What looks were they giving to get those massive busted coverages?

Busted coverages happen
QB has to find the guy and make a good throw

That was a terrible throw that the tu receiver caught for the td still counts as 6 but that is pretty typical scramble busted coverage play that tu managed to convert

Hyper focused on not letting Arch get loose on scrambles. You see it on the replays, safety makes a decision a let's the wr or te go.

We made Gomer Pyle look like Superman. He's an average college quarterback.

Yeah I guess this is what it was when I rewatch. He breaks off to stop they scramble.

Elko was far less aggressive with pressure on both run adm pass downs. Additionally, the Texas OL look exceptionally well coached. I think Elko was spooked by Texas' WR corps, which is excellent, but Elko simply adjusted to Sark instead of forcing the opposite.

Run fits were also **** all night, but that's been a problem the entire season. A&M's rush defense has been reliant on stunts, twists, blitzes all season, and Elko played a lot more straight up. A&M has a small and slow defense - it can't consistently win straight up against a squad of elite recruits without schematic advantages. Howell can, but only with finesse and speed. Hicks can occasionally win with power. Onyedim is impressively quick but not powerful. Sanford and York are simply slow and small for the SEC. the safeties are slow. The CBs aren't terribly slow, but they have poor ball skills. They NEED scheme.

Arch made good decisions 2nd half. D-Line couldn't get to him most of the game. Howell got his butt whipped most of the night.

Even so, we had 3 false starts and an offsides all at important times. None of those can happen in game 12. We had another missed FG on a low kick.

Even giving up the chunk plays 2nd half, we are right there if we make the FG and eliminate the stupid penalties. We dominated them 1st half and only had a 10-3 lead.

We should've blitzed a lot more than we did. The few times we did, it got to Arch.

No idea why we didn't bring more pressure.

Also, Cashius Howell was getting worked. He had a terrible game.

They watched film and realized the rush defense was crap and a running quarterback will destroy the defense. They Put pressure on Reed and forced him to throw the ball. The 3rd down defense was exposed, all arch did was run and would get enough for the first down, not trying to make heisman plays. They made the better adjustments in that 2nd half.

We put absolutely no pressure on Arch. 4 men weren't enough and we should have occasionally used 5. Rushing 3 was a damned joke.

Compound that with our defense was gassed because Klein cant out together a cohesive offense and that's all it took.

Did #9 play last night?

Reed has thrown 6 interceptions in his last four SEC games

2 vs. LSU
2 vs. Carolina
2 vs. t.u.

that's way too many

throw in the lost fumble vs. Carolina...and that's 7 turnovers

NumeroUno said:

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Hyper focused on not letting Arch get loose on scrambles. You see it on the replays, safety makes a decision a let's the wr or te go.

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Yeah I blame the d line for this. They needed to collapse the pocket but they let Arch, Wisner, etc through massive holes. Safeties were put in an impossible situation.

The sips were very well prepared for our blitzes but I thought we should have stayed with it more than we did. The four man rush was ineffective and gave Arch room to run. What was infuriating was the play where he could have run for 20 but instead threw to a wide open receiver in the end zone. In other words, we didn't have anything covered on the play.

Lbs were MIA last night

No expert here, my observations we either game-planned a pass heavy offense or abandoned run game think cost us game - or perhaps tu defense better prepared on our tendencies….offensive penalties (again) cost us points … tu offense knew we were susceptible to runs up middle and no accountability for running QB on pass rush … play calling left lot to be desired….finally, believe we were "out-coached" think tu staff really studied SC game 1st half and knew we could be gotten

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Lbs were MIA last night

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So was Howell

Yes, the d line disappeared in this game just last like they did last year. We had our offensive opportunities in the first half and did not capitalize on them. This has been a problem all season long. Our offense has been a second half team, but last night they were not.

Texas out-played and out-coached us yet again.

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Reed has thrown 6 interceptions in his last four SEC games

2 vs. LSU
2 vs. Carolina
2 vs. t.u.

that's way too many

throw in the lost fumble vs. Carolina...and that's 7 turnovers

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Reed's true gift (relative to competition level) is exceptional lateral quickness. That's it. (ETA: and he seems to have a genuine leadership personality)
He isn't strong. His arm is weak. He doesn't read defenses well. I think Klein is a very mediocre play caller, but Reed has received far too much credit from Aggies who aren't paying attention to the excellence of the overall offensive scheme. Reed throws to a lot of very open receivers and TEs. But, the second you pressure him he's terrible because he doesn't see the field well (physically and processing wise).

Hot take, which I've had since preseason and often looked foolish for hanging onto,, the A&M offense would've had a better season with Manning at QB because his size and straight line speed would've allowed Klein to run his full playbook and offensive philosophy.

Why couldn't we get open downfield?

There were plenty of snaps where marcel had a clean pocket and time. Couldn't tell from t v if we were covered or Marcel didn't see them.

Farmer_J said:

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Why couldn't we get open downfield?

There were plenty of snaps where marcel had a clean pocket and time. Couldn't tell from t v if we were covered or Marcel didn't see them.

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Texas didn't fear Reeds arm in 10-15 mph swirling winds.

Maybe so, but that doesn't explain why we couldn't (throw downfield. Were they covered all night?

Our offense cost us this game. We need to fix that one in the next three weeks. Moss being back will help. Klein has a history of calling bad games against Texas for whatever reason. He also had issues at Kansas State.

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Maybe so, but that doesn't explain why we couldn't (throw downfield. Were they covered all night?

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Texas sat in safe zones, forced Reed to beat them with accuracy. Reed isn't that guy in a dome, much less with swirling winds and playing with happy feet.

Everyone was horrible. We are missing real play makers. No forced turnovers. Off the hands too many times. Turf monster got us several times rather than a big time run. Coaches did not take advantage of our so called matchup advantage. We are pee wee football when it comes to big games. We got lucky when ND kicker missed the XP.

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Farmer_J said:

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Maybe so, but that doesn't explain why we couldn't (throw downfield. Were they covered all night?

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Texas sat in safe zones, forced Reed to beat them with accuracy. Reed isn't that guy in a dome, much less with swirling winds and playing with happy feet.

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Also seemed our WR weren't able to cut as sharp on a wet turf.

To boil it down, lack of blitzes + Klein's play calling.

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We put absolutely no pressure on Arch. 4 men weren't enough and we should have occasionally used 5. Rushing 3 was a damned joke.

Compound that with our defense was gassed because Klein cant out together a cohesive offense and that's all it took.

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Can't recall ever seeing a 3 man rush being effective except maybe in a hail mary situation in order to have maximum deep. Even then they somehow get completed.

RB wise, Owens needs to learn to run with a little bit more "Moss" power. He always lets the first contact slow him up or take him down. Moss reminds me of the power backs Bama had a few years back (or Love at Notre Dame); first hit isn't going to take those guys down. Owens repeatedly came up a yard short on runs for the marker. Frankly, I thought Smith should've had more playing time.

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Reed has thrown 6 interceptions in his last four SEC games

2 vs. LSU
2 vs. Carolina
2 vs. t.u.

that's way too many

throw in the lost fumble vs. Carolina...and that's 7 turnovers

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Reed's garbage when he stays in the pocket. Holds the ball way too long and then decides to run way too late. What the **** is Klein doing trying to make dual threat QB stay in a collapsing pocket until the very end? Why is he running straight into the strength of the Texas defense , between the tackle, 5 times in a row? Why is he calling a 40 yard fade on 3rd and 1 at a crucial time in the game? He did the same **** last year and it cost us that game. I can't be the only person who believes this guy is a HORRIBLE OC and needs to go and probably before the playoffs start.

Now the defense. WTF is Elko doing? No spy on Arch, very few full out blitzes on 3rd and long. DB's were playing 8-10 yards off their WR's in passing situations, LB's were absent 90% of the time and safeties are letting "play makers" stand all alone in the back of the endzone 30 yards down field. WTF was the game plan? Conservative on both sides of the ball?? The least aggressive we've played all year. Inexcusable display and complete embarrassment for the program and to us fans, who fell for this **** once again.

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RB wise, Owens needs to learn to run with a little bit more "Moss" power. He always lets the first contact slow him up or take him down. Moss reminds me of the power backs Bama had a few years back (or Love at Notre Dame); first hit isn't going to take those guys down. Owens repeatedly came up a yard short on runs for the marker. Frankly, I thought Smith should've had more playing time.

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Thought the same thing. Owens was on skates all night. Smith stays lower to the ground.

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RB wise, Owens needs to learn to run with a little bit more "Moss" power. He always lets the first contact slow him up or take him down. Moss reminds me of the power backs Bama had a few years back (or Love at Notre Dame); first hit isn't going to take those guys down. Owens repeatedly came up a yard short on runs for the marker. Frankly, I thought Smith should've had more playing time.

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Ruben Owens trips over his shoe laces 6" short of the line to gain, while other RB's in the league carry 3-4-5 of our guys for yard after yard after contact. Get the **** fixed or bench his ass. Smith looked fantastic and I kept screaming for him to be in the game, but of course he gets in when it's too late. Someone in charge of the offense is an idiot.

To my recall, we tried one jet sweep last night, with Craver. Went nowhere. Wonder why we didn't get the ball in KC's hands with the sweep?

First TD was a jet sweep to KC lol

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Sefton said:

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RB wise, Owens needs to learn to run with a little bit more "Moss" power. He always lets the first contact slow him up or take him down. Moss reminds me of the power backs Bama had a few years back (or Love at Notre Dame); first hit isn't going to take those guys down. Owens repeatedly came up a yard short on runs for the marker. Frankly, I thought Smith should've had more playing time.

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Ruben Owens trips over his shoe laces 6" short of the line to gain, while other RB's in the league carry 3-4-5 of our guys for yard after yard after contact. Get the **** fixed or bench his ass. Smith looked fantastic and I kept screaming for him to be in the game, but of course he gets in when it's too late. Someone in charge of the offense is an idiot.

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Rb rotations aren't typically managed by an OC sitting in the booth.