Orange/White Spring Game

Pomspoms said:
it will be interesting to see who starts at RB in the fall. Brooks, Red or Blue. I'm not thinking Keilan though He is the fastest he just goes down too easily. Baxter, needs experience and acclamation and he is off to a good start on that. It will probably be Brooks. He has the inside lane but Bled (Blue and Red) are right there. Red surely has the best hands but Blue had the best run yesterday. Red missed a key block that led to a sack, his biggest weakness at this moment. That will be the position to watch this fall. I think I will leave it to the coaches to decide.LOL
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JB starts if healthy, then Blue as next man up.
 
bishophorn said:
JB starts if healthy, then Blue as next man up.
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To me it will be Brooks, then Red and Baxter will share time, unless one really comes on in the fall.

To me Blue is a 3rd down and five or more back coming out of the backfield. But then again, so is KR. No way to keep five RBs happy.
 
Your Wrong said:
Fellers,

We are loaded. When dudes start competing against each other in practice, you are in business. That’s huge to get talent pushing talent.

We still have to prove it, but I believe this staff knows who they want and are getting them for the most part.
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It was obvious we were going to lose at least 2 games last year when Neyor (WR) and the OL lost their season due to injury. Note both Ewers and Worthy had to play hurt last year - likely another 2 losses due to that alone. With more talent and more depth, we have much more margin this year.
 
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cnb said:
Unless he is hurt, Brooks will be the starter against Rice. As I mentioned in another post , Red has been a star this spring. He is still learning the nuances of the position. (picking up blitzes). Remember he's been a WR his entire life. Blue is just pure talent and would probably be a starter in a lot of programs.
Baxter should still be in HS and has a ways to go but camp observers believe he'll be #2 in the fall.

It's going to be an interesting fall camp. Insiders believe that most likely that after the "top" 2 backs. At least two of the three (Red, Blue and Robinson ) will portal out by next spring.

Looking ahead, let's not forget that we are on track to get our top 2 rb targets in '24 if things hold.
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Robinson is a senior. He’s gone. So that means 1 RB will portal according to your prediction. Maybe Robinson has a Covid year left, but losing a player like that isn’t necessarily a “loss” to be viewed worse than graduation.
 
Robinson does have his Covid year still (redshirted for Bama in 2020), but based on his rap career and social media, I doubt he'd use it.

Out of the other 4 guys, the order of importance for keeping their value around would be:
1. Baxter
2. Brooks
3. Red
4. Blue

There's not a lot of distance between #1 and #4 either. I think Red has those "Quan Cosby" vibes around him that will turn into things like leadership capabilities and bouncing off of guys on kick returns or flats patterns. Because of that, I have him ahead of Blue, who hasn't done anything wrong, but also hasn't really done anything to wow either.

Something that is kind of absent from this discussion is that the RB position is going to feel minimalized with the way the game is going and the way this roster is shaping up. We're not going to have 2 backs combine for 2100 yards on the ground like 2022. But we will have guys like AD Mitchell, DeAndre Moore, and Johntay Cook. We won't need to run to win. Jahmyr Gibbs had over 6 ypc last year for Bama, but where he really hurt opponents was with those 44 catches.
 
mchammer said:
It was obvious we were going to lose at least 2 games last year when Neyor (WR) and the OL lost their season due to injury. Note both Ewers and Worthy had to play hurt last year - likely another 2 losses due to that alone. With more talent and more depth, we have much more margin this year.
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You won’t have me concede games, but those injuries were crucial. We should have won more than we did last year. But, yes, we have more margin this year.
 
cnb,

the play looks more impressive from the West stands. I actually thought the DB would knock Cook out of bounds, but then he found another gear and simply pulled away. The throw was special. but the second gear was extraordinary.
 
Looks like Cook ran out of bounds on his own from the view above, but whatever, spring game td. I like the way he adjusted to the ball in flight rather than just keep running and have it fall 2-3 yards short.
 
SabreHorn said:
cnb,

the play looks more impressive from the West stands. I actually thought the DB would knock Cook out of bounds, but then he found another gear and simply pulled away. The throw was special. but the second gear was extraordinary.
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the guy covering cook name was Johnson. which Johnson? walkon?
 
Walking Boss said:
Looks like Cook ran out of bounds on his own from the view above, but whatever, spring game td. I like the way he adjusted to the ball in flight rather than just keep running and have it fall 2-3 yards short.
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So he drifts to his right and slows a bit to track the ball, but keeps his body in the right lean to reaccelerate once he had the ball.
 
Driver 8 said:
Maalik out there throwing missiles, damn that's a good arm
I hope our receivers are ready for the zip on his passes
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strong arms don't impress me, accuracy and timing does. I haVe seen many QBs
throw the ball too hard causing incompletions (bouncing off or go thru hands) and intercerceptions. Throws have to be catchable.
OTOH, I did like those deep balls by Malik.
 
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I saw a couple of throws made by Quinn and the stellar one-hander by Mitchell bailed Quinn out. It was a high throw though he was not under pressure. It seemed as if AJ was wide open. Accuracy is huge for Quinn.
 
I love you all very much. But enough …..this was a freshman quarterback and I could post easily 15 more of these, but you get my point .. I hope.
dudes money.

My pet peeve is the constant ongoing unilateral annual bashing of the first string quarterback. I can guarantee you 99% + of NCAA teams. Would love to have this soph on their team. Aggies being the only dissent because they’re prideful idiots.




This one as well:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z2ZKtreNr2U?feature=share
 
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Pomspoms said:
well Cook proved he could beat a walkon
...but that's ok, you got to start somewhere
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Yeah, that’s a good point. Johnson was an all-district 5A player—Cook was probably all-American. Maybe Sark wanted Malik to compete that pass? Still, impressed me.
 
Run Pincher said:
Some of these people need a punch in the face. He throws 10 passes in a SPRING game running for his life most of the time and someone wants to claim he's a bust. How absurd can you get.
Is Arch Manning a bust for the Texas Longhorns? (msn.com)
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That’s why I gave up on most news…. It’s not really news. It’s clickbait.
Several years ago the local Dallas newscast had a story regarding The Batchelor, I turned off the television and I’ve never tuned into local news. That was several years ago.
 
Run Pincher said:
Some of these people need a punch in the face. He throws 10 passes in a SPRING game running for his life most of the time and someone wants to claim he's a bust. How absurd can you get.
Is Arch Manning a bust for the Texas Longhorns? (msn.com)
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I've been posting this since the day Sark was hired and proposed the possibility of snagging Arch.
Arch understands the long game. He had/ has no interest of being a " savior" for a program. And he would be absolutely fine to red shirt.
In fact that is the preferable scenario for him and his family.
 
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Run Pincher said:
Some of these people need a punch in the face. He throws 10 passes in a SPRING game running for his life most of the time and someone wants to claim he's a bust. How absurd can you get.
Is Arch Manning a bust for the Texas Longhorns? (msn.com)
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Most of that stuff comes in the world we live in now where has beens or wanna be's make statements and it gets picked up and broadcast like its gold. Arch will redshirt and that leaves QE, Murphy being healthy may change this whole setup. Its spring so its hard to really judge but MM had an awesome game. I wish our offense was geared more to hitting receivers in stride. Just dont see much open ground in our offense. Several posted as I did that Xavier playing with a broke hand last year was pure BS so hoping that doesnt happen again with anyone. If you are injured, you sit until you are ready. Xavier shouldnt be blamed for drops last year but the coaches yes for playing an injured player. Next man up mentality.
 
cnb said:
I've been posting this since the day Sark was hired and proposed the possibility of snagging Arch.
Arch understands the long game. He had/ has n ok interest of being a " savior" for a program. And he would be absolutely fine to red shirt.
In fact that is the preferable scenario for him and his family.
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This is what you get with (professional) adults in charge. Someone with Arch’s name and 5* pedigree and the arm to show off to the NFL only needs one amazing season to then go first or close in the draft. Look at Joe Burrow. He just needs to 1. Actually get as good as Joe Burrow eventually got, which will take time; 2, build his physique (picture Colt McCoy’s change) , which will take a couple of years; and 3, make sure he gets 1-11/2 years to start and win and show his stuff. Nothing in next year’s games are on the critical path of that plan. Yes, he should and will take some snaps, maybe throw his first TD or whatever, and he probably cares about that but the adults in his life probably don’t.
On that line of thinking, I think Quinn Ewers is now living in adult world with full appreciation for what the next 18 months could mean in his life/future. I may be reading more into a haircut and better posture than what it means, but I think having the Manning franchise pull up in his rear view mirror may have given him great clarity of mind.
 
VYFan said:
This is what you get with (professional) adults in charge. Someone with Arch’s name and 5* pedigree and the arm to show off to the NFL only needs one amazing season to then go first or close in the draft. Look at Joe Burrow. He just needs to 1. Actually get as good as Joe Burrow eventually got, which will take time; 2, build his physique (picture Colt McCoy’s change) , which will take a couple of years; and 3, make sure he gets 1-11/2 years to start and win and show his stuff. Nothing in next year’s games are on the critical path of that plan. Yes, he should and will take some snaps, maybe throw his first TD or whatever, and he probably cares about that but the adults in his life probably don’t.
On that line of thinking, I think Quinn Ewers is now living in adult world with full appreciation for what the next 18 months could mean in his life/future. I may be reading more into a haircut and better posture than what it means, but I think having the Manning franchise pull up in his rear view mirror may have given him great clarity of mind.
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It's really a different path now than it was even 10 years ago. Burrow is a good example of that, and I could conceivably see someone like Arch hanging around for two years and then having his NFL audition year be for someone else. Not that I want him to transfer away already, but I think we have to understand the reality of NIL and branding and all that.

Even looking at the draft this year, most guys who played for 3+ years (Levis, Hooker, Haener) did it for 2 teams. DTR was the only one I could think of who started and finished his QB career with one team.

If Arch is as good as advertised, then he's either a "3-years-or-fewer" kind of draftable QB, or he leaves to get audition time elsewhere (assuming Ewers plays well enough). I guess in a perfect world, it would be like a Bama situation where they had to choose between Hurts and Tua and you can't lose with either. But Hurts still left.
 
I think they chose Texas for Arch because of Sark, because Arch doesn't have to come in with pressure of being starter his first year and because the kid can enjoy being a college kid for awhile.
 
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