
Pistol Pete doesn't pack much of a pop these days, but it didn't matter as the Cats commit just about every mistake imaginable in a very ugly offensive game. I am not sure that the Cowboys are any better than the Longhorns but the Cats did make some important improvements over their previous appearance.
The Good Waters only carried the ball once for a 6 yard sack/fumble

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Sams ran the ball 27 times at 4.4 yards per carry and 1 Touchdown. Sams was 15/21 (71%) and had a nifty 8.6 yards per attempt.
Hubert actually had a productive game getting 4.3 yards per carry on 7 carries.
Defensively we did a lot of good things. OSU only scored 33 (avg. 39.2)
Britz and Daily made a play to score a defensive touchdown on the blocked Field Goal
We held them to 3.4 yards per carry (avg. 4.3) and also held them to 6.1 yards per pass (avg. 7.9)

Considering all of the turnovers and penalties on offense, are defense played pretty well but not great.
The BadI don't even want to really get started because I can write a book on all of the idiotic coaching and player decisions that are occurring pre snap.
In general we are not even thinking about the situation that we are in and apparently the coaches are not telling the players what situation we are in.
Let me just start with Thompson and Lockett being out of the game. One would think that with our two best Wide Receivers out of the game we would make more of an effort to give the ball to our running backs (we have more than one), fullbacks, tight ends and that we would use less 5 receiver sets. If anything I think we used more 5 receiver sets.

Also Thompson and Lockett being out had a very big negative impact on our return game. Why are we trying to return very questionable punts/kicks? Fair Catches and Touchbacks should be used almost exclusively when we don't have a real return man out there.
The Ugly 12 penalties for 92 yards. False Starts, molesting the punter, and of course the standard Illegal Forward Pass on a kick return

We lost the turnover margin by 3 or 4 (depends on if you count a blocked field goal touchdown as a turnover).
Sams has a great attitude but he made a lot of really poor decisions and his interception into quadruple coverage was very bold and daring.

The FutureThankfully we play 5 of the last 7 at home and I think our very talented team might be getting better.
