Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Sam Ehlinger is playing historically good football...)
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Clearly Zach Smith is unhinged. That being said, I find those 2 paragraphs a bit interesting. Not sure if you are trying to say something w/o saying something.
Mauer was a special football prospect. The No.1 player in the country.
What was more valuable in 2005 - the No.1 prospect in the country in 2002 or Greg Davis?
Note: I'm not equating Greg Davis to Mark Richt, specifically, just pointing out that the Jimmys and the Joes matter more than the Xs and the Os a lot of times.
247 composite has him at #17. #2 that season was Brodie Croyle. Pretty sure that didn't work out too well for Bama. I will also acknowledge to imagine only the best of circumstances in a hypothetical with no tangible evidence. I just think FSU also started losing much more often when they started using their top longtime coordinators.
The thing that no one is talking about in relation to is how much the WRs are a part of this streak. Since the first game of the season, this essentially means that our wrs have not run any routes that left Sam out to dry and have one of his passes go straight at a defender, they haven't had a tipped ball that left a ball on a platter for a defender and they have either won or "tied" every ball that sam has just thrown up for grabs (which he is doing intentionally because of who his wrs are). By no means am i taking away what Sam has done as it is amazing, but the play of the WRs (and the O-line too) has been out of sight this year in regards to this success. Count me as a Drew M doubter coming into this season, but he has elevated our WR play this year and we dramatically improved our rotation of which ones play (not sure who that is on, but you know he is at least involved in that decision).
Ok. I get TO's unfortunate infatuation with the three man front. But to stay with it on short yardage plays, as he often does, is nonsensical.
Croyle was set to go to FSU, but a national recruiting reporter with Bama ties went into his home for a few hours and when he came out, Croyle was committed to Bama.
Croyle also hurt his knee as a senior and wasn't in the same breath as Mauer as a prospect in my mind.
I followed both recruitments very closely.
And that's fair. But again, human nature is to lean heavily towards the most favorable result when considering "what might have been."
Oh, I agree, but Mauer was special. Could his knee have blown out? Sure. Could he have been a bust? Sure.
But, I don't throw that word around very often.
Greatest single-season passing efficiency number ever, as it currently stands. Tua dropped to 207.
A good top ten, but Tie Your...…. is awesome rock stuff. Have a great day. Keep up the good work.
If there is a three-way tie for the top two spots then as I understand it they will look at the results of the “mini round robin” between the three teams. WVU would be 2-0, Texas would be 1-1, and OU would be 0-2. WVU and Texas would move on to the CCG as the top 2 seeds.
It’s a seemingly impossible task to name the Top 10 Queen songs. So I would have put “Tie Your Mother Down” on there somewhere. But yours is a damn fine list.
I remember a few years ago when the QB's task was to manage the game, not win the game. I guess when you don't have a QB that can win games, then you ask him to mange it. Of course, very few teams have won anything with a managing QB. Nice that UT finally has elevated its QB play to where other winning programs find success, with a QB that can win games.
Would one consider that a string of bad luck or poor choices at that position?
Would one consider that a string of bad luck or poor choices at that position?
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I've been hearing this for several weeks now, and even from Tom Herman, as if to excuse the bad play of the defense in the latter half of our season. But does anybody remember last year? Last year we played EVEN MORE ELITE offenses and QBs, and our defense held tough. So why are we now shrugging and saying "that's just the Big 12, can't do anything about it" when we DID do something about it last year?
It requires elite defensive talent, something Texas had more of last year.
And yet Embiid is less meaningful to the big picture of the NBA than almost every player mentioned... sometimes stats are simply stats. Kevin Love used to average like 28/16 or something crazy like that year after year too. Embiid’s impact on the greater game has yet to be felt.
Have no idea why I’m commenting on this... lol... I don’t really care... guess it just struck me as an interesting dichotomy.
If the youngsters want to know just how good James Street was all they have to do is watch the Texas vs Arkansas '69 & Texas vs ND '70 for the Nat'l Championship to know just how good the man was when it mattered most. One of the all time college greats. I still get goose-bumps watching those games. Street had the heart of a lion.
I don't think it's just a DB issue Texas has, but that's a fair point.
