![]() It meant nothing and it was absolutely clear to me that he'd come up huge down the stretch. Similarly, the announcers (who were moronic) overplayed his 1 of 8 stretch - we had some penalties take away some good throws, some tipped balls, general static that happens in all football games. ![]() He did overthow Marquise Goodwin on a streak route, but the Tech DB jam messed up the timing. Ash threw strikes to Mike Davis deep twice in the first half for giant gains, dropped in a nice 25 yard ball to him in the end zone for the decisive TD, nailed Jaxon Shipley with a gorgeous 24 yard gain on a sideline wheel route and generally played perfect football for our game plan. 10 of 19 for 264 yards and 3 TDs in addition to 5 runs for 25 yards. One of the better schemed and called games I've seen in a while. It seems a small thing, but it's one version of that happened throughout the game. We play action, Ash throws to Jackson (covered by a LB keying run who can't recover against a WR), Jackson jukes a safety, and we take the candy. Both guys are about the same height and their numbers look similar. Jackson (#16) lined up at TE instead of DJ Grant (#18). I suspect Longhorn Scott will treat us to a video breakdown of a number of Harsin's tactics, but two that caught my eye was a 1st touchdown drive conversion to Johnathan Gray on a short side screen on 3rd and 14 and a more innocuous 17 yard throw to Bryant Jackson on 1st down from our 25. We were also stubborn with the run - in a good way - and our last two drives were textbook running game close-this-shit out football. The Longhorns averaged 7.4 yards per play and completely controlled a quality, well-coached defense. This is a much more aggressive Longhorn offense and one we probably couldn't have run early in the season given the development schedule of our offense and Gray himself. More globally, we've made the decision to feature Johnathan Gray (20 carries looks to be his pitch count), make Joe Bergeron a powerful change of pace back, and limit snaps from Ryan Roberson in favor of featuring a 3rd WR, Daje, or DJ. Texas Tech was caught cheating on formational keys on a half dozen instances and Texas made a quality Red Raiders defense pay. And he did it with deception Throughout the game, Harsin repeatedly ran out of spread passing formations and threw deep on 1st down out of run formations. ![]() The Texas offense struck the perfect balance between maintaing a strong run identity and aggressively attacking downfield in the passing game. I'll write a more comprehensive post-mortem, but these are my heroes of the game: The win doesn't obscure our obvious flaws, but why pick nits when our players play their asses off, our offensive coordinator lays down a smooth X and O ass kicking, and the defense surrenders yardage, but not the end zone. A fantastic, sweet win over a quality Texas Tech team in a hostile environment. ![]()
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