Animated Drive Chart | Texas Longhorns 24, Texas Tech Red Raiders 14

Potts has an effing fantastic arm doesn’t he?!

I’m surprised how many people are posting how things would have been differnt if leech was here. i think it wouldhave been much worse.

sorry i havn’t gone to bed yet either I should do more proof reading

That I was watching a sorority pillow fight on TV….I was so sad to have woken up to realize I was actually dreaming about the game……what a let down. Any UT fan that can talk trash after that game should be ashamed of themselves. It looked like the peewee championships out there.

Ill prepared. No screens. Katfish determined to run first. No nascar. Defense good but same as before. We get them in 2nd or 3rd and way long and let them off the hook. Looked like they used a dartboard to select the plays. Texas is not a top ten team. Seriously? 144 yards of offense? Welcome back Spike

I actualy thought the O-line looked fine in the first half, another story of the other team making the adjustments at half. The second half the line absolutely fell a part.

I don’t understand the QB swap for one series unless it was injury related. Both Gilbert and Potts looked mediocre…..key difference, Potts is a senior. Then again Sticks looked absolutely dishshovled back there, he looked like he coulnt wait to get rid of the football or get out of the pocket. Qb wise we just had no where to turn.

Scott Smith is an absolute beast. Sacks, tip balls, interceptions, constant pass rush. I can’t wait to see him next year. If you take away the game changing penalties, the stats would say we have one of the best secondaries in the game right now. All in all, the staff gets an A+ from me for being to demonstrate such a defensive improvement this fast.

Brown, he had a bad game, and was clearly out coached, as was Matt Moore. For that matter so was Cumbie. Our recievers had a defender in the hip pocket on every catch. Poor techniquevgave them no space, no separation, and all we could do was hope for PI penalties that never came.where’s was the creativity? Ben Mcroys play against SMU was far more creative than anything we saved for UT. Where’s the bubble screen, the delayed shuffle pass, where was Jefers, where was Torres, where was Zou?

Great first half of football, we go into locker room tied with a top 5 team. Second half was the tale of how a more experienced defensive staff of Muschcamp makes the adjustments, and paralyzes the inexperienced Brown. Must get better, must learn from this.

I could not stay up for this game that started at 3:00am local time. I had to be ready for Sunday morning. Now I am glad that I did not stay awake. Having read through the DTN game posts and watched the animated drive chart I am completely disappointed in the coaching staff. Like in karate for every action there is almost always an appropriate reaction. To me it seems the coaches stuck to a game plan that clearly was not working. Where were the adjustments? Where was the plan B and plan C? Why not try a third string QB since Potts was constantly 3 and out?

Welcome to a 7-5 season and that may be optimistic!

It’s true the Tech’s offensive line imploded in the second half. However, I’ve seen enough of Potts to know he’s just not the guy. I don’t remember Tech ever fielding a less inspiring qb. His bearing and body language often suggests he’d rather be anywhere than on the field, and I’ve seen little evidence that he’s established any significant leadership role among his teammates. Bottom line, Potts doesn’t instill confidence in anyone. Player or fan.

Of course, Potts was a singular piece in an offense that often appeared completely unprepared, and the dumbed-down play selection was less than imaginative, pedestrian even. I’m afraid this is a systemic issue and not something that can be easily tweaked.

After reading Tuberville’s post game commentary I’m not convinced at all that we’ll see significant improvement from the offense for the remainder of the year. To Tubs, a running game is the magical panacea for all football related ailments, including ill-disciplined play by the defense.

I was impressed by the defensive effort. Their performance deserved better from the offense.

I bet at some point when you look at Romo, he’ll have that victim look on his face. It pisses me off every time.

Selected players grades:
Scott Smith: A+, we found something special
Brian Duncan: A-, love the pressure he gets on the qb and moved well sideline to sideline Bront Bird: D+ (they give a lot fewer D+’s than D’s), arm-tackling, lost
DJ Johnson: D, gave up the most yards in the secondary, not great in run support
Tre Porter: B, love this guys upside, great tackler
Whitlock: A+, beat double teams to make tackles behind the line and pursuit was excellent, IMO co-defensive MVP with Smith, the announcer who said, “whitlock doesn’t look the part, but he’s awfully tough,” needs to have his rectum examined…with large forceps
Cody Davis: B+, Duane Slay in the making, already there in tackling will get there in coverage

Forget the names, let’s talk scheme comparisons (even though yall know I’m comparing Leach to Brown):

- Run game needs to produce to open up the pass. WTF? That is STUPID.
- This exact team excelled in the screen game until this year. One of the best in the country!
- If run not working, use screens and draws to open up the pass game.
- QB had more freedom to audible. We saw what happened when they only have 1 or 2 reads. When covered up, it’s oh shit what now
- No slants/intermediate post routes to get ball in space.
- Gotta go down field with the ball some to open up space in the short routes.
- tighter splits in o-line = no space to run the ball.

This scheme brings the splits in closer so it brings the D-line in closer in the box. Both Stephens and Batch excell when they get in some open space. We’re NOT an SEC running game. Hell we’re not a D-2 running game. But it’s not the talent or the effort, it’s the F-ing scheme!!!

Tubs and Brown have to get in their head that we MUST pass to open up the running game. It is NOT gonna work the other way around. SEC teams run to open the pass. WE DO NOT!!!

Finally finished post game thoughts. Feel free to continue rants here or in the new post.

Wake up coaches! You are not at Troy or in the SEC! You have entered the SWC-BIG12-2 twilight zone conference where UT and OU control the conditions. Your old playbooks simply will not work here. Throw them away and become more creative. Have you seen Big Tex at the State Fair? Well, football in Texas is bigger than Tex and the entire state put together. You may not realize how much of a disappointment last night was in the minds of West Texans!