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Arch's default skill as a passer appears to be vertical throws aiming to a target while his feet are firm in the pocket. Sark needs to be the catcher that tees up fastballs and change ups around the strike zone. The curveball isn't even making it to the plate. Vertical throws on the seam like go routes and curls, wheel routes, or straight horizontal throws like out routes to the sideline seem to be relatively successful. Arch struggles beyond one-dimensional throws...throwing crossing routes leading the WR, throwing on the run or, heaven forbid, crossing routes on the run. These are his kryptonite. He's a stinking bag of hot garbage on these throws. It's like…
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An offensive idea is to have wishbone, pony, cowboy back (hybrid FB/TE, a la Townsend - OU tore us up for a few years with Nic Anderson in this hybrid role), packages that give Arch some triple option plays to use his legs and try and keep defenses honest. Throw in some short dump passes if the defense starts to cheat up. Scheme up some straight drop backs to hit the seams on curls or go routes that only require one or two reads before you try and dump it off in the flats or throw it away. Between Wisner, Baxter, Simon, and WR jet screens, Sark can cook up some motions and wrinkles to keep teams guessing week to week. Use Matty Caldwell in the red zone. He's expen…
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@Gerry Hamilton Who we going after? @Bobby Burton @CJ Vogel
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After listening to Coffee and Football this morning, Will Matthews confirmed my fears about Arch Manning last Saturday against Ohio State. According to Will Matthews, Arch looked fine pre-game and looked to be his normal self. However, when Arch turfed his first throw that was wide open, it looked all the life drained from Arch and everyone on the sidelines were somewhat shocked he missed that throw. From that moment on up until the 4th quarter, it looked like Arch had the yips. People can complain all day about Sark's play calling, but there's nothing you can do if you're a head case and can't make the simple throws. I'm confident that Arch will find his game t…
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The Texas offense is bad. I won’t declare it broken. I believe it can be repaired and that the Longhorns can put a product on the field capable of helping them win games in the SEC. But Steve Sarkisian’s offense regressed from a middle-of-the-road performance against San Jose State to a clunker in Saturday’s 27-10 win over UTEP. After three games, Texas is 12-for-42 on third down, 5-for-12 on fourth down and 8-for-13 in the red zone with six touchdowns, two field goals, two interceptions and three turnovers on downs. The Miners outperformed the Longhorns on first down (5.3 yards per play for UTEP to 4.5 for Texas), committed fewer penalties (six penalt…
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More from espn this week: Indy Tuesday: Richardson completed 10 of 13 passes in the full-team periods of practice, connecting on some of the day's most impressive plays. That included multiple throws to emerging receiver Adonai Mitchell, who was dominant on Tuesday. Jones finished 14-of-17 in full-team periods, consistently moving the ball and the chains. The performance begged the question: What is the ceiling of the Colts' offense in 2025? "I feel like time will tell," Mitchell said. "I feel like we look great, especially being able to go against a new opponent. I just can't wait." Mitchell was all over the field on Tuesday, and his confidence s…
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The best thing he has done in a game all season is let the defense play, and let the kickers kick. Sark gets paid 10 million dollars to field a good quarterback and a put out a good offensive product and we go neither. A FCS quarterback has better accuracy than Arch right now and that’s an issue. The main question now is Arch just not that good? And is sark the Quarterback and offense wizard we thought he was…idk if he has earned that right anymore, definitely not QB wise. B. We should be worried about SEC play, if our Oline can’t get push against SJSU and UTEP then all we can do is pray and hope. C. The offense looks slow and undisciplined. We should have g…
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As discouraged as I am as a diehard fan, I’m just an alumni, a spectator, a class of 92 bleeding orange, love my horns….fan. There are 85 young men wearing burnt orange each Saturday this fall, who’ve dreamed since they were kids of winning at the highest level. For most of them, winning probably came easy. They were superior athletes to the competition from grade school through their high school years. Now, they’ve grinded all offseason in preparation for having a ‘magical’ fall, all of us just taking for granted we’ll be going back to the playoffs. But that isn’t how it works. There are no guarantees and it takes more than talent to win. This…
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I watched their game and they refused to lose. At one point, Elko got in the players ' faces and went postal on them. They responded. They have two receivers that are dogs. The quarterback is young, but damn he's good. That winning throw was Mahomes like.
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Does Manning fix it and plays to his talent level? Is Matthew Caldwell the savior you want him to be? Or is this a humbling season? Bobby predicted the offense would start rough and Texas would be 3 - 2 after the first 5 games. Stop acting surprise, and stop complaining like you don’t have personal lives, responsibilities, trials and tribulations to take care of of and overcome. Blessings. 🤘🏾 I’m still rolling with 15 - 1 till I see a 2nd loss.
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The million dollar question for me right now is what would the ceiling be for this season if Quinn wasn’t chased out to an extent versus what we know of Arch now? Do you think Quinn could take this OL and offense to the playoffs? I have a hard time believing Arch can develop enough this season to get us there but Im not 100% sure Quinn could either with this OL. It will be a bad look for Sark and this staff if Arch ends up being a bust. Let’s hope that’s not the case.
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Perhaps Im wrong, but almost everything about the defense seems to be on so much better/stronger footing than the offense. More stars performing well Better overall performance Better recruiting Better quality depth Better coaching Better game planning I don't think its just the old adage that defense ramps up earlier/quicker than offense. I think there is something deeper, but Im not sure. Would love to hear your thoughts (not your insults for daring to have an honest conversation) Thx
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He was a second baseman who one day couldn't make the throw to first base. He had to quit playing because of his errant throws. Once that gets into the psyche of a player, it's tough to regain the confidence. So with Arch, you have mechanics, the yips, and the inability to let it loose. We all see it. Sark has a conundrum. His prized pupil can't complete a pass! What to do? The only solution is to sit him down and start the experienced transfer. He must before it gets worse.
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View from the Cheap Seats-Texas @ El Paso Miners come to town What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on in Austin? This game featured the #1 and #2 QBs from the 2023 recruiting class. One might have expected an aerial circus; one would have been disappointed. Sark/TEXAS only threw the ball 25 times against 53 rushes. That stat is somewhat skewed due to Arch pulling the ball down and running. Still, in a game that should have created the opportunity for Arch to get his passing on track and boost his confidence, he had the worst day for a Longhorn QB in some time. We hate to bag on the kid, as by all accounts, he is a great young man. …
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Mods and members, I think we all realize we have a QB that has not played up to his potential. There has been much said about what the problems are. So instead of complaining, I am curious what your solution is. This week, what is your move to fix this? Do you bench Arch? Rotate him with QB2, run a different scheme?
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I am trying my best not to repeat myself but I have some thoughts that I want to spit out. Arch should not be receiving all the blame. I understand the grief and distraught from seeing a Manning under throw and spike a 5 yard mesh but at the same time, where is the help? We all like to harp back on last years Arch, well last years Arch had the benefits of arguably two first round picks at WR, a three year veteran o-line, and the list goes on. Sark must share equal blame in my opinion, and if he shouldn’t then I’d love to hear y’all’s opinions. But Arch looks like a very good player on a bad team, but he knows it’s bad so he starts pressing, which results in the …
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After 3 games-what do you think the ceiling and floor is for the rest of the season? Ceiling: 9-3 Floor: 5-7
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Looking for some game day advice. Bringing my step father in law and brother in law to their first game 09/20. Step father in law isn’t in best of health unfortunately , so we’ll likely leave before the end of the 4th quarter to try to beat the rush out. When is the “best” time to leave, so that I can miss the least amount of the new GameDay stuff that goes on?
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Rapid Reactions from Gerry and myself this morning.
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How big of a miss was Dakorien Moore? He looks as advertised at Oregon. Speed. Speed and more speed.
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