Someone here posted a take about "Why We Lose Badly to t.u." I think it is a pretty crazy take, so let me give you the other side of the coin.
The reality is that his angle is not primary to this game. The primary thing is that A&M has a much better team.
All A&M has to do is have Reed channel his Lamar Jackson and get plenty of play action with tight end passing. Just watch the Arkansas tape, which absolutely savaged our defense with an average tight end who was more open all night than 7 Eleven. That alone puts us in a bad spot because we have no real running game and become predictable. A&M does not have to invent anything unusual. They just have to take what we give them, and unfortunately right now we are giving a lot.
On defense it is even easier. All A&M has to do is watch Georgia's defensive scheme in their last three wins against the Horns in the past eighteen months. If they follow that approach and force us to make throws we do not hit consistently and challenge us to run when we cannot, they will keep us bottled up the entire night. Nothing about this requires genius. It is already on film.
Maybe the one valid point he made is that in terms of an upset the moment could get too big for some players. I do not see it. I think the opposite is true. Teams as good as A&M get better the more they win. I saw it with the Horns in 2005. By November and December they were a scary team.
As to the weight of history no one cares about that. I do not care that the Horns won a bunch of games in the forties fifties or sixties. Who cares about that. I went to UT from 1984 to 1991 and during that period A&M used to kick our butts on a regular basis.
This is not about some historical ghost or the past. It is about matchups and right now A&M's strengths sit exactly on top of our weaknesses. Unless something dramatic changes we are not keeping up.
The reality is that his angle is not primary to this game. The primary thing is that A&M has a much better team.
All A&M has to do is have Reed channel his Lamar Jackson and get plenty of play action with tight end passing. Just watch the Arkansas tape, which absolutely savaged our defense with an average tight end who was more open all night than 7 Eleven. That alone puts us in a bad spot because we have no real running game and become predictable. A&M does not have to invent anything unusual. They just have to take what we give them, and unfortunately right now we are giving a lot.
On defense it is even easier. All A&M has to do is watch Georgia's defensive scheme in their last three wins against the Horns in the past eighteen months. If they follow that approach and force us to make throws we do not hit consistently and challenge us to run when we cannot, they will keep us bottled up the entire night. Nothing about this requires genius. It is already on film.
Maybe the one valid point he made is that in terms of an upset the moment could get too big for some players. I do not see it. I think the opposite is true. Teams as good as A&M get better the more they win. I saw it with the Horns in 2005. By November and December they were a scary team.
As to the weight of history no one cares about that. I do not care that the Horns won a bunch of games in the forties fifties or sixties. Who cares about that. I went to UT from 1984 to 1991 and during that period A&M used to kick our butts on a regular basis.
This is not about some historical ghost or the past. It is about matchups and right now A&M's strengths sit exactly on top of our weaknesses. Unless something dramatic changes we are not keeping up.
