This is officially my least favorite team in the last 5-6 years

by TheElusiveShadow on Oct 2, 2010 6:28 PM CDT

Give me the 2007 team. Please. Were they very good? No. Were they loaded with talent on all positions? No. But my goodness, I knew they tried. Colt McCoy got beat around every game but fought tooth and nail. Chris Hall wasn't very good but he ended up playing every position on the O-line to try to help the team win. Jordan Shipley battled a leg injury. The defense stunk but again, they tried in a broken scheme and with a lack of talent. They weren't that great, and that was frustrating, but I never got the feeling that they were a bunch of entitled idiots who didn't care.

This team? This team is far more talented, but it's one of the most self-destructive, stupid, and undisciplined teams I have ever seen. Some OU fans will get mad at me for saying this, but the Sooners simply aren't that good. A good team would have ran this pathetic excuse of a Longhorn team right off the field. Thanks to the Sooners' own flaws, the Longhorns were somehow miraculously still in the thick of things, but that doesn't mean we played well. We were awful, and if we play this way in Lincoln Nebraska will blast us by 30+.

For those who complain that Muschamp and the defense gets free passes, this is your day. The offense wasn't that great still and I disliked a lot of things we did there, but they played well enough to give us a chance to win the ball game. Our defense, however, was garbage. And it wasn't that we played BAD, we played STUPID. How many first downs did we give up due to undisciplined, stupid, and ultimately selfish penalties? Let's see:

-OU's first drive, we should get a three and out. Instead, Keenan Robinson commits a personal foul so a 3rd and 13 turns into a 1st down.

-On that same drive, Kheeston Randall thinks to himself, "Oh, it's a screen. I know! I'm going to hold Demarco Murray! I'll totally get away with that!" A 3rd and 10 turns into another first down. OU eventually scores and sets the tone for the entire half.

-After a John Gold shank, we get a PI on 3rd and 6. OU scores on that drive again.

-Eddie Jones lines up in the neutral zone and negates a game-changing fumble forced by Jeffcoat.

-After stopping a 3rd and 20 (I repeat: AFTER STOPPING A 3RD AND 20!), Jackson Jeffcoat wants to be macho and commits and utterly pea-brained personal foul. I think I lost a piece of my soul right then, because I said right before, "Please, for the love of God, no penalties." OU scores to make it an 18 point game, giving them the cushion they needed to hold on for the end.

Then of course, our special teams does lovely things as well. We have a shanked punt, crappy blocking on returns, and some mistakes on coverage. And who was surprised when Aaron Williams dropped our last chance when we would have had excellent field position? I sure wasn't. I was still mad, but I can't say I was surprised. I didn't want to watch the rest of this filth so I immediately left my friend's apartment.

In a nutshell, our defense would counter every good play they made with some mystifying, stupid act. I'm tired of it. Yes, a lot of this falls on Muschamp, because that is a total lack of discipline. That personal foul is still eating away at me, and I want Jackson Jeffcoat to run next week until he pukes out his intestines. That was completely inexcusable and selfish. Maybe the defense thinks they're so awesome that they can give away first downs and still get stops. Or some other stupid idea that's floating in their hollow heads.

I know this is over the top, and I know this is harsh, but I'm venting. Again, losing happens in football and I'm fine with it. But this team shoots themselves so many times it's not even funny. If Oklahoma is going to beat us, make them BEAT us. They beat us in 2007 despite a valiant effort from Colt, and I tipped my hat to OU. But this pitiful show of penalties and unforced errors just drives me insane, and right now I dread the yellow flag after every positive play we make. It's killing me.

Mack, you have two weeks to fix this crap. I can accept that we won't be very good, but I will not accept self-destructive stupidity. Neither should you.

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I don't quite agree, yet.

In 2007 we gave every receiver a 15 yard cushion that made it nearly impossible to be unsuccessful passing against us.

We also had 2 revenge games that we lost. I am really frustrated with this team, especially the offense, but not quite at 2007 levels. I may get there on October 16th though.

Either way, this football team is not that good right now. Hopefully changes will be made, players will buy in and the season will turn around. I’m not holding my breath though.

by ajax77777 on Oct 2, 2010 6:45 PM CDT reply actions

Calm down and take a deep breath man...at the end this is just a game.

we knew there was way too much hype with this team coming in and Mack and Co. do have a history of slowly making changes…These kids tried hard today after getting their asses kicked last wk. Although this kind of garbage is not acceptable to me either, I just hope that this season can be a good foundation for GG’s jr and sr yr.

My only complaint about this game is that there is a severe lack of leadership on this team. and GG owe’s me NCs and OU beatdowns for next two yrs.

COACH BOOM BABY!!

by hookemkp on Oct 2, 2010 6:52 PM CDT reply actions

I feel your pain

We’re never at practices, so who knows if the coaches emphasize the little things and pay attention to detail. Based on what we see on the field, it’s hard to imagine that they are. And yes, this includes “William T. Muschamp”.

What’s so disappointing is how many SENIORS are making these mistakes. Consecutive penalties by Hix and EBS was laughable, and of course the muffed punt by AW and PI from Brown.

I’m also disappointed in the gameday thread. Way too much Gilbert hating. I guess we’re so accustomed to having crappy offensive line play, zero tight end production, underachieving 4/5 star wide receivers, and of course GD’s not so creative play-calling, that we almost accept it and shift the blame elsewhere.

I’m starting to think that next season will be an improvement just because of the addition by subtraction of our current seniors.

by goingforthecorner on Oct 2, 2010 6:59 PM CDT reply actions

2007 still sucks worse to me

1) Colt was phenomenal his freshman year (which apparently can’t happen anymore), and then took a couple of steps back in ’07. That was really annoying.

2) As much grief as there is right now about this offense, I would much rather be fretting over the offense than the defense, which was the problem in 2007.

3) I think the entitlement bug bites every Texas team (except in rare years like ’05 or ’08 when Vince and Colt were in FU mode), it is just part of being in the program, but it seemed worse in ’07. This team is just suffering from a lack of talent development (Colt hangover).

If you're so sure of what it ain't, how about telling us what it am!

by circa1015 on Oct 2, 2010 7:17 PM CDT reply actions

2007

Remember that that squad had a disproportionate number of off-the-field problems, pretty much the entire off-season going into the fall.

That made that team my least favorite of reason memory, especially when combined with (by our standards) a sub-standard season.

Hungry Hippos, baby! It's on!

by Hopkins Horn on Oct 2, 2010 7:18 PM CDT reply actions

Very good point

I will definitely admit that right now my mind is suffering from the recency effect. But man, every one of those penalties just killed me inside. To be fair, the offense had some of their own (like two straight false starts to kill a promising drive).

A new goal for this team: Have 5 or less penalties during a ball game.

by TheElusiveShadow on Oct 2, 2010 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions

At least we didn't turn over the ball that much

the only real turnover was AW’s punt at the very end. GG’s INT to end the half doesn’t really count since it wasn’t returned for a TD.

by goingforthecorner on Oct 2, 2010 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions

Penalties

I’m right there with you. I don’t ever remember a team self destruct so quickly with stupid penalties. There’s a difference of penalties of agression (read: Gideon “targeting”) and those from lack of discipline and focus. The timing of such penalties were killers. Jeffcoat and Jones made me physically ill.

On the plus side, our offense rose above the back to back holding penalties in the 3rd quarter. As bad as the play calling was in the first half, we started to find our groove and play loosely in the 2nd half. Hopefully, our coaches and players will build on this.

"Well, a guy did a Horns down to him. You just shouldn’t do that."

by Johngo on Oct 2, 2010 9:35 PM CDT reply actions

Playing not to lose

It is clear from both the play and his own statements Mack Brown has a “play not to lose” mentality, which leads to conservative play-calling, tightness, lack of aggression, and ultimately errors. The team actually plays better, looser, when behind because at that point the “playing not to lose” approach has to be discarded. I am sure the infuriating, and repeatedly mocked, 2 screens to start the game were based on an effort to settle GG down at the start of his first OU game. The thinking was they could give him something simple and safe and get his confidence up. Of course, they should have realized that plays that lose yardage don’t build much confidence, even if they add to his pass completion percentage.

"Only angry people win football games." --DKR

by OBdoc on Oct 5, 2010 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions