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What befuddled the shit out of me was not just Arch's being slow reading and late in decision-making, but that Sark seemed to roll out a non-Sark pro style scheme. What the fuck happened to tempo, building rhythm with short completions, R/PO, and everything to get Arch comfortable? Arch was comfortable last year in his spot roles. He was rarely comfortable yesterday. I don't want to hear about Ohio State, stout at home. The experience should be great. I'm fine if Arch needs to develop. What truly made me worry was that Arch was shitty throwing short passes. That's a QB's security blanket if he's not running, which he wasn't. This better have been an aberration. 

I'm just still left with the thought - Sark abandoned his own creative, quick hit offense? Where were the skill depth and rotation guys? What am I missing? My body is ready. 

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7 minutes ago, NWAustinDude said:

What am I missing?

 

tl;dw: Arch faced, in his first-ever road start, a pro-style defense that shows one look at the snap, then switched to another, staffed by future NFL players.

There's only one other team that can do this: Georgia.

I don't know if we run the same kind of scheme or not, or else we might be one of three. 

Everyone else either runs the scheme, but doesn't have the personnel (OU) or has the personnel, but doesn't run an NFL base scheme (Bama, Penn State).

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48 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

tl;dw: Arch faced, in his first-ever road start, a pro-style defense that shows one look at the snap, then switched to another, staffed by future NFL players.

There's only one other team that can do this: Georgia.

I don't know if we run the same kind of scheme or not, or else we might be one of three. 

This prompts a question:  which defense played better yesterday?

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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This prompts a question:  which defense played better yesterday?

We haven’t seen a YouTube expert analyze the Texas defense but we played fucking great the few plays I’ve seen analyzed.

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1 hour ago, NWAustinDude said:

What befuddled the shit out of me was not just Arch's being slow reading and late in decision-making, but that Sark seemed to roll out a non-Sark pro style scheme. What the fuck happened to tempo, building rhythm with short completions, R/PO, and everything to get Arch comfortable? Arch was comfortable last year in his spot roles. He was rarely comfortable yesterday. I don't want to hear about Ohio State, stout at home. The experience should be great. I'm fine if Arch needs to develop. What truly made me worry was that Arch was shitty throwing short passes. That's a QB's security blanket if he's not running, which he wasn't. This better have been an aberration. 

I'm just still left with the thought - Sark abandoned his own creative, quick hit offense? Where were the skill depth and rotation guys? What am I missing? My body is ready. 

It was pretty much the same as the two games arch played great in. The QE short game is kinda off the table, arch doesn’t have it. Other than that, tOSU has the best secondary in the country and balled out.
 

Still if arch is accurate and Steve isn’t a redzone bumble fuck, Texas wins.

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1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

 

tl;dw: Arch faced, in his first-ever road start, a pro-style defense that shows one look at the snap, then switched to another, staffed by future NFL players.

There's only one other team that can do this: Georgia.

I don't know if we run the same kind of scheme or not, or else we might be one of three. 

Everyone else either runs the scheme, but doesn't have the personnel (OU) or has the personnel, but doesn't run an NFL base scheme (Bama, Penn State).

I'm putting money on Georgia until Sark proves me wrong.

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21 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


Maybe Sark and Milwee suck at coaching QBs.

They both have shown difficulty making the easy throws.  Now Ewers is pro, which means he showed scouts and in practice, that he could make those throws.  It looks like he's calibrating his touch on those throws--either under thrown or blasted from a cannon.   

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Kinda crazy to think about the last 12 games Texas has played. Our opponents have been: 

Ohio State (x2)

Georgia (x2)

Clemson

Arizona St. 

OU

Florida 

Vanderbilt

Texas A&M

Arkansas

Kentucky 

 

I mean, god damn, this team has been through some battles. I'm sure they're eager to eat these next 3 cupcakes coming up. 

 

 

 

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On 8/30/2025 at 7:06 PM, Bodowned said:

I just don’t understand how Arch’s mechanics regressed so much year-over-year. Flat-footed/side-arm bullshit was a specialty of Quinn and Arch looks to have taken the mantle. The OL gave him all day to throw in many cases and his fundamentals still looked horrific. That miss to Wingo on the last drive was just so egregious and preventable and I thought his mechanics & footwork were going to be the one obvious upgrade over Quinn going into the year.

 

On 8/30/2025 at 7:14 PM, Jkwellborn said:


Maybe Sark and Milwee suck at coaching QBs.

 

On 8/30/2025 at 7:16 PM, Hank Kingsley said:

I'm right there with you. It feels like he was just mentally overwhelmed and uncomfortable throughout...I don't know how else to explain the breakdown in fundamentals. 

 

It does seem like whatever they had in HS is getting coached out of them but could just be battered syndrome type shit

3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

This prompts a question:  which defense played better yesterday?

IMO both played equally great. I'd honestly give our defense the slight nod because all they had to do was stay home and pass off while knowingly giving up run.

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On 8/30/2025 at 6:07 PM, LCHorn said:

I’m ill-equipped to apportion blame, but one certainty is fucking Jeff Howe isn’t a good resource for football X and O’s.  He’s only one level up from Ketch.  

Hey man, we didn't need the imagery of you fucking Jeff Howe.

On 8/31/2025 at 6:19 PM, hookem48 said:

I think we lost because of the thread title, get rid of it

I've been blamed for a lot of stuff on the boards over the years. Some of it justified, some of it absurd. What I've never been blamed for, however, is posting a thread title that cost us a game. Solid work.

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Just now, Duane Moore said:

Under the logic of the thread title does that make Ohio State the Pittsburgh Steelers to our Houston Oilers?

As of this moment? Sure seems like it. Maybe after Georgia makes Sarkisian and Manning look like buffoons again in November, I'll change the thread title to something like "Texas Football 2025 - Getting Kicked Like A Bitch".

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I will say that at least when Sark loses a big game, it’s usually a close one where a few plays made the difference, 1st UGA game last year the exception. It’s not a 65-13 humiliation where the team quits in the third quarter. 

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On 8/30/2025 at 6:07 PM, LCHorn said:

I’m ill-equipped to apportion blame, but one certainty is fucking Jeff Howe isn’t a good resource for football X and O’s.  He’s only one level up from Ketch.  

Jeff Howe is a far cry from Ketch, the clowns at the Statesman, and the national writer idiots (all of them). When so many of these guys actively sabotage or hate Texas, I’m going to support the guys who actually give a rip about the program regardless of IQ.

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51 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Just be thankful Bob Stoops isn't at OU anymore. Sark might be facing one of those Mack Brown-esque 5-year droughts in the RRS. 

There's bitching and there's being a bitch. This is the latter.

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Mack Brown starts sniffing around the program again and everything turns to shit. 

I think I mentioned this in the game thread.

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1 hour ago, 6th Street said:

Just be thankful Bob Stoops isn't at OU anymore. Sark might be facing one of those Mack Brown-esque 5-year droughts in the RRS. 

Oh please. Sark almost punked a better OU team in 2021 and has delivered two beatdowns. I do hold a lot of the 2023 loss on him for late game coaching decisions but the team wasn't overwhelmed and came back from deficits at multiple points. 2025 OU is going to struggle to score on Texas. It could be a rock fight, and the game can go either way on one play in that scenario, but I'm not concerned about this defense getting flattened by anybody, certainly not OU.

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7 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Oh please. Sark almost punked a better OU team in 2021 and has delivered two beatdowns. I do hold a lot of the 2023 loss on him for late game coaching decisions but the team wasn't overwhelmed and came back from deficits at multiple points. 2025 OU is going to struggle to score on Texas. It could be a rock fight, and the game can go either way on one play in that scenario, but I'm not concerned about this defense getting flattened by anybody, certainly not OU.

Almost punked but ended up with the biggest comeback in history of the game.  

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