I was at the game last night and this is exactly the post I was about to write. Worthy slowed down on a few deep balls and made no effort to catch anything that wasn’t right in his hands while in stride.
What is killing this offense is the O LIne. We are playing a bunch of true freshmen and the upper class men on O Line shows how bad the previous recruiting was. They got their shit pushed in last night. They sucked at run blocking and pass blocking. It also looked like there were quite a few pass plays where the pocket started collapsing and all 3 or 4 receivers were totally covered so Quinn had nowhere to really go with the ball. I also noticed a few times when Quinn threw an incompletion there were 2 receivers right next to each other which I am pretty sure was a screw up by one of the receivers. I get Ewers threw plenty of bad passes last night and missing Bijan on the wide open wheel route was unbelievably bad but he got little help from the O line, the receivers running wrong routes, dropping balls in their hands and not going to get balls that weren’t perfect. Basically everyone sucked on O.
As far as Sark goes, I have defended him to this point but man he called a bad game last night. How many times is he going to hand off to Bijan from the Shotgun to the short side of the field for no gain? Seemed like we ran that play a bunch and it just wastes a down. Also, at some point what I said above about the O line, WR’s, and QB has to fall on Sark. The team is very undisciplined as far as penalties and mistakes and once again that has to fall on Sark also. 2 roughing the kicker penalties (I know one wasn’t but they shouldn’t have been near the flopper kicker) is just a sign of a poorly coached team. The defensive back letting the TCU WR have a wide open TD was brutal also. At this point I am willing to wait the last few games and see what happens. If we somehow win both and go 8-4 it is kind of what most of us expected/hoped this year after a 5-7 season last year. The guy is here for another year if not 2 so like others have said hopefully he can continue to stockpile talent and some of these O Line men will be better once they are sophomores and juniors and not true freshmen playing on the O line. With enough talent and depth he could be another Mack Brown. Not a great coach but someone who wins 10 games a year on talent alone. Yeah, it probably won’t happen but one can dream.