Just now watching the Mich St. Air Force game and the screen flashed to the top college QBs. Goff was listed as the overall #1 QB in the country, and the #1 top NFL prospect at QB. Mel Kiper and other pro draft gurus consensus #1. Did not know this kid was that highly thought of. To say he will present as yet unseen problems for our young back seven may be the understatement of the day. I am afraid we may be more doomed than I would have thought. Should we get blown out, it will be tempting for some to blame the coaching staff. But this staff is playing with the hand they were dealt. Little depth, no one fill the holes. Thus 4-6 frosh on the field at any given time. Last year in high school, this year playing against a guy who will be slinging it on Sundays next fall. That is a steep challenge. I am inching closer to the ledge. Would someone, anyone, care to talk me off?
This may be considered heresy in some quarters, but I'll toss it out anyway. The objective in every Longhorn game is a W, but the hidden objective for this young team if they can't get the W is "progress" in the effort. If we see another blowout like Notre Dame, then there's trouble. OTOH, if the Horns play well and lose to an excellent Cal team in a close game (say something on the order of 24-17 or something like that), then there's progress - something to build on down the line in later games. Understand I'll still be rooting hard for a W, but I can accept (grudgingly) a close loss with real progress in the level of team play. OK, flame away.
I'm with you 100%. You can have a good loss. I expect improvement from week to week. We should expect Heard, MJ, Williams and Vahe to be better today than they were a week ago. I care about everyone on this team but my focusness is on anyone sophomore or younger. It's a very small sample size (2 games) but I love the passion from the freshmen. MJ and Connor are the alphas on each side of the ball and the rest play with fire. How these freshmen develop week to week and into next year will tell us what we can expect in the Strong era.
Goff had a bad quad or deep muscle bruise. He was favoring that leg pretty good those last two drives. That's what's so sad about no OT, no way he could run the ball or scramble anymore. It might have given our blitzes a better chance, we will never know now.
I didn't really see anything great about him hate to sound like a sore loser but i thought he was average. He was throwing against freshman db's
Cal coaches were taking the ball out of Goff's hands near the end of the game to take time off the clock. That was why our defense was looking good. Then instead of running on 3rd down they finally allow him to ice the game and he puts the ball on the money on his last drive and the TE dropped the ball. Our defense didn't do anything to create that drop. If that TE catches the ball there then Texas doesn't even have a chance to tie it up (which we know they didn't due to the missed extra point anyways).
Saw it live. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying he is terrible im just saying the way he was hyped I was expecting way more especially going up against true and redshirt freshman corners most of the game and not to mention to back up safeties. With all that to his advantage he just didn't wow me
The way they had run roughshod over the Texas D all night long, they may well have felt that running the ball WAS the way to ice the game through first downs. Fortunately, the D finally stepped up and made some stops, playing like there really was a sense of urgency, Yes, it was a tremendous break that they dropped what should have been a sure catch, but let's not otherwise detract from the overall D in the last quarter...
