Texas has yet to go nuclear on any opponent this year. I’m talking scorched earth. Will it happen in any of the next three games? I feel like the potential is there, but it’s like we just can’t sustain great execution for very long.
Sark, you see how hard we are trying not to give up three points here at the end of the half? Can we please have that same urgency on offense when three points is there for the taking?
Sark is a good coach about 80% of the time. The other 20% he’s doing what he can to keep the other team in the game. I don’t know if it’s pride or panic, but situational awareness seems to elude him at some point in every game. I still like him.
That 1st down play-action play all in the red zone felt like the fake field goal call last week. Momentum changer. Thankfully Slovis is pretty much a statue.
Regardless of who is taking the snaps, the greatest concern right now is that this team and staff as a whole has looked underwhelming the last two weeks. Murphy can’t fix all those things, but if he can find ways to extend plays and move the chains, hopefully he can keep our banged up defense off the field and rested. Whittington has to be a bigger part of the offense, especially on 3rd downs and inside the 20.
Hopefully Sark lets Brooks get loose for about 250 today. Just smash ‘em. Make Houston tackle. Make them fight off big humans all game. Don’t give them any easy stuff.
I love Quinn and think that he is plenty capable of getting us to the conf title game if our defense gets back to form . . . . but I do really miss having a true dual-threat QB. Gabriel’s 113 yards rushing were killers today. When protection breaks down, having some explosiveness with those first four or five steps is so crucial to extending plays or tucking it to move the chains. Our big D-linemen were just a hair too slow to get their hands on him today and Quinn was a hair too slow to escape. That said, convert from the 1-yd line in four tries and don’t run into the punter and it’s all moot.
Sam deserved to have a coach like Sark. He ain’t perfect (nobody is), but he’s a great combo of humility and confidence. Guys will want to play for him. Huge tipping point opportunity on Saturday. Open the floodgates Sark. Beat OU.
One of these days, it will all click, good execution on offense with a dominant defensive effort and NO MUFFED PUNTS . . . and we’ll finally hang 60 on someone. I desire it so badly.
Hats off to the defense tonight.
Sark needs to drop the hammer. Stop messing around.
Also, I’d love to watch a series using a 5-wide set with Worthy, Whit, Cook, Mitchell, Neyor just to see an opposing DC and secondary poop themselves.
Hopefully we’ve got some crafty zone coverages in the holster this week to keep some eyes in the backfield instead of turned around facing the opposite direction. Milroe gonna tuck it a lot on Saturday otherwise.