OTF Premium Going to call a spade a spade

[HonkEm]

Gerry's point isn't that Arch can't play. It's that the same mistakes we all brushed off in September are now showing up in game-changing moments.

The concern isn't the interceptions themselves. Every QB throws picks. The concern is that too many of them come from trying to make a hero play when the correct play is simply living for the next down.

That said, some of this thread is acting like a 20-start QB can never improve. We literally watched Quinn make major strides from one season to the next. Arch either learns from this stretch or he doesn't, but I'm not ready to declare him a bust or fire Sark because of one awful quarter against OU.

Reading this thread you'd think Texas is 1-5 instead of coming off its first loss.

Yesterday Arch was a future No. 1 pick. Today he's a bust, Sark can't coach, and apparently Muschamp is riding in on a white horse to save the program.

Never change, message boards. 😂🤘

[GDI]

3 hours ago, General Grant said:

I’m of the opinion this needs to be his last year at Texas.  And he is far from the only issue. 

I agree with you,  

I'm not for sitting him,  but he needs to go on to the league because he's not getting any better here.  

Ready to see what K.J. can do.   

[akhookem]

Arch looks elite 20% of the time, but the other 80% looks like he’s seen a ghost or has no clue what football is. 4th year in college, access to the best QB coaching his entire life. At some point it’s just done, give it up.

Also, remember when Sark treated him like he was Tom Brady in the spring and sat him out from anything live? Good move Sark, I can tell he hasn’t played football all year until the season came around.

This is on Sark and Arch both, but for Arch I just don’t get why things have to get desperate for him to finally look competent and look like he understands his job out there. Until things get desperate he looks like a lost child in the mall.

[Oldest Horn]

38 minutes ago, pinkman_90 said:

Right.  I’m just saying if you evaluated him only based on the disaster with the jets, you’d think he’d have zero idea how to read a defense or make decisions.  

Sometimes it’s fit, sometimes it’s maturity. Kurt Warner is in the HOF, how many years was he in the minors?

[pinkman_90]

Just now, Oldest Horn said:

Sometimes it’s fit, sometimes it’s maturity. Kurt Warner is in the HOF, how many years was he in the minors?

And sometimes the QB just isn’t good.  All can be true.  I just don’t know with Arch yet to write it down in permanent marker.  

[Oldest Horn]

Just now, pinkman_90 said:

And sometimes the QB just isn’t good.  All can be true.  I just don’t know with Arch yet to write it down in permanent marker.  

Agree

[Shmatt]

If we lose to UF next week this place will be a hell hole😭

[FuentesGD]

Calling a spade a spade for me is putting this on Arch’s shoulders. I understand special teams can’t give up that punt block TD. Defense was a bit leaky but still damn good enough to win. Sark can improve some play calling, but at the end if the QB can’t go through his reads and simply throw the ball away when needed, we aren’t going to accomplish what we want. I’ve defended Arch till yesterday I’m done, he’s been in the system for 4 years, starting full time for 2 and he still can’t be consistent, we’ve won big games but I can make the argument our defense has been a bigger factor for those wins. I’ve come to terms that Arch is just an average qb at best with some random big plays here and there.

[texcoyote15]

I said the other day in a post that it’s a large enough sample size now that Arch is what he is. He’s not miraculously getting a lot better with a good week of practice.  Arch is a good QB, good athlete, but he not elite……not a Heisman Trophy contender type guy like everyone was hyping him to be.  I accepted it awhile back.  We’ll win alot of games with him but we aren’t going to beat the likes of Georgia.  It’s just not happening.  Alot of it is on Sark.  Sark’s not an elite offensive mind.  I accepted that awhile back too.  
 

I’ve said this numerous times that I don’t see how a person can call offensive plays and be the head coach at The University of Texas.  Some other places you can be at Texas there is too much of a demand on his time.  He has a young wife, young baby and I’m sure she is bitching at him alot too.  It’s unbelievable the amount of film you have to watch to be ready to call plays in the SEC and he doesn’t have that kind of time.  He relys on Milwee and that other QB coach to break it down and he tries to call it from that.  It won’t work at Texas.  It worked at Alabama because that’s all he was responsible for and Saban had way better players than everyone else. 

[dentonhorn]

This is gonna be a long week waiting for the Florida game.