Arch against Florida - Rating

[diegozanna20]

So I've actually come around from saying that Arch played a good game but wasn't helped enough to the opinion that Arch didn't play good enough early enough.

He said it in his press conference, about needing to start faster.
Arch needs to start faster.
He really got in his element only in the third quarter and that's way too late.
I get it, the OL didn't help and I'm 100% sure that with a little bit more help Arch would've looked totally different both early on and overall.
Also, after he got going in the third quarter he also started to play hero ball too. 
That can't happen. 
Just needs to play his game, take what's there and move on.

But it wasn't good enough, simply.
It can't take 3 quarters to move in the pocket well enough to make some plays, even if the OL play was abysmal.

OU is gonna be a big test for him, again.
Is he gonna take 3/4 quarters to get used to the speed of everything or is he gonna be able to start faster?
Is a bad performance like Florida gonna linger or is he gonna have gold fish memory?
Is he gonna look more confident and poised in the pocket overall? I think from the third quarter he was really comfortable and had he not started to play hero ball we might've even won the game.

I hope Sark also helps him that way by starting with very simple one read kind of throws where you don't have to think and you just rip it, slowly progressing to the more advanced stuff.
Again, I REALLY THINK that his performance would've looked totally different had he had a little bit more time on some throws, but that doesn't excuse some of his inability to make plays when he could've.

 

I would rate his performance a C honestly.
It wasn't good enough but he seemed to get the hang of it more and more as the game went on and the OL/RBs didn't help him at all very early on. Could've had some big plays had the OL given him 0.5s more.

[diegozanna20]

Arch needs to play in rhythm, and Sark needs to find a way to play in rhythm.

He can make those off-script plays but he's also gonna make some dumb decisions when off schedule.
After re-watching it I think he kinda had a worse game than what it looked like yesterday while still showing some good signs.

Again I do want to emphasize that running for your life almost every snap definitely didn't help him in looking the part.

We need to start seeing some big jumps in development for Arch or it's gonna be a long year.
I think the ceiling is still as high as it's been for him, it's just that the floor is so much lower than what people expected.