Colt doesn’t get hurt.
I agree that Sam is better so far. He has a better OL than Colt but he may end Iike Colt lacking a running game. My confidence is sky high with Sam.
He was second in the nation last year in downfield passing.
Yes, he has missed receivers down the field. My point is that it happens to every quarterback at every level on a pretty consistent basis.
Colt was working with Walter Peyton compared to what Sam had on Saturday.
I think that the defense will be really coached up this week and some guys will respond. I expect a big improvement against Rice.
They have two weeks to get ready for Okie Light.
In over 40 years of watching Texas football there are only a handful of games where we have a better quarterback performance than Sam had Saturday .
Unfortunately we came up a touchdown short . If we catch the 4th and 2 and make 1 stop that would have been viewed as an all time great UT qb performance .
Unfortunately we came up a touchdown short . If we catch the 4th and 2 and make 1 stop that would have been viewed as an all time great UT qb performance .
I don't understand why you and others are acting like Sam is being blamed for the L. I haven't seen that sentiment from anyone on the board. People have just noted the deep throw accuracy issues. It's probably in the bottom 10 percentile in the ranking of the size of this team's issues, but that doesn't mean it's somehow wrong to acknowledge it exists.
He's at the very bottom of things on this team that warrant heavy inspection.
I'm also trying to make everyone understand that needing to throw better down the field is literally a thing for almost every quarterback alive.
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