re: 16 years ago today: "If Colt hadn't gotten hurt..."

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1) it was an 11 point game until we gifted you a td before half by that terrible pitch right to your DL.

2) if any of your players, coaches, etc “let up” in the national championship game they are absolute morons

3) you are making a guess, you have no idea if they let up or not and again would be a stupid decision

4) the qb stats are proving my point. This is pre transfer portal so we had a fresh with 0 experience. Your D would not turn Colt McCoy over 5 times like you did worth our fresh qb.

5)’ your d was in our backfield because, and let me say it again, we hand a true freshman qb in and we were barely 1 dimensional on offense. You stacked the boxed and dared our freshman to throw which he couldn’t.

6) you are right about one thing Mack changed his philosophy so he didn’t rely on one player going down losing us a game, but again the game was not lopsided and the eye test and stats back that up.

Again, you won, I wish you had won getting our best shot but we will never know.

But there shouldn’t be a single bama fan claiming an injury hurt you against any team in a natty that also doesn’t universally agree Colt getting hurt was the reason Texas lost period.

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Your QB got hurt because your line failed to block even while he was in the game. And your pitchman was covered on that play as well.

The sample size makes it hard to tell, he was in for a total of 5 plays. But your offensive line struggled against Nebraska IIRC as well, and you weren't putting up major points against them either.

We'll never know. If we want to talk about Texas strength then I agree Texas obviously would have been better with him and the score likely would have been closer. But I saw weak lines that couldn't handle the power based Alabama lines.

And the Georgia game in 2021 was much different. Alabama blew Georgia out just 2 games prior to the game, winning 41-24. Alabama loses 2 top receivers to injury and Georgia holds Alabama to 18 points in the 2nd game.

Obvious difference makers.

If Colt had already played and blown out Alabama and then the injury happens, I would have to agree with you. But that's not what happened.

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Dude if you really think your wr are the same as losing a heisman finalist and at the time the winningest qb and most accurate qb in college football history I don’t know what to tell you.

You seem logical, data driven, and I get we are both homers here, but quarterback is the most important position in football and it’s not really disputed.

The injury play was a freak play, never saw it before or since. It’s on Texas to have a more prepared backup and that play the oline didn’t block clearly.

But assuming with Colt for 4 full quarters your team would just “live in Texas backfield” is unlikely. With a backup green freshman qb where you can put 8-9 in the box every single play, sure

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Agree to disagree then. It doesn't really matter in the end, and I don't disagree you would have been better with Colt, but I saw your lines not being up to the job. I've been watching football for a long time and I always look at the play of the lineman starting out because it's the best indicator.

In 2021 we had 2 receivers who had over 1000 yards. We lost BOTH of them between the 2 games.

Our next best receiver was a TE.

In the 1st game, one of those receivers had 184 yards receiving and 2 TD. Averaged 26.3 yards per catch. The other had 97 yards and 1 TD on 16.2 yards per catch. That was 281 yards receiving lost.

How can losing your 2 best WR not have an impact? Alabama went from scoring 41 points in a game down to 18 points, just 2 games later.

And it doesn't even matter, except Georgia fans like to try and pretend they won because they were just so much more dominate etc, aka judging team strength.