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He has definitely not been to the level he needs to be in the intermediate but there's a lot more factors that go into it besides Arch: - When is he throwing in that area? Is it a lot on 3rd and long? When OL isn't blocking anything and Arch is getting pressured the most? - How many passes are dropped? Cause I'm pretty sure I saw more than a few in the intermediate just last game... - Still not incredible rapport with the receivers and quite a few times a game they aren't where they need to be... does Arch trust them to be where they need to be? - How many plays does Sark call for his receivers to run routes in the intermediate range? Again, not a lot of rapport in that area between Arch and the receivers but it's hard to build that rapport when they are only getting called on 3rd and long... It's a very fair criticism to point out that he needs to get better in the intermediate but that's also an area where young QBs typically struggle, especially when confidence isn't all there from the QB

He's also much looser with the football in both fumbles and interceptions. That can be devastating in a game like this. Quinn big problem was definitely "running into sacks" and not really maneuvering in the pocket and stuff. Arch has been up and down and making the easy stuff look really hard but it's 3 weeks in a row with 0 turnover worthy throws while being under pressure most of the time. I absolutely agree with you if this can be a kentucky/OU type game... I'm much more afraid of the game turning into a situation where the defense is tired/leaky and we have to score 30+. If we can't run the ball and OL isn't protecting I don't see us winning without Arch. I'm not as confident as some people here are about this being "Texas' game to lose"... but I'm also often very wrong so I'll gladly eat crow if we stomp Vandy this saturday 😅😂

The hell were you looking at to think he needed to get benched in the 3rd lol some of the fans here really are too emotional

Coached by the same guy that found Cam ward... SARK LET'S GET ERIC MORRIS ON A PLANE TO AUSTIN!

It says more about Sark than Arch lol… He hasn’t been playing as good as you’d want him to but he’s far from the only reason we’re struggling on offense. He’s also really talented but is having some struggles mentally. Giving up on Texas cause you think it’s not possible to save the offense would be the stupidest reason to leave I’d ever hear in my lifetime. He’s got unlimited resources. If Arch can’t seem to get over the hump mentally you CAN move on without having to leave Texas lol

Maybe he really wants out. This would be a big way in making it easier for CDC to pull the trigger and move on from Sark. From Sark’s perspective it’s very puzzling: no way he’s so arrogant that he thinks he deserves an extension and no way, regardless of the struggles, would it make sense for him to think that he has no chance in turning around the offense next season… He’s got unlimited resources and a top class coming in. Only thing that makes sense is that he genuinely wants to move on from Texas and it isn’t a panic move to save his ass and it’s not with the intention of getting a raise.

Gerry’s talked about it, the problem with Arch is between the ears. Sark really knows the kind of player Arch can be and him knowing that believes that the solution is anything but benching Arch or giving him a smaller role. He’s already in a slump of confidence, the solution is not moving on or putting him aside. He’s gotta work through it and get over it. Whether he does or not I think it will determine his future next season at Texas.

You want a QB change cause that's easiest way that the offense would be fixed, in your mind. Arch needs to play better, but he's not reason we suck on offense. The sooner a lot of people come to that realization, the sooner we can look at the real problems for this team. Sark is way too arrogant in everything he's doing right now. The OL is hot garbage. We have zero game breakers at RB, zero. We always had one with Sark. Running the ball is paramout to his offensive schemes. Receivers are both too inexperienced and not talented enough. TEs are the worst they've been in the last few years. They aren't exceptional blockers and they certainly aren't athletic enough to make up for it. Sark still doesn't have a clue about what the offense does well: we have talented ENOUGH players that is just unthinkable to me that there isn't things we can't do well. Sark needed to figure it out months ago. We're complacent and we ride the emotional roller coaster every week. The guys are inexperienced and it really shows. We make stupid mistakes, after stupid mistakes, after undisciplined mistakes. I can go on. Arch gets 70 yard more in the air by hitting the easy stuff THAT HE SHOULD'VE HIT and it still really doesn't change the outlook of the game

Yeah we're winning the SEC with Caldwell or Lacy... give me a break please. Nothing's working on offense, and this is Sark's baby. It's on Sark. Benching him would be career suicide because it's just a stupid move. You don't change the trajectory of this year's team and you hinder you relationship with a QB that is getting hardly any help and all the blame for the offense mishaps. Face it guys: we don't a worthy, a mithcell, a golden, a jaydon blue, a bijan robinson, a banks or any veteran player besides moore and campbell. Sark screwed it up in the portal and we're in a rebuild year when we shouldn't have been. This first year should for Arch should've been the year where he's got THE MOST help around him, not the least in his tenure at Texas.

I've seen on my twitter feed highlights of Raiola (wacthed the game too) and I can almost guarantee you a team next year (the browns probably) is gonna absolutely waste a 1st round pick thinking they're getting mahomes. He's just not good, and maybe I'm completely wrong, but I see so many things he does EVERY play that just screams "that is gonna backfire horribly at the next level". He keeps dropping his arm down when throwing, he's slow to get out of the pocket(not even in the same stratosphere as the athlete that Mahomes was/is), he doesn't really have good instincts on where to escape when rushed... but he bobbles one or two throws a game "throwing" with his left and suddenly people claim that he's a "really instinctive football player"... I don't know, and I don't mean to dog on the kid cause he seems nice enough but I'd like to hear some of you guys thoughts...

This is the SEC. If you don't consider last weekvs OU a beatdown then you're not gonna see many beatdowns at all.

Hard to throw against your body when pressured, much easier to throw in front of you or to the right. If you do throw against your body while being hit/ pressured it is much easier to be more inaccurate because of your mechanics having to be much more clean if you have to put more juice on the ball. Even all the short throws we had were there to minimize the impact of what is probably the best DL in the country. Just a great gameplan by sark. Also when talking about throws to the left I think he had a really great throw to Mosley that was broken up because of a good play by the DB.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

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.

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.

Nah you can find people on patreon selling it (not sure if they have every game) and those people get it through their connections.

Not really, the universities are pretty stingy with it, to my knowledge (Not gonna give it to a random fan, you gotta have connections inside the building to get it). Also you're not gonna see a lot of film study from the SEC game on youtube because the SEC strikes all the channels that use their IP

They're saying this is gonna be Lagway last game as a gator and that he's gonna keep the RS and transfer after Miami

There is NO QUESTION that if the offense and Arch specifically do come out of the other side they're gonna be better for it. We talked a lot on this discussion board about how this is one of the first times in Arch's life he's had to deal with adversity. Sark said it too, and he was confident that when he does come out of it he's gonna be so much better for it.

I know that quote has become a meme but that is genuinely that mindset that Arch needs to have especially this week against SHSU Lagway threw 5 picks against LSU... F-I-V-E ! You think Arch would EVER throw that many? He throws one or even misses a throw and completely melts down! I think on saturday if he threw a second pick he might've benched himself! You gotta and you're gonna make mistakes in football so don't worry about that, just focus on fixing them after the game...

I'm sure he can ask Nick Brooks or Wardell Mack about it Maybe Wardell Mack is better cause Brooks' gonna snitch again

Truth is we may never know what he does/is going to do but I've said multiple times on this site that, other than obviously talking to a sports psychologist, meditation would help Arch so much, just staying grounded and in the moment, feeling appreciation for the position he's in etc. If it's anxiety he's feeling (again, we're probably never gonna know so I don't want to speculate) meditation is scientifically proven to help so much with it.

There's too many things that a QB needs to do pre-snap and post-snap to be worrying about what the outcome of a play needs to be. That's what Arch is doing in my opinion. That's why the errant throws always come when he's throwing to Wingo (who he wants badly to form a connection with) or in the redzone, or after a series of negative plays. I think he knows it, and that's why his main answer to his problem is "I need to play my game"... That's his way of saying that he just needs to shake of all the thoughts of the outcome and just focus on the process, while playing loose and having fun.

1) Mixing in a good dose a running game for Arch is essential. If he's not lighting it up in the air he needs to feel like he is doing something to help the team win. 2) Go back to the basics and focus on every play on doing everything right, even something as simple as handing the ball of to the RB. If you're concentrating on every detail then doubt has no time to settle in. So in some ways, focus on the process, not the outcome. 3) Confidence and self worth HAS to come from within: even if Arch doesn't feel like he deserves to praise himself he needs to. You can't play the position if you're not confident in yourself as a player. 4) Sark HAS to make an effort to make Arch feel like he is NOT the centerpiece of the offense. Not sure specifically how but he gets paid 10 million a year to figure it out.

Really great point. But Arch, and I say this as his biggest supporter, is concerning. When a player loses confidence it's hard to get it back.