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I don't think people truly dislike Arch. I think they just don't understand football. At every level the highest amount of communication is between the OC and the starting quarterback. Most OC's sit down with their quarterback going into a game and the quarterback tells you what plays they like based on down and distance. Good OCs work that into their package. It is clear that Sark only does that when his back is against the wall. It was clear to anyone paying attention that Arch was drowning in the playbook in the early part of the season. We lost a couple of games and all the sudden the personnel groupings and route concepts changed. Now magically Arch looks competent. It's not magic, we clearly found a package Arch really likes and are running route concepts he is comfortable throwing. In 2022 we built the whole passing game around X and it was a shitshow. X, despite his speed, gets less and less effective the further downfield he is. He is slight, so easily rerouted. We brought in AD and started working X in the short passing game and the offense took off. Watching us try and force Wingo to be a downfield receiver is reminiscent of 2022. Sark needs to quit trying to force players to be who they aren't. It doesn't help their development and it doesn't help the team. If a player isout there dropping the ball and not making an effort to catch the ball in traffic they need to sit. Sitting is motivation to work harder to get back on the field. This "wait your turn" attitude he has doesn't develop players. Best players need to play. Period. Plus we need to put people in the best position to succeed by finding out what they do best.
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Nope. Maybe that's how YOU saw it, but X was literally a faster Wingo. Same suspect hands. Same unwillingness to go up and get the football. Even criticism of Wingo last year was seen as defense of Quinn. Now that Quinn is gone and everybody's boy is here, Arch Manning, people are finally willing to see the shortcomings as they are.
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Unlike others, I am not trying to see the guy fired. I simply think Sark has mismanaged his roster this season
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Seems like the night crew had it on and popping last night Lol.
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You will get no argument from me. Dude isn't seeing what his guys are capable of bad or good.
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This brings us back to all our supposedly highly touted recruits are projects while the other blue bloods are getting guys ready to contribute. Wingo has been on campus two years and still hasn't won a 50/50 ball. Livingstone has been playing just this season and already has at least one. Sark's decision making is questionable too. You could tell Arch was told to get the ball to Wingo. We targeted him 11 times, and let him run it twice. What did we get for it? He tripped over his own feet on a screen that was blocked up pretty good. He tripped again on an end around. Dropped two passes in crucial situations, and got body slammed twice. Flip the channel and see what Jeremiah Smith does with 11 targets. Or what Wesco at Clemson looks like. Wingo is a 2 star receiver with 5 star physical ability. We also likely have better receivers on the bench, but Sark likes a small rotation. Cam Williams was the same way. 5 star size but 2 star play. Dude was constantly getting penalties. Constantly busting protections. That's the only way somebody with all his physical traits gets chosen in the 6th round. I think every tipped ball came from his side. 14-21 and driving to tie up the semi-final CFP game and this dude, like usual, completely whiffed on his man. Again, we have to stop taking these "he could be good" players, and start doing better homework. Somewhere someone thought Matthew Golden was only good enough to play at Houston. Find that guy out there and bring him in. Quit wasting snaps on the Wingos of the world who will leave by the time they finally pan out.
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The reason we've lost since 2023 has been Sark missing on evaluations. Period. In 2023 we had no pass rush. Sure we could shut down anyone's running game but if you just didn't waste downs trying to run on us you could throw it all over the lot. The two games we lost, OU and Washington, we got one sack. One. Penix and Gabriel dropped back a combined 76 times. One Sack. We came back and fixed the pass rush by adding Simmons. The other issue is we missed wildly on O-line and RB. Our interior O-line has been a problem since Sark got here. I don't give a shit if we sent linemen to the league, the truth is in the film. We cannot combo block and climb to the second level. Someone is always getting defeated. Always. Whenever we tried to run inside zone it just ended up resulting in a pile in the middle for the back to run into. Sark found a little something with outside zone and split zone, but as soon as we played a disciplined front with some wiggle they blew that shit up. See Ohio State, Georgia, and Arizona State. Our running backs are a miss too. Watching Baugh from Florida set up his own lanes was frustrating. He would set an aim point, and then redirect when the LBs committed. We get none of that from everyone not named Wisner, and he is lacking in the speed/power dept. Then on the off chance we do get a run bounced outside, we get holding calls. That leaves our QBs to play hero ball in big games and is precisely why we keep losing to the top 5. YOU CANNOT be one dimensional in those games and win them, and that's what we've been the last couple years. It was the same way with Quinn last year. He outplayed the opposing QB in all 3 games and still lost. The area we keep losing in is running game. If you look at the 6 losses we had the last two years, plus the ASU game we should've lost. We got outrushed 908 to 412.
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You are in Atlanta?
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I am saying the BMDs have been just as much a problem as they were a solution the last 20 years.
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We are where we are because we believed we were or would be better at just a few positions and that turned out not to be the case. Everyone here knows what those positions are. When we improve at those positions we will return to playing high level football. It's not that hard. And yes, it's on the coach to make that happen but for us not to have any dropoff is silly. That's what I am saying.
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Bingo. The BMDs being "supportive" is how we got in this mess.
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How has that worked for us the last 20 years?
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Then let's keep turning over coaches and see how that goes for us.
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Who are all these teams winning championships with shitty rosters? Where I am sitting it sure as shit looks like the teams winning are doing it with the most talented rosters. Unless you are Michigan and you cheat your way there.
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It's part of it. In sports its your job to play better than the guy in the same position across from you. No matter what that position is.
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