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Not panicking, but there are some legit concerns. Obviously the offense had to get going faster and for 4 quarters. We won but I'm looking at the big picture SEC schedule now. I truly hope Arch gets better at the weaknesses he has right now. He has to for us to get where we all wanna go. Not bashing him because again he does many things well. But I think there are legitimate questions about the same things over and over. Will know way more about 2:30 next Saturday. But to be fair they all looked out of sync. I expect better Sat of course. Be a long 2 weeks before OU if we play flat again. Tennessee is definitely gonna be a challenge. I always had OSU and Tenn as the bell weather's. Got 1 need 2 ! Hopefully all 3 phases show up and play 4 quarters.

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Emotionally I was ready for him to be bench. I’m always root for him to be great, but realistically speaking, I started to wonder if he gets performance anxiety once things are out of sorts. I really don’t know what to blame Sark on.

Learning some valuable lessons. Hand the ball off. Kneel down in traffic.

I would rather face adversity against UTSA at home than on the road in Knoxville. I was at the game yesterday, and I was definitely frustrated. Learn from it and move on. Arch started slow last year too, and I would rather be in this position this year than last.

We can't wait for football season until actual football is played. People were anxious up 20-3 at the half in a game that wasn't in doubt after the first play. Last week, I happened to go back and look at our schedule in 2023, our first conference championship in almost 15 years. We were favored by 23 at Houston and won by a TD and a questionable officiating call. We went to OT against KSU and benefitted from a missed FG and some very questionable coaching decisions by KSU. We were favored by 12 at TCU and won by a FG. It happens. College football is an ugly, messy sport. There will be more ugly and gut-wrenching games this season, I just hope we win most of them.🤘

Just the best guy. Thanks for sharing, Jeff and Hank. 🤘🏽

Not much reason to panic.

For the most part, I am right there with you. My hesitation is that this game felt a lot like UTEP last year where everything was very clunky, Arch was not accurate, the line was leaky. I am ok with the team having a rough outing, especially after all the emotions and distractions of this last week, but I also know that the UTEP game last year was a foreshadow of issues the rears throughout the year last year and I hope that is not the case for this game. We will find out this week at Tenn.

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Am I the only one not panicking at all after last night? Of course it was an awful showing of the number one team’s offense in America, but it was bound to happen. Bad games are apart of Football and bad days and weeks are apart of human nature. This game wasn’t as bad as i honestly thought it was going to be following what happened this week leading to it. Sure Arch didn’t play to his standards and obviously he knows it, but neither did his pass catchers or his linemen. Did UTSA blitz almost every play? Just about. Did that mess up timing and gave less time for our receivers to get space? Yes of course. Should Texas had made adjustments to combat those problems? Of course but they didn’t till the fourth quarter. Long story short is that Texas faced adversity all week and it showed up Saturday night in a way that’s not pleasant to the fan base. But IMO you have to give this team grace for what they’ve accomplished already in this young season. Sure they haven’t had as many flashy explosive plays as they probably should have right now, but they’ve managed to knock off probably the second best team in the nation regardless of ranking. They don’t have the luxury of having those explosive plays and ran up scores for that reason. Thus making me not panic. I don’t care about explosive plays. I care about wins, and that’s what they’ve done so far, and against a team that would almost certainly beat anyone else in the top 10. So, don’t panic yet. Arch is a human being. Not a perfect machine. The offense will be fine. The defense will continue to dominate. All you can do it learn from this week and move on to Tennessee.

So gameday is only visiting SEC schools this year. Awesome.

Good guy Arch 🤘

The morning after the UTSA game, Arch Manning was visiting patients at Texas Children's Hospital in Austin:

I feel like -5.5 after struggling like that on offense along with the O/U being 57.5 would make a lot of people pick Tennesee and the under. Yeah Vegas is gonna make a lot of people overthink this week. I think Florida and Baugh are for real but I think Ole miss wins. I think OU and A&M are bad. A&M seems bad even on defense. And I think USC beats Oregon.

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Sure but I think I keep Arch and Sark at a higher level of standard than some other guys. Both have all the tools to be exceptional so a showing like that on offense is just not acceptable. For Arch you can't throw those two TD passes like that and at the same time miss wide open guys by thowing it 5 yards over their head. It's just head scratching. I know he's never gonna be the Mensah type of QB but the misses yesterday where uncharateristic even for Arch. It wasn't even about mechanics cause the ball was coming good off his hands it was just inaccurate. Maybe all the off field stuff had a bigger impact on Arch that we previously thought... we'll see.

There were alot of “bad” week 2 performances outside of Texas

It's exactly why I feel bad about it. It's a must win game cause if we can't win on the road and if we can't win against decent offenses we're screwed with this schedule. I also expected the offense to name their score against UTSA but Arch was just inaccurate in a concerning and unusual way and Sark's play calling was dubious at best. I hope all the things that went on this week and the win against OSU were the reason Arch seemed off the whole game and not really focused and that we play a complete or semi-complete game against the vols. But I don't have a good feeling as of now and the lines for vegas just seemed very strange cause the other day we were at -4.5 so how the hell did it go up to -5.5 after *that* performance offensively

That didn't help. The way the game was called contributed to it being unwatchable at times.

Yep. The whole operation wasn't up to snuff last night.

Texas is going to have to win with the run game on Saturday. Arch is really struggling.