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These are the game experiences Ewers needs to go through and learn. He’s actually a true Freshman and he played like it tonight. Kid has great talent but he seemed to lock in on receivers the past few weeks. If he can learn to go through his progressions, which he will, he’ll start hitting more big plays. The miss on Bijan was huge. It also doesn’t help when receivers drop balls and Worthy fails to run throughout his routes.
Ha, no sir. But we suck and have no confidence. They think they will beat us. I'm not feeling real good about the game.
We are going 0-2 to finish. Bank on it. Teams have put out the blue print on how to stop our offense.
It's concerning that Ewers is not progressing. He's regressing. Watching him, he doesn't have a confident swagger. He seems really unsure of himself, which as at QB, you can't have that. Sark will ride out the rest of the year with him, but the QB job should be 100% open next year. I don't think that Ewers is the guy.
TCU played a helluva game. I give them credit. That’s a damn good team. I won’t be surprised at all if they get to the CFB championship game.
As difficult as it appears right now, we still have a path to the Big 12 championship game. We need help but it’s still there
As difficult as it appears right now, we still have a path to the Big 12 championship game. We need help but it’s still there
I’m not arguing that the run blocking was good, but they were at least giving him time to throw and Ewers couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. If he could actually complete those passes we could have moved the ball. It could have potentially opened up the run game too. You also can’t blame the OL on the easy dropped balls. The OL could have been good enough to win if the QB and receivers performed tonight. I know there is a lot of “coulda” in that. But that’s my take on it.
Didn’t say that. They didn’t play good enough to win, but I don’t feel that they bear the burden for the loss over Ewers and receivers dropping balls.
No mention of the drops? Lost 50/50 battles? Falling down?
Ewers struggled, but our receiving corps has gotten worse
It takes a bit of the sting out of this loss knowing that both BlowU and aggie lost today... but dayum.
I'd agree with that. TCU is B12 good but I believe will get exposed against an actual top tier team. Could be wrong
Duggan is awful. Georgia won't bust when he just launches one up.
We had a weird Ewers tonight. Was he hit in the head at K-state? After he didn't see a wide open Bijan who was the primary receiver on a wheel route. Sark should have pulled him. Too many deep balls that were nowhere near the receiver. I can't tell if it is Sark's terrible play calling or Ewers wanting to be the hero. we should have had 10 throws to bijan on screens wheel routes etc. Anything but running into the line No imagination in the play calling
Held TCU to the least points this season. They have the #4 offense in CFB both in yards and scoring. That’s a damn good team with a lot experience on both sides of the ball. Defense played their best game of the year. I’ll take that. Our offense made some rookie mistakes and that’s tough. But our rookie defense showed up and handled business. This team is headed in the right direction. The future is bright. I believe all of those recruits will see what we’re building and the trajectory of our program compared to OU and Aggy. Be on the lookout for some key flips to us in the coming weeks. This one stings but lets keep it in perspective. TCU was better tonight but with what we’re building up for the future we’re in much better shape than TCU, OU, Aggies, OSU, etc. I’m looking at this as a 3-5 year process. You don’t just roll out 22 guys right out of HS and expect them to turn around your program right away. Ewers is going through growing pains and, guess what, so will Arch Manning when he eventually takes over the offense.
TCU is the #4 team in the country. Going down to them, or even losing to them is not surprising. People will hate me for saying it, but higher ranked teams are usually better.
I think Ewers is still hurt, I haven’t seen him throw a bullet down field since the Alabama game, something is up. I think Worthy is scared of getting hurt. I think his agent is telling him to not put his body in jeopardy. He hasn’t dove or jumped for a ball in several games. He’s doesn’t want to take a big hit or land awkward and ruin his future career. He’s putting himself before the team and I think we would be better without him. We would not have to waste plays trying to get him his quota.
I think they are overrated. I also don’t think Duggan is as good as he’s made out to be. If they make the playoff they will get hammered by 50 against Georgia.
It’s also worth considering that teams are starting to get tape on Ewers and game planning on him which expected and why he’s struggled the past few weeks. There aren’t many kids that come straight out of HS school and are ready to take over a program and completely turn them around, but that’s what we’re expecting of Quinn in year one. The expectations are pretty damn unrealistic especially with the roster we have right now. He’s going to get better with these experiences. Max Duggan is a Senior, Spencer Sanders is a Senior, Bryce Young is in his 3rd season. Those are just a few examples of guys have all had the benefit of multiple seasons and multiple off seasons. If I recall, even VY, Colt and Sam went through struggles their first season.
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Colt McCoy had as good of a freshman season as any that I can remember. Completed 68% of his passes and threw 29 tds to only 7 interceptions with a 161 rating. VY was a different story. He wasn’t a very good passer his first year but he more than made up for his flaws with his legs.
The thing with Ewers is he has regressed drastically since that OU game. He’s not reading defenses and he’s pre determining where he’s going to throw the ball pre snap. It’s exactly why he’s forcing it to Worthy so much. That’s worrisome. I think Sark should have tried Card last night just to see.
On top of that Sark is doing him no favors. He needs to just ditch the deep stuff for a week and integrate more quick game. The little bit of WR screens we threw last night were working really well.
Sark needs to really think about letting someone else call plays. I just don’t think he’s cut out to handle the play calling and head coaching duties. It’s too much for him. I believe that’s why he has trouble adjusting in game.
I told y'all that Sark is overrated. Ewers is swoopes + squints, he sucks. Sark better beg Card to come back next year. Card sucks as well but this will be year 3 in the system and he should benefit.
Next year we lose our rb's and our dl. It's obvious that Ewers needs at least a year on the bench learning how to play college qb. His career path resembles the dood with the ginger fro more than Trevor Lawrence.
Btw, cut that ugly mop and shave.
Next year we lose our rb's and our dl. It's obvious that Ewers needs at least a year on the bench learning how to play college qb. His career path resembles the dood with the ginger fro more than Trevor Lawrence.
Btw, cut that ugly mop and shave.
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Is this NIL money affecting the game play of our players?
He’s a redshirt freshman and he’s a year older than Quinn because Quinn skipped his last year of high school. That year he missed was pretty big in his development process is my thinking.
GTFOH man. You disappear for weeks when things are going good and then show back up after 1 loss to the number 4 ranked team in the country.
Our OL is below average. The Center, RG and RT are inconsistent to be kind.
If you don’t have at least an above average OL then you don’t have good QB play. QBs get gun shy. It doesn’t matter who is back there. Eventually they will succumb to the porous OL play
Gilbert. Ash. Bue. Sam. Thompson. Ewers.
Good thing ksu was stubborn against us and didn't change QBs. Vs Baylor, Howard came in for Martinez and just about lit it up.
Yes I thought that Howard would start the second half against us.
