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ViperHorn

ViperHorn

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5 games to go. What if: QE out for at least 4 weeks. Arch starts the first 4 and Texas wins all by at least 3 TD's. QE ready for Tceh. What do you do knowing Arch will burn his shirt if he plays?
 
 
ViperHorn said:
5 games to go. What if: QE out for at least 4 weeks. Arch starts the first 4 and Texas wins all by at least 3 TD's. QE ready for Tceh. What do you do knowing Arch will burn his shirt if he plays?
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This would be a big if, considering Maalik will start the final games. Arch will probably get to play in mop up duty. The question would be how much. 4 games might be it. I don’t think Quinn will be healthy until the bowl game if his injury doesn’t require surgery. If surgery, out until next year. Hopefully not the latter.
 
 
bishophorn said:
This would be a big if, considering Maalik will start the final games. Arch will probably get to play in mop up duty. The question would be how much. 4 games might be it. I don’t think Quinn will be healthy until the bowl game if his injury doesn’t require surgery. If surgery, out until next year. Hopefully not the latter.
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He has to do better in the passing game. Go back to the spring game and the scrimmage before the season. The touch wasn't there then and did not show up on Saturday. I would speculate a half against BYU like the quarter against Cougar High, and Sark will either have to make a change if he doesn't want Sabre coming out of the stands.
 
Arch will only play if Malik hurt or we are wayyyyy ahead. Sark has shown he won’t pull his designated qb for poor performance.
 
If QE is out and MM struggles, I fully expect to see Manning sooner rather than later. Realistically though, to expect either Murphy or Manning to be anything close to proficient in their first several games is probably unrealistic. But then again, sometimes inexperienced quarterbacks surprise us. I think it’s fair to say that Colt did.

There are probably very few — if any — 18 year old football players on the planet that understand the position better than Arch Manning. If he does play, the buzz will be crazy.
 
Wanted to hit agree because of the “understand” comment but I do not agree Sark will pull Malik on performance - unless it is worse than anyone can imagine. He didn’t pull Ewers for Card when it was obvious Ewers was struggling.
 
The plan is simple: hand off to RB. Occasionally do play action and throw short, medium, or long pass depending on how the defense is covering the receiver’s.
 
nashhorn said:
Wanted to hit agree because of the “understand” comment but I do not agree Sark will pull Malik on performance - unless it is worse than anyone can imagine. He didn’t pull Ewers for Card when it was obvious Ewers was struggling.
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He knew Card was transferring and wanted to give Ewers all of the reps that he could.
 
I think sark will have a different set of plays for Malik than we see for Ewers; and what we see this week will be a bit different than what we saw against coug
 
ViperHorn said:
5 games to go. What if: QE out for at least 4 weeks. Arch starts the first 4 and Texas wins all by at least 3 TD's. QE ready for Tceh. What do you do knowing Arch will burn his shirt if he plays?
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In your hypothetical, Manning has just started and won 4 straight games by three touchdowns? Of course you keep playing him. You don’t waste a year for a guy playing him in 5 games as a backup in mop up time, but by that point, he would be playing a legitimate year as a starter, and playing well, so by then, he’s already your new starter.
 
VYFan said:
In your hypothetical, Manning has just started and won 4 straight games by three touchdowns? Of course you keep playing him. You don’t waste a year for a guy playing him in 5 games as a backup in mop up time, but by that point, he would be playing a legitimate year as a starter, and playing well, so by then, he’s already your new starter.
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I agree. He is gone after his 3rd season anyway.
 
mchammer said:
The plan is simple: hand off to RB. Occasionally do play action and throw short, medium, or long pass depending on how the defense is covering the receiver’s.
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Mc, I expect BYU to be open to long post patterns.
They will be planning to stop Brooks.
 
mchammer said:
The plan is simple: hand off to RB. Occasionally do play action and throw short, medium, or long pass depending on how the defense is covering the receiver’s.
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What happens when BYU is able to stop that half a game into the 4-5 week Ewers recovery period?
 
And now for a completely different "what if scenario". What if, three of the playoff spots are unbeaten Washington, Florida St., and Michigan or Ohio St. (just ignore the cameras across the way). Texas wins out and beats ou in the Big 12 championship game, sitting at 12-1. Bama wins out and beats Georgia in the SEC championship game and sits at 12-1 with the loss to Texas. Texas in over Bama or is Bama's Sec crown and victory over Georgia greater than its loss in the second game of the season to Texas, even at home. Should be a no-brainer right. 2008 begs to differ.
 
Walking Boss said:
And now for a completely different "what if scenario". What if, three of the playoff spots are unbeaten Washington, Florida St., and Michigan or Ohio St. (just ignore the cameras across the way). Texas wins out and beats ou in the Big 12 championship game, sitting at 12-1. Bama wins out and beats Georgia in the SEC championship game and sits at 12-1 with the loss to Texas. Texas in over Bama or is Bama's Sec crown and victory over Georgia greater than its loss in the second game of the season to Texas, even at home. Should be a no-brainer right. 2008 begs to differ.
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2008 had a 3-way tie. No way you can argue against head to head. Also, who is to say GA is better than OU? In your scenario, Texas beats undefeated OU.
 
mchammer said:
2008 had a 3-way tie. No way you can argue against head to head. Also, who is to say GA is better than OU? In your scenario, Texas beats undefeated OU.
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True, but ou was ranked ahead of us even though we had the head to head victory over them. I know Briles is a POS. Still.
 
Walking Boss said:
True, but ou was ranked ahead of us even though we had the head to head victory over them. I know Briles is a POS. Still.
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Loss to TT gave cover to the haters in 2008. A loss and then a redemptive win over OU negates the prior blemish. 2023 is not comparable to 2008 at all.
 
Does the calculus change if ou loses to Kansas and say BYU or Okie st. (all unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility) and we play Kansas again.
 
Walking Boss said:
Does the calculus change if ou loses to Kansas and say BYU or Okie st. (all unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility) and we play Kansas again.
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Now you are getting into hypotheticals that are impossible to predict. At some point you have to stop.
 
Walking Boss said:
And now for a completely different "what if scenario". What if, three of the playoff spots are unbeaten Washington, Florida St., and Michigan or Ohio St. (just ignore the cameras across the way). Texas wins out and beats ou in the Big 12 championship game, sitting at 12-1. Bama wins out and beats Georgia in the SEC championship game and sits at 12-1 with the loss to Texas. Texas in over Bama or is Bama's Sec crown and victory over Georgia greater than its loss in the second game of the season to Texas, even at home. Should be a no-brainer right. 2008 begs to differ.
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In this scenario the $EC wins with both making it. In fact if there is a division runner-up with just a lost to Georgia or Alabama would receive serious consideration.

Another issue is what happens if Meatchicken beats tOSU on the field and then all Meatchicken wins are vacated, but they are not out on probation?
 
ViperHorn said:
Another issue is what happens if Meatchicken beats tOSU on the field and then all Meatchicken wins are vacated, but they are not out on probation?
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B10 will not let UM play in the CCG for the reason you stated. I presume OSU beats UM in the regular season.
 
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