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Strong is fine with his QB as well as the play calls coming to him

Published Nov. 5, 2015 2:30 p.m. ET

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Somehow Iowa State held Texas to little more than 200 yards of total offense. How is that possible when the Longhorns ripped Oklahoma for more than 300 yards just on the ground.

It's a question that really hasn't received a good answer this week. The offensive fireworks that redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard ignited early on as the replacement for Tyrone Swoopes have faded considerably. Texas' passing game is practically non-existent and the Cyclones took advantage of the Horns' one-dimensionality. 

Of course, there is no talk of another quarterback swap.

"I’m fine with Jerrod,” Strong said during his weekly press conference. Swoopes has excelled as a goal-line quarterback, but he couldn't even get on the field at Iowa State because Texas couldn't cross mid-field until late in the game.

Strong says the issues aren't simply the QB or even the play-calling of Jay Norvell, who was promoted to the position along with Heard after the Week 1 debacle at Notre Dame. Strong says it's all about execution.

How one-dimensional have the Horns become? In five games, they've passed for 480 yards. That's like a day at the office for quarterbacks at TCU, Baylor and Texas Tech.

The offense as a whole ranks 118th in total yards. There's 128 FBC schools. Unless Texas is packing an impregnable defense, which it is not, that's a bad place to be when competing in the Big 12 Conference.

It gets you beat by TCU 50-7 and by Iowa State 24-0.

“When we don’t play smart and we don’t execute," Strong said, "that’s what happens."

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