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Quinn Ewers has made concrete progress since last year in multiple areas. [Sign up for Inside Texas and get the BEST Longhorns scoop!] Let’s start with numbers first, and a truism about passing offense. Quality quarterbacks should have better passing stats when they operate out of play-action. The play-fake, whether it’s at the mesh point in shotgun or with the quarterback turning around in pistol and faking a handoff in the Longhorns’ scheme, keeps second and third level defenders occupied at least for a moment longer than when QBs just straight up drop back and go through progressions. Last …