Week One: Charting Arch Manning's Passes (Ohio State)

[Blake Munroe]

Here is every pass attempt from Arch Manning, charted, from Saturday's game against Ohio State.

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The Chart:

 

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[Blake Munroe]

50% of Arch's passes were to the left side.

Only 13.33% in the middle of the field.

36.67% to the right side of the field.

[marathon]

This was one of the best passes by Arch:

 

Edited Sunday at 08:00 PM by marathon

[Robert Gilbert]

I, for one, am not going to sour on Arch (as I have seen many do nationally and locally) after one poor game. We have all seen the talent on display. We saw a few flashes of it yesterday. Our Oline will continue to improve, our RBs will only get stronger, and our WRs (while apparently lacking a true game changer like OSU or Alabama has) have more than enough size and speed to concern 99% of DCs in America. 
I believe we will see considerable improvement over the next 4-5 games. 

[harveycmd]

What's strangely amusing is that we talked about this all off-season. We knew as soon as Arch had an off performance the national media and haters would go nuts. What's strange is that some Texas media and fans are falling into it. I'm sure media guys are doing it for clicks.

Arch hasn't forgotten the fundamentals of footwork and mechanics of throwing. We've already seen that consistently. Competition doesn't change fundamentals. That's why you work fundamentals. He pressed too hard in his first big road start. This is the easiest thing in the world to diagnose.

[Blake Munroe]

5 hours ago, harveycmd said:

What's strangely amusing is that we talked about this all off-season. We knew as soon as Arch had an off performance the national media and haters would go nuts.

@Gerry Hamilton been preaching this message dang near daily, actually. 

[Hashtag]

2 minutes ago, Blake Munroe said:

@Gerry Hamilton been preaching this message dang near daily, actually. 

But lets be honest about yesterday, there is an off performance then there is whatever that was IMO.

[Dread-headed Texan]

If Arch is the qb and leader we think he is, no way this performance sits well with him. I'm excited as to what comes next from him.

[harveycmd]

4 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

But lets be honest about yesterday, there is an off performance then there is whatever that was IMO.

Until or unless it's repeated a few times, it's an off performance. We've seen Arch's fundamental footwork and throwing mechanics, and we saw it at times yesterday. That doesn't simply disappear because of half a dozen throws in one game. Given that Arch has been fundamentally sound for years, it seems more likely that this game was the outlier, not the years leading up to it. 

[Hashtag]

Just now, harveycmd said:

Until or unless it's repeated a few times, it's an off performance. We've seen Arch's fundamental footwork and throwing mechanics, and we saw it at times yesterday. That doesn't simply disappear because of half a dozen throws in one game. Given that Arch has been fundamentally sound for years, it seems more likely that this game was the outlier, not the years leading up to it. 

I think you missed my point....there is an off performance and whatever that was yesterday was far worse than an off performance.

[harveycmd]

Just now, Hashtag said:

I think you missed my point....there is an off performance and whatever that was yesterday was far worse than an off performance.

I get your point. You're saying his performance was worse than off, i.e. really bad to terrible. 17 of 30 with one TD and one INT isn't really bad or terrible. He made six or seven bad throws.

I watched LeNorris Sellers play earlier today and he made more than a dozen bad throws. His team won because they were playing Virginia Tech rather than Ohio State. He won't be blasted in the media or by his fanbase.

[harveycmd]

7 hours ago, Blake Munroe said:

@Gerry Hamilton been preaching this message dang near daily, actually. 

Gerry is now on the "we don't know about Arch" bandwagon too. He warned against it all off season, and now he's jumped right on to it. Couple of quarters makes the Ger jump ship too. Gerry would rather talk up CJ Carr and Marcus Freeman while they were getting beat by those chumps in Miami.

Edited yesterday at 10:28 AM by harveycmd

[HookemChappy]

Throwing to the right side is really bad. That’s where he opened up or threw side arm the most. He was arm throwing instead of good mechanics. What is AJ Milway doing? Is he not doing this in practice?

[Thorn007]

seemed nervous . first throw was bad. slooowly got better

[Bobby_Batronic]

21 hours ago, Hashtag said:

I think you missed my point....there is an off performance and whatever that was yesterday was far worse than an off performance.

Yup. We didn’t watch Arch throw into triple coverage all day. He threw into coverage a few times. Fine. It happens. It wasn’t about him missing some wide open reads. That happens too. It was watching him badly miss open WRs with his passes when he made good reads. 
 

That’s a different level of fail, and needs to get much better quickly, because that’s a base level of execution that’s non negotiable. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Bobby_Batronic

[Longhornlove]

Anyone who believed that Arch should have started over Quinn last year now knows why he wasn't. Having said that, I think he will be fine. His upside is really high. IMHO, he needs to calm down and set his feet. The college game hasn't slowed down for him yet.

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

Not sure if this is posted elsewhere but this is a great analysis of arch’s decision making from chase daniel. There are a lot of promising things notes.. his pocket awareness. Looking safety’s off. NFL throws. I feel better about arch fixing the dumb things given what he has in the tool belt.