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No that’s not how performance anxiety works. You don’t play better when there’s more pressure for you to be perfect if you have performance anxiety.

Sorry but I disagree. By “he’s always gonna be inaccurate” I mean that he’s never gonna the type of passer that Mensah is. So expecting every throw to be on target is just expecting a different QB. You can live with Arch throwing 68-75% if he connects on the deep balls like he always has. If he doesn’t then that’s when it hurts you.

He also had 75% completion and had some really really good throws... Arch is always gonna be inaccurate, he's not Mensah, but not 29% for 45 yards inaccurate, be for real. We can be real about who Arch is as a player without being disingenuous. 2 or 3 throws sailing high out of 15 is not the same as going 5/17.

Yeah I rewatched the game and noticed the same thing just watching him play. Don't get me wrong, he wasn't bound for a perfect game even before the hit but like he had 2 bad throws before he got hit. After that he was much, much worse in everything... accuracy, processing, decision making... everything. I still think Sark should've benched Arch after that hit, don't think it was any good for him confidence wise to see himself struggle. Here's to hoping for a Vanderbilt type of game from Arch! Probably one of the most complete game he's played at Texas

No one watched that game last night huh Everything pointing to getting our ass beat by #14 when, for the media, we're supposed to be the best team in the country. Feels like a repeat of last year!

Panic? Absolutely not. Do I feel good about this team offensively when we're about to go play Tennesse in Knoxville? No, I don't. Like Bobby said, I'm not gonna draw any conclusions based on how people play or coach against UTSA, I'm gonna reserve that for OSU, Tennessee, OU, etc...

I think benching someone after leading a 4th quarter 21 point comeback where he was dang near perfect because they're playing bad against UTSA is probably the reason why you're not into coaching lol. Not there with you at all. But he has to play better. I don't think it's performance anxiety at all since he actually plays better when *stuff* gets real and Texas needs it... if he had performance anxiety he would've crumbled last week, he would've crumbled against michigan, he would've crumbled against a&m, he would've crumbled against mississipi state... I think he just gets in his head too much some time and I think the off field stuff this week didn't help. I think he wanted to go out and be perfect last night instead of just playing football and having fun and when things didn't go perfectly he got in his head.

Good guy Arch 🤘

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.

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.

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

Don't have a good feeling about this game guys! Hope I'm wrong! I feel like a lot of the misses from Arch are mental and that's hard to get over in just a week's time. Sark needs to call a better game too and the OL needs to play a bit better. Also the O/U is really high and the line is -5.5 for Texas? Seems crazy to me after last night lol

There were throws that he left out there that were very open and very safe to throw that he should have thrown... I think we're kind of saying the same thing but you're probably getting a worse connotation off of me saying he was "rattled" and "not seeing the field well"... If we're grading off of what average QBs would have done then yeah he was really good given the circumstances (I think an average QB in that situation would've completely crumbled and became erratic by either becoming wildly inaccurate or throwing a bunch of picks) but given that he's regarded (rightly so, because of his tools) as a top pick in the draft I think we can expect more from Arch cause he has all the tools and more to do so and can always get better... so my criticism isn't really about defining him as a player cause we all know what he can do, it's just about critcising his performance in this particular game. TDLR: There were throws that weren't risky that he should've made and I completely get him getting conservative and that affecting his decision making but we're talking about a guy who I think has the tools, weapons and play caller to not only get drafted #1 but also win the Heisman, so I'm judging and grading off of that. We all know what he can do in general but to unlock the next level he needs to do it every play every game and he can.

That's exactly my point though, he clearly was if you actually look at the film and see how fast he's coming off of reads and how his feet are moving but what I'm saying is that even though he was seeing ghosts (Sark said so) he didn't let that permeate through the team and he didn't let that make him make bad decisions. I'm saying this as a compliment to Arch actually... if this is what Arch looks like rattled (And he had every right to be rattled after the way we started the game) the rest of the year he can be absolutely scary. Again pretty far to be rattled... fumble, dropped 60+ yard TD, dropped TD who wouldn't think the nightmare that was last year was about to happen again? It wasn't last year where he was rattled just from the enviroment or the defense this time it was just a lot of unfortunate to begin the game

I'm saying this to kind of prove how much a QB is scrutinized more than some other players on the team, even if for this game the criticism on Arch is more than warranted. Was Mosley clutch to end the game? Sure. Was he not only sloppy but the reason for quite a lot of bad plays on offense? Also yes, but that's not the guy everyone looks at when the ball is snapped. So many times on choice routes he just gave Arch no outlet cause he was running sloppy routes. He was the reason Brown got caught off guard and fumbled the ball. He also almost fumbled the ball himself it's just that Coleman jumped on it or the game would've been over. Again, we have a damn good receiving core and incredibly talented guys behind the 3 main guys... it's the start of the year but I gotta be honest, I expected more. Don't get me wrong, guys were getting open on Saturday and it falls on Arch to throw them the ball but it goes both ways. You can't fumble the ball, you can't drop touchdowns, you can't get driven 5 yards back by a DB on a screen while being 6'2/6'3 200+ pounds, you can't run sloppy and imprecise routes or miss assignments (That also was a thing multiple times on Saturday)

For sure. Yesterday I watched the QB school breakdown and his evaluation was very simple: "not that great, if I'm being honest." He said that he helped the team come back in the fourth quarter by using his legs, converting the 4th downs and making some really good throws to end the game but he also left a lot on the field and wasn't seeing it well. It's clear for most of the game Arch wasn't reading the field well cause he was coming off of reads too fast and a lot of the time wasn't even giving guys a chance to get open cause he was already at his 3rd read and ready to check down the ball. For most of the game nothing he was doing was on time and in rhythm... he was seeing ghosts. The good part about this though is that although I think Arch was a lot more rattled than people realize, that didn't make him throw egregious triple coverage balls or force things down the field: Arch recognized that he wasn't seeing the field well and because of it he was hesitant on a lot of throws cause I don't think he trusted his eyes that much. It might sound silly but that's actually a pretty smart and mature move by Arch... last year being down 20 points even if he wasn't seeing it well Arch would start chucking it down the field... not this year. This year he's a lot more patient. All of this to say that I think the biggest area for Arch to improve on is confidence and his feet and his eyes/processing matching the plays they're running... you can't be already on the checkdown when your number 1 is yet to look for the ball. During OSU he was rushed but for me it wasn't a thing where he couldn't process a defense or what he was seeing it's jsut that he was rushing through the reads way too fast and his feet weren't in sync.

Arch played an hesitant game. There weren't many if it all egregious decisions besides the sack but he just left a lot of yards on the table and he was either hesistant or not reading the field. I think if you look at just what the tape says you'd give it a 6.5/7 but if you take into account the magnitude of the game, how the game started off and how it ended you'd give it an 8. It's understable to lose confidence after you come out slingin' it and everything seems to go wrong anyway. I think it's Missouri all the way. Good QB play (Although I think Simmons will give us the ball 2+ times), on the road, before a big LSU game... Big time players playing like it. You can't pretend to be a first round pick at WR and drop the ball like that in those type of situations. You have to capitalize on the opportunities you get. You can't pretend to be a top 5 pick at QB and be hesitant with the football or come off of reads too fast when guys are getting open, especially when the OL is giving you all the time you need. You have tobe able play on time in rhythm to be considered worthy of #1 pick, talent and ceiling alone doesn't suffice. As for the defense for the talent we have on the DL I expected a bit more ngl. I think it is a situation where we're still getting used to the scheme but for the talent and depth we have I'd expect to pressure QBs nearly every play and again, I think we have the players to do it they just have to step up. It's not like last year where I worried about self inflicted wounds or not paying attention to details, this year my biggest concern isabout the star players actually playing like it in those big games. If this game is not a huge confidence booster then I don't know what can be a confidence booster.

66-10

South Carolina! Looking forward to this one

I freaking turned off the game mid way through the third quarter and started moping around only to turn it back on and find out we were 17-23 what a game man

48-14 Texas

great talk between those two

OTF keeps on getting better!

The incapacitating medical condition was chronic toncillitis.... he had a sore throat. lol.

I think the two backs we got favor that kind of offense. I remember Sark talking in a seminar about how LSU in 2019 killed everyone in the backfield with their RB.