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Most disappointing thing about the game is the defense didn't travel.

You must be in the dry lands, like the real Tuco.

I don't think I've seen this much fretting over the possibility of about a quarter of an inch of rain.

Texas 27-10

I said I didn't mean you. This is what I'm talking about when it comes to semantics: Florida, Previously an Unknown Territory, Now Becoming Familiar Lands for Texas

I read a report from criminal media that Mateer wasn't really injured. He had surgery to give him a bionic thumb on his right hand. This was suggested by Switzer.

Exactly. Put him out there. I don't think criminal magic will transform him into Josh Allen over the next ten days.

It's not easier to read broken up into first grader paragraphs. The original was conceptually correct.

Florida has injury problems on the DL and at corner. Given that the Gators don't have the depth Texas has, it doesn't look good for them. No guarantee, but Texas should win the game.

They're gauging Finebaum's interest because Pearl isn't running. They don't want a Republican primary standoff.

I doubt our offensive output against Florida is directly correlated with the criminal game. Florida's defense doesn't give up as many explosive plays and is more fundamentally sound, despite all the nonsense you hear about criminal defense. The criminals would not have beaten LSU or Miami on the road. Doesn't matter who plays QB for the criminals. They can't score more than 17 on our defense.

Criminals are playing at least five teams that are much better than any they have played to this point (Texas, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Alabama and LSU). Missouri is probably better than Michigan and Auburn, and South Carolina is no push over. Long way to go before their next parole hearing.

Not you.

I would suggest some steady work on semantics and syntax.

There's plenty that can be done "nationally." If you win, you'll move up in the polls because others will lose.

Must be PTSD from the 2010s. I remember the OTF guys saying all off-season that we would treat the non-conference games (other than Ohio State) as "training" sessions for the young guys to prepare for the long haul and avoid injuries as much as possible. We'd stay vanilla. Might win by 25-30 instead of by 40-50. Well, that's what happened. Arch struggled against UTEP and the world ended. Now Mateer is a football god, and we'll be lucky to win eight games. Our own OTF guys say they'd pick the criminals if Mateer plays. It's nuts.

To put this in perspective, Mateer isn't even one of the top dual threat QBs in the SEC, to say nothing of actual passers. Green, Chambliss and Pavia are all quite a bit better than Mateer. I don't know if you'd count Aguilar as a dual threat, but he's clearly better too. Pribula is just as good if not better. Shapen and Simpson are certainly better passers. Arch will quickly surpass him. Nuss is a petter passer. I'd say Mateer is about on level with Stockton from Georgia and Reed. Not exactly Heisman quality.

More importantly, Dillingham and Leavitt still suck.

I've said it before: I don't get the Mateer hype. Most of the the OTF guys buy it. You watch him meander around and make a play every once and while and think what's so great. The criminals have yet to play a high level team. The refs literally gave them the Auburn game. It sure as heck wasn't Mateer lighting it up. Gonna need to show some receipts here in the not too distant future.

The schools need to make them employees if they want to legally treat them like employees. Part of the stupidity of the SCORE Act is it would prevent student-athletes from "ever" being employees. It makes no sense.

He'll be a real horns down after that.

This is what makes their defense gimmicky. Their back seven is below SEC average. They can blitz, but they can't get home without gimmicks, which exacerbates their coverage problems when you have a QB that can avoid pressure. This is not a good match-up for the criminals regardless of who plays QB for them.

Criminal scoop reported yesterday that they're "hoping" Mateer will be back when they play Ole Miss. That's two weeks after Texas. The criminals will try to act like Mateer could play against Texas, but it doesn't matter. Prep for Hawkins or Mateer will be basically the same.

If you can't beat the criminals with Mateer, then you don't deserve to be a playoff team. They can't run, and if you can't stop one mid level guy trying to play hero ball your defense can't get it done. Add to that BV runs a gimmick defense that gives up a lot of explosive plays and the beat goes on.

There's a Sean Miller interview on Lawyers and Longhorns that came out a couple days ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMYA_BIrxOY