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  1. 12 minutes ago, victory88 said:

    Agree that he’s definitely over thinking.  That 4th and 3 play where he rolled to his left, he had Parker wide fucking open for an easy pass and catch that gets us the first.  He stares at him for like 2 seconds just scrambling until all the defenders surround him, then proceeds to run the other way and throwing away from his body to the middle for a pick.  Just stupid decisions.  That’s an easy single read play with a wide open WR and it’s like a 3 yard throw on the short side of the field.  These are simple things.  I have no doubt he can make that throw… him choosing not to is what is confusing.  
     

    If I’m Sark, I’m limiting everything for him.  Run the ball, designed QB runs.  If we need to throw it, give him a single read, if it’s not open scramble.  If you don’t get the 1st down, punt or take the 3 points.  We need to focus on just getting 10 yards a drive without a penalty.  Let’s just start there and try to build on it.  Letting go. Try to operate this offense with all the misdirection and reads is a recipe for us to lose lots of games in SEC play.  Take the ball out of his hands, run it, bleed clock, rely on your defense, punter, kicker, and just try to get 1 more point than the opposing.  This season is cooked.  At this point just try to salvage it and play like Michigan and old bama teams played offensively.  

    Whatever it is, stop the play action where he turns away from the defense and start running misdirection so we aren't always facing 3rd and long after 2 runs up the middle.

  2. Just now, theBigHen said:

    Why would we retool the game plan when literally most of the plays are there if just an average QB is behind center? These aren’t other worldly throws needed. Arch can’t even throw 5-10 yard outs or screen passes behind the LOS. Why would we purposely anchor ourselves to a lower caliber of offense because the kid can’t make routine plays or throws? I think we can all agree that Caldwell or someone else on the team can probably make those throws. We need to give arch one more week to see if there’s any noticeable improvement physically and mentally but if not, then we need to move onto the next guy ASAP. This team is built to win now and Arch’s play completely eliminates any chance of that. I usually shit on Sarks playcalling but this season you can see the open guys clear as day without even needing the all 22 view. It’s been the theme since the first throw of the season where he skipped it to Wingo. Just that on repeat for 3 straight weeks but getting worse. 

    Cause what we are doing isn't working and NEVER has against quality opponents regardless of who is behind center. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Retool it to what? Haynes King can throw a 7 yard hitch or a simple bubble screen. Arch can't, at least not consistently. There is no retooling around Arch right now. 

    Every play where he throws the ball needs to be scrapped. 

    Anything other than up the middle, up the middle, play action, punt.

    I need to go back and watch but I think there were a total of 4 misdirection plays. They were all for a TD or big gain. The 2 end arounds didn't work as UTEP spied them. 

    Use sweep toss, jet sweep, bootlegs, flea flickers, direct snap to RBs, end around reverse, old GD screens to the flank, whatever doesn't have us in 3rd and 8+ every god damn series.

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  4. 1 minute ago, DougO said:

    I don't really buy into the injury theory, though I wouldn't totally discount it. I've looked at a bunch of still photos going back to last year where he looks like he's getting knifed in the ribs nearly every time he throws. I

    Did you see anywhere near the quantity or quality of shit throws or did you just look at his reactions?

    This is occam razor stuff. Don't over think it particularly when there is a track record by the HC already for doing exactly what some (myself included) are expressing could be a possibility. The most logical one available.

  5. 24 minutes ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

    I’ve seen you pushing this perspective for a minute now.  It’s a difficult analysis because the program has risen like a Phoenix out of the scorched earth of the post-Colt McCoy/Mack Brown era.  Back-to-back playoff semifinal appearances buy Sark a lot of capital and time. I do think it’s fair to speculate though.  Texas’ rise under Sark also coincided w/ the massive paradigm shift of NIL in college football.  Did that have as much, or perhaps more, to do w/ Texas’ return to prominence under Sark?  Now that I think is fair to consider, though personally I’m not fueling the coaching search plane any time soon

    I don't want to speak for her, but Ive never read where she is advocating for a new HC. Rather, I believe she feels like me. Sark is doing great at the higher levels of head coaching with CDC. However, he has some very clear and well documented issues at the OC/Game plan/Offensive staff area. Performance, penalties, QBs, OL, and I could go on but we all know them. What I and I think she is advocating for is stop blaming the QBs, the OL, the RBs, the WRs, the tight end and hold the real party responsible for all the issues. The HC and his Offensive staff. Demand not new HC or QB but change.

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  6. 1 minute ago, mdmost said:

    It's not #1. We saw him play really well against similar shitty opponents last year in both the Mississippi State and Louisiana Monroe games. So what caused the drop off from then to now? It's not just Sark. If Sark keeps going to him and Arch plays like this then yes I'll join you on your crusade that Sark is a moron. 

    We agree it's not number 1. I modified my take above you quote but 2 and 3 combined are clearly head and offensive coaching issues that we saw happen under Ewers too.

  7. 3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    There's a 4th possibility. He's an excellent practice QB who fold under pressure when it's a live ballgame and he can get hit. We've seen that plenty of times at Texas too. Everyone built Arch up to be this mythic figure because of his last name. Surely, he's going to be great, he's a by God Manning. Explain MSU and Louisiana Monroe last year. It makes no sense why he is this bad now. Maybe it is a bit of 3 that like Quinn who got hurt and that played into his issues which he still has at Miami, Arch got hurt against Ohio State and that's caused what we're seeing now. But the missing wide open passes and throwing way outside to his WRs and TEs isn't on Sark other than he needs to pull him. That's on Arch and whatever is going wrong inside his head or body right now. I don't think it's 1 at all and I've seen nothing to show me 2 is the reason either. And I mostly stayed out of the Quinn thread because you're all a bunch of shit throwing monkeys.

    If Sark just missed it for #1 and after 2 fucking years, 2 fucking games, a life in college football as an OC, and having played QB himself Sark missed that Arch is just a practice QB??? Sark is a fucking moron. 

    I think it's a combination of 2 and 3. I don't think Arch sucks, but I do think if this shit continues he's going to Portal and we're gonna end up looking like aggie regarding QBs.

  8. 6 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Two is most definitely true. I think the jury is sadly still out on your first point bc of his play yesterday in particular. We don’t know what happened in fucking practice this past week and I sure wish those making statements about it would add some more clarity to what happened. Sark’s defensiveness about an “injury” to Arch makes people think Three still is in play. Does it happen that everyone is wrong about a particular player? Yeah. But I truly from the bottom of my heart do not believe that people are wrong about arch. I look at what happened to Ewers and how he was broken down and he wasn’t truly built back up and that is in sark. So I think your second point is the answer at least since we now have five years to look at and I’ll be damned if his stints at USC and Washington aren’t omens for where we are now. My two cents, good post above. 

    You make a good point in that 2 and 3 are not necessarily mutually exclusive. 

    I lean heavily that way because Arch never looked this bad last year. 

  9. 18 minutes ago, Hondo said:

    Best analogy I've seen yet:

     

    "Sark is a songwriter who can't sing."

    Lol, but he's really pretty and has a great body. So a label signed him and continues to promote him as a great vocalist because sunk-cost fallacy and his songs produce a lot of revenue with other artist. 

  10. It don't make a shit. Reposting here because it's relevant.

    Only 1 of 3 possibilities exist.

    1) Arch is and always has been shit and nobody in all of his professional level personal training in HS and college, family of NFL QBs or 2 full fucking years at Texas under Sark caught that reality. So for 2 fucking years and 2 games played Sark didn't see the issues and make plans/moves in the portal or otherwise for a good alternative.

    2) Arch was great but was absolutely hampered upon arrival at Texas by the coaching staff. We saw a 5 star and NFL drafted QB slowly lose his self confidence, execution and leadership under this staff. It might well be that the time he spent at OSU made him as good as he was since the performance curve dropped the longer he was here. Also, it may be that the offensive game plan didn't fit his abilities well and Sark was stuffing a square peg in a round hole. All of these could absolutely be true for Arch and there is a very clear example of it occurring here already.

    3) Arch is hurt and the staff is keeping it under wraps as the alternative options are even worse. Remember this exact same argument in the Ewers thread? Well, it turns out to be true. 

    Those are the 3 options, and there are no others. Ever single fucking one of them points to shitty head and offensive coaching work. All of them.  

  11. 5 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    That's fine and all but Arch is missing wide open WRs and sidearming balls into his teammate's knees. If the person handling the ball and running the 75% of the offense doesn't have it then he is limiting the entire offense. He was panicked all game long and Sark absolutely should've pulled him but like many stubborn offensive coaches, he wanted Arch to work it out because his defense wasn't going to lose the game. It is telling that Sark is not calling any bubble screens or any screens for that matter. Either that is because the WRs don't block well, the OL doesn't block well, or he thinks Arch cannot make even that routine of a throw without it either going backwards or into the hands of a defender for a pick 6. Wingo isn't great but he's not being used at all like he was with Ewers. So sure it's part Sark but I don't think Sark foresaw Arch would be this bad. If it happens against Sam Houston State then go to Campbell and don't look back. 

    Remember all the arguments in the Quinn thread?

    Only 1 of 3 possibilities exist.

    1) Arch is and always has been shit and nobody in all of his professional level personal training in HS and college, family of NFL QBs or 2 full fucking years at Texas under Sark caught that reality. So for 2 fucking years and 2 games played Sark didn't see the issues and make plans/moves in the portal or otherwise for a good alternative.

    2) Arch was great but was absolutely hampered upon arrival at Texas by the coaching staff. We saw a 5 star and NFL drafted QB slowly lose his self confidence, execution and leadership under this staff. It might well be that the time he spent at OSU made him as good as he was since the performance curve dropped the longer he was here. Also, it may be that the offensive game plan didn't fit his abilities well and Sark was stuffing a square peg in a round hole. All of these could absolutely be true for Arch and there is a very clear example of it occurring here already.

    3) Arch is hurt and the staff is keeping it under wraps as the alternative options are even worse. Remember this exact same argument in the Ewers thread? Well, it turns out to be true. 

    Those are the 3 options, and there are no others. Ever single fucking one of them points to shitty head and offensive coaching work. All of them.  

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  12. 16 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Gonna be an interesting post game PC.

    Sark has built up a lot of good will, which has allowed him to run this program with more secrecy than normal. He was chippy with the press last week. He needs to take ownership of this pathetic offense. This is on him. Yes, Arch had an incredibly disastrous performance. But Sark's game planning and playcalling are dogshit, the O-line is a disaster, the body language overall on offense is fucking horrible.

    "All Gas, No Brakes" is a laughable mantra. Rarely have we seen our offense firing on all cylinders or a style of play calling that backs it up. 

    Completely unacceptable. Own it and fix it, Sark. 

     

    10 hours ago, Yev Kassem said:

    Agree on all points. We consistently come out middling on offense. Doesn’t matter if it’s with an experienced offense full of talent like last season or a young, inexperienced, yet talented roster this season. I saw a stat last week that said we’ve scored touchdowns twice in the last 20 starting drives or so. That’s fucking pathetic. 

    It’s now clearly obvious that unless he’s an OC for a Hall of Fame coach, his offense leaves much to be desired. He’s slow to adjust if his original gameplan isn’t working (which is much more often than not). And his postgame comments today about his philosophy on not changing his 4th down play calling is maddening. 

    Everyone keeps holding on to hope that this offense will come out firing like we did in Tuscaloosa a few years ago, but sadly, that night has proven to be the exception, not the rule. 

    Reposting again cause this belong here too:

    Agreed on all accounts.

    We are completely fucked. Our offense despite having multiple NFL draft picks at every position every year is vastly under delivering. Now we have a new QB that everyone is blaming for our issues like we did last year, ya know the one that was drafted by the NFL. That or the RBs or the OL, or the WRs. Hint, when these issues keep occurring on the offense with players who are fucking drafted from the 1st to 7th it ain't the fucking players. This offense is fucked and to make matters worse another 5* QB is now being blamed for ongoing issues all while Texas has been fielding the some of the top defenses in the nation. 

    We need a new offensive staff top to bottom and Sark has to completely step away from it or we are basically coached by a far worse version of Franklin and I don't want to be a shitty form of Pedo State.

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  13. Reposting cause this belong here:

    We are completely fucked. Our offense despite having multiple NFL draft picks at every position every year is vastly under delivering. Now we have a new QB that everyone is blaming for our issues like we did last year, ya know the one that was drafted by the NFL. That or the RBs or the OL, or the WRs. Hint, when these issues keep occurring on the offense with players who are fucking drafted from the 1st to 7th it ain't the fucking players. This offense is fucked and to make matters worse another 5* QB is now being blamed for ongoing issues all while Texas has been fielding the some of the top defenses in the nation. 

    We need a new offensive staff top to bottom and Sark has to completely step away from it or we are basically coached by a worse version of Franklin and I don't want to be Pedo State.

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  14. 13 hours ago, Jimbob said:

    So what do you call it when it’s more than broken?  

    Completely fucked. Our offense despite having NFL draft picks at every position every year is under delivering. Now we have a new QB that everyone is blaming for our issues. That or the RBs or the OL, or the WRs. Hint, when these issues keep occurring on the offense with players who are fucking drafted from the 1st to 7th it ain't the fucking players. This offense is fucked and to make matters worse another 5* is now being blamed for ongoing issues all while Texas has been fielding the some of the top defenses in the nation. 

    We need a new offensive staff top to bottom and Sark has to completely step away from it or we are basically coached by a worse version of Franklin and I don't want to be Pedo State.

  15. 22 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Call plays this unit can run and kick field goals and punt. This offense is not good. Your strategy needs to reflect that 

    What fucking strategy? He was calling a conservative plan, has been, is and that shit ain't working. 

    Use the misdirection, not an end around. Use the fucking bootleg. Roll the fucking QB. Run the fucking QB. 

    Ya know, shit that actually has worked. But NOoooo Run up the middle, run up the middle, 3 and 10 incomplete pass. It's shit.

  16. 9 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    With this defense? It's actually not that hard.

    Sark has to play more conservative on offense and take points. We can ride that to 8-4 or 9-3 or something.

    You mean like say, middle run, middle rub, 3 and 10 pass, punt? 

    That's why we're only up 20-3. Well, that and the great RZ play calling/performance.

  17. 1 minute ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    I would love to know what halftimes are like. Because the 3rd qtr is always dog shit. Does  he ever yell or get in someone’s face. Does he tell them all they play like dog shit. Or does he go sit in his office and let everyone go on tik tok 

    I suspect they sit in a circle and sing Cumbaya while watching Ren and Stimpy.

  18. 1 minute ago, Okcool said:

    I'm starting to believe the skeptics on how weak his HS competition was. He looks so bad delivering the football and can't read the field to save his life. Making it worse is watching Connor Stroh whiff on blocks and hit no one and Wingo cant block or run a crisp route. ou is gonna mudhole us just because our defense will be exhausted.

    This isnt a high school competition issue. 

    This is a coaching issue. 

    We had a NFL draftee performing mediocre against good competition just last year. 

  19. Just now, SL Xpress said:

    The game I stuck out that I wonder why I did was the UCLA route 66 in that searing heat.

    I remember the absolute emotional desolation after losing to NC State because of horrible special teams. That was the only reason. We couldn't punt the ball, and that was the difference in the game.

    I remember walking out of the stadium when we beat North Texas because of a bad call that allowed a touchdown reception. 

    If we don't miraculously change things 180 degrees in the second half - and I'm not expecting it right now - this game will have me feeling the same way, even if we win. 

    I don't know what to say other than I'm completely sympathetic.

    I also know it's a combination of things, but if Manning would just look like a competent quarterback it sure would help. I feel trapped by him as our starting QB right now. Just have him start looking to run more is my feeling. 

    I was on the 50 yard line, a drunk teenager with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth laying back on the bleacher row behind with my feet on the row in front. 

    With 1 still close buddy. 

    This half of football was in a weird way more painful.

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