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Texas-Rice Football Post-Mortem 2010: Offense

By Scipio Tex on September 5th, 2010

The offensive game plan was to protect Garrett Gilbert - mentally and physically - work the running game, even if meant being stubborn, and prep our offense for a mindset which will attempt to shorten games, limit turnovers, and win ugly in big games.

The game wasn't as close as the final score suggested and it should have been a 41-6 type of win, but we demonstrated a facility for shooting ourselves in the foot. And then hacking that foot off and sending it to ourselves with a ransom note.

I guess I should get this out of the way up front: YES, I KNOW IT WAS JUST RICE YES, I KNOW WE RAN A VANILLA GAME PLAN ON OFFENSE YES, I KNOW THE COACHES DECIDED TO TREAT THE GAME AS A GLORIFIED SCRIMMAGE IN ORDER TO WORK ON THE RUN GAME YES, YES, YES, I KNOW ALL THOSE THINGS Given all of that, I'm discouraged by what we saw from the Longhorns yesterday, and you should be as well.

I didn't watch the game live because I'm a bad fan and I refuse to go to Houston on general principle, and then my dvr failed to record the game so I didn't get to break it down any. f grande.

We all tuned in to the same game but what each of us witnessed and what it means to us are probably pretty different animals.

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