**OFFICIAL Texas vs T Boone Garth Mullet football thread**

[outhereincali]

Was a very good game. But you guys know Mike Gundy is an outstanding coach. Has been for many years. Not sure they can beat TCU in the big 12 championship game but will see. Hope one of the two can get into the CFP. We know its not gonna be UT or my team.

Would love to see TCU in it. Especially if Tennessee, Michigan and UCLA or Utah make it. Need new faces.

Right now it looks like GA and the MI/tOSU winner are certain. But because their schedule is week Clemson is shoe in for the third spot.

But I worry that this year we'll have 2 Big X teams in the playoffs this year.

UT won't make the playoffs because they've lost twice. But OR or USC might.

I don't know is OSU or TCU will make it they don't have any victories over good teams so far.

And I think AL will lose another game this year.

 

[LonghornMM]

Hypothetically, if both TCU and Clemson finish undefeated, TCU should be in over Clemson based on better quality wins and strength of schedule. Still lots of games left to be played though.

 

[dignon003]

Go back and look at that Christian Jones hold on the long run Quinn made. That's one of the worst holding calls I have seen in a long time. That call completely flips the game in my opinion.

Play should have blown dead for another false start.

 

[westx]

Play should have blown dead for another false start.

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So according to this Twitter homer, Texas should be grateful the thieves only took the gold and silver and we get to keep the bronze

 

[Hoookem722]

Play should have blown dead for another false start.

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But it wasn’t so hence why I said it was a bogus holding call.

 

[Okie70]

Think MM Is right. TCU, if they don't lose, will have better wins than Clemson. Just hope Michigan wins against Ohio State. Oregon does look like the best Pac 12 team now. Just hope Tennessee can keep winning.

 

[DHHorn]

I see some chatter on other sites that Sark should have benched Ewers at some point in the second half and put Card in. I think Sark did the right thing and left him in to see if he would snap out of it. You don't pull your starter and flip flop back and forth because that leaves doubt in future games. Throw an interception, get pulled, make a bad read, pull him. Card may have come in and moved the offense but Ewers could have snapped out of it as well. He ultimately didn't until the last drive but hindsight is 20/20. What do you think?

 

[JasperNewton7]

I think those that wanted to bench Ewers are dumb as fvck personally. There’s every reason, based on the way he was playing, his experience on the road, his temperament and demeanor as a person, and Sarks experience teaching/developing QB’s tells you not to pull the guy. Playing the long game here…not the immediate gratification of winning one fvcking game. IMO, we will win far more games having left him in that one we lost than winning that one game.

 

[Hoookem722]

I see some chatter on other sites that Sark should have benched Ewers at some point in the second half and put Card in. I think Sark did the right thing and left him in to see if he would snap out of it. You don't pull your starter and flip flop back and forth because that leaves doubt in future games. Throw an interception, get pulled, make a bad read, pull him. Card may have come in and moved the offense but Ewers could have snapped out of it as well. He ultimately didn't until the last drive but hindsight is 20/20. What do you think?

I agree with you 100%. Ultimately as bad as he was playing we still held the lead for 57 minutes of that game. You don't pull a young QB who is the future of your program at the first sign of adversity. It's important to let him work through that and learn from it. Now if we were down multiple scores, then yes I would say give Card a shot. He was actually making some good throws on those last 2 drives.

I think he'll learn from that experience and be better off in the long run. All the great ones have had similar games.

 

[weevilcatch]

I see some chatter on other sites that Sark should have benched Ewers at some point in the second half and put Card in. I think Sark did the right thing and left him in to see if he would snap out of it. You don't pull your starter and flip flop back and forth because that leaves doubt in future games. Throw an interception, get pulled, make a bad read, pull him. Card may have come in and moved the offense but Ewers could have snapped out of it as well. He ultimately didn't until the last drive but hindsight is 20/20. What do you think?

Well, he should've had a TD to X to go up by a score in 4Q. Hit Sanders on the X of Texas on his jersey and it turned into a pick. Scrambled for a long run and big 1st down only to be negated by a bullshit holding. Threw a hot to Bijan, but Bijan didn't read the blitz.

He snapped out of it, but everyone was reading a different book. It was just a shitty day. Quinn and everyone will be better for it.

 

[brushycreekhorn]

The problem was continuing to run the damn zone read when everyone on the field knows Quinn was not going to run. The only reason to put in Card would have been to give the zone read a chance with both the rb and qb being a threat to run. Otherwise, ditch the zone read and call more quick hitting run plays.

 

[weevilcatch]

The problem was continuing to run the damn zone read when everyone on the field knows Quinn was not going to run. The only reason to put in Card would have been to give the zone read a chance with both the rb and qb being a threat to run. Otherwise, ditch the zone read and call more quick hitting run plays.

I don't remember any zone read. They ran a bunch of RPO stuff and counter. Counter doesn't work real well when the other team run blitzes. At least those were the issues I saw.

 

[Hoookem722]

The problem was continuing to run the damn zone read when everyone on the field knows Quinn was not going to run. The only reason to put in Card would have been to give the zone read a chance with both the rb and qb being a threat to run. Otherwise, ditch the zone read and call more quick hitting run plays.

They don't run any zone read concepts. I think you're talking about the RPO's possibly?

 

[Hoookem722]

I don't remember any zone read. They ran a bunch of RPO stuff and counter. Counter doesn't work real well when the other team run blitzes. At least those were the issues I saw.

The counter was working really well in the first half but they started blitzing and shutting that counter down later in the game.

 

[westx]

I see some chatter on other sites that Sark should have benched Ewers at some point in the second half and put Card in. I think Sark did the right thing and left him in to see if he would snap out of it. You don't pull your starter and flip flop back and forth because that leaves doubt in future games. Throw an interception, get pulled, make a bad read, pull him. Card may have come in and moved the offense but Ewers could have snapped out of it as well. He ultimately didn't until the last drive but hindsight is 20/20. What do you think?

I had initially thought Sark should have thought to make some kind of change or even just wildcat for a play or two. However, I watched Ketch and Anwar’s overeaction monday youtube show and I thought Ketch laid it out really well. There was a lot of details, so I don’t even want to try and attempt to summarize. After watching, it was enough to convince me that Sark did the right thing of keeping Ewers in. The play calling was something that could have helped, but that was talked about extensively in the video. These are long shows and I never think I will watch all of it, but I play it over my car speakers as i commute and I end up hearing the content over a couple days.

 

[weevilcatch]

The counter was working really well in the first half but they started blitzing and shutting that counter down later in the game.

I don't remember any stretch zone...or what USC used to call Student body left/right. No counter, pulls, etc. Just toss the damn thing to Bijan and let him find the hole in space.

I would also like to see Texas in their 13 personnel and run off tackle with Bijan. Use some reformation motion, etc. to get defenders our of leverage.

 

[Hoookem722]

I don't remember any stretch zone...or what USC used to call Student body left/right. No counter, pulls, etc. Just toss the damn thing to Bijan and let him find the hole in space.

I would also like to see Texas in their 13 personnel and run off tackle with Bijan. Use some reformation motion, etc. to get defenders our of leverage.

Against Iowa State they ran a lot of unbalanced formations and had success like that. I haven’t had a chance to go back and watch the OSU game again to see what really went wrong in the 2nd half. This guy does a good job of highlighting the good and bad stuff they did. It’s worth a watch.

 

[weevilcatch]

Against Iowa State they ran a lot of unbalanced formations and had success like that. I haven’t had a chance to go back and watch the OSU game again to see what really went wrong in the 2nd half. This guy does a good job of highlighting the good and bad stuff they did. It’s worth a watch.

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I can’t watch that game again 😂

 

[Hoookem722]

I can’t watch that game again 😂

I hear ya man. I was pissed off until Tuesday about that game.

 

[DHHorn]

I don't remember seeing a bunch of motion in the second half or up tempo. We play up tempo in the first half and slice through teams like butter, then with a lead in the second half go to a clock control offense. They also saw that Quinn couldn't connect on anything deep so they brought everyone up.

 

[Hoookem722]

I don't remember seeing a bunch of motion in the second half or up tempo. We play up tempo in the first half and slice through teams like butter, then with a lead in the second half go to a clock control offense. They also saw that Quinn couldn't connect on anything deep so they brought everyone up.

They were having a ton of success with the up tempo stuff in the first half. Weird that they went away from it. It's a common theme for Sark to just abandon what is working in the 2nd half. Even on that last drive they were running up tempo and having success.