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55 minutes ago, morehornsepower said:

This is where I am.  Last year, red zone was a clear issue - we've improved.  This year, 3rd quarters are killing us.  I don't know if it is how we respond to having the lead, or if it is some halftime adjustment the other teams are making that we can't account for.  According to teamrankings.com. we are:

9th in 1st quarter scoring.

9th in 2nd quarter scoring.

65th in 3rd quarter scoring.

61st in 4th quarter scoring.

link: https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/1st-quarter-points-per-game

 

Let's see if Sark can figure this one out in the offseason...

Maybe allowing guys to post to SM during halftime is part of the issue. They seem to lose complete focus. 

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I think our offense is smoke and mirrors. Quinn has regressed we don’t have a running attack and the o line doesn’t look so great when they play a good team. We were helped out by an easy schedule so we weren’t really tested. Tre has 1000 yards but any time a good defense comes along that disappears.

ASU wanted the game way more than us. They kept scrapping away. They basically ran it the whole time. Defense was great first half but what do you expect them to do? They can’t hold up against scat (neither can he) the second half. The offense has to figure it out.

This all hangs on sark. Quinn did play great in overtime. But this isn’t on him, it’s on sark. He knows who Quinn is, he knows what the run game is, he knows what the kicking game is. You are supposed to be an offensive genius, figure it out.

Our secondary hasn’t been tested much but the last 2 games Muhammad is breaking down. 2 successful fake punts this year is unacceptable. Trusting Burt in the sec championship game and being okay with scoring 3 points in OT and trusting him yesterday is unacceptable. Score 7 points.

Do I trust him next week? Nope. He’s shown us what he is in big games. Georgia and washington. He needs to let it hang next week if he wants a chance. If you need to play arch more for the running game do it. Leave everything on the table.

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I haven’t watched the game yet, but was shocked at the time of possession differential. 
That isn’t our standard.

It was 20-10 in favor of ASU at the half. That’s what happens when you do nothing offensively after a 2-play TD drive to open the game and then run a punt back for TD.
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51 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Another thing to consider is Quinn has been our QB for 75% of Sark's tenure. Clearly they really like and respect each other, but in my view it doesn't seem like a great fit. Sark has curated the passing offense the last 3 years based on QE's perceived strengths and weaknesses, but clearly defenses have figured out the best way to defend us. 

Let's see what happens next year with Arch. That's gonna really show us if the problems are more with Sark or Quinn. If we have the same lulls, RZ struggles, and 3rd quarter issues, it's clearly a Sark problem. But we might be a lot more explosive and successful on offense next year with Manning.

 

 

 

Well, counterpoint, if we DON'T have any of those struggles it begs the question why didn't start Arch o let him play second half vs Georgia1 or at least give him a lot more reps this season. There will be questions either way.

I think it comes down to what many here have already noted. You can't game manage, play call, and head coach all at the same time. Further, a head coach needs someone they respect to question certain choices. Without it, it turns into a player fault issue in the coaches head. 

In my dream world we have Carol or Saban as an offensive and special teams "Advisor" or some such. It's still Sark's offensive scheme and plan with some "consultants" for game day calls.

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33 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

We didn't go into protection mode yesterday, we went into regard mode. 

Yeah, throwing deep on 2nd and 4 with 6 minutes left and an 8-point need ain't protection mode. Neither is 3 straight passes out of the 2-minute warning when we are already in FG range (maybe I should adjust my expectations of what FG range is moving forward). 

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I don't necessarily think Sark needs to give up play calling duties, but he does need to bring in someone as an analyst who will get in his ear and challenge him during games (so basically he needs someone on offense to do what Gary Patterson did on defense a few years ago).

Sark can design plays better than anyone in college football, but that doesn't matter when you are unwilling to adjust when things aren't working. The trouble running the ball yesterday was almost entirely schematic. Texas was running its standard outside zone scheme, but Arizona State was well-coached and ready for it AND it played to their strengths. ASU was slanting against the run and the Texas offensive line was just simply unable to get to their blocks. They needed to simply things and run more inside run and power plays to get the run game going.

And that's just one example. It seems like Sark will stick with stuff that doesn't work for far too long to his detriment. It takes him a LONG time to adjust to things during games and they need to be more flexible.

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1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

I haven’t watched the game yet, but was shocked at the time of possession differential. 
That isn’t our standard.

Honestly fuck time of possession. 

Score TDs on 1 play every drive. We won't have to worry about red zone offense. 

Sark was calling the TD play quite often. We weren't doing much else offensively. Either a negative play or a big play. 

Need to involve Helm more and run more easy mesh plays to the WRs. 

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40 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

I think our offense is smoke and mirrors. Quinn has regressed we don’t have a running attack and the o line doesn’t look so great when they play a good team. We were helped out by an easy schedule so we weren’t really tested. Tre has 1000 yards but any time a good defense comes along that disappears.

ASU wanted the game way more than us. They kept scrapping away. They basically ran it the whole time. Defense was great first half but what do you expect them to do? They can’t hold up against scat (neither can he) the second half. The offense has to figure it out.

This all hangs on sark. Quinn did play great in overtime. But this isn’t on him, it’s on sark. He knows who Quinn is, he knows what the run game is, he knows what the kicking game is. You are supposed to be an offensive genius, figure it out.

Our secondary hasn’t been tested much but the last 2 games Muhammad is breaking down. 2 successful fake punts this year is unacceptable. Trusting Burt in the sec championship game and being okay with scoring 3 points in OT and trusting him yesterday is unacceptable. Score 7 points.

Do I trust him next week? Nope. He’s shown us what he is in big games. Georgia and washington. He needs to let it hang next week if he wants a chance. If you need to play arch more for the running game do it. Leave everything on the table.

 

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1 minute ago, Zeus said:

Honestly fuck time of possession. 

Score TDs on 1 play every drive. We won't have to worry about red zone offense. 

Sark was calling the TD play quite often. We weren't doing much else offensively. Either a negative play or a big play. 

Need to involve Helm more and run more easy mesh plays to the WRs. 

If we don't sputter after getting those 14 points and we get 21+ the dynamic of this game shifts drastically. They're not able to run the ball as much and will be forced to throw. But letting them hang around gave them their full playbook for most of the game.

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4 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

I don't necessarily think Sark needs to give up play calling duties, but he does need to bring in someone as an analyst who will get in his ear and challenge him during games (so basically he needs someone on offense to do what Gary Patterson did on defense a few years ago).

Sark can design plays better than anyone in college football, but that doesn't matter when you are unwilling to adjust when things aren't working. The trouble running the ball yesterday was almost entirely schematic. Texas was running its standard outside zone scheme, but Arizona State was well-coached and ready for it AND it played to their strengths. ASU was slanting against the run and the Texas offensive line was just simply unable to get to their blocks. They needed to simply things and run more inside run and power plays to get the run game going.

And that's just one example. It seems like Sark will stick with stuff that doesn't work for far too long to his detriment. It takes him a LONG time to adjust to things during games and they need to be more flexible.

This.  He's a schemer, not a gunslinger and adjusting in-game takes him frickin' forever

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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If we don't sputter after getting those 14 points and we get 21+ the dynamic of this game shifts drastically. They're not able to run the ball as much and will be forced to throw. But letting them hang around gave them their full playbook for most of the game.

Yeah and I worry the "sputter" has to do with Sark catching a case of Turtle Toms and flipping the playsheet from "touchdown plays" to fucking "time of possession plays".

Against Ohio State I don't think we will have the luxury of being up 2 scores and deciding to apply the brakes. 

It's literally all Gas from here on out. 

Fuck Ohio State

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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Another thing to consider is Quinn has been our QB for 75% of Sark's tenure. Clearly they really like and respect each other, but in my view it doesn't seem like a great fit. Sark has curated the passing offense the last 3 years based on QE's perceived strengths and weaknesses, but clearly defenses have figured out the best way to defend us. 

Let's see what happens next year with Arch. That's gonna really show us if the problems are more with Sark or Quinn. If we have the same lulls, RZ struggles, and 3rd quarter issues, it's clearly a Sark problem. But we might be a lot more explosive and successful on offense next year with Manning.

 

 

 

Yup. Sark has had to handcuff this offense over time because of Quinn. I feel this offense could be even more explosive than Ohio St if we had the correct QB. We would see much more down the field passing. This would force the defense to have the fear the passes down the field. Right now, they really don't. They pretty much want Quinn to go down the field because they don't feel he can do it consistently. 

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3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If we don't sputter after getting those 14 points and we get 21+ the dynamic of this game shifts drastically. They're not able to run the ball as much and will be forced to throw. But letting them hang around gave them their full playbook for most of the game.

Texas took advantage on that first passing TD which compounded with the kick return.  Then ASU adjusted and Texas didn't.  

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27 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

Texas was running its standard outside zone scheme, but Arizona State was well-coached and ready for it AND it played to their strengths. ASU was slanting against the run and the Texas offensive line was just simply unable to get to their blocks. They needed to simply things and run more inside run and power plays to get the run game going.

FWIW, someone on one of the 9.95 sites charted the run game and only 5 of our 22 RB runs were outside zone. 2 in the first half, 2 in the second half and 1 in OT.

 

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14 hours ago, hookem48 said:

If Ewers could even halfway throw a deep pass all this Sark needs to not call plays stuff would be gone.

But this is what people are complaining about - Sark is stubborn and calls plays for the team he wants, not the team he has. He needs to look at his roster, and most notably his QB, and call plays that allow the team to lean on their strengths. He has never done that at Texas. The TCU game in 2022 is the best example. That shit felt punitive. 

5 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Cowherd: sarks teams feel loose.  This was a coaching mismatch

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Stop listening to Colin fucking Cowherd. He is garbage. 

4 hours ago, westexhorn said:

Dillingham? ....ducks

Despite what I said above about Cowherd, there was something of a coaching mismatch in this game. I honestly think Dillingham has the biggest upside of any coach today. He's still young and has plenty of time to develop or disappoint, but I've been watching ASU all season and am impressed with the dude. He's a gambler but he bets smart. He's willing take chances and move his pieces around to create whatever advantages he can. Doesn't always pay off, but the level of innovation and adaptability is something I wish we had more of. Not saying he's a better coach than Sark, but he definitely has some strengths that Sark lacks. 

2 hours ago, bullzak said:

We don’t have the RB we really need. Put Jonathan Brooks on this team and it’s an offensive juggernaut. We go entire games where play action is dead in the water.

100% TSRH. Our ceiling has been limited since the day we lost Baxter. I love how Wisner has stepped up and I'm glad Blue has settled into his niche, but we do not have an every down back like Brooks, Bijan, or even RoJo. It doesn't excuse all our offense's woes, but it was always going to be a problem for an offense that relies heavily on a successful run game. 

1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

Hopefully, but the same play calling and game management issues have been apparent for four years now, and he hasn’t done anything yet. I think he needs to hire a play caller, so he can focus more on game management, execution, and red zone issues. Oh and figuring out how the fuck our team is consistently terrible in the third quarter. I’ve never seen a team struggle so consistently in one quarter of almost every single game in a season. There’s something gems doing wrong. It’s too big of a sample size now to dismiss it as a quirk. 

Because Sark is stubborn and bad at in-game adjustments. We come out at half time and the other team has made its adjustments to what we're doing. We don't adjust to their adjustments until the fourth quarter (if at all), and it means we consistently have shitty third quarters. Part of me thinks it would be better for us to be down at halftime against OSU - at least then we would know that we have to change our game up and would have the half to do it. The only other game where we trailed at half was UGA and that was probably our best third quarter of the season. 

59 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

I think our offense is smoke and mirrors. Quinn has regressed we don’t have a running attack and the o line doesn’t look so great when they play a good team. We were helped out by an easy schedule so we weren’t really tested. Tre has 1000 yards but any time a good defense comes along that disappears.

ASU wanted the game way more than us. They kept scrapping away. They basically ran it the whole time. Defense was great first half but what do you expect them to do? They can’t hold up against scat (neither can he) the second half. The offense has to figure it out.

This all hangs on sark. Quinn did play great in overtime. But this isn’t on him, it’s on sark. He knows who Quinn is, he knows what the run game is, he knows what the kicking game is. You are supposed to be an offensive genius, figure it out.

Our secondary hasn’t been tested much but the last 2 games Muhammad is breaking down. 2 successful fake punts this year is unacceptable. Trusting Burt in the sec championship game and being okay with scoring 3 points in OT and trusting him yesterday is unacceptable. Score 7 points.

Do I trust him next week? Nope. He’s shown us what he is in big games. Georgia and washington. He needs to let it hang next week if he wants a chance. If you need to play arch more for the running game do it. Leave everything on the table.

This is drivel with a bunch of clichés thrown in for good measure. I feel like I'm reading a comment on reddit from some poster who watched two of our games all season and gets most of their football analysis from memes. 

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11 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

FWIW, someone on one of the 9.95 sites charted the run game and only 5 of our 22 RB runs were outside zone. 2 in the first half, 2 in the second half and 1 in OT.

 

Through three quarters almost the entirety of Texas run plays were predicated on offensive linemen trying to get to a spot to block someone instead of just blocking what's in front of them. There were a few individual breakdowns here and there, but Texas' plan played to ASU's strengths instead of trying to exploit the physical advantages.

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The thing that makes Saban so great was his loyalty to nothing/no one. Constantly evaluating and evolving. 
 
This is where Sark could go from really good to great. The problem I have with the premise of "did everyone forget Texas sucked from 2010-2022?" Nope, but the standard is the standard. You can't just be at Texas to get all the hype and praise that comes with that and not deal with any of the negative. 
If we're keeping it Sark and the offense have underachieved this season despite the overwhelming talent advantage over their opponents. We can't just gloss over that because Sark brought us back to life. Otherwise, things just get stale and fall apart again just like when Mack got lackadaisical. If you can't be honest and approach your own failures, tyranny isn't far away. 

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2 hours ago, Zeus said:

Yeah and I worry the "sputter" has to do with Sark catching a case of Turtle Toms and flipping the playsheet from "touchdown plays" to fucking "time of possession plays".

There are times for time of possession plays.

I wish we had called one instead of the touchdown play on the Ewers interception.

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2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

This.  He's a schemer, not a gunslinger and adjusting in-game takes him frickin' forever

If by adjusting forever in your adjustments in game you mean forever as in, hasn't happened yet this season I agree. If he can't make them over half time he sure as fuck can't make them in game time. 

Hence, my reason for a game day offense consultant. Sark dreams the schemes and makes the plans. Someone else runs it during actual games. Has to be someone he doesn't think he's smarter than and respects. Hence my vote for Saban or Carol. They get back into the fun of coaching and flexing their smarts/feeding their egos without all the NIL, media, alumni, sponsorship and other bullshit a head coach deals with daily (along with the AD)

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2 hours ago, ATLLonghorn said:

Through three quarters almost the entirety of Texas run plays were predicated on offensive linemen trying to get to a spot to block someone instead of just blocking what's in front of them. There were a few individual breakdowns here and there, but Texas' plan played to ASU's strengths instead of trying to exploit the physical advantages.

This!

Down blocking run some I and punch those tiny, but extremely athletic ASU pussies in their fucking nose.

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4 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

Hopefully, but the same play calling and game management issues have been apparent for four years now, and he hasn’t done anything yet. I think he needs to hire a play caller, so he can focus more on game management, execution, and red zone issues. Oh and figuring out how the fuck our team is consistently terrible in the third quarter. I’ve never seen a team struggle so consistently in one quarter of almost every single game in a season. There’s something gems doing wrong. It’s too big of a sample size now to dismiss it as a quirk. 

I agree with everything you said, except for the last part. I’m not saying he should hire a new OC and run their offense, but he should hire a QB coach/OC to call plays from his offense, so he can focus more on game management and execution. Sark’s biggest value add as an OC is his scheme/overall offense.

People overrate play calling. Play calling is very much part fo the 80/20 rule. Not many are so good or bad at it that it makes a huge difference. Sark’s never been a particularly good play caller on game day, so he should delegate that responsibility so he can focus on other issues on game day. He can still have control of the game plan and give plenty of input during the game. 

This is a much better said version of my post just above.

I've zero issues with Sarks offensive game plan in broad strokes. He is just really shitty at play calling and adjustments in game. 

I'm also of the opinion that he's "protecting" himself and Quinn with his game plan too much. I think it limits Quinn which is part of the mental issues Quinn has in games. When Quinn is cut loose and allowed to "play the game", he shines and last night was the perfect example of that reality.

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This is a much better said version of my post just above.
I've zero issues with Sarks offensive game plan in broad strokes. He is just really shitty at play calling and adjustments in game. 
I'm also of the opinion that he's "protecting" himself and Quinn with his game plan too much. I think it limits Quinn which is part of the mental issues Quinn has in games. When Quinn is cut loose and allowed to "play the game", he shines and last night was the perfect example of that reality.

I think many of us fans have PTSD so bad from 2010-2021, they are blind to Sark’s major issues and thinks that anyone criticizes him wants him fired. We’re grateful for him and what’s he’s done but hopefully he can keep growing and address his flaws. That’s it. They want to attack anything that goes against their narrative.
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5 hours ago, Stunns38 said:


I think many of us fans have PTSD so bad from 2010-2021, they are blind to Sark’s major issues and thinks that anyone criticizes him wants him fired. We’re grateful for him and what’s he’s done but hopefully he can keep growing and address his flaws. That’s it. They want to attack anything that goes against their narrative.

Yeah, I think that's the nature of the world today and it's evident in several threads. Lots of reasons for it but I think it stems from social media at the core. You're with "us" or against "us" and the political landscape sure has shit has negatively impacted that reality.

It's possible that I support and I'm grateful for Sark while at the same time see issues. Just like I can support and like Ewers as a player and see issues. It's not all binary. It isn't team Love Sark and team Fire Sark. Sark has greatly outperformed all my expectations, EXCEPT, his game day execution. Even there I'm not saying it is ALL shit, we would not have won as many game as we have the past 2 years if it were. Rather, I'm calling out specific issues with his game day execution and the data supports my positions. Doesn't mean I want Sark fired or hate Sark, at all. It means I want Sark to adapt aspects of his coaching, like the best college football coaches in history have, so he becomes one of them. That ultimately results in Texas AND Sark being more successful. That's not anti Sark at all.

The day this board becomes "Never question players or coaches and don't post any negative things or you're anti-Texas" is the day it becomes aggie and I'm fucking out.

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4 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Let's see what happens next year with Arch. That's gonna really show us if the problems are more with Sark or Quinn. If we have the same lulls, RZ struggles, and 3rd quarter issues, it's clearly a Sark problem.

The red zone struggles were not really an issue in 2021 with Casey and Hudson. Even though we went 5-7, we were #4 in the country at converting RZ drives into TDs at 74.47%.

In 2022 when Quinn and Hudson took over, the RZ TD conversion rate dropped to 62.07% putting us at #65 in the country. This drop from #4 to #65 came even though we were averaging more RZ rushing YPC than in 2021 (and still had Bijan and Rojo in the backfield).

In 2023 the RZ TD conversion rate was worse at 50.82%, #120 in the country. This year in 2024 (prior to yesterday’s game) the RZ TD conversion rate is actually better at 65.63%, #48 in the country (prior to yesterday’s game). 

So why the drop from 2021 onwards? Is it Quinn? Is it Sark? Is it Sark’s play calling for Quinn? Is it changes in the rushing game that negatively impact Sark’s playcalling? Our offense has been pretty consistent at staying around 34-35 ppg throughout the entirety of Sark’s tenure. The defense has shown significant improvement with opponent ppg decreasing yearly from 31.08 (2021), 21.62 (2022), 18.93 (2023), 14.47 (2024).

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I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

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12 minutes ago, Magabro said:


This feels like empty calories with how the last game went rushing wise

Silly to diminish a year long performance by a player that wasn't even a starter prior to injury based on a single game performance. It's particularly silly when the run blocking wasn't very good and the player in question is an RB.

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3 hours ago, victory88 said:

I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

If you don't think a bunch of dumb fucks on Surly know more about play calling than Sark then you need to get with the program here.

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3 hours ago, victory88 said:

I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

So what's your hypothesis for our third quarter woes and what is your opinion on what Sark should do differently to correct them?

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1 hour ago, hookem48 said:

If you don't think a bunch of dumb fucks on Surly know more about play calling than Sark then you need to get with the program here.

Do you believe that Sarks play calling and adjustments have been perfect? Could you help we idiots who know nothing about football understand why our 3rd quarter scoring has been so bad with such great play calling and half time adjustments? I'm an idoit and ask kindly for your help with my regards. I don't want to come off as some 2%er Horn and could really use the knowledge. 

Thank in advance.

 

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10 hours ago, victory88 said:

I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

I think the one thing Sark doesn’t have this year is a QB or a RB that makes off schedule plays. This is not a knock on Quinn or Wisner or Blue, but an elite offensive playmaker makes his coaches looks good at every level of football. And it’s not because those coaches nail the perfect play call. 
 

TLDR: we just need Bijan or VY or Devonta Smith to sprinkle in some magic every 3rd or 4th series. 

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