Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Time for the UT staff to do its thing...)
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Great write up. If I had to take 84 just like him on the roster it would be RoJo. He is a proven gamer whose physicality and heart is unmatched on this team. Not a knock on Xavier, just my choice.
Week 10 lulz. Not a lot of mystery involved here; Texas SO hired the right guy. Just ignore the upcoming skull dragging from Saban and making Venables look like a Walsh/Belichick hybrid. It’s ALL gonna be fine.
Nice article, Ketch. If this staff is as good as Aranda, they’ll win more than 7 or 8 in season 2. God help us if he doesn’t.
Please follow another team. It has been ugly but you have other issues. We’re not for you.
I couldn't believe he even played, let alone made the cut when DeChambeau, Koepka and Spieth missed it.
a. Thank you.
b. Truly elite teams post numbers against everyone and don't have such extreme drop offs against good to pretty good oppponents.
The staff was abysmal; last year. Only one direction to go from there.
Week 10 lulz. Not a lot of mystery involved here; Texas SO hired the right guy. Just ignore the upcoming skull dragging from Saban and making Venables look like a Walsh/Belichick hybrid. It’s ALL gonna be fine.
Life has taken the hope from you.
I would put Step Brothers #1.
After that...
Talledaga Nights
Wreck it Ralph
Boogie Nights
My reason for putting Ralph 3rd is because he carried that movie, and it was his 1st true starring role, albeit a cartoon. Now, with the Lakers show, he is actually in the starring role again, and truly rocking it.
This show would be #2 for me when it is done, if it keeps up what it is doing. I cannot move Step Brothers, just a classic film.
Hook 'em
After that...
Talledaga Nights
Wreck it Ralph
Boogie Nights
My reason for putting Ralph 3rd is because he carried that movie, and it was his 1st true starring role, albeit a cartoon. Now, with the Lakers show, he is actually in the starring role again, and truly rocking it.
This show would be #2 for me when it is done, if it keeps up what it is doing. I cannot move Step Brothers, just a classic film.
Hook 'em
Dewey Cox was an underrated movie. JC Reilly is a great actor AND singer.
I have a counter point to make regarding your statement on the so called "running game mirage".
You might want to take a deeper look at some of the fools gold numbers you posted regarding the running game. You did not take into account that those numbers include -36 in sack yardage against Iowa State and a net -4 in rushing on 9 carries by the QB against Oklahoma State due to sacks and short yardage gains escaping the pocket.
If you just account for what the running backs did, they ran for 142 yards on 24 carries for an average of 5.9 ypc against OSU and for 127 yards on 26 carries for an average of 4.9 ypc against Iowa State. In each case, that's either a 1st down or close to it for every 2 running back runs.
Admittedly, Arkansas and Baylor were two real clunkers for the running game but Baylor had a borderline elite run defense (just outside of the top 10 for P5 schools and with Arkansas, they just ran into a buzzsaw.
At any rate, the backs averaged 4.9 or more ypc for every game except those two. And you can't just attribute it to Bijan being special as he had the lowest ypc of the top 4 running backs on the team. Not sure that you can do that with an OL that is deficient in run blocking.
If you run your numbers only for the running backs, they ran the ball 367 times for 2198 yards (6.0 ypc) over the entire season and 285 times for 1486 yards (5.2 ypc) if you take out the two monster games. The running game, when considered in its own light was elite. Including sacks and runs on failed passing plays does not fairly account for what they did.
