The Flagship: Reacting to Texas pummeling Texas Tech to open Big 12 play
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🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Longhorns took care of business against the Red Raiders in posting a 70-35 win over Texas Tech to open Big 12 play.
On this week's game reaction edition of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 managing editor Taylor Estes recaps the Longhorns' dominant performance against the Red Raiders as Estes weighs in on QB Casey Thompson's impressive showing in his second career-start for Texas. The Flagship talks the running game success against a Texas Tech team that entered the game allowing only 1.7 rushing yards per attempt prior to the defeat by the Longhorns, how Thompson's connection with true freshman receiver Xavier Worthy may be the difference maker down the stretch, the Longhorns' defensive performance against the Red Raiders and much more!
Make sure to catch this week's game reaction edition of The Flagship Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to another edition of the flagship podcast. |
| 0:14.6 | I am Horns 24-7 managing editor Taylor Estes. |
| 0:19.0 | And normally I am joined by Horns 24-7 columnist Chip Brown, but kind of like the Texas |
| 0:25.6 | tech offense, Chip Brown is a little busy and is not available for our game reaction |
| 0:32.5 | of the Longhorn's 70 to 35 win over the Red Raiders. |
| 0:36.6 | So we're just going to kind of roll on, get some game reaction going on here. |
| 0:41.5 | And if you watch the Texas and Texas Tech game, you know that it all started on offense for |
| 0:47.5 | the Longhorns. |
| 0:48.9 | Casey Thompson in his second start as the starting quarterback for the Longhorns had his best game so far. |
| 0:57.3 | He was 18 of 23 passing for 303 yards, five touchdowns. |
| 1:02.5 | He had one interception that even Steve Sarkesian talked about after the game about how |
| 1:07.9 | that was definitely a teaching moments for Casey Thompson trying to |
| 1:12.2 | push a little bit too much in that game, but it doesn't erase what he was able to do for the |
| 1:17.1 | Texas offense. The offense came up really big throughout the game against Texas Tech, which |
| 1:22.2 | honestly entered the game with a pretty solid defense, especially against the run. The Red Raiders were allowing 1.7 yards per carry leading into this game Saturday against |
| 1:33.7 | the Longhorns. |
| 1:34.8 | And if you watch the game, you know that the running game was stout once again. |
| 1:40.5 | No surprise there if you cover Texas or if you follow the longhorns. |
| 1:45.5 | Texas put up 336 rushing yards and four touchdowns. |
| 1:51.0 | They averaged 6.5 yards per carry against this Texas Tech defense, which was only allowing 1.7 yards per carry in the three games leading into this game. |
| 2:02.0 | So obviously the running game absolutely helps out with the Texas offense, |
| 2:06.2 | as it should with the amount of talented running backs that the Longhorns have. |
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