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It was something Gerry was talking about on one of the live streams. I can't recall off the top of my head now, sorry.

He does, but I'm sure Flood and Stroh can see some of his poor plays on film. We'll see how he does moving forward, but for his first start against great competition, I can't say he played poorly. He was good in the run game and pass protection.

Neto also barely played compared to Stroh. I also don't take PFF grades that seriously with how they grade things. Stroh and Baker did great for their first ever start, on the road against the #3 team in the nation and defending national champs. Think you're being overly critical here.

I'm really impressed by what Coach Baker has done in just a few short years at the DL. Not only is he developing/coaching at a high level, he's also recruiting at a high level. Love the '25 class and the '26 class looks very impressive, too. The DL is going to be in great shape moving forward with Coach Baker.

I don't get this "hands to the face rule". Plenty of Ohio State DL had their hands in the face of our OL and no calls, lol.

From what I've seen of neutral people doing break downs, they've all said that guys were open and that the scheme is fine, etc. But Arch has to make the throws. He completely missed wide open guys (Livingstone was open several times for good gains but Arch never saw him) and the guys that were open that he threw to, he had a bunch of really poor throws (first throw of the game and the 3rd down to Wingo, come to mind). Even the missed TD throw to Livingstone, he had Wingo inside on a slant for a TD. Now yes Livingstone should've caught it but the point still stands. Even Sark himself said in hindsight, he would've loved that 4th down play back at the 1. Overall I'm not worried about the play calling now t hat I've seen the break downs of it from people who know ball better than me. Arch was a concern, but his first road start against a D that was throwing out looks to confuse him and get him off rhythm, well I can give him a break on that. He knows he needs to better and he will be. He also made some ridiculous throws. Now he just needs to see the field a bit better, trust his OL and be more consistent.

I'd like to see Gibson and Clark get some reps, see what else is there at RB. Continue easing Baxter back in as he gets himself back up to speed, etc. Same with WR and TE, let Arch open it up and get into his groove.

Honestly with the day he had, to come back and throw some of the passes he did, shows he was starting to get into his own but unfortunately time ran out and he still made some bad throws towards the end. But as people much smarter and knowledgeable than me have said, there was some good mixed in with the bad.

He had to know expectations were high after taking the job from a literal legend of the game, no? I doubt he gets fired, although 8-4 might get some more interesting calls from Bama fans onto Finebaums show lol.

This is just really stupid. You have yourself a great opportunity and you're doing your best to piss it away. Probably won't get kicked off the team, but with Sark there will definitely be a punishment.

That's what Baxter would've been if not for his injury last year. The fact he even played against Ohio State is a damn miracle lol.

Arch is our guy, not sure why people are wanting Sayin over him. Sayin did next to nothing special, he threw that TD pass that wasn't great and if Guilbeau turns around could've probably picked off, if not swatted away. If they had to put the ball in his hands to win them the game, I don't know if he could. Because then you're asking him to do more than you wanted and Texas would've pinned their ears back and gotten after him. Because they would've moved away from 12 personnel and moved back to likely either 11 or 10 personnel.

I think 7 is fair, was expecting not to drop out of the top 10. Not worried about the rankings just go out and do your jobs, uphold the standard and that will take care of itself.

Our guys are fast, did we miss them getting open against an elite secondary? Hell even Endries is fast and Townsend/Washington are good athletes at TE. I agree right now we don't have a speed guy at RB, Baxter still working his way back from injury but he's not that type of guy and Wisner isn't either. I've no idea if Clark could be but he didn't see any action. Plus Manning has some legs. I'm not concerned overall but I did think they could've done better in the portal at WR with what was available but t hey were also in the midst of a playoff run, so it's hard to split your focus like this.

So we should be worried about Florida because they have talented starters but so do we....I understand being "worried" about them but your team now has experience in a hostile environment against great competition. I think the boys will be fine, as long as they execute and be more disciplined. Plus if Ohio State was meant to have this great OL, are we saying Florida has a better one? They have better WR's? They might have a better RB, I'll give them that. Do they have superior LB's and DB's? I'm all for respecting an opponent but this team has already been through a tough road game against a great opponent. If they get rattled on the road against Florida, then they don't deserve to be in the SEC title game or in the playoffs.

Well that and it was rushed, O didn't even get a chance to get set. I know they didn't put a ton of trust in Arch but some bootleg passes wouldn't have killed them, to Endreis. I think Gerry or someone mentioned this a year or so ago, Sark is great between the 20's but once the field condenses he seems to not be able to figure it out. Not all the time, obviously but it is becoming an noticeable trend for his teams.

But can't we say the same? If things click our way, you guys are looking at 21-0 the other way. I wouldn't say it was a domination. Outside of some lucky plays by our O, we shut it down and our O sh*t the bed when we needed them to score. Either way, I'm not going to argue with you. Congrats on the win.

I saw several games this weekend t hat did similar. They need to figure something out there. Between the 20's, Sark is great, once the field gets condensed he loses his mojo and over thinks it.

I'm not sure who's in the booth for games, but you're right. How you see that and aren't telling Sark to take a time out to figure something else out.

Two penalties, I believe.

They knew where it was going, not a great idea at all. Half their D is crashing the line. How many guys is Hutson supposed to block, 3 guys crashing right at him. At least a hand off to Baxter gives him a chance, imo.

Hey Jeff. I know Brooks is slated as a T and I'm fine with that but talking about next year's OL (I know, I know lol) would we benefit from putting him at G, assuming T depth is sorted, if Goosby comes back? That way you'd have assumed starters of LT - Goosby, LG - Stroh, C - Cruz, RG - Brooks, RT - Baker. Anyway, just a hypothetical I was thinking about. Good write up, per usual.

I think this is pretty spot on. Not sure what Sark needs to do better play design/calling wise, but he seemed pleased with the calls in that 1st half, so not sure it's going to change. Seems like a lot of us underestimated Patracia's D and his influence on it. Seems like it rattled Arch more than we thought. Arch seemed to have the tips from the get go, that first pass of his might've been the warning sign. He got it going late in the game but by then still too late and still making some poor decisions.

Considering how much better Beck looked against ND with Miami, I'd say Ewers not coming back somewhere else for another year was maybe a mistake on his part. We'll see how Beck does on the season, but he was a big reason they won that game, imo. Not sure who the rumored team was that wanted him but I do admire his loyalty to Texas and not wanting to play for anyone else. I just wonder if another year in college would've benefited him. As in if the guy sitting behind him wasn't Arch Manning, does he come back for another year?

I like these cut ups vs teams. I'll post the O here, as it's every offensive play against Ohio State. If you want to watch the D, you can find it on this guys channel. The other guy I used to watch that made these, stopped doing them this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96PtApR4fn0