The Flagship: What to make of Texas near-death experience against Texas Tech

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The Longhorns escaped a near-death experience in Lubbock Saturday when No. 8 ranked Texas struggled mightily down the stretch of the second half and needed to post 15 points in the final three minutes to force overtime against a Texas Tech that what struggled to beat FCS Houston Baptist two weeks ago. But the positive news for Texas is Sam Ehlinger led the charge and clawed his way back in the ball game, completing 7 of 8 passes and two touchdowns, including a successful two-point conversion, to tie the game 56-56 and force overtime. The rest was history for Texas and the Longhorns move to 2-0 on the season following the 63-56 win over Texas Tech. But how much of Saturday's game should cause concern for Texas faithful? On the first episode of The Flagship Reax, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes give their quick hot takes on Saturday's performance and what the close win means for Texas as the team hopes to make a Big 12 title run. Chip and Taylor give their key takeaways from Saturday's game, including what we learned from the new Texas coaching staff and where the team's leadership lies coming out of the near-death experience. Catch all of that and more on The Flagship Podcast Reax to Texas vs. Texas Tech. 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	All right, welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast.
0:08.9	I am Chip Brown, joined by our fearless leader,
0:12.8	Horns 24-7 managing editor, Taylor Estes.
0:15.9	Taylor, how you doing?
0:17.1	Chip, I'm doing better than the Longhorns did on Saturday.
0:20.0	I'll tell you that.
0:20.6	How about you? Well, I think then we are the Longhorns did on Saturday. I'll tell you that. How about you?
0:21.5	Well, I think then we are, this is our instant reaction or reaction to the game podcast that
0:30.0	will be coming out on Sundays following games.
0:32.8	And it sounds like I'm going to be glass half full.
0:35.8	Maybe Taylor's going to be glass half empty or glass
0:38.5	half shattered. We shall see. Or glass half full of reality instead of just, you know, putting
0:44.3	lipstick on the pig. Let's just... Or glass half full of reality in her opinion. All right. So,
0:50.1	this has got something for everyone. The naysayers have a buffet to feast on.
0:56.0	Those like myself who picked Texas to win the Big 12 title this year were this close to saying goodbye to the title
1:05.5	this season.
1:06.7	Amazing that that could have happened in the Big 12 opener.
1:10.2	But that is where we were, Taylor, with, I mean, I'm writing a story that says,
1:16.8	okay, put the Texas season in the disappointment column, two games in when they're down
1:23.7	by 15 with 313 left.
1:26.4	And then Sam Ellinger, who throws an interception in the third quarter that killed his
1:32.7	team because it was almost returned for a touchdown right when the defense was struggling.
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