slowdown

DJ had a couple nce runs in Q2, we just didn't string them together

Amazing right. I would also suggest that our run game was quite good that second quarter and will be as the game goes on

Would have been if he had made more of an effort

Salomon has to make a better adjustment there

Found a USF player that can catch

I assume all the play calls on the false starts were winners though

I would not say amazing. It would have been an easy one. We didn't need an amazing call there

False starts and delay of game is not debatable. Not sure about the call on Q

Get dj involved in other ways. That's how he has the most value and wrs have issues catching anyway. It's nice to rotate them fresh but also nice to have your best players out there together

This is why I don't get as frustrated as most with the seeming lack of variety in the run game. Our best weapons run the ball and they will break

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/9/7/12829482/targeting-penalty-rulebook-ncaa-football It wasn't particularly nasty but it definitely qualifies him for the ejection. Also I was not seeing Senats point about the hands. Why would you ever explode through the QB with your hands. He must've knew it was late or he would've been tackling him. He's playing too aggressive. Sawtelles call was total BS

I have flown a lot. there are always some crying babies and people freaking out about minor turbulence

Oh that sounds great but did you see that one play he called against Baylor last year? Clearly there is no hope for this offense

Look at Gilbert's track record at Texas, Tulsa, and Eastern Illinois they all saw huge improvement in year one. The other coaches in this offensive tree have seen similar year one improvement at Houston, Baylor, and Syracuse. There is overwhelming evidence that it doesn't take a few seasons. Maybe tellingly, that did not occur so much at Bowling Green where they had a pretty good offense the year before, but took a small step back in year one. This offense might look better in a couple years but that doesn't mean it can't be good this year.

Wow, an obsessed fan found a bad play. Definitive proof that Gilbert is an idiot. Other things that guy left out: 1. Texas went from 92nd in total offense in 2015 to 16th with a true freshman QB in 2016. 2. Texas scored 35 points in this game, had 548 yards offense, and won 3. They scored twice on that play, out of that formation, in that game. 4. The running back there had a career high of 250 yards that day If you take a snapshot of anyone in this world you can make them look as bad as you want. It's what this offense does over the course of the season that is going to matter.

first game in new offense, true freshman, im sure no one would ever call a conservative game in that situation. you should find a better example of how terrible he is than that time they had 500 yards and 37 / 50 points.

lol, Barr can't even catch the football and we saw several times last year he can not create like Rodney on the hitches and jet sweeps. Solomon is a completely different type of WR. Tice and DJ have never shown the ability to score at any time. We went from having three players who could score at any time, with a nice assortment of players around them, to having one player who could score at any time and mostly the same assortment of players around them, except with less talent on the line. It totally changes everything when you don't have 3 guys like that. There is no way to defend 3 guys like that. We could probably have run that same stuff as last year and have the athletic advantage to have performed better over the first two games, but that wouldn't hold true throughout the season. You can't simply replace better players with worse, do the same things, and get the same results.

Hopefully the offense picks it up, but if not I really see the lack of physical playbook becoming this years, "DC Woodie not on the field" complaint.

we also saw 1 quarter where they kind of opened it up. we scored 28 pts. I'm not convinced our coaching staff is unaware of that.

the thread was about missing Mack so I would think the more relevant discussion of effectiveness here is Mack vs who we have now. I would also say that within the objectives of that offense, his numbers were still very effective, in 2009 5.5 ypc got Gerhart a runner up to the Heisman. Mack was almost there as a true freshman before the team actually had talent around him. And an interesting note: Tice and Johnson's YPC numbers in the GCO were actually still less than Mack's were before the GCO.

I forgot nothing. You said he wasn't effective. He was, period. Maybe more effective after the offense was opened up, but our two backs just went for 1.8 ypc.

Totally inaccurate. Mack was an effective player from his first game here, and we did not open the offense up until game 5 of his second year. (17/36). Half his career yardage was actually in that terrible offense where the box was always stacked.

and Amichia and Threat. We lost three of our better players ever in Mack, Adams, and Amichia. When you have 3 players who can score at any time it certainly helps. When you have one, that can be gameplanned against. Underrated factor on the message boards, IMO. Doesn't mean the gameplans havent been lacking so far though.

If non aggressive people shot people over traffic incidents we'd be burying half of Florida in a week.

Don't forget the blocking wasn't good on that play either. No doubt we would all rather have had QF in there though.