Dread-headed Texan

This graph explains who Arch is as a passer right now. The intermediate passing in the middle of the feild was an area of concern going into the season. Arch works best according to the chart and eye test outside the numbers and when in the RZ on waggles, flood concepts, and boots. Good thing is if teams want to play middle of the feild closed defenses they're playing to his strengths.

Sark has his recievers learn all positions. So it's not necessarily who comes out, but more how does the rotation go. It all depends on what Sark wants out of certain plays. You can get an infinite amount of combinations of Mosely, Livingstone, Wingo, and Moore who are the lead recievers right now.

So in the way I look at it, DJ and Neto are who they are going to be, but can the guys around them come into the players they will become? From there they get better not individually, but collectively. That goes for all groups, both sides of the ball, and as a team. Fact is Texas may end up better in some areas than others. The more they set the standard of who they are to become the more we can hold them to that and judge from there. We can't expect a team to just be who we think they should be when they show us who and what they are. Is all I'm saying.

I'm not arguing 🤣. I'm having a conversation.

It's not about being pretty right now. I keep saying and we all know that Texas is replacing all but one starter on the offensive line. I'm not talking about one play, one player, one game. I'm talking improving in season and because I feel like the team is improving, the team we see now isn't the team we will see in December.

Yeah, but at the same time Texas could end up being better passing than running the ball. So the strides in pass blocking could be larger in that area. So Texas improved in that area and they just aren't as good run blocking or visa versa. We don't know which is why I'm saying instead of trying to predict or assuming let's let it happen and assess.

We're not even talking about the same thing anymore. I'm talking about team improving collectively in all phases. You're stuck on run game that's a different topic. I'm asking did the team improve from down to down, game to game in more areas than they didn't.

Sure but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the way I look at it is game to game, down to down, and situational. What happened in the past happened already, like the original post says, you don't stay the same you're either getting better or getting worse. If the offensive line isn't consistently pass protecting or generating push then they're not getting better. UTEP hasn't happened yet, we don't know what changes and tweaks have been made. I'm waiting to see what happens, from there I'll know if they improved.

Two weeks to prepare for the first SEC game after having a whole preseason to see what works, what doesn't, and what will work with some tweaks. I'm hoping that the penalties are because of all the expectations they were pressing to meet those expectations. As the season goes and the hype dies, I feel like the nerves will calm. I'm excited about this season.

Sure there's things we all want to see, but at the same time you have to look at what Texas is in on either offense or defense situationally and put your headcoach hat on and ask, what is Sark trying to accomplish here and were they successful?

A larger margin of victory than the previous game is not what constitutes improving, well, at least not in coaches eyes. You ever wonder why Sark doesn't seemed panicked as much or about the same things most of we fans are? First, you have to break the season down in terms of preseason and regular season. Winning out of conference games is great, but the goal is to beat the Ohio States of the world at the end of the season more than it is in game one. Back to why Sark isn't as panicked, concerned maybe, but that's because Sark is playing the long game. Could Sark had lined up and sped by or pushed San Jose State around, ummmm yeah, but that wouldn't do anything for improving. Sark is putting his team in situations during these games in order to get teach tape. These young guys don't learn from running by athletes they're better than, they learn from mistakes. As good as Oregon and Ohio State looked in week two, did they get better? No. If you have a little patience and put the game situations this team failed at in August and September in your memory bank, when you look back in December they won't be the same team. In sports you're either getting better or getting worse, nobody stays the same. Are there mental areas to clean up? Yes, especially the penalties, but that's up to each and every player to pay more attention to detail and be in position so you're not holding, to watch the ball so you're not leaving early, on Arch to make sure two players aren't shifting at the same time before he calls for the snap. So don't watch these next two games looking for score, watch for goal to go, early down success, third down conversions, forcing turnovers, and getting off the feild. Doing so will calm many of your worries.🤘🏿

People did the same thing when we didnt get Evan Stewart out of the portal or high-school. DK is good where he's at, we'll see how good he is when team scheme against him and have the talent to limit him. Once conference play starts his numbers will drop because the quarterback he has will be facing stiffer competition.

Remember how fast and good 17 year old Ryan Williams looked? Then he disappeared later in the season and now to start the season he's hurt.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Once the ink is dry on signing day, the guys you missed on are irrelevant. At most if they become the players you we expected them to be and end up in the same conference you'll only see them 3 times. No amount of should of, could of is going to change that.

At first it was going to be.

Quinn's legacy is already cemented amongst Texas fans. He's going to be remembered for bringing Texas back to prominence and forgiven for not being able to get us over the hump.

Former Texas Longhorn transfer DT is no longer at LSU 🤣 noooooo, LSU DT is no longer at LSU. Fixed it.

What if my right one does and my left one doesnt 🤣

Just the thread I needed. Posts like this save my liver, who needs alcohol when you can get pure joy for free!

I don't remember multiple from last week, I do remember the most egregious one where I think it Endries coming open from left to right and he had two different windows to let it go but decided hitting Baxter on the checkdown was better.

It's true when you say the pocket technique will continue to improve with comfort in the pocket, we have data to support that theory, with the 4th quarter of the OSU game being night and day from the 1st three. I read reports from Buckeye insiders that in order to get Sayin ready for Texas, they went live with him for a couple of practices. It's risky, but do you think that is something Sark would try? It worked, because Sayin never looked rattled, and managed the game well enough to win.

But that's just it, or at least in my opinion, the game speed was much slower because of the competition and less complex defense. I'm not worried about his mechanics, he's a Manning, I think speeding up his processing will "fix" his mechanics.

Lol it's an open discussion, football is my passion, I don't know more than anyone else but we all don't see it the same. The more opinions or people who engage in the conversation, the better. The reason I asked the mods, is because they talk to insiders or have seen a portion of practice. If we can see the issue, I'm sure Sark and staff can see it too. I wanted to know what are they doing to speed up his feet and eyes.

So a lot was made about Arch's mechanics after game one, most of which I think is overblown. What I saw and continue to see is Arch seeing it late and letting it rip using upper body strength. Whereas with Quinn, who didn't have the arm strength of Arch would drop his eyes and take a sack. So my question is, how or what is Sark doing to confuse Arch so it helps him down the road? The reason I ask is maybe not so much with UGA who confuses blocking schemes more than they try to confuse qbs, Oklahoma will be able to replicate or mimic a lot of what Ohio State did. BV scheme won't include NFL principles or high level route matching, but it is complicated enough and always has a guy you never expected to be where you didn't expect him to be, to confuse Arch. A confused Arch is a rushed Arch and I'm not in a hurry to ever see that Arch again.