It’s the internet someone will always call for the back-up QB. I expect there to be some growing pains next year. Likely replacing 4-5 on the OL. Losing Golden, Bond, and Helm. There will be complaining after Manning has a bad game. I doubt you will see calls at the end of the season. You certainly won’t see it in Arch’s 3rd year as a starter. Mostly because he’ll be in the NFL after 2
They literally went Program on Gibson and made him carry a football around campus. They put him in after that week and he promptly fumbled. Coaches coach, but when players grasp the concepts is not always up to the coaches.. Again that fumble was vs Kentucky. Do you give him a chance vs A&M in a game that was 17-7 (he got 1 carry)? Georgia (0)? He got carries vs Clemson (9). Coaches want all their player to succeed and overcome issues. They also know that there are 84 other players on the roster and they cannot risk blowing the season to see if a single player has fixed his issues. Imagine the vitriol if Gibson came in and fumbled vs A&M and it led to Texas losing.
Texas isn’t going to do that with Arch. He is a legit QB with mobility. Sark will give him some read and punish defenses, if they ignore him. Sark isn’t going to make Arch’s legs a major part of the run game. I’ll bet there are more games Arch doesn’t get a called run, than games where Arch gets 5 runs called for him
It’s completely fair. His fumble rate was off the charts. As the season neared its end, you couldn’t give him a bunch of carries to find out if he figured out his fumbling. Sometimes it’s on the players
The movement thing I believe is based on what they had. They are not recruiting to movement to run OZ, so I don’t think it will remain a staple. Recruiting generally tells you where the staff wants to go.
I am Ok with any run. Though I don’t love OZ. You tend to get more holes and it’s a lot tougher to run in short yardage. That said teams like the Rams are very effective running it. When I say identity, I mean what is the run that is your bread and butter. What play does the coach have confidence in when you need a 3rd and 2. Texas didn’t have that. You saw it short yardage this year. Just as likely to see jet sweep/pass as an inside run.
I think then biggest priority for Flood and Sark is find an identity in the run game. Texas has a strange relationship with OZ. Some of that is the interior OL Texas has had. You might attribute that to Sark and Flood prioritizing pass blocking over run blocking. Some of that was based on Blue and Wisner. Texas is recruiting “big humans”, but the primary run requires lateral blocking. I don’t think that will be the case next year. Sark is more comfortable with IZ. I think Texas will become more of downhill blocking team next year, whether that is through gap schemes or inside zone
This is 100% true. People talk about WRs helping the QB out, but there is little conversation about skill guys helping the OL out. They had a QB that was good for 1-2 self-sacks a game and RBs that rarely optimized runs or made the OL look good. That isn’t to say the OL was perfect by any standard. They had their issues also
100%. He is going against a 5 star DE that is projected 2nd pick. That was a DL that led the nation in sacks and sack rate (11%+). Not sure what people expected, but I think most rational people expected the pockets to be messy. OL gave up 2-3 sacks in ~45 called pass plays.
I don’t want to jinx it, but Vasek needs to find a way to stay healthy. Do that and I agree with you. As the saying goes, “that best ability is availability”.
probably should be acknowledged, but there is a damn good argument that Baker was the best position coach in the team
One factor for dual-threat guys is the hits accumulate over a season, especially one like Sam that was used as a battering ram. Your body takes a pounding and stats can mirror that over the course of the season.
Special teams factored into that also. K Rob was a great special teams player. Blue doesn’t play on coverage teams. Having versatility is huge for late draft picks.
Tough for him to stay. Simmons has passed him up, so he would not start next year. Edge is set. 1st off Colin Simmons is a freak. He was on a field where there were supposedly 21 players going in the top 3 rounds in this year’s draft and was the biggest bad ass on the field. Burke and Vasek will battle for the other starting spot. Good to see Vasek playing and making a play. Got some young talent that will have to step to back-up Simmons.
Elhinger, Ewers, tomato, tomato. they did it differently, but kind of similar guys. QBs with flaws, but good college players. You could argue for days over which was better, which is likely given this thread
Downs and Ransom were very impressive. I would see a 1-2 yard and think an OL just got whipped and you would one of those getting up from the bottom of the pile. They got downhill quick and they can really tackle, especially Downs
Quinn is Quinn. Time to move on. quinn has his flaws. He was a good QB, not great one. He never lived up to ridiculously high expectations, but VY and Colt are the only modern QBs to hit that level for Texas
that was a terrible call also. That could have been called OPI. I thought refs were fine. They were shitty, but shitty to both teams. Never called a hold on either team, that probably helped ND more. #11 probably has scratch marks all over him from ND OL.