Swoopes to start at Baylor!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/heard-injured-swoopes-start-texas-baylor-184909004--ncaaf.html
Probably do just as well.

 

Run the ball, roll him out with limited choices for intermediate and deep targets, with instructions to throw it into the seats if it's not there. Lots of drag routes over the middle that he can hit when he gets outside the pocket. Burn Locksley's shirt if you have to. It's not like you don't have enough bodies at QB anymore, and it's not like you have the luxury of seeing Kai is a three-year project. Nothing to lose - if you have the opportunity and you feel like he can make plays, might as well give him a shot.

 

I guess Vahe is out also?

I don't think they burn Kai's shirt for one game. No real reason to.

 

On Hornfans, the value of a quarterback's redshirt year is somewhere between that of a bar of name brand soap and a bar of store brand soap. Never mind that all top 25 teams last year and, and most this year (excepting LSU, UCLA and Baylor) are using quarterbacks who took advantage of a redshirt season.

 

You don't have to worry about him throwing it into the seats.

 

But I'm calling it now, we pull off a miracle and win. Truss me

 

if by miracle win you mean Watson gets fired, I am all in.

 

Free advice to Swoopes and Norvell:

Hand off to Foreman 40% of the time, Warren 40% of the time, Johnson 20% of the time and, if/when they stuff us or put 8 in the box, play action into 5-15 yard routes. PLEASE! And USE THE TIGHT END!

If the play is not there, throw it away, early.

Hit at least one long pass to Burt. I'd prefer two.

And never run parallel to the line. Never!

Now, if J.Gray is playing, well, never mind.

 

SWOOPES, THERE IT IS!

I would love to knock off Baylor and somehow drop them to the Texas bowl where they destroy aggy 74-13. I can dream.

 

I'm all for handing it off. However, Swoopes needs to run on his own in the 18 wheeler formation. The pounding he and De La Torre deliver will pay off over the long haul.

 

Agree. The only issue is that, with Heard unavailable, we don't have a backup option...

 

Who knows? Maybe Trey Holtz is an undiscovered Randy McEachern.

 

Any chance Charlie eats a live worm in the locker room before the game? Otherwise, I don't see an upset happening. And no need to burn anything for this game except the assistant coaches contracts and the playbook.

 

Unfortunately D'Onta Foreman and Kirk Johnson are out for the game. Swoopes will have to run the 18 wheeler for some major yards.

 

Let's hope we come up with a real tricky play for 4th & 7. Like maybe an 8 yard route.

 

Swoopes vs. Johnson. Who will complete more passes? Who will run for more yards? Who will throw more INTs? Taking bets now.

 

Norvell has to call the touchdown play early and often. Can't afford to play from behind.

 

Now we know how Directional University felt like before those games all those years when we were a power.

 

Now that sounds entertaining. Who knows, and frankly, what the hell difference does it make at this point? The 2nd coming of Moxie McCoy, whose tuck and run looked like a chicken crossing the road, but got us a victory in the final aggie game.

 

If we find an undiscovered Earl Campbell for Holtz to hand off to over and over, we will be in business.

 

Well, Warren isn't a bad substitute. And one day soon, who knows...

 

Spoiler alert - sorry gang, I am all for upsets, surprises, Case vs. aggy 2011 but we are not going to upset BU in Wacko this weekend...

If somehow it happens, I promise to buy Dionysus and his lovely wife the biggest steak they serve in Katy Texas and several Shiner Bocks!

 

And what about the rest of us here on Hornfans? Are we just chopped liver?

(If Charlie eats the worm or the weather is similar to the TCU game, I'd say that our odds are 50/50.)

 

Charlie can eat a fishing bucket of worms and I don't think it will help.

Hopefully Swoopes will run the 18 wheeler package and not try to beat them passing. Then maybe we can run some clock and hang around.

 

I hear if you just let a little air out of the ball it will solve the problem of overthrowing receivers and makes the ball a little easier to catch.

 

That you Tom?

 

No, not chopped liver, perhaps just chum in the water... Dionysus had the biggest role in saving HF so that is why he would be the beneficiary of my generous offer.

 

Let's not forget Jinkens is out and likely Malik. Possibly even Ridgeway too. Gonna be a lot softer on D than most are assuming.

At full strength we had a decent shot to upset a misfiring Baylor passing attack. Not seeing it with key injuries in the front 7. Baylor runs well (304 on OSU, 273 on TCU). They'll likely pound it down our throats all game.

On the bright side, and maybe it was playing OSU and TCU, but that 3rd stringer has been wildly inaccurate...

12 of 34 (35%), 200 yards, 3 TD, 2 INT

 

I guess all the rosaries I recited hanging upside down from a tree branch while wearing a barb wired anklet in the middle of the winter and eating crickets means nothing to you?!