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Echoing some of the sentiments here and in the media, I think the defense could be in a tricky spot here. They are going back on the road after playing an 80+ snap OT game where they had to essentially win the game on their own. Mississippi State is not that good but Lebby has had success with tempo, QB runs, and quick passing concepts against PK both at OU and MSU. If given the kind of possession advantage that Florida and Kentucky had, they will score some points. If the offense can't hold up their end of the bargain here, Texas will lose. That's really what it comes down to. The MSU defense isn't anyhting special but it's not the worst in P4 level that Arch and the Texas offense put up numbers on last year. Arch & co. are going to gave to play passable P4 level football to win the game. Not that high of a bar but it's also not a bar they've cleared in the majority of games to date. Who knows what we get Saturday?
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I have zero concerns going forward [OP is a Fucking Liar]
gmr548 replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Eh. We weren't a serious threat to score the TD, especially under the pressure of having to do so. I'd take my chances at winning the game with 1 yard in 2 plays. Do agree with this. Or if you're going to snap the ball at all there they need to be a couple simple inside runs. If you gain 1 yard in 2 plays then whatever. Kick on third to giveyour chance to recover a botched snap. Don't get cute. -
I have zero concerns going forward [OP is a Fucking Liar]
gmr548 replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I've said I think we're going 7-5 or 8-4 at this point, which would be 2-3 or 3-2 down the stretch with three games against ranked opponents and one of the two unranked on the road. I don't think that's a flaming hot take with what this team has put out there; but no I haven't said the ceiling absolutely tops out at 7-5. Of course this team could beat MSU and Arkansas, as well as Vandy and/or A&M at home if the passable offensive side shows up, even if I think it's unlikely we get all four. The only game I would just wave the white flag on right now is Georgia. This offense isn't going on the road to Athens and playing winning football. -
I have zero concerns going forward [OP is a Fucking Liar]
gmr548 replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Read slower next time. -
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gmr548 replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
But to be fair, same for this. Going for it was the right call. They had a chance to functionally end the game by getting a yard in two snaps. You literally cannot get a better deal in football. The play calls though, good lord. -
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gmr548 replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Somewhere out there, some hoarder's got a nice pint of 2015 vintage whole milk in the fridge that aged considerably better than this. -
I normally stay away from parsing words in press conferences, because they're almost always just coachspeak, but that's phenominally dumb. RBs had six first half carries. We absolutely aired it out. That's detatchment from reality and not a good sign.
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This was also with Ewers hobbling around on a sprained ankle, and Arch probably should have gone in the game.
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Does Sark have the balls to bench Arch or will he die on that hill?
gmr548 replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in Football
Well, the million dollar question that none of us have insight to is what the rest of the QB room looks like in practice and whether they give you a better chance to win. Do you think Caldwell, Owens, or Lacey elevates this offense to the point that winning out is possible? I personally don't, and in that sense it could be reasonable to try to have Arch play through the struggles if you see potential there on the other side. Of course, if you're serious about winning games this season, you probably do have to give someone else the ball because it truly almost cannot get worse, but I don't think we are at this point. This isn't a CFP level team, just don't have it on offense. So it seems to me the hope is Arch grows from this and can lead a better unit next season. Beyond that,we're obviously not benhing Arch anyway just given the politics and narrative of th whole situation. Honestly I think it's likely we ride or die with him until next season, and if he still sucks by this time next year maybe you see Lacey when we're out of contention. -
Brother it's 2025. Men can go to therapy now. You don't have to do this.
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Uh, even if that's the case, that's complete abdication of his own assignment. Sit this one out.
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We have Jim fucking Harbaugh's OL coach on staff and Kyle Flood is still employed!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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DJ Campbell still routinely gets completely perpindicular to the LOS when helping the man next to him in pass pro, which is a cardinal sin. At least once he allowed a blitzing LB a completely free rush by doing so. I'd have to rewatch and I'm not going to do that but unless he was damn near perfect otherwise this is some bullshit.
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You know how we won last night because Kentucky shit down its own leg? Mississippi State and Arkansas have a touch of IBS as well. Vandy and aggy are at home and this program has generally played to the level of competion under Sark. The defense will certainly bring it. You can expect those games to be competitive. So we'll herp derp our way to a hard to watch 7-5/8-4. I would find something else to on 11/15 though. Honestly I may not even watch the Mississippi State game. We will probably win because they are bad. Either we play better and it's uneventful or it's another brutal, coin flip slog like last night. Doesn't seem like a great use of time either way. May just need to detox from this team until Vanderbilt.
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Genuinely appreciate the leadership from Taaffe but the glaring takeaway from that clip is Arch sitting there pouting. This clip doesn't say what you want it to.
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When I said lifeless I was referring to the product on the field. Sark's body language in game doesn't seem much different to me than in years past. He has always had that deer in the headlights look when what he's doing isn't working and a little shellshocked when it seems like a loss that will derail goals is imminent. As for the off field stuff, I'm not at all plugged in, but surely the whiplash of going through a divorce and then a reconciliation with a mf baby in your 50s can't be helpful. I think piling on his personal life is out of bounds though. And consider the context when you think about insider reports about donors or AD or whoever not liking his wife. Not saying it's the case, but it wouldn't be the first time old white money couldn't really put a finger on why they don't like a younger black woman. Agreed. And if we had gotten past that Washington team, we matched up much better with Michigan than they did. Do we win the game? I don't know, Michigan was really good. And it would have been a glaring mismatch in terms of HC quality. But it would have been very competitive. Last year, even though we got to the semis on a good draw, it was obvious before the CFP started that were not the best team in the country or even a top 3-4 type team. We are going to look back on that 2023 squad with a bit of "what could have been," though I'll still always remmeber that team fondly. They, unlike 2024 and 2025 Texas, were a lot of fun to watch even with the ups and downs.
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Side note, FSU over Alabama gets significantly more mind boggling every week.
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We lucked out of the Sark Specials in 2023. We got lucky and beat K State thanks to some really bad coordinator level decisions on KSU's end and still needed them to inexplicably shank an XP. We were also lucky to get out of the UH game alive with a very fortunate spot call from the refs. Last year it happened in the Georgia game at home and we got embarassed. I think we maybe just lucked out of what was supposed to be the Sark Special for this year (Florida sort of counts given how embarassingly unprepared we were, but they have talent) thanks to Kentucky's coaches seemingly having mini strokes at several points, most notably at the 1 yard line in OT.
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The whole "Sark needs to hire a OC" thing is a really daming indictment of his performance - thinking we'd be better off if he stopped doing the one thing that really defines him as a coach, his supposed strength that got him the job. You'll notice I didn't call for his job. I'm not advocating we fire him now, not seriosuly anyway. He just signed a huge extension with huge buyout and he has legitimately earned some grace by raising the floor in a major way and bringing success not seen around here for a decade plus. He has earned the right to keep at it barring a meltdown the likes of which still seems unlikely this year, so I fully expect and understand we're going to be here for several years until it's obvious we've leveled off at 8/9 wins. But I had a feeling last year, and it's certainly solidified now, that he'd never have a consistent enough team to get through an SEC schedule with a playoff caliber resume, maybe get to Atlanta, and go rip off 3-4 straight wins against CFP level competion. His teams are just too undisciplined and inconsistent to believe they will maintain the level of play needed over that long of a stretch.
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We're also lucky Kenticky's OC and HC appear to have had mini strokes at several points during the game, including Kentucky's goal to go series in OT.
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Nailing the PK hire is the reason Sark is still employed, or at the very least in a very hot seat.
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We may be able to avoid consistently living in Seven Win Steve land because we can pay players now and should reliably reel in top tier talent, but we will never win anything of note with Sark. This isn't an up and comer struggling against an established dynasty before breaking through, this is year 5 of undisciplined, lifeless offensive football on the field and on the headsets. There is more of it this year than there has been in recent years because the talent isn't as good, but it's always been there and always will be. Until tonight I always said there's no such thing as a bad win on the road in conference play. Firsttime for everything. We deserved to lose (Kentucky's coaches and players were absolutely robbed by their football terrorist coaching staff) and a loss would have been better for the program in the long term as it would have laid bare the issues with Sark in a way losing to Ohio State, Georgia, or even Florida doesn't.
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I was cackling on the third down at the end. Glad we made it, but the cameraman so obviously expected a sack when Kentucky blitzed. I did too lol. If you're serious about winning this year you have to give someone else a shot. We should have lost tonight and there are obviously going to be more of these games for this offense. It's the rule, not the exception at this point. Riding it out with Arch is an admission that you're not serious about contending this year and are hoping he ends up taking a major step next year having played through is struggles. This is obviously the route they're going to go and I don't think a Matthew Caldwell makes this team a contender soI'm kind of meh on the whole thing. But the talk of benching his reasonable if your midset is about winning games this year. Arch has been a liability more often than an asset.
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I was really optimistic after the RRS. It was the first time I'd seen him start live where I could see the full field and he played a very good game. Had me thinking the issues wereless about his processing and mental game (though still slow/needing improvement) and more about the OL. The OL was terrible tonight and that's absolutely issue 1A but Arch was bad and got worse over the course of the game. He completely melted down and his play degraded. We've seen the game Ewers had against Georgia repeat with Arch 3-4 times this year. It's not going to get any better this season and may not ever. We have to look at options over the offseason.
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That was awesome. On several occaisaions it just felt like it was the Mariners' day. Getting out of loaded bases with no outs was insane. Sneaking feeling Toronto is still going to win the series but really glad the Mariners and that fanbase got one at home. Would have been really sad to go 0-3 at home in such a highly anticipated series. That Suarez grand slam is going to be legend, doubly so if they win the pennant.
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