Different season if Ewers wasn’t hurt

mchammer

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I’ve seen enough. Bama showing was too short. Not saying CFP, but the buzz about the program would be amazing.
 
100% agree. His presence is amazing, he needs timing which means he needs game time.

F BAMA and F Sand Aggie
 
Hard to tell from just one game, but you would think Texas would have gotten more than 4 FG's and a TD in the Alabama game with a healthy QB, either one of them.

Still plenty of ball to play, with good OSU, TCU, and Baylor teams on the agenda to beat, a re-match in the B12 game, and then onto a real bowl, so lots left to play form.
 
Walking Boss said:
It looks like Sark is a different play caller with Ewers out there as well.
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I think Sark was holding back some for the OU game and/or just normal progression of the offense at start of year. Also, I think he simplified the play calling for Card. I think the play calling would be similar if Card played the rest of the season.
 
Remember,TCU put 55 on them the week before. I think this is just a poor OU team. I was amazed that they did not try to score when they had the ball at the end of the game. It made no sense to me. Texas is a better team with Ewers in there,but I am still not ready to drink that orange Kool-aid. Lets see how we play TCU and OSU first. I am just going to celebrate this domination of OU today. Great win by Texas.
 
erbutch said:
I am still not ready to drink that orange Kool-aid.
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(JK, erbutch)
 
erbutch said:
Remember,TCU put 55 on them the week before. I think this is just a poor OU team. I was amazed that they did not try to score when they had the ball at the end of the game. It made no sense to me. Texas is a better team with Ewers in there,but I am still not ready to drink that orange Kool-aid. Lets see how we play TCU and OSU first. I am just going to celebrate this domination of OU today. Great win by Texas.
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TT playing OSU tough on the road. Parity across the league but Texas has the talent edge.
 
As for next week, I don’t see how Iowa State hangs with this offense! The KSU and OSU road games will be the real litmus test for the season.
 
There is a quite a bit of hype surrounding the Texas QB situation. I’ll just throw out some info.

We scored TDs on 4 of our first 7 possessions today. Against WVU, we scored TDs on 5 of our first 6 possessions. Then the 7th drive was when we got ourselves in 1st and 30. The 8th and really final possession was the FG that largely closed the game out.

In one of those games we averaged 3.4 yards per rush and 5.9 in the other.

Tech we scored TDs on 4 of our first 7 possessions plus added a FG on another. And of course another possession in which it was one completion and 3 runs resulting in a turnover on downs.

In those 3 games, Ewers is the only one to lead a drive and not get a 1st on 1st and 10 in which 3 passes were thrown. Card only threw 3 passes to kill a drive on the 1st and 30 situation.

Ol Statalyzer pointed out indirectly in another thread that’s pretty efficient scoring. Both QBs have missed open guys and had missed throws, but that happens to all QBs so that’s a bit of bs to over analyze Card in those regards when production is good. Ewers makes some impressive throws, but he also has more WTF throws. Card is less risky and uses his legs better.

There are reasons Ewers was selected the starter. There’s a reason he was that well thought of as a recruit. He can throw it anywhere, but these numbers do not support the theory that this is a vastly different team when he’s in there.

There is an argument to be made that Sark calls a different game, which is not smart coaching considering Card protects the ball well. And it may be decision-making like that has him as a mediocre head coach to date.

We can win out with either QB. Ewers is the starter and should only improve. That’ll be the case for the entire offense even if we have moments of inefficiency. And I’d suggest getting over this narrative out there that we’d be undefeated with Ewers. Those losses are due to multiple factors.
 
The early season struggles won't matter if the team stays healthy here on out and wins conference. That really is the biggest thing.
 
No. Same play caller working with different skill sets.

Same philosophy, different path up the mountain to reach the guru.
 
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Sangre Naranjada said:
No. Same play caller working with different skill sets.

Same philosophy, different path up the mountain to reach the guru.
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Sorta the beauty of this argument is that one (not meaning you specifically) cannot be proven wrong one way or the other.

Oddly enough from yesterday, where was the long ball? We know Sark likes it and uses it, but we didn’t need it. I will say that Thompson was wide open opposite side of the field when Worthy caught the ball out of the end zone. So I find it ironic that Ewers “ opens up the field” with the deep ball yet he throws it late and ignores the wide open guy. There wasn’t anything that we ran that both QBs are not fully capable of executing. Obviously, there are specific plays that each guy does better, but they’re both capable of running whatever we’ve seen thus far.

I think Sark just **** his pants offensively in the 2nd half versus Tech. Absolutely there were some execution issues, but Sanders is damn near an execution fail safe when you need an easy drive starter. I’m way more pissed about Tech than Bama. In critical possessions in both games, Sark kinda shut it down on the play calling, and it turned out wrong.

Really, OU without Gabriel is flat out terrible. It’s hard to gather much from that game other than confidence is growing along pride of play and team morale. I mean OU had their TE running wildcat because the backs aren’t totally cut out for it. Down 4 TDs and still running wildcat.

Do not be surprised if we get on an incredible run to end the season here. Our offensive parts are pretty great and have flexibility beyond any we’ve ever seen here. Our drawback is really the WRs to catch 50/50 balls and adjust to deeper passes.
 
Your Wrong said:
Sorta the beauty of this argument is that one (not meaning you specifically) cannot be proven wrong one way or the other.
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That is a true statement. I am just basing my assertion on my personal assessment of answers I have heard Sark give to various questions regarding QBs, going back to his time with 'Bama.
 
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Ewers certainly has the potential to be great. But. He missed Worthy for a TD waiting too long to throw. He missed an easy TD to Whit. He had 2 throws where Whit had to make diving catches they were so off target, otherwise Whit would've had good YAC. He missed a wide open receiver on the sideline, don't remember who. It should have been 2 ints. but gooner couldn't hold on to one.

I don't remember Colt missing that many when he was a RS Freshman, and Card probably would have done just as well yesterday against that horrible defense.

I'll give you he was probably rusty, but let's see how he does against a legitimate test this Saturday.
 
Run Pincher said:
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Ewers certainly has the potential to be great. But. He missed Worthy for a TD waiting too long to throw. He missed an easy TD to Whit. He had 2 throws where Whit had to make diving catches they were so off target, otherwise Whit would've had good YAC. He missed a wide open receiver on the sideline, don't remember who. It should have been 2 ints. but gooner couldn't hold on to one.

I don't remember Colt missing that many when he was a RS Freshman, and Card probably would have done just as well yesterday against that horrible defense.

I'll give you he was probably rusty, but let's see how he does against a legitimate test this Saturday.
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VY and Colt had issues like these, too, early on. I think the difference is the mental edge Ewers appears to have. We'll see. I agree, not much sample set to go off of so far, but it has looked good.
 
Run Pincher said:
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Ewers certainly has the potential to be great. But. He missed Worthy for a TD waiting too long to throw. He missed an easy TD to Whit. He had 2 throws where Whit had to make diving catches they were so off target, otherwise Whit would've had good YAC. He missed a wide open receiver on the sideline, don't remember who. It should have been 2 ints. but gooner couldn't hold on to one.

I don't remember Colt missing that many when he was a RS Freshman, and Card probably would have done just as well yesterday against that horrible defense.

I'll give you he was probably rusty, but let's see how he does against a legitimate test this Saturday.
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This is pretty much what I’m saying. OU was absolutely terrible and from snap 1 of this game there was a different aura than any of the 20 or so I’ve attended. The only concern a Texas fan should have had was due to last years nightmare.

First series on 3rd down, our buddy McElroy mentioned Sanders being open but Worthy was open on a corner route on the opposite side. Thompson on the the throw to Worthy. The play before the great throw to Bijan Ewers had the dump off to Bijan. He threw it a little hot to Worthy (he should have caught it) instead.

It happens to all QBs. You can’t see everything all at once. And sometimes the read does take you a place that doesn’t work out. This is all stuff that I’ve seen analyzed to death on other sites the last several weeks. Bryce Young got hurt in part because he didn’t identify two different options to deliver the ball and not take a hit.

A play callers job is to make a QBs job easy. If you design it right and call it at the proper time, then you make the QBs read easier which makes execution easier. Even if a play caller is great there, the play still fails on occasion. Sark is top notch at design and timing but just like QBs, he’ll miss some.

For my tastes, he has it all in his playbook that you’d want (except a little more QB run action). But since his arrival, when we have periods of trouble, we get away from using all our weapons and all areas of the field. That’s when jet sweeps, TEs in the flat, RBs in the pass game are great plays to get a first or get ahead of the chains which often kickstarts your drive.
 
Everyone should enjoy Card this year because he should/will portal after the season is over. Murphy and Manning will fill the backup role next season.

The question who needs an above average QB with 2 years of eligibility remaining?
 
Walking Boss said:
It looks like Sark is a different play caller with Ewers out there as well.
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This is obviously true. And then there are throws and plays that Ewers makes that Card can’t, and that’s not a knock on him. The poise and calm plus the arm talent is something to behold. That was a freshman with 5 quarters under his belt and missed 3 games making NFL throws yesterday. He’s got plenty of growing and challenges ahead in the meat of our schedule. But my goodness. That’s the guy Sark wanted.
 
Best defense in the conference is coming to Austin this week. Excited to see how he and rest of offense responds to the challenge. Based on every ISU game, they’ll try and make it ugly. No boat racing from them.
 
I’ve gotten some “disagree” notations but nothing to counter. I don’t expect all to agree but curious as to the case.

I know message board users are not often convinced by statement of facts and specific examples and “feel” a lot of things.
 
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