FIRE GREG DAVIS 1. no adjustments to the gameplan at half time 2. extremely predictable (ghosts of chris simms/applewhite) 3. 'VINCE YOUNG OPTION 1' does not count. any offensive coordinator in the world would have that play. We could hire Stevie Wonder and he'd run that play with Vince. 4 Ohio State pulled out all this play action, roll outs, etc. UT didnt
I forgot how horrible Greg Davis is without one of the most gifted athletes to play quarterback running the show. I can't blame Vince for going pro. He gets to make millions and get developed by coach that actually knows what he is doing.
atleast this lost was early in the season. UT would need Cal to knock off USC. USC will knock off Notre Dame. and the SEC will cannibalize (or cannibalise) each other.
You have the fastest player in college football and you can't get him the ball in the flat where he can actually make a play. Greg Davis is a r****d. Charles could be a Marshall Faulk type back if Davis knew how to even read a playbook.
remember 4th and 20 vs Kansas? Vince Young, QB keeper, 30 yards. that's NOT Greg Davis. All you Chris Simms haters, that wasn't Chris Simms. Chris Simms is an NFL STARTER who took his team to the play offs. At texas, he was so predictable and threw tons of interceptions.. News flash = GREG DAVIS's fault Imagine if Vince went to Florida or USC or Notre Dame? think he'd win a title? off course Greg Davis=Fraud
I saw the exact oppposite. The line gave McCoy more than enough time to throw and blocked well on the run. The defensive line got decent pressure on Smith and did not give up a lot of rushing yards. If anything, it was McCoy's inability and/or unwillingness to go deep which doomed the offense, as well as some shaky running calls(no reason to keep hte shotgun w/o vince, IMO)
i have no hatred for the Ohio State fans. they seem cool and they deserved to celebrate a brilliant executed gameplan. their QB was allowed to throw more than just screen passes.
Bottom line: the fumble on the 1-yard line might as well have been a 14-point swing. It took away an almost certain touchdown for Texas and put Ohio State past midfield and in wonderful position for their scoring drive. Combine that with the lapse in coverage and logic in the final minute (why aren't there five people covering the end zone with only 25 seconds left?), and that's 18 points the Longhorns left on the field with stupid mistakes. When you play a great team like Ohio State, you can't give away many points and expect to win. The Longhorns did make those mistakes, and Ohio State didn't, and that's why they're (OSU) the better team. I'd love to get another shot at Ohio State - I think things easily could've been different - but the Buckeyes got the job done and proved why they're No. 1 and why they have the hype they do. Congrats, OSU fans.
The defensive line wasn't bad at all, especially against the run. (It didn't matter how good they were against the pass, with 3 open receivers every time.) But the pocket was falling back on McCoy every time he stayed in. As soon as this in on ESPN Classic (probably tomorrow), watch it again and see how fast McCoy is having to get rid of the ball. And watch how the Running Backs have to evade tackles in the backfield every time they touch the ball. I think the Texas O-line is pretty good, they just got beat.
well this was a close approximation of what i thought would happen. our defense, especially without brown, wouldn't be able to cover their receivers even if we wouldn't get run off the field and give up 40 or something. and our offense would be able to move it a little on them (NIU did after all) but ultimately would be too conservative and safe to do much (though for once, i don't really blame davis). of course, it would have been a lot more competitive if we hadn't repeatedly taken a shotgun to our foot every time something remotely positive happened. oh, we've got it at the goal line? well why don't we stretch out and give up a fumble and make sure it's easy to pick up and return a long way (we should've just kept running the ball). oh, a miracle has occurred and it's only 7-7 with a minute to go in the first half and they're 50 yards away with 28 seconds to go, why play prevent. hey, they've got it at the 30 with 22 seconds to go, why not inexplicably play cover 1 when everyone and there mom knows they're passing and give up a TD instead of a field goal. oh, we're down 17-7 and we're finally moving the ball on short out patterns and rushes and we've got first down at the 30, lets heave it to the endzone when we haven't completed a long pass all night. now they know we're running on 2nd down and easily stop it which means 3rd and long. now lets drop the screen pass and miss the field goal. even with the horrific ginn TD if we convert our goalline situation and that fg it could've been tied in the middle of the 4th. i still think osu would've won as they are the better team, but it could've been a really good game instead of ending like it did. somehow osu just always plays perfect ball against us and seems incapable of turning it over against us (this year or last) while we do everything possible wrong. with superman at quarterback, you can have everything go wrong and still beat a great team who has almost everything go right, not so much with colt mccoy. and one day i'd love to have a really good defense. oh we've had good defenses, but never a really nasty one. never one that always seems to be hitting the qb. or forcing fumbles and interceptions all over the place. one that seems to stuff runs in the backfield instead of even after 2 or 3 yards (which is still good, but not great). the only time we really got pressure was on blitzes, and we would make it painfully easy to hit a receiver in the flats b/c we would back off about 10 yards. that's no way to get pressure. not that the D was all bad. we weren't even that far off in total yards, but they just didn't really do anything. they prevented a solid numbers of scores while allowing some easy ones. they didn't get killed but they did nothing to help us win. chizik really killed me with that cover 1. that's football 101 right there. oh well, the streak had to end at some point. i suspect we drop at least one more as there will surely be another game where things go wrong and colt won't be able to save us (nebraska and tech on the road being the most obvious candidates). if we somehow went 11-1 that would be superb. 10-2 before the bowl would be quite nice. 9-3 would be pretty disappointing. we played with the probable #1 team in the country pretty evenly, we just screwed up at the worst times. hopefully that means we can beat most everyone else. and Major Malcontent, i hope that sig was just a first run and you hope to come up with something a little more creative. someone from cougar high running 1991 smack (i wonder why you didn't go back to 1990) calling out the defending national champs for thinking they're a national power is just a wee on the lame side, leaning heavily in the direction of penis envy. lets try and rise above your educational pedigree and give the bbs a quality product this time.
oh, CSTV lied about what they had on, no wonder i didn't see what channel it was on, thanks. yeah, surprised to see rice so close. is ucla way down this year or is this an actual surprise to see it this close. can't say i pay much attention to who graduated and what from ucla (i assume olson is gone).
Their QB is also very very good while UT's QB has a long way to go. That was the difference in this game. If you switched QBs it would have been at least 24-7 in favor of UT. McCoy needs more reps. Hopefully he won't be playing like a freshman by the end of the year. UT can still run the table, play in a BCS bowl and maybe even get a rematch. It was almost unfair to shove McCoy into such a big game in only his 2nd start.
Not much of a game. OSU looked good. Well. I'm not upset. T C U Has the longest winning streak in the NCAA!!!
It would stand to reason that a Rice team that fights a UCLA team tooth and nail to a close finish would play a UT team coming off their biggest let-down in several years closlely. Well, maybe not. But I'd still love to see a close game.
Rice is only down 19-10 with 9 minutes to play. Respectable game if you ask me. I was at Rice Stadium last time they beat Texas in the driving rain...that was awesome.
