The Flagship: The time has come to talk some hard truths about Texas football

Horns247 Podcasts: Longhorn Blitz, The Flagship and State of Recruiting

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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After Texas has moved to .500 on the season with back-to-back losses to TCU and Oklahoma, it’s time to talk some hard truths regarding the state of the football program entering the second bye week on the schedule. On this week’s episode of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes pull back the curtains on the current state of Texas football following the Red River Showdown loss to Oklahoma. Chip and Taylor open the show with the topic on many Texas fans’ minds: What’s the state of the locker room? After dropping to 2-2 and increased public scrutiny over a picture that circulated showing Texas QB Sam Ehlinger among the few players participating in the Eyes of Texas with fans in the Cotton Bowl following the four overtime loss to Oklahoma, the Longhorns are under the microscope of College Football with questions surfacing of if this is a sign of a fractured locker room. Chip and Taylor discuss the increased chatter of fourth-year head coach Tom Herman's job security as more and more Longhorn fans are jumping on the Urban Meyer train, but also warn Texas fans of expecting too much as it currently stands. The Flagship also weighs in on the struggling scoring defense in Year 1 under DC Chris Ash, how alarming is the lack of the Texas run game and if the biggest disappointment is the lack of pass rush or something else for the Longhorns early in the season. Catch all of that and much more on this week’s episode of The Flagship Podcast. The Flagship Podcast — featuring co-hosts, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes — hits the airwaves multiple times every week, and centers around all the latest happenings surrounding the University of Texas and college athletics, with big-name guests joining the show on a weekly basis. NOTE: SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR THE 2020 TEXAS FOOTBALL SEASON Chip and Taylor’s weekly commentary of The Flagship will continue to air every Wednesday, both as an audio version and available on video over at the 247Sports YouTube page, however, Monday’s interview show will now run every Thursday as Texas makes its way through the 2020 college football season. In addition, The Flagship Podcast will also deliver a quick-hitter game reaction show each Monday following a Texas football game this season. BONUS: While The Flagship is available on a multitude of audio platforms — including iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts — it's also available as a video podcast! Head over to 247Sports YouTube for the latest video episodes of The Flagship Podcast! And as always, make sure to subscribe to the Horns247 podcast channel on all platforms to have the latest episodes available to you at all times, and head on over to iTunes and give our Horns247 family of podcasts a five-star rating! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:14.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And 20 Premier League games.
0:19.0	This week, watch Newcastle versus Liverpool, Arsenal versus Man United, and eight other
0:26.0	Premier League games.
0:28.2	It's on Prime.
0:35.4	All right, welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast.
0:39.7	It is, well, it's the aftermath of the Red River Shootout.
0:45.6	Without further ado, I am Chip Brown, joined by our fearless leader, the managing editor of Warren's 24-7.
0:53.9	Taylor Estes, Taylor, how are you doing?
0:56.3	Oh, Chip, I'm doing just fine. How about you? Well, I drove all the way to Dallas for the Red River
1:03.7	shootout, and I still don't quite know what I saw, but I do know that there are a lot of angry Texas fans
1:13.2	right now. And so we're going to get into that. We make sure you listen to the flagship
1:18.5	Reacts podcast. We recorded that after the game. And you can hear our in-depth analysis
1:25.5	about all the good, bad, and ugly from four overtime,
1:31.3	53, 45 loss to a two and two Oklahoma football team that had just lost two games in a row.
1:41.3	But Taylor, I think all anyone's talking about right now is, well, first of all,
1:47.0	is the locker room still together because there was this image of Sam Ellinger standing by
1:52.0	himself of the players with the coaching staff for the eyes of Texas after the game. And everybody
2:00.5	looks at that picture and says,
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