Here are the highlights from Texas offensive coordinator Tim Beck’s media availability after practice on Tuesday:
--- Beck expressed disappointment about not being able to convert third-downs against Baylor. He said they can play better. However, they just did not play their best game.
--- Beck on striking a balance between Ehlinger checking down and not limiting his quarterback: “That's real. That's ongoing. It's also when you run it. When you get out of pocket and scramble when you keep your eyes up and throw it down the field right. You have that same issue. Having played that position, it's a feel. You can't you can't put a robot back there. You can't over-coach them and make them robotic because He’s a great player because he's instinctive, he plays with passion, and he makes plays. The minute you start to handcuff him with all these rules, He doesn't play very well, so, you guide him. It’s like a worker. You give them tools. Here's all the tools you can have in your belt, and go now. That worker goes and works on a project. He decides what tool he needs to use for that project. It’s the same as Sam, or anybody on our team for that matter. The coach’s jobs are to supply them with as many tools as they can for their position, and then use those tools to execute their assignments. We talk all the time about, hey, here's what they're doing. Maybe this is a better option. He’s playing. I’m not. It’s easy for me to sit there in a chair with a clicker with a bottle of water and say do this.
“He's got guys breathing down his neck. The biggest thing I look for is his reason why. That's what I look for. If it’s hey coach, I was going to throw the curl. I saw the guy get underneath the flat defender. I knew the back got eaten up in protection. I had to run it. Okay, that's good. You're right. That's exactly what happened. He's pretty good on that.”
--- Here is Beck’s response when I asked if it ever feels like opposing teams know what is coming: “You know, there could be there could be tendencies. I've been doing this for 30 years. Every offense has tendencies. I mean ask TO [Todd Orlando]. He’s going to say the same thing. Everybody he plays, they have the same ones, because there are certain things. There's certain things that you are good at. Every week, do you come in, scrap your offense, and decide here's what we need to do because we're showing this play too much because we need to do this? Or is it, hey, how about stopping this play first because we're pretty good at? What is it? What’s the answer? There's a happy medium between that to figure out. We're good at this. Let's do this right. We felt like that. I mean we were rolling along pretty good. Then we hit a speed bump, and we're just not making plays right now. I know Keaontay [Ingram] had the big run. We haven’t had explosive plays in a while.”
--- Beck on Tom Herman saying the staff has not done a great job of developing players: “I don't know if there's a specific coach he may be referring to. I know that we're developing the guys. We're trying to get them ready. There's a big jump. It's not an excuse. I mean it's our job as coaches to get everybody better, get everybody prepared. If Casey Thompson has to go in the game, he better be like Sam Ehlinger. That's my job, right? That's what I'm supposed to do. That's how I prepare, and that's how I coach him. I think our staff does the same thing. Some guys have grasped more other than others. I can't answer each specific room and unit to be why this guy has, and this guy hasn’t. I don’t know. I'm not in those meetings. I’m not in those walk-throughs for them to figure that out. Coach Herman might be. I'm not. So, it's a tough one for me to answer. I can answer what I do, and I feel like I've done that with Casey and Sam, and prepared those guys to get them ready to play. For the most part, they've done a good job, both of those guys.”
--- Beck expressed disappointment about not being able to convert third-downs against Baylor. He said they can play better. However, they just did not play their best game.
--- Beck on striking a balance between Ehlinger checking down and not limiting his quarterback: “That's real. That's ongoing. It's also when you run it. When you get out of pocket and scramble when you keep your eyes up and throw it down the field right. You have that same issue. Having played that position, it's a feel. You can't you can't put a robot back there. You can't over-coach them and make them robotic because He’s a great player because he's instinctive, he plays with passion, and he makes plays. The minute you start to handcuff him with all these rules, He doesn't play very well, so, you guide him. It’s like a worker. You give them tools. Here's all the tools you can have in your belt, and go now. That worker goes and works on a project. He decides what tool he needs to use for that project. It’s the same as Sam, or anybody on our team for that matter. The coach’s jobs are to supply them with as many tools as they can for their position, and then use those tools to execute their assignments. We talk all the time about, hey, here's what they're doing. Maybe this is a better option. He’s playing. I’m not. It’s easy for me to sit there in a chair with a clicker with a bottle of water and say do this.
“He's got guys breathing down his neck. The biggest thing I look for is his reason why. That's what I look for. If it’s hey coach, I was going to throw the curl. I saw the guy get underneath the flat defender. I knew the back got eaten up in protection. I had to run it. Okay, that's good. You're right. That's exactly what happened. He's pretty good on that.”
--- Here is Beck’s response when I asked if it ever feels like opposing teams know what is coming: “You know, there could be there could be tendencies. I've been doing this for 30 years. Every offense has tendencies. I mean ask TO [Todd Orlando]. He’s going to say the same thing. Everybody he plays, they have the same ones, because there are certain things. There's certain things that you are good at. Every week, do you come in, scrap your offense, and decide here's what we need to do because we're showing this play too much because we need to do this? Or is it, hey, how about stopping this play first because we're pretty good at? What is it? What’s the answer? There's a happy medium between that to figure out. We're good at this. Let's do this right. We felt like that. I mean we were rolling along pretty good. Then we hit a speed bump, and we're just not making plays right now. I know Keaontay [Ingram] had the big run. We haven’t had explosive plays in a while.”
--- Beck on Tom Herman saying the staff has not done a great job of developing players: “I don't know if there's a specific coach he may be referring to. I know that we're developing the guys. We're trying to get them ready. There's a big jump. It's not an excuse. I mean it's our job as coaches to get everybody better, get everybody prepared. If Casey Thompson has to go in the game, he better be like Sam Ehlinger. That's my job, right? That's what I'm supposed to do. That's how I prepare, and that's how I coach him. I think our staff does the same thing. Some guys have grasped more other than others. I can't answer each specific room and unit to be why this guy has, and this guy hasn’t. I don’t know. I'm not in those meetings. I’m not in those walk-throughs for them to figure that out. Coach Herman might be. I'm not. So, it's a tough one for me to answer. I can answer what I do, and I feel like I've done that with Casey and Sam, and prepared those guys to get them ready to play. For the most part, they've done a good job, both of those guys.”
