Thoughts on Sugar bowl

ViperHorn said:
At the time of the game, I would have agreed with your statement. However, except for tceh and oSu, everyone else in the conference basically could pass between the 20's with little opposition. Once the field was compacted, the Texas Defense grew-up and controlled except of ou.
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And I think that was a veteran qb catching lightning in a bottle and being on a heater.
 
Anyway, very good game and season. I want to make sure to congratulate you guys. Texas is back. I don’t much like that. Final four is significant.

The one thing that stood out to me a lot this season was that sark’s offense schemes some wide open receivers. Ewers would hit guys on routes with no defenders in the picture. He has impressed me.
 
LonghornDave said:
So, a related question: will Texas finish in the final four AP polls? I would think so but wondering your thoughts?
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What if Washington beats Mich by 10 points. Is Texas #2?

Regarding your question, typically AP keeps the same top 4 teams in the poll as the CFP.
 
was wondering only because Texags claims we will not finish in top 4 and i did not know why? We beat Bama and close with Washington. Wasn't sure if FSU or Georgia would go ahead of us.
 
Just think when Sark arrived and pointed out we had “6 scholarship offensive lineman and 18 receivers” for the 21 season - and now in 2023 we finished as conference champs, a playoff berth and within one second of playing for a national title - big time progress has been made - however, we are still a team, program in progress - he’ll have some rebuilding to do - but for the first time in many years, there is confidence and optimism in the program- it’ll stay and get better as long as they continue to work hard
 
bystander said:
How you been man?

I agree on that bullet pass. That's what I was saying above your post. I looked at that last play several times on YouTube and it was there.
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that pass was there but would ewers had the opportunity to throw a bullet pass and follow through. Both the rg and rt allowed pressure so it looked like he didn’t have that throw. Not completely sure but it looked that way. We had limited playbook due to 15 seconds and no timeouts. Washington called timeout to set their defense knowing this and put their db at the goal line. Too bad we did not have 1 time out left. If we did it would have opened our playbook a little more.

great season though. We have righted the ship in a short period of time.
 
Great season, and reason to be very optimistic.

Washington was the better team Monday, and Penik and his receivers were on fire. As suggested on the game thread, there are a couple of things defensively I would have tried:

1. After the first long pass, or perhaps the 2nd, I would probably have instructed the DBs to interfere and take the 15 yard penalty. Ongoing. That would have been better than giving up the huge chunks. Brooks did that in the 2nd half — a PI — and it ultimately resulted in a FG.

2. Blitz Hill from the right side of the D-line, from outside the right edge. If WA could have successfully blocked both Hill and Sorrell (or Burke), more power to them. More likely though, it may have forced Penix to roll to his right, or away from his throwing arm.

Finally, on the last play, that was PI on WA. Mitchell could not elevate because the DB was on his back. He held him down. Wasn’t that the same pass on which he scored earlier, during which he seemed to hang in the air? It’s hard to jump when someone is on your back, or holding your shoulders down.
 
dukesteer said:
Finally, on the last play, that was PI on WA. Mitchell could not elevate because the DB was on his back. He held him down. Wasn’t that the same pass on which he scored earlier, during which he seemed to hang in the air? It’s hard to jump when someone is on your back, or holding your shoulders down.
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Yesterday, I saw Dak throw a TD pass (under pressure) by lagging the ball behind the receiver. It was a pro QB adjustment. It was a back shoulder on a straight crossing route in the end zone and the over-commit by the DB was exploited. Quinn could have done that with a shot to the pylon but he's not a seven year pro. It's a shame but what can we say except we belong in the top four.
 
Dak's pass was a bit of a hope and prayer as he had to throw it right then to avoid a sack and hope the DB keeps going forward. Yes, it worked, but if the DB plays it right it gets intercepted.
 
Run Pincher said:
Dak's pass was a bit of a hope and prayer as he had to throw it right then to avoid a sack and hope the DB keeps going forward. Yes, it worked, but if the DB plays it right it gets intercepted.
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Well, there's that. I gave him the benefit of the doubt on it.
 
That's true with most back shoulder/behind the receiver passes. nature is to turn in. if a trailing CB turned out there would be way more interceptions.
 
bystander said:
Yesterday, I saw Dak throw a TD pass (under pressure) by lagging the ball behind the receiver. It was a pro QB adjustment. It was a back shoulder on a straight crossing route in the end zone and the over-commit by the DB was exploited. Quinn could have done that with a shot to the pylon but he's not a seven year pro. It's a shame but what can we say except we belong in the top four.
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I believe that the WA defender was on Mitchel’s back, with his hand holding his shoulder. Had Ewers anticipated such coverage, he could’ve thrown it to the pylon. But that’s hindsight. I think there was PI on the play.
 
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