Last year vs this year

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by MajesticII, Oct 13, 2019.

  1. MajesticII

    MajesticII 1,000+ Posts

    We lost to Maryland last year and going into the RRS we were huge dogs in everyone's minds, while OU was unbeaten and rolling. They were over confident and not ready for a team with the "eye of the tiger"......This year we played with LSU; and the players and more importantly the coaches THOUGHT we were good. They thought OU was overrated because they hadn't played anyone as worthy as LSU. Texas came in with a vanilla offensive game plan and playing our usual 3 man front defense.The Texas staff thought that would be enough to beat OU........and OU knocked our **** in the dirt.
     
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  2. yelladawgdem

    yelladawgdem 2,500+ Posts

    Pretty sure that the difference was a QB that has played in 3 Iron Bowls, 3 SEC Title Games, 3 CFP Semi-Finals and 3 CFP Championship games, that has both mental maturity and a physical skill set that Kyler can only dream of. And that is by no means a slam of KM. The fact that Hurts stayed at Bama after losing his starting job to Tua says a great deal about the young man. He is a tough kid to dislike.

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  3. wadster

    wadster 5,000+ Posts

    You do realize they put up 45 last year and 34 this year. Hurts had 2 bad turnovers. They didn't win this game because of Hurts. The won this game because our offense was horrid. As bad as the D was, 34 should give you a really good shot at a win. In the big 12 you can't come out and ofer your 1st 4 drives. You can't have guys drop wide open TDs. You can't have bad field position all game long because your Sr. captain doesn't know to take the 25 yds offered. Or you can't field a punt. You can't have your Sr. center consistently not stay at home for the stunt up the middle and expose your QB. You can't give up 9 (let me say that again) 9 sacks. Hurts wasn't any better than KM or BM. The difference was our OLine and receivers were bad. Actually OLine was worse than bad. Special teams were horrible. That's why we lost. At least call it for what it was and not some madeup bs about a mythical god at QB that wasn't. Hurts played a good, not great game. Cede made what he did way better than it should have been.
     
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  4. wadster

    wadster 5,000+ Posts

    BTW, thank you for your service and my sincere condolences for your brother.
     
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  5. caryhorn

    caryhorn 5,000+ Posts

    bingo^^^ I predicted ou would score 34. And that we would win by putting up 38. Which we could have/should have without the dropped passes.

    I do think the worst part of it was that our O coaches could not make the blocking or play calling adjustments to give Sam a bit more time. For example, roll him out, flea flicker, screens, slants (which were open most of the day). Also, we have a very plain vanilla run game with very little deception or motion. We have no play (sweeps, etc) to get a speedster to the edge. WTF?
     
  6. wadster

    wadster 5,000+ Posts

    How often does a team win when they give up 9 sacks? I don't have stats on that, but it's pretty safe to say very seldom. You can't run sweeps and flea flickers if you can't block. Those plays take time to develop. You can run screens and short crosses to get your playmakers the ball in space. Also Johnson had 95 yds on 8 carries. Ingram had 2 carries and 9 yds. WTF did we abandon the run? I know RJ got a lot of those in one carry, but he was effective. Give the man the damn ball. We won last year because we imposed our will on them. We hit them in the mouth. This year they hit back and we weren't mentally up to the task. This wasn't about talent. Both teams have plenty of talent. This was about who came to play. When we can't move the ball it tells me we didn't come to play. We moved the ball on LSU andGeorgia but somehow OU's D is better than both. I don't think so.
     
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  7. Creek

    Creek 1,000+ Posts

    We couldn't run early and OU could. That is why we abandoned the run. Besides our strength is our passing game.
     
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  8. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    The difference in this year and last year was your OL from my looking at it. Didn't you guys graduate a lot of OL? The game should have been 21-0 in the first quarter but for turnovers. The total yardage difference was 511-252. Significant.
     
  9. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    yeah, that and CeeDee
     
  10. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    It was as bad as our O-line has looked since the Strong years. I've never been a big Shack fan, but he had at least improved year over year. He looked like he regressed a lot in this game. He wasn't the only one, the RT had some issues too (blanking on his name - he's a RS frosh I think, so I get why he had a rough game.) But that botched snap killed what had been a promising drive.
     
  11. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    CeeDee played last year. As did Hollywood Brown. As did Mark Andrews. We really missed Calcatera yesterday. I didn't know that he was out until about 10:30 yesterday.
     
  12. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    yeah, but he was head-and-shoulders the difference maker individually this year imo
     
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  13. Walking Boss

    Walking Boss 2,500+ Posts

    The difference was fundamental tackling. ou missed very few tackles if any and we missed a season’s worth. Murray at lb for ou dominated all day.
     
  14. p_town_horn

    p_town_horn 1,000+ Posts

    Last year we played a lights out game on both sides of the ball. Our D got gassed in the 4th quarter and OU climbed back in with an electric offense. Similar to the Georgia game. I am not sure what the talent disparity was but Texas played lights out and dominated. During the Big 12 Championship game, however, we looked like crap.

    This year we did not have our best stuff by a long shot. Missed tackles, missed assignments by the oline, and drops from our WRs. I have no doubt if we play to our potential, we can play with and beat most any team in the country. The question week to week is not whether we have the stuff to win, its whether we bring our A game.
     
  15. p_town_horn

    p_town_horn 1,000+ Posts

    Second post in a row - sorry. But, I truly believe that if can win out, we have a good shot to beat OU in the Big 12 Championship. We should get back some key defensive players and we should have our oline playing better by the end of the season. Barring more injuries, there is no reason we don't play in the championship with every chance to win.
     
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  16. EMJ426

    EMJ426 250+ Posts

    Special teams were better last year. I am still pissed that our special teams put us in such bad field position in the first half of the OU game.
     
  17. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Hollywood was a better receiver. The Texas secondary made CeeDee look like Jerry Rice II. Until shown differently, if CeeDee had been hit hard after the first TD he would have folded like a cheap suit and would not have scored the other TD's.
     
  18. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    Hollywood is a better deep threat. CD is the best receiver on the field from OU since Shepherd.
     
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  19. MajesticII

    MajesticII 1,000+ Posts

    Hurts doesn't play defense.....Want to explain that ?
     

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