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  1. Hadn't see this. Both starts against a top 10 team: Arch 17-30, 179yds, 1 TD, 0 INT Peyton (vs 'Bama) 10-18, 138 yds, 0 TD, 2 INTs
  2. By that notion every team with a great defense should have great offensive production as well. The problem is that you see them every day. You know them. You know what they are trying to do, their schemes, tendencies, etc. Going to face the #1 team in their house is a different beast.
  3. That's the crux. The speed of the game and the ability to process information quickly and accurately.
  4. I generally like RC and listen to his Pivot podcast when I can. I also think he's trying to be too much to generate "hot takes" and stir people up.. Wait and see takes don't generate clicks.
  5. Not the best analogy, but I've been to a few IPSC events in my day. Specifically the handgun/timer events. If you want to see someone melt into a puddle. Give them a difficult task under time. I've seen guys that looked as clean and smooth as I've ever seen, immediately become discombobulated and lose all coordination. Their prior skill went right out the window. Even seen guys unable to holster after firing. That timer just wrecks people. Or hunters, we all know about "Buck fever". Your hands start shaking. You can't focus, aim, or do much else. Adrenaline is a bitch. The point being all "mechanics" go out the window in the face of immense pressure. It takes time and exposure to control in. You can't simulate it. You just have to inculcate yourself as best you can. 2005 Vince went into the horseshoe and pulled it off. 2003 Vince, I highly doubt it. I'm not about to give up on Arch, but Sark needs to make the proper adjustments to put him in the right place with the right plays. And get a fucking O-Coordinator already.
  6. So what you're saying is.....
  7. Got it. 19/32. One TD. One INT. TOP and 3rd down conversions as well as yardage eerily similar. Yds per pass quite different.
  8. I am admittedly too lazy to do this, but Colt's first career start with Texas was also vs tOSU at home. I was there and remember being sorely underwhelmed as Colt looked like you'd expect a RS freshmen to look like in the loss. Hi stat's and film (most importantly) must be out there to compare with
  9. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. It was a Herculean task to go in untested, as the #1 team in the country, facing the reigning champions at their house for the first game of the season. if this shit doesn't get fixed, them I'm going to flip out and start breaking shit.
  10. To me, that screams nerves. Just trying to get the ball out as quickly as he can in the face of a collapsing pocket. So, maybe.....get him out of the pocket and buy him some time....
  11. BEST case scenario is the inexperienced QB they have is going to make similar mistakes. He can run. We all saw that. He's tough. But can defenses exploit him. I think they can. It's LSU, who seems the clear favorite in the SEC right now, that scares me.....assuming Texas can even make the championship game or playoffs.
  12. This is why we saw so many leads evaporate over the course of the games last year. Texas jumped our early, ran the same shit, and good coordinators adjusted and teams clawed their way back into games. Texas just had faster horses and pulled most of them out at the end. Shit doesn't work with an inexperienced QB. Nor will beating up powderpuff teams. The same thing over and over works. It's when it doesn't that Sark has no answer for.
  13. "Let her rip" early seems an obvious tactic to help Arch stay loose and calm. Play your game. Be you. Etc. Problem is, when it didn't work and Arch was clearly frazzled, the adjustments were minimal and largely ineffective.
  14. Defense did it's job. A few plays here/there shouldn't offset an offense that was incapable of putting points on the board.
  15. This. Either his "plan" works, or he keeps trying to shove that shit down everyone's throats. He's just trying to out-execute everyone, and when it doesn't work, there are minimal adjustments. Can we get one fucking bootleg? Just one to keep these attacking defenses honest. Maybe a few misdirection plays to get guys out in space?
  16. What the hell does "be yourself" even mean. He's never played in such an environment. We don't really even know what his game looks like. Is he a drop-back, pocket passer like Brady, a run & gun player like Mahomes (obviously these are extreme examples), etc? Arch needs his coach to dial up and adjust to pre-game and in-game scenarios. Maybe that happened, but there were obvious examples where Manning looked lost running similar plays again and again.
  17. Well, maybe there is a glasses sponsor out there he can work with....
  18. Maybe. I wonder if he was so rattled that he resorted to backyard mechanics because of the situation. I've seen Mahomes do this on more than one occasion. Side arm a squirrely pass when he's on the run. The difference is Arch was not ready mentally for this environment. He's got a few gimme games to get this shit together, but if this isn't fixed, it's going to be a long season.
  19. He had all offseason for this. The offense was as vanilla as ever for an early game. Run the ball Drop back in the pocket That was to a large extent the offense most of the day.
  20. This. Which is why Finebaum and others picked Texas to win biggly. With competent QB play this team rolls. Get up on tOSU by a score or two and their conservative, pedantic offense has to get out of it's shell and it's a completely different game. For the life of me, Sark making in-game adjustments just isn't a thing. His plan either works, or he keeps trying to jam the same shit that isn't working down everyone's throats. Arch is mobile. Get him out of the damn pocket. Worst case he picks up a few yards. Their defense was so keyed in on keeping him in the pocket all afternoon that they were over pursuing most of the game. The goal line fuckery was what lost me. Even my wife was yelling they have four guys all keying off the snap from the center. Their entire line was knew what the play up the middle was going to be.
  21. No matter your misses, there's always a bigger screwup out there...
  22. Sky rats are all in town. Covering the power lines. They’re everywhere
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