When someone insults my intelligence, instead of responding with paragraphs of feelings like Derka, I get more focused. Now that I am back in the lab in Texas let's deal with this issue. I told @Codaxx that Kentucky was intentionally attacking Arch from the interior while not rushing the ends past quarterback depth to prevent him from slipping out the sides and throwing on the run. They seemed to be focused on making sure he didn't escape to his right. Now the way you can tell this is simply by watching the effort level of the DE to Arch's right. Let's also take a look at some of the plays Arch missed on and what his pocket looked like. These clips are in game order.
I made reference to this play right after the game and The Film Guy did too(since yall seem to like him). This is an example of how Arch holds the ball. We fake the stretch play and get Arch out on the edge with a levels concept. Arch needs to rip this ball to Wingo on the break and he has a short 3rd down. Instead he turns it down for the TE drag coming behind it. Pay no mind to the plays after that I forgot to cut them out.
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It's early in the 1st quarter. Arch feels a little pressure and escapes to his right when the DE loses contain by trying to go inside. Pay attention to this for later. Also, in the OU game Arch turns and hits Wisner for a small gain. In this game he turns those down again.
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RPO game is back! Kentucky fires their nickel and the RPO does a good job of freezing him giving Arch time to let this 9 route fly. Arch underthrows this a little, but this is a good example of why people dislike Wingo. Big time receivers go up and high point this football. Wingo looks like a euro futbol player trying to draw a call. Might as well fall down and hold his ankle. I wish coach would get some of the young receivers some reps because Wingo ain't it.
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3rd and 6 later in the first qtr. Kentucky is playing Man 2 and Sark wisely has a mesh concept call on. Up front Kentucky tries to stunt the a gaps but we pick it up and Arch has a clean pocket to throw from. But what I want you to notice is look at the D ends and what they are trying to do. The D end to Arch's right rushes to Arch's depth level and just stops. The one on the left is trying to get his Colin Simmons on. This is what it looks like when the scouting report is "Dangerous outside the pocket to his right, but struggles throwing on the move to his left". Anyway, as you all know the Mesh concept worked but we missed the throw.
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1st and 10 and Arch has a nice clean pocket. He throws this ball at the TE's shoes when he has 3 breaking free on the in cut right behind him. Pay attention to the pass rush/ What do you see? Not aggressively trying to get upfield. Rush to the QB's shoulder then stop.
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1st and 10. Again, in the OU game Arch was dumping this off the Clark who has 10 yards of space. Watch the DE to Arch's right. Clearly spying the QB. Even the DT that shoots the gap stops when he gets to Arch's shoulder. They are clearly trying to make sure they don't let this dude out to his right.
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This is good example of Arch holding the ball. The TE is open and looking quickly. Hit him so he can get his head around and possible break a tackle. Instead Arch runs 5 more yards before he throws this ball.
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3rd and 16 here. Kentucky rushes 3 with a spy. Again, pay attention to the DEs here. The DE to Arch's left is free to get upfield like he would any other Saturday. However, the other DE rushes to Arch's shoulder again and stops. They aren't trying to attack Brooks or the center. They just wanna keep this guy from getting out of the pocket and especially to his right.
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Here is another one for you. 1st and 10 and Sark is in his bag. He has figured out that Kentucky is spying Arch on the right side so he pulls a play out of the archives to put them in conflict. He sends a go route straight up the seam to occupy both safeties. He sends Wisner out in flat, and sends the TE up the right side. Now you have to make a decision. Are you going to continue to spy and leave a man wide open or are you going to turn and run? They choose to spy and we just miss the TE.
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Another example of how Kentucky was bound and determined to not let Arch out to his right. 3rd and 6 and Kentucky is showing 6 coming at the line to draw their protection calls. At the snap two drop out and they isolate two on Baker by stunting the 3tech DT into the boundary a gap which occupies DJ. The DE to Arch's right fires aggressively upfield, but then the safety replaces him as the contain man leaving Arch nowhere to slip out to. But according to a certain poster here this isn't what Kentucky was doing when it clearly was.
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Center gets beat here but at least as he was falling down he took out the stunting DE trying to loop around to the inside. Arch steps up in the pocket and throws behind Livingstone. Kentucky rushes 4 while playing zone behind it to keep eyes on the quarterback.
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3rd and 10 and Kentucky brings 6. They bring 4 on the right side because they don't want any lanes for him to escape to that side. That said the tight end is open immediately on a 5 yard drag. As soon as you see the blitz you gotta dump that off and hope your guy can make a play and pick up the 1st.
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Kentucky showed 5 possibly 6 coming. I am sure Texas called their protection to account for the end that dropped out. Then the DT fired into the B gap to occupy Brooks(who didn't see the end drop out and though that was his guy) and they brought a rusher through the a gap. Well schemed. Did we notice that the backside rusher gets to shoulder depth and looks around his blocker's shoulder? Yep. Regardless, we still got the ball off before getting hit but missed it high. If we hit on this this play has a chance to get housed if we can make that safety miss in the open field.
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Kentucky brings 4 and we pick it up nicely but we miss Wingo pretty bad here.
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And just for comparison sake this is earlier this year. This is what they look like rushing the passer on the backside when they are not trying to contain a running QB. But what do I know? This is likely going to be the blueprint from here forward unless ole buddy can prove he can play from the pocket.
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And now you guys can have this thread.
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