“we would have won this game with slightly better qb play, this loss is solely on arch”, they said with zero irony after the literal first game post-quinn. you know how many of our losses the past two years would have been wins with slightly better qb play? all of them. we just spent two years watching our teams potentially lose out on two national titles because of qb play that needed to be 10-15% better, but *now* we’re finally deciding that the qb is the one to blame for the loss, a close road loss against the best team in america during the qb’s first start as qb1. that’s hilarious.
arch was terrible, but so was sark. we had the entire offseason to prepare for this game and our game plan was garbage, and sark’s game day/goal line/4th and short calls were typically terrible. we also had some killer penalties which led to a tOSU td in a 14-7 game. and it’s not like anyone here has a clue as to how well each o lineman, d lineman, linebacker, and safety played, or who made what mistakes and what the cause and effect of those mistakes was.
i could keep going, but the bottom line is that a)no loss is ever solely on one person- not 2008 ttu, not 2025 tosu- and b)the idea that *now* this website is finally ready to blame the qb for a loss is hilarious. not when it was a second and third year starter surrounded by the most nfl talent in college football, talent that uniformly was outperforming him weekly; no no no. now that that guy is gone, along with basically all of his future nfl skill position talent, now is the time to blame literally everything on the quarterback, in his first start as qb1, on the road, vs the best team in the country, with matt patricia game planning for him, and sark doing him no favors. lol ok.