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It was in reference to Arch using his legs on improvised scrambles and that can get you outside of the scheme. It gave me the impression that Sark is a stickler to scheme. Just my opinion, but right now the offense just needs success anyway they can find it. They look broken right now. IMO restoring confidence is paramount at this time. Little success could get them to loosen up and perhaps not look like they are attending a wake. Scheme is useless if your players have 0 belief.
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That reminds me Sark said he does not want to play "athlete football" in his presser. That was a WTF moment for me. Texas has better athletes than 75-80% of their opponents, why the hell would you not want to press that advantage
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I had a coach who used to say that you need to master the fundamentals, so you know when you can break them. I feel like this is lost with a lot of younger QBs. They are working on all these screwed up arm angles and off platform throws and forgetting about how to make consistently accurate fundamental throws.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Codaxx replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Clark looks like he has some nice cutting ability and quickness. The issue is he cuts to nowhere. I get Simon is a true freshman, but he looked like the best runner on the team (albeit in a very small sample size). Shows good vision and I love how every run he seems to be falling forward at the end. When I say get him ready, that means drill him on pass pro. Just do not know how he was 5th on the depth chart, but perhaps it is just a small sample size. -
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These runs with Simon just make me ask why have we not seen this guy until this game. I heard this stat on Simon, he averaged 3.9 yards per carry in this game and 4.2 yards after carry. Just think about that. He is 2nd on the team in forced missed tackles with 5 on 16 carries (Arch #1, 9 on 23). He needs to be on the field more. Staff needs to get him ready. -
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Clark has not displayed good vision. I would like Wingo to sit on that 4th down play when he sees Manning step up and move to his left. The throw is much easier if Wingo realizes his QB is moving up and to the left and sits, instead of continuing to run away from his QB. I know that is more of a veteran WR play, but these are the little things the offense is not doing. -
I am normally in the Go for it camp, but this is a different situation. Offense is 28% on 3rd downs and 41% on 4th downs, so they have been bad in critical situations. Punter has been good. The defense has been excellent. You have to factor these things in. That and punt into the endzone comes out to the 20, so it is 20-25 yards. Give up the ball on the 40-45 yard line and you are 1 decent offensive play away from giving up pts. The defense gives up at least 10 yards on a drive 58% of the time this year. Even if the defense forces a 3 and out, you are flipping the field position game. Giving the ball to an offense that has 15% busted drive rate (0 or less yards) inside the 20. The situational book is calculated based on average offenses, that is not pertinent to Texas. If the offense improved, I would leave the dark side and jump back on the "go for it" train. I just do not see it right now.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Codaxx replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I said this before, what is the drill to fix the Arch's mental state? I have 0 idea. I think Arch needs to fix Arch. This is one reason why I have hammered the other ugly aspects of the offense. I feel like there is a lot of improvement to be had across the offense. Those other aspects can be improved with accountability and practice. I am not sure you can say that for Arch. Even outside of Arch, I feel like the majority of the offense performs their responsibility at a reasonable level about 75% of the time. 10 players running at 75% means there is around a 5-6% chance they all do their job on any given play, which sadly does not feel too far off. OL is a mess. They looked lost running OZ vs UTEP. How the hell is that possible, given it has been the core running play for the offense the last few years? Lot of new starters, but what the hell did they practice the last few years? Plenty more I can come up with there. See PFF grades I watched Arch make a good read and throw to Winston only to have Nibblet come across the field and lay a nice hit on Winston breaking up the pass. How the fuck does that happen? I watched the OL do a great job on split zone and Clark decides to try and bust it outside and turn a 7+ yard gain into a 1 yard gain. How about WR/TE blocking? Niblett struggles to block for screens. Are we sure that is a Niblett issue or coaches asking him to do something he is really not suited for? Thought I saw a play where 2 TEs ran into each other vs UTEP. The offense is OU 2024 bad right now. Sark needs to cull the playbook. Focus on few things the entire offense can execute at a reasonable level. Right now Arch running the football is the best aspect of the offense. He has been solid with the deep ball. GT counter seems to be the one of the better runs for the OL. How about using those things as a foundation? Perhaps if the offense gets a couple concepts they can execute consistently, it will help Arch regain his confidence. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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This is a crazy idea, but just maybe Texas struggled to the ball when faced with honest boxes and short yardage situations. Almost like SJSU and UTEP were evidence of that. Either that or you believe hte Texas run game is good evidenced by the OSU game and SJSU/UTEP games were a fluke. -
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Funny thing about Arch. I trust him more to hit a 30 yard route, than a 10 yard route. It makes no sense, but the numbers bear it out. -
Throw to Endries and Livingstone in the 4Q were legit throws. I believe PFF had him with 4 big time throws in the 4Q vs OSU. That was the only time Texas scored in that game. He generally has good movement in the pocket. He has made OL pass pro look better. I will caveat with he started to leave early vs UTEP. He has been the best runner on the team. He shows the best vision. He is the most explosive runner. He has hit some nice 2nd and 3rd reads but amazingly stares at 1 read throws too long. He has spiked balls in the turf. He has shown a really high ceiling and a really low floor in his 5 starts. Its actually very Vince like. Do not take that to mean I am predicting he will be Vince.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Codaxx replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
it could be as simple as the Insiders and the coaching staff have no idea WTF is going on. Nobody knows why Knoblach developed a mental blocking throwing to 1B after doing it for his whole life. I know you and everyone want answers, but sometimes shit happens in life that does not have an answer. -
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I think that is a big part of the problem. I think Sark is running TOO many concepts. Its not an offense, it is a playbook. GT counter has probably looked the best to me. That is just off casual watching. Zone looked to really bad. Sark needs to pare the offense down. Focus on a couple concepts and drill the shit out of them. Its a young team. They have shown they cannot handle an NFL playbook. Find a couple runs that the OL can execute and build an offense around it. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Until the offense becomes mediocre, I do hope Sark realizes this and plays for field position. Not much reason to go for it around mid-field with the defense and punter playing like they are. I know it is against his nature, but that is just where we are right now -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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The fact is the run game scored 0 pts. I watched CSU run for 118 yards vs Texas. People worried about the run defense last year, despite it being a 52-0 game. UTSA rushed for 128 in a 56-7 game. The worries persisted. Its like people have not watched the Texas defense. They are going to run light boxes and may give up some rush yardage, but you are not going to get explosives. They are going to focus on taking away the passing game. It was the same with OSU. If that run game was indictive of the Texas running game, do you really think Texas would struggle to run consistently vs UTEP and SJSU? For the run game to be effective you need to convert critical in situations, avoid negative plays, and usually hit explosives. IF you are not, it is no different than watching a QB rack up yards throwing underneath and failing in the redzone. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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I continue to argue against people that just look at box scores and say the run game was enough. It was hollow yards vs light boxes. OSU said go ahead beat us running the ball. Texas couldn’t. If you don’t hit explosives in the run game (Texas is 130th in rush exclusivity) and you don’t convert in short situations it isn’t meaningful. There is a reason OSU didn’t change the look. I was told the OL was good and the run game was good when I said this after the game. Look where we are now -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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I think you are going Todd Orlando on this. Only thing you have to do is control explosives. That has been the case most of Sark’s tenure. This is one of the weaker OLs and there is no Bijan to make them right. Just don’t let people get behind you, mix some coverages, and you are good. This Arch isn’t the same one as last year, but the best pass of the year was Arch beating the 0 blitz vs MSU. I know he was 4-8 through 2 games on passes over 20 yards. It obviously worse after UTEP. I would rather force the offense to be consistent and efficient, than start blitzing and dare Arch to beat me deep -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Funny how the 3 high is making a comeback vs Sark. He struggled mightly vs it in the Big 12. He used the 6 OL package to solve it. OSU used it again to stop Sark twice. People are going back to it -
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I think stacking the box would be a major mistake. OSU went mostly light boxes and dared Texas to bet them running the football. If UTEP didnt feel the need to stack the box, why would anyone else? The only thing Arch has done at a reasonable level is run the ball and throw deep. No need to open yourself up to explosive plays. I would say the same for blitzing. Why give Arch easy reads or open yourself up for him to scramble, while your DBs have their backs turned in man coverage. PK would destroy this offense. Just take away explosives and force them to execute 8-10 play scoring drives. You can always adjust if out of the blue the offense finds a running game or a consistent short passing game. -
he is only above expected in the 20- 40 yard mark, deep ball is the only good aspect. Though looks like he is hitting 105% of passes -6 yards, so that is pretty amazing.
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I like him, but he can go a little crazy when he gets into the S&C aspect of things. I prefer him to just stick to game breakdowns.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Codaxx replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Here is the thing. If you have a player struggling with being too high, you can put him in the shoots and drill it. Eventually he will get tired of hitting his head and come off the ball lower. Players has issues with his hands, put him on the jugs machine and catch 50 ball a day. I do not know the drill for the yips. For all we know Manning is fine in practice and falls apart in the game. It is a mental thing. There are no drills to fix that. Only thing a coach can do is try to take some pressure off of him, but based on the rest of the offense, Sark cannot do that. His answer was to pass less and run Arch more. Perhaps the other issues are not fixable either. I am more concerned about fixing something the coaches can control -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Well, the screen game is probably better if you replace Niblett blocking with Mosley blocking. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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It was because they had like 2 WRs and none of them scared anyone. The RBs were mediocre. The OL was a sieve. Good QB elevates an offense, but the surrounding part scan elevate a QB. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Codaxx replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
He is my view on this. Arch is going to unfuck his head or he is not. He is pretty much the only one that can fix that. Not sure there is anything else to say about that. If he does not, it is going to be a rough season. Arch is playing poorly. Here is the scary thing, Arch is responsible for 100% of the TDs. Either Arch runs it in the endzone or throws a TD. That makes this really tough. Arch is the offense right now at a time that you would love to rely on something else to try to minimize the pressure on him. Texas cannot minimize the pressure on him, because the run game is struggling and the blocking on screens has been brutal. The only answer to help him is to make him run more
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