I read that in Warner Fusselle’s voice.
Don’t like using that time out on 3rd down
Need another turnover pronto
Bad time to start giving up first downs
Does the end of regulation count?
Defense is exhausted after fighting TCU’s offense while carrying there own on their back for 4Qs
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Yep. TCU hadn’t scored less than 34 coming into this game. Texas D halved that and the offense and special teams puked on their shoes.
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I hope TCU wins out and gets into the playoffs.
This is just another in a string of “coulda/shoulda been” games for the Horns.
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Only thing that makes this game unique is that the offense was awful for 4Qs instead of 2.
Everything else is typical Texas bullshit.
The special teams penalties were especially brutal given that the last one eventually gave TCU a touchdown. Guess Sark didn’t give enough of a shit to put a stop to it before then.
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In a way, it’s a game of 2 penalties.
The one Texas gave away on the punt
The other uncalled holding against TCU
Both led to TDs for TCU.
Conversely, Ewers overthrowing Worthy and not seeing Bijan both led to not-TDs by Texas
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Texas played like shit, but man, Ewers was putrid today. Lots of drops, but he was absolutely awful.
Most of the drops were of the “that’s a bad pass but probably should have been caught” variety.
I sincerely hope that your silence during the game doesn’t mean you were at that slapdick game?
Edit: If you were I eternally feel for you
Oh, we were there. And it was just as miserable in person as it looked on TV… if not worse.
This comment about Gilbert caught my eye. He was the best HS passer I have ever seen, and I coached against Tommy Kramer back in the day. I went to a couple of LT playoff games just to see him. I will always believe Mack Brown et al coached him into mediocrity. Gilbert ran the spread at LT and was a decent runner in that offense. After losing to Alabama, Saint Mack decided to be Alabama, and he put Gilbert under center to manage a power run offense. Gilbert was a spread QB, not a drop back passer, and imo, his failures were a direct result of Brown’s decision to change the offense. I will say again, Gilbert was the best HS passer I ever have seen. In the one HS game I saw Ewers play, Westlake made him look ordinary.
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I concur in Mark’s assessment of the game from section 7. We did not block anyone, and Ewers was off again. His decisions, seeing the field, and accuracy were terrible. Add to that several dropped passes, a killer penalty hitting the punter, a missed LB assignment allowing a 75-yard TD run, and the worst blown coverage imaginable. I read Anthony Cook roughed the punter AND blew the coverage. That astonishes me because he is an experienced veteran and has played so well this year. Sanders had a big drop in the first half. Worthy had more than one. The most disappointing thing to me is wasting that great 100,000+ loud crowd and the recruiting opportunity UT had. Sark will take a lot of heat for his play calling, but I called plays several years, and I’ll simply say from my experience if the OL does not block and the receivers drop passes, what play one calls does not matter much.
ETA: I just read it was Overshown who roughed the punter. Maybe so; UT hit the punter more than once. I did not see the player’s number when it happened. The guy was close to blocking the punt, but his dive was too close to the kicker’s extended leg.
Definitely Overshown, and he barely touched the guy. I put that penalty more on the coaches than the player.
It always seems to be one thing or the other with this team. Rarely does one side of the ball take advantage when the other side plays well. Though it was fun, and hope inducing, to see the defense play at that level.
ETA: on the roughing one in Q4
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I also hope that defense attracts Anthony Hill.
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Their punter was flopping around like a fucking fish on every punt we got close to him on.
He definitely got touched, but you’d think he was shot by a cannon the way he went down.
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