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Texas Football: Five areas of improvement on offense for Saturday

The Texas Longhorns have plenty of areas of improvement across the board. Longhorns Wire highlights five areas on the offensive side.

When your football team is losing football games, it is all bad right? Every glaring detail becomes magnified but for good reason. When a team as talented as the Texas Longhorns start losing games, then the finger pointing begins. This team is talented but there isn’t just one area of emphasis that needs to be fixed.

To quote Shrek “it has layers.”

On the offensive side of the ball it starts with quarterback Sam Ehlinger. He has been the savior at times, see Texas Tech for example. He has also been the guy that shoulders the blame due to how the game ended, see Oklahoma. It isn’t fair for him to carry all of it around with him. There are several issues on the offensive side of the ball.

Here are five areas the Longhorns need to improve on against Baylor.

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WATCH: Kyle Trask leads UF to touchdowns on first 2 drives

The Gators are once again moving the ball at will this week against Texas A&M in Week 3 of SEC play.

The Gators are once again moving the ball at will this week against Texas A&M.

Florida’s offense went to work quickly in the first drive of the game. Quarterback Kyle Trask led a 17-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in a passing touchdown to tight end Kyle Pitts.

The score marked Pitts’ seventh of the young season, and he leads the nation in receiving touchdowns.

Trask was sharp on the opening drive. He completed 6 of 9 passes for 51 yards. He completed a pass for 17 yards on the game’s first play from scrimmage to receiver Trevon Grimes, and he kept it himself twice on the drive for seven yards.

The touchdown was set up by a conversion on fourth and one from a Malik Davis seven-yard carry, and later on a 16-yard pass to Pitts on third and 14.

After Texas A&M answered with a touchdown, Trask led the Gators right back down the field, capitalizing on a 39-yard pass to Davis.

Trask finished the drive with a touchdown pass to Kadarius Toney, who held on despite a personal foul at the end of the play.

But the Gators are struggling again defensively, and big plays have been costly. Quarterback Kellen Mond has as many incompletions as he does touchdown passes (two), and Florida has given up more than 150 yards already in a 14-14 ball game.

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