Quan Cosby caught his first pass in the NFL!  He also caught the two others thrown his way for a total of 47 yards on 3 catches.  Toss in his 1 tackle on STs and his 5 Kick returns for a total of 94 yards (31 long),  and this was a spectacular day for Cosby.  This really is a great story.  He was key to our success last year but went undrafted.  I don't think any of us who saw how hard he worked and how good of a player he was didn't expect him to earn a spot on the roster and eventually contribute.  However, I'm not sure any of us expected him to be contributing this much this early in his rookie year.  Way to go Quan.

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Bumped. Hook 'em

It was a good day for quite a few Horns.  Three of our running backs produced very well, but 2 of them didn't get any support from their team.  Orakpo went nuts.

Here is a quick break down, stats provided by ESPN.

Ricky:  108 yards on 28 carries with a TD to help the Dolphins win.  He did lose 1 fumble. 

Benson: 96 yards on 16 carries.  I don't know why you had the ball to a guy named Leonard to fumble it when your main back is getting 6 ypc.  Bengals were just too far back to keep handing it to Benson. 

While we're talking about Benson, Cosby:  107 yards on 6 kick off returns.  Cosby only got a chance to try to return 2 punts as the Bengal's D couldn't stop the Vikings and make them punt. 
Jamaal Freaking Charles: 143 yards on 20 carries with a 76 yard TD run!  Also 38 yards on 7 receptions.  Zero fumbles.  Net positive?  I think so.  Net negative = Matt Cassel who managed to turn the ball over 4 times.  Somehow KC still only lost 16-10.  After 3 Ints, with JC running that well, I think you just Wild Bengal with JC and LJ  just hand JC the ball all the time.

VY:  Was doing well until he got hurt on a 44 yard run.  He was 6/8 for 132 with a TD.  I hope he's OK. 

Roy Williams:  Meh day during the Cowboys' loss.  He seemed to do about as well as the other WRs though..  I don't know if he had any bad drops.  He had 4 recs to lead the team with 74 yards, but no TDs. 

Orakpo:  FOUR sacks.  FOUR.  And the guy is playing LB most of the time.  Crazy.  He's at 11 for the year.  If he doesn't disapear (he did go the last 3 games without a sack) he could break the Rookie record for sacks.  I think he is only 3 or 4 away.

Huff obviously didn't have a great day being on the other side of the 34 to 13 beating of the Raiders by the Redskins.

If I missed any other Horns with good days please add them (obviously its hard to list stats to show how OL like Studdard helped thier teams to 27 offensive points).

Some Odd numbers this week (as usual).  There also seem to be less the gimmies.  This week seems tough.

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Switched this to a post.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/6913/orakpo-hopes-cowboys-remain-confused
On ESPN, at the end it says that Orakpo wants to make it clear that TCU can't hang with us. Good pr Rak!

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The only reasons I watch the NFL are to 1) see the Texans play and 2) see how ex Longhorns are doing.

I haven't gotten to see him play much, but I noticed that Orakpo seems to be doing well:

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Unfortunately I didn't actually get to see any of the game, but I was checking the stat lines on ESPN and was surprised to see that Chris O had 9 carries for 32 yards and 2 catches for 6.  He had the most touches of any St Louis Ram player.  Hopefully things will work out for him there.

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I was reading Burnt Orange Gold in The Eyes of Texas, and it brought me back to something I started thinking about a year ago when Arkansas dropped us to play A&M for 10 years (by the way, great article and great magazine!).

Does the new Dallas Cowboy stadium hurt us in recruiting? 

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The link to the ESPN article is here:

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/big12

I think it's pretty awesome that we have the largest crowd by far in the Big 12.  There's a 13,000 person drop from us to number 2 OU(SUCKS).  It would have been really nice if we could have squeezed 2k more seats into the stadium to hit the 100k mark. 

Being in the middle of such a large crowd is an amazing experience.  It's also a good recruiting tool. 

It's a good time to be a Longhorn.