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Skipper

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  1. You mean the guy that's not playing because he has a concussion? Hard to be a "consistent, solid, contributor" when injured.
  2. My only real complaint from a portal perspective is potentially WR and that's a bit hard to judge given injuries. But maybe should have pushed for a guy like Barrion Brown and Aggy seemed to clean up really well at receiver also. We haven't seen Mosley and Moore is hurt so maybe that won't look like a mistake a few games from now if we get healthy. I think it's really difficult to find starting level OL in the portal and even if you did there are downstream effects to your pipeline. I don't think our OL is a "portal issue". We were always going to take a step backwards this year losing so many starters, but if this crew can't improve by the time conference play starts, then safe to question prior evaluations and development of that position. Otherwise, we seemed to manage the portal extremely well at DL and Kicker/Punter to fill those holes. It's pretty obvious the biggest issue is this team is the QB position and I'm fairly certain nobody saw that coming and not sure how you manage/prep for a Manning to mentally lose it over a couple of starts. Sark is saying all the right things in the press conference. Hopefully some of that positivity works on Manning. Maybe all he needs is to hit a few in a row and he'll snap out of it.
  3. I'm listening and haven't had any issues with what he's had to say. Spinning things about as well as you can under the circumstances and keeping it positive. Not much else you can do.
  4. WTF are you even talking about. I have zero desire to relitigate coaching decisions from last year in the 2025 game thread (or the OSU game this year for that matter). What I'm certain of is "game management" against fucking UTEP when our offense was actively hitting rock bottom in a game we still had no actual risk of losing means absolutely nothing for future game management in conference play. If you can't understand that, I don't know what to tell you. Moving this clown to ignore.
  5. Sigh. Post less.
  6. QB is the red flag but we are below average at OL and maybe only slightly above average at RB and WR. We need something approaching high level QB to make a run unfortunately.
  7. You think Sark is calling the same guy against UTEP he's going to call against Florida or OU? Cmon now.
  8. If Arch hasn't been such a mess agreed this would be a huge topic on this board. If that is our best option at Guard, then we have completely fucked up evaluations and/or development at that position. He's been awful.
  9. In a meltdown scenario where Arch is benched long term, then yeah, might as well see what Lacey has.
  10. Well no shit dumbass. The only possible scenario where we could still make a run is if Manning gets 'fixed'. That's the point. Benching him and trotting out Caldwell isn't getting you to the playoffs. So unless you think benching him is going to 'fix' Manning, it's dumb idea. Coaching staff has 3 weeks of practice to try to get him right. Personally I hope the top sports pysch in the country has been flown in to work with him.
  11. Last season he was a backup just playing the part knowing it was Quinn's team so not the same pressure. This year he's the starter with #1 ranked preseason team, heisman 'expectations' (fair or not), Manning last name and all that comes with it. I think the poor performance week 1 (which wasn't great but also somewhat explainable) is just spiraling on him. Zero confidence in his throws or decision making and it's showing.
  12. So you just choose to ignore the games last season before Quinn got hurt. Got it. Neither Quinn's nor Arch's problem at QB are due to lifting weights. JFC. I can't believe the dumb shit i read on this board.
  13. For those saying Arch should be benched, who the F is going to play? Caldwell can probably be better than the current version of Arch, but starting a guy that threw for 13 TD's and 8 picks for Troy last year lowers your ceiling on the season immediately. There is simply no way Arch has been this bad in practice. Hell, we all saw him last season play multiple levels better than what we've seen this year. If it's mental, which seems likely, you have to give him a chance to figure it out the next 2 weeks at least then start against UF and see what happens. Hell, we might be better off running a Georgia Tech/Haynes King run first offense than going to a backup to win those games in October and November. Putting aside the national media scrutiny the second Arch is benched and what all that outside noise could do, I don't think likely we somehow improve dramatically.
  14. Calling out our OL isn't necessarily spreading blame. Granted it was an anticipated weakness but probably also falls into the category of worse than expected. I thought we would struggle against good defenses but also expected us to be able to run at will against SJSU and UTEP and that wasn't the case. Remember when last year we could just lean on the running game to close out games against UK, A&M and Clemson? Don't think we'll be able to do that this year. Which of course exacerbates the Arch problem.
  15. Option #4 is it's mental with Arch right now which I think is the most likely. He's pressing and spiraling.
  16. I never said none of those teams aren't flawed. I'm saying the upper tier of those teams (UGA, OU, A&M and Vandy) certainly look less flawed than we do. And the offense we rolled out yesterday could absolutely manage to lose a road game at UF, UK or MSU. It's not "knee jerk" when you have a 3 game sample size and week 3 was worst performance yet when adjusting for opponent. We pretty much had to run Arch to move chains yesterday against f'n UTEP. That is OU 2024 in a nutshell. I'm not saying we can't improve and I'm not "expecting" 6-6. But I don't know what the answers are either. Arch either figures it out mentally by conference play or we have to try to win rock fights with Caldwell. I would feel better about our ability to do that if our interior OL wasn't terrible. I don't understand how Stroh is our best option.
  17. Do you mean Sam Houston? Because that is probably the only game we win with an offensive performance like we had yesterday. Sure, maybe the defense could win us 1 or 2 others but that was a 5-7 performance. None of the other top 25 SEC teams are "flawed" in any comparable way to what we witnessed yesterday. You are smoking crack if you think UGA is the only team that "might" beat us dude. If we can't improve significantly before conference play starts it will be a struggle to get to 6 wins and I'm dead serious. Once a team starts taking on water it's hard to turn it around. I have not doubt the coaching staff is in full blown panic mode right now because our offense has regressed over 3 games. I don't think people appreciate the "floor" of the SEC. The top tier isn't what it used to be when Bama/UGA was hording all the 5 stars with their bag games, but there isn't a single SEC team that doesn't have enough talent to beat a Texas team that shows up completely inept offensively. OU last year is pretty much what we looked like yesterday.
  18. None of this is even worth worrying about when our Interior OL can't block for a 3 yard run against UTEP and our QB is missing by 5 yards. Red zone play calling against top tier defenses is the least of our worries currently.
  19. I like the optimism but I don't see it. Lost in all of Arch discussion is that our offensive line is pretty much garbage outside of Goosby. We can't push San Jose State or UTEP around. They are bad enough that if Arch wasn't a total disaster we would all be saying our QB is going to have to win us games in spite of our OL. There is a reason we couldn't sustain a drive against UTEP. Our offense is an absolute mess at every level. There is a breakdown at multiple positions on just about every play and that is pretty much unacceptable at week 3 and more of a sign of that is just who we are. They have less than 3 weeks to clean this shit up and maximize what is clearly a limited offense.
  20. I'm going to go ahead and retract my idiotic statement that I would be fine with A&M winning. Pull your head out of ass Domers.
  21. I don't really care either way. But I would prefer ND not take a playoff spot generally. Both because we may be fighting for an at large and because fundamentally, I think it's bullshit that ND don't play in a conference, has a soft schedule and will get rewarded with 100% of the playoff $$ they earn instead sharing. So F ND. As for Aggy, I never want nice things for them but I have no real concern they are going to be a force in conference play regardless of outcome. But I'll be pretty surprised if ND doesn't win this. I haven't read much from the ND perspective but I'm guessing they appreciate the narrative that the playoffs are on the line and play like it.
  22. I think likely Domer wins comfortably but kind of pulling for A&M. A ND loss should knock them out of the playoff picture no matter what happens the rest of the season with their shit schedule, and for Aggy, the fall is always funnier once the rollercoaster gets high. And they will be convinced they might just win it all if they could pull it out.
  23. LOL. If your posts were limited to bare facts your post count would be about 1000 instead of 36K. I'll stop mucking up the thread but appreciate those posting articles, etc.
  24. I mean probably because he quoted my post?
  25. Who is "yall" dipshit. My only posts on this thread have been bitching at fucking morons like you and Frank that constantly derail because you can't go a minute in your life without getting into political pissing matches. Constant fucking beating. I'll never understand why all you fucking Cloak Roomers have the desire to have 2 threads up constantly and bring all your bullshit into both forums.
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