Quote Originally Posted by Tbonewannabe View Post
Lebby's ceiling is high if he either gets an OC that he trusts so he can be a true head coach or at least learns how to be a Head Coach while calling the offense. The Texas game was lost on Lebby not thinking big picture. Without us screwing up clock management, Texas had no chance to score enough with the time remaining.

That game was purely lost by coaching.
I think it is more like a bonehead on defense roughed the QB on a 4th down play that would have given us the ball on the 38 yard line of Texas. With a huge shift in momentum at that point we take a few minutes off the clock maybe score a touchdown and seal it right there or kick 3 making it 20 point lead with about 8 minutes to go in the game. The Texas players are then thinking about getting on the jet and heading back to Austin.

Steve even said that roughing the passer penalty changed the game drastically. Without that penalty we were in the driver?s seat.

Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
At 4-8 you have to consider it. But the right answer is mixing up responsibilities to a better balance on offense. Lebby is not handling the current responsibilities well so he needs to delegate a couple things away. That's not necessarily playcalling but something if this doesn't change.

We're not 4-8 yet.

WR room will be loaded again next year for guys who see how much your stock can move in his offense.

Hutzler is no longer awful as a DC but jury is still out. I don't think the 45 rests squarely on him, but we have made two bad QBs look serviceable. Maybe it's jimmies and joes again. I think we'll end up keeping him short of giving up 40+ every game from here on out.

We can't run back the same stupidity next year. That's what people don't want. Fired is harsh and an over correction, but the point remains there needs to be tweaks. A few coaching tweaks and we're 7-1.
- Not playing Fluff late against Aggy
- Understanding the game flows of Tenn/Aggy better and not passing when you should gash a run.
- The Florida debacle.
- The hurry up 4th down when review likely gives us the first down and playing against the defense strength.
- Consistently setting your kicker up for failure by putting him on the right hash.
- Punting to the best return man in the country.
- Bad game clock management

There's a laundry list of problems that some delegation of duties and tweaks in philosophy make us 7-1. Hell - if Albert doesn't get hurt against Tennessee then the Aggy game is also completely different. So another piece is OL depth.

The people who see us as so close are right. The people who see us as pissing a lot away are right. If we keep pissing things away - it's harder to believe that we'll fix the things that we're not close on.
If Reese played healthy all through Tennessee we win that game and make the A&M game respectable. But keeping Fluff healthy probably wins us Florida and Texas. Fluff is a stud. We are going to see just how valuable he is Saturday.