Offense
Last Saturday’s sunshine and roses gave way to a harsher reality this week – for all Jerrod Heard’s individual niftiness and long-term potential, above-average defenses will be able to take some basic things away and force us to go from an index card playbook to a few sheets of notebook paper faster than we may be able to manage. And when you factor in some untimely injuries, unforced errors and…other factors that I’ll get to below, you can go from an offensive spark to a flameout in a real hurry.
Heard had his moments in the air (highlighted by a terrific deep post to Marcus Johnson on Texas’ second possession and a nice strike to Caleb "Double Duty" Blueitt to convert a 3rd and 11) and on the ground – mainly on scrambles as we didn’t feature much of a Read Option game today and the Speed Option needs to be shelved, stat – but this game featured a rough regression to the "freshman QB in his third start" mean.