So if your a Longhorn fan how happy are you with this win today? Has it sunk in yet that your Texas Longhorns should have lost in Dallas today? A lot of flags that went the Longhorns ways, flags that should have been thrown but weren’t, stupid penalties that kept Oklahoma drives alive. I’m gonna tell you something right now, someone in the Longhorns organization is living right. They are saying their prayers, eating their vitamins, and not messing around with underage white women because someone was looking out for the Longhorns today!
There are two types of fans in this world, the delusional ones that like to send me hate mail after a *kick in the crotch* god to honest article, and ones who say I am absolutely right. If your a delusional fan that wants to send me hate mail after this article, then you go right ahead. Realistic fans unite, and call bullsh*t when you see it. If you came here to get a warm and fuzzy article about how great the Longhorns are, then you need to go read a article written in an Austin paper. You will get no such article here. You will however get an honest look at what really happened in Dallas today. Let me run down a few things that the delusional fan might have missed.
- The Longhorns offensive lines inability to pick up the blitz in the first half. Hey if memory serves correctly this was something I pointed out in my post about the game early in the week. Every single year OU dials up all out blitz packages, and every year Mack continues to look clueless on how to stop it. Every year the OU defense gives Texas one look, then at the last second changes into their actual defensive play. Guess what, every year it works! It wasn’t a matter of Texas figured out how to stop it in the second half, it was a matter of OU quit doing it as much. McCoy gets knocked down 14+ times in the first half, then all of the sudden the offensive line figures it out with a halftime adjustment? Yeah ok!
- And the academy award for best actor for the most convincing dive goes to (drum roll please) Colt McCoy. Yes there were some calls McCoy got that he should have, but there were some that had dive written all over it. Example.. Last play of the game when McCoy slides down to keep the clock moving, and is touched on the field and just falls backwards. Bravo Bravo, if your career doesn’t take off in the NFL then maybe you can make a living on Broadway.
-The hopes and dreams of that undefeated season may still be alive, but not for long Longhorn faithful. In case you missed it, Oklahoma gave future teams on the Longhorns schedule the blueprint on how to beat Texas. They took Shipley out of the game, and continued to blitz McCoy. It’s hard for the Heisman hopeful to continue to put up those impressive stats (chuckles) while he is running for his life.
The only bright spot for the day was the defense, that still got torched for 400+ yards. They stepped up and made plays when the had too. Picking off Landry Jones twice late in the 4th quarter sure did help. All those who think that had Bradford stayed in the game the outcome might have be different raise your had. *Raises Hand*. Not to say Bradford was setting the world on fire before he got hurt, but he understands how to read defenses a lot better then Landry Jones. He understands that when Muschamp dials up an all out blitz to dump it off in the middle of the field and let your RB rattle off a 65 yard run.
The Longhorns have started off the season 6-0, but its an extremely soft 6-0. This was the first real test for this Longhorn team and they sh*t their pants in the first half. You can not continue to play flat in the first half, rely on your defense to keep you in the game, and then start playing in the second half. You can not continue to give make mental mistakes, and draw the stupid penalties. Unless this team takes this gift of a win and wakes up, they are no closer to making a National Championship run then they were at the beginning of the season. IF the Longhorns make it to the National Championship game and they play the likes of Florida or Alabama, then Bob Stoops won’t be the only coach from the Big 12 that gets made a fool of by Urban Myers or Nick Saban.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Liverdamage // Oct 17, 2009 at 4:18 pm
This is a good Texas team. They beat a good team (beaten up, but still a good team). There were 5-10 teams that would have beat them with that effort though. Not too shabby, all things considered, unless you’re revvin’ up for a National Champion or Bust run.
2 Ick // Oct 17, 2009 at 5:23 pm
A win is a win this is true. I just grow tired of the issues I pointed out. I’m tired of the lack of a run game, the stagnate offense in the first half and the bone headed mental mistakes.
3 lajitas // Oct 19, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Where are you coming up with the 400+ yards given up by Texas? You must be counting return yards or something. They had 327 passing, and a -16 yards rushing. Like I told you on the phone, you make valid points about the improvements needed to be in The Game, but I’ll take this “W” and relish it. It’s good to beat OU, no matter how sloppy the game!
4 Steve // Oct 21, 2009 at 12:55 pm
All I got to say is that OU defense is for real. Texas won and will be in the national title game because Alabama and Florida play each other and one has to lose opening #2 for us. Let’s just hope we make a better showing than OU in their last few appearances.
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