43 minutes ago, horns96 said:

It’s almost like Sark has a really young team and a QB that hasn’t been able to master the playbook.

The cognitive gymnastics going on to get past the glaring truth of this game- Arch sucked.

It can be true that both the QB and the coordinator both did not have a good game. 

3 hours ago, Aspann85 said:

The biggest takeaways being at the game were 1) Kick the damn FG and take points. We would’ve won had he kicked the 3x we were in FG range. 2) Receivers were open all over the field, especially Endries and Arch wouldn’t see them. 3) We had almost double their offensive output, no reason we should’ve lost that, killed ourselves with penalties a couple of times (3x we extended their 1st TD drive). 4) Run game is going to be great. We have to take it out of Arch’s hands until he gets more settled in. He looked like he started to find the right guys the last half of the 4th quarter. Way too little too late, but the point is, things were there and he will find them once he gets settled in. 5) And lastly, yes, Ohio state fans are REALLY that big of douche bags. Glad I waited until my 40s to come to this game bc it would’ve been bad had i still been in my 20s/30s when I was still more of a hot head. We walked 2.5 miles from the stadium back to our AirBnB and got accosted by “townies” the entire way. Hard luck to them and we will beat them if we see them again in playoffs. Hook’em.

I second that. Not much changed from 20 years ago. Arrogant assholes and backward ass T-shirt fans talking s*#% during and after the game. Never coming back to this s*%% hole.

 

@Gerry Hamilton Do u think Sark needs to swallow the pill Ryan Day did and go find someone else to call the plays for him. 

Arch felt the pressure of all the hype and playing in a hostile stadium against a great defense which likely contributed to him missing on several throws (37% of them) he normally makes in his sleep.  He is human after all.  
 

The talent is there and I am confident he will adjust and do very well. Tough first game . Don’t forget, the last time we played in the shoe it was with a seasoned Vince Young in a game we narrowly pulled out. 

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Glass half full is that outside of Arch the team looked really good given the competition level and road environment. Arch just has to get better over the next few weeks.

Florida (I get they’re playing a bad team) looks scary talent wise

Is there any validity to Arch having a shoulder injury? @Gerry Hamilton

Just now, McCoyColt said:

Florida (I get they’re playing a bad team) looks scary talent wise

Gotta see them @ Miami and @ LSU to make an accurate judgement of them.

1. Did his QB skills atrophy?
 

2. This is an inexcusable coaching performance when you had 7 months to prepare. 
 

3. I don’t care that it’s only week one. There’s absolutely ZERO excuse for Arch to have lost simple fundamental aspects of his game that even 8th graders can do. 

Watching more tape, arch’s mechanics looked very off all day. Even on easy throws it looked like he was having to use everything he had on every throw. 
 

Just conjecture, but it looked way off all day to me. 

13 minutes ago, McCoyColt said:

Florida (I get they’re playing a bad team) looks scary talent wise

"Long Island" honestly might be the single funniest opponent I have ever seen for a P5 team.

3 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Not a long release like Raiola. I don’t have any issue with Arch’s arm action … I like it.

Too many heel throws today IMO … he has the right person (David Morris) around him and people to be more consistent as he gets more game reps 

I think this was the most surprising thing. He has way too many back foot throws. I was not expecting that to be his issue 

3 hours ago, Quinncent McManning, Jr. said:

As i said in the game thread… too many poor side arm flicks without feet set. Look at this throw (ignore the fact that endries would have walked in for a td)

 

 

83 is WIDE open too

4 minutes ago, archmadness said:

83 is WIDE open too

This is stupid Sark right here.  Complete stupidity.

I miss QE and Sark in the red zone still sucks 

I was very disappointed in Arch’s performance and in the offensive game plan.

Number #1 on the list is just baffling. I couldn’t believe it and it kept getting worse. 

Obvi Arch/Sark get all the chatter and I know our run game was better than most previous big games but we still do not have an explosive back.. Wisner is what he is and Baxter while I love him is just a tad slow to start. A few of those runs should have went further or in some cases you had to break a few of those tackles.. not blaming RB at all but just thinking long term. 

Have yall heard anything about Arch having a shoulder injury? The twitter streets are talking.

And thank you Gerry for keeping it real just like always. Just like last year when he kept saying Quinn and his feet.. Arch will be okay but you are allowed to say he missed a ton of easy throws  

They scored 4th and goal line. We didn’t. That’s it right there

 

6 minutes ago, TTaylor2135 said:

Obvi Arch/Sark get all the chatter and I know our run game was better than most previous big games but we still do not have an explosive back.. Wisner is what he is and Baxter while I love him is just a tad slow to start. A few of those runs should have went further or in some cases you had to break a few of those tackles.. not blaming RB at all but just thinking long term. 

The run game was positive, but there were no big plays, few broken tackles.  It was not threatening enough to cause an adjustment to OSUs defensive gameplan.

3 hours ago, HDub1995 said:

Anything to the rumor floating that Arch is dealing with a shoulder injury?

That he suffered in the game or before?

24 minutes ago, TTaylor2135 said:

Obvi Arch/Sark get all the chatter and I know our run game was better than most previous big games but we still do not have an explosive back.. Wisner is what he is and Baxter while I love him is just a tad slow to start. A few of those runs should have went further or in some cases you had to break a few of those tackles.. not blaming RB at all but just thinking long term. 

Our RBs (while I love them both) are average. 
 

the defense Ohio st was playing allowed for running the ball. 

5 minutes ago, A-10HORN said:

That he suffered in the game or before?

No idea. Guessing during the game.