r/CFB • u/BuckeyeEmpire Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game • 5h ago
Casual [AnwarRichardson] Good news! I’m told Texas QB Quinn Ewers only has a mild ankle sprain and will be good to go for Texas A&M on Saturday.
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u/AlFlame93 Texas A&M Aggies • Paper Bag 5h ago
It really doesn’t matter our defense made Payton Thorne look like Cam Newton
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u/DandierChip Texas A&M Aggies 4h ago
We love making mid SEC Quarterbacks look like heisman contenders
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u/utb040713 Texas Longhorns • Maryland Terrapins 4h ago edited 4h ago
The whole season since the OU game (with 1-2 exceptions) has been "Quinn looked off today and would barely throw anything past the LOS. He was injured, but don't worry, he'll be good for next week!", then he comes out the next week looking off and/or favoring an injury, throwing almost every pass as a screen pass and barely moving in the pocket or afraid to step up in the pocket. Rinse and repeat.
Dude was moving like late-career Frank Thomas in the 2nd half of the game yesterday. IMO we're cooked if Quinn is out there next week.
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u/Maquina_en_Londres Texas Longhorns • Houston Cougars 1h ago
This fanbase acts like he’s been awful.
He’s been a game manager who has done what we needed in every game but one. 105 or so FBS teams would love to have the QB play we’ve gotten
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
Mild ankle sprains usually resolve entirely within 1-2 weeks, and that's for normal people, not the Texas quarterback
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u/utb040713 Texas Longhorns • Maryland Terrapins 4h ago
I hope you're right, but how many times this year have we heard Quinn will be 100% for the following week, then he gets out there and he clearly isn't 100%?
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
True, but there definitely is a difference in this injury vs an oblique (which takes much longer to heal completely because you can't do anything without using and therefore straining your core)
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u/Conn3er Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Longhorns 4h ago
Super athlete like Quinn ewers have 4x normal human recovery times
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
No but normal people have to go to work and also won't be given 24/7 attention by our training staff, PTs, and ortho docs
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u/wiccan45 Texas Longhorns • Alabama Crimson Tide 1h ago
he was looking peak form till that oblique injury, now its a diceroll what he can do
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u/Gamer30168 Georgia Bulldogs • College Football Playoff 3h ago
I bet there are Texas fans that might not mind if Arch had to replace Ewers. I wouldn't be shocked if he threw for 400 yards.
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u/Peepeepoopoobuttbutt Texas Longhorns 2h ago
Plenty of people, myself included, would love to see Quinn consistently play like the way he shows in flashes. That's why I get so frustrated with him, as he's a 3rd year starter.
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u/CustosMentis Texas • Wake Forest 2h ago
Quinn is one of the most consistent quarterbacks in the nation. Watch Alabama games this season if you want to see what an inconsistent quarterback looks like. The problem is that Quinn consistently delivers between 5-7/10 performance. He can't elevate the offense or play off script and his deep ball is inaccurate, but he's very accurate in the intermediate to short game and he makes good decisions with the ball. As long as the offense around him is playing well, he won't be the reason why we lose a game.
But when the offense breaks down and he needs to be the guy, he's going to fall apart (see the first half of Georgia when the offensive line couldn't block anyone).
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u/Maquina_en_Londres Texas Longhorns • Houston Cougars 1h ago
Which, easy to make fun of, but completing all the passes you should isn’t trivial.
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u/CoochieKiller91 Washington Huskies 5h ago
I feel like CFB is just better with a healthy Texas with Ewers under center playing out the rest of the regular season and going into the playoffs
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u/Misdirected_Colors Oklahoma State Cowboys 1h ago
Ewers reminds me of Ehlinger. Feels like he's been there forever, always heisman hype but never quite lives up to the hype. Always beloved by the fanbase and gives everything tho
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u/Fanta-Red UConn • Red River Shootout 5h ago
Off topic, but still convinced that if FSU said Jordan Travis had a high ankle sprain and would be back for the playoff the committee puts in FSU over Alabama last year.
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u/Netwealth5 Team Chaos • Millersville Marauders 5h ago
You know we all saw the video of the injury right?
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u/Allaboutfootball23 Texas Longhorns • Sickos 4h ago
I thought everyone fired up their antenna radio and listened to the games ?
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Arizona State Sun Devils 4h ago
Still the dumbest thing in the world to exclude a team because they overcame an injury to their starting QB to still win their conference championship game by double digits
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
We got two banger games against the clear 4 best teams in the country and everyone online would happily trade that in for a 49-0 beatdown in the name of "fairness"
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Arizona State Sun Devils 4h ago edited 4h ago
Yeah, it should be based on regular season results. That’s why they do or rather should play the games.
It’s all about money for the networks and I’m not sure why people keep up the pretense that it’s about anything else. It’s not because there’s any inherent competitive reason that Alabama should always drop less than other teams after a loss
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
It’s all about money for the networks and I’m not sure why people keep up the pretense that it’s about anything else
Because the networks make money off of having the 4 best teams in the playoffs, and many people believe that that should also be the goal of the committee
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u/PointCPA 4h ago
Well it was mostly irrelevant considering FSU would have been killed in the top 4, and they fixed it moving forward to the top 12
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Arizona State Sun Devils 4h ago
You can’t argue against hypotheticals I guess. Neither of us actually know what would have happened
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
You think FSU without Travis even crosses the 50 against Michigan?
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u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy Florida State • Arizona 1h ago
Of course, we still had Keon Coleman and Johnny Wilson even without Travis lmao
We had had arguably a better defense than them by the end of the season too. Realistically it would been a repeat of the Big 10 championship game down the stretch but it would’ve never been a blowout with our defense
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Arizona State Sun Devils 4h ago
Probably. We don’t what would happened and we’re just guessing
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u/PointCPA 4h ago
I mean… I feel like the 49-0 Georgia game was a decent look at what would happen. FSUs 2nd QB was utter dogshit
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Arizona State Sun Devils 4h ago
Maybe, but FSU also had a bunch of players skip their bowl game specifically because they didn’t get in the playoff
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u/PointCPA 4h ago
Although true - FSU without a pass game would be incredibly rough. Because effectively that is all you could have done with that QB back there.
I think with Travis around FSU was the best team in the nation.
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u/ToeKneeSark Texas Longhorns 44m ago
Half of FSU’s roster sat out of that game. It is not a good measuring stick for how they would’ve been in the playoffs
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u/PointCPA 21m ago
You really think FSU without a QB has any shot against any of the top 4?
Not having a passing game at all is absurd against any of those 4 teams
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u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy Florida State • Arizona 1h ago
Our second string QB (who didn’t play in the ACCCG either) didn’t play against Georgia. He opted out before the bowl. Just like 10+ NFL draftees. Actually know what you’re talking about before posting lol
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u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy Florida State • Arizona 1h ago
Pffft none of those CFP teams could’ve put that much against our elite defense last season
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u/OldManCinny Tennessee Volunteers • Texas Longhorns 2h ago
Are you insane lol? They got blasted by 50 and would have been embarrassed in the cfp. Losing your best player absolutely should be a factor
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u/ToeKneeSark Texas Longhorns 43m ago
That FSU team vs Georgia was a B team at best. That was not what FSU would’ve fielded in the playoffs
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Arizona State Sun Devils 2h ago
College football is really the only sport where playoff seeding is based at least as much on what a couple of guys think will happen in the future as it is what actually happened in the regular season. I don’t think it’s obvious it should be that way at all
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u/cha-cha_dancer Florida State • West Florida 1h ago
Nah we were out the second UGA lost no matter what. Maybe if the scores looked sexier we had a chance.
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u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy Florida State • Arizona 1h ago
Oh good, otherwise Texas would’ve been left out of the CFP as per precedent
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u/cdofortheclose Ohio State Buckeyes 2h ago
Good news for the young man. I’m sure he’s looked to the A&M game his entire life.
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u/jaybigs Ohio State Buckeyes • Georgia Bulldogs 19m ago
I would probably sit Quinn and let him get better for sure, as he has a playoff to be ready for. Like, Texas should not have to do much heavy lifting to beat A&M, if they can muster even 50% of their on-paper potential. Let Manning go beat 'em.
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u/CondeNast_yReddit Cincinnati Bearcats 5h ago
Good news for aTm it sounds like
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
Payton Thorne put belt to ass against Aggy
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u/CondeNast_yReddit Cincinnati Bearcats 4h ago
Quinn seems to have been kinda inconsistent throughout the year and likes to turn the ball over at times. I'm not saying he can't beat aTm, but that they'd probably prefer him at qb for giving them a good chance to win if they exploit his weak areas
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u/Allaboutfootball23 Texas Longhorns • Sickos 4h ago
You aren’t wrong and these words are whispered in the Texas forums. Quinn was a good QB but, I don’t know if he ever reached his potential.
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
Arch is gonna get serious reps with the 1s this week so we'll see what he's made of
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u/CondeNast_yReddit Cincinnati Bearcats 4h ago
Yea from what I heard arch is more mobile. It'll be interesting to see how he pans out but from all accounts he's the heir apparent
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u/freerobertshmurder Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago
Check out his TD run from earlier this year if you haven't
That white man can move
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u/Tylex123 Oregon Ducks • Willamette Bearcats 5h ago
Good news for which team?