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This is true, if Cristobal doesn't got to Miami with his OL coach who's still with him there, Banks and Williams stick with their Oregon commits, imo. Not only is Brockermeyer starting at C, he's excelling there.

We've seen for 5 weeks now, this OL continue to struggle. No push against UTEP, SJSU or SHSU. That should've been a warning sign going off in the coaches minds. But because we put up yards and won those games, it slipped past. Even Stevie Lee kept saying so on the live streams, that the OL and DL's are getting pushed around and not playing well. How did the coaches see that and think that everything was fine? I'm not completely sold on Arch, but he's not the biggest problem, imo. Seems almost like Sark completely changed his scheme/offense for this year, thinking he had what he wanted in Arch? I'm not really sure, it just feel different and it certainly looks different. Don't get me wrong, Sark's O has been less than impressive for most of his tenure but this year, I don't even know what to call it. At this point, they might as well just go 5 wide and let Arch be your RB lol. Just joking, but if they want to have more success, he needs to get Endries more involved in the O and stop having so many long developing plays, you don't have the OL to hold up and it's causing Arch to hold onto the ball too long. Get your guys the ball and let them make plays. Screens, hitches, slants, etc. They have to find a way to move the ball more consistently. Give your OL a chance and help them out. Make the reads easier for Arch because for being a QB guru, Sark sure can't see that he is struggling at times to read whatever it is he's calling. It almost feels like he reverted back to his '22 self and started using that playbook again.

Doesn't Sark always say the TE is the second most important part of his O after the QB? So why has Endries only got 9 catches on the year? He had a game where he had zero catches. It feels like he's barely been involved. If they want to win this game, they better bring some physicality, some attitude and something different on O. Knock off the long, slow developing plays. Get some quick easy screens, slants, hitches and bang it out. Helps the OL, helps Arch and help the WR's/TE's. As for the run game, boy I've no idea how to fix that. Too much finesse and not enough punch you in the mouth attitude from these guys. Whether that's Flood or Sark, who really knows. Let your boys roll downhill and use that size. Right now they look very soft and that itself is confusing.

Honestly maybe they should just scrap the whole OL outside of Goosby? Chuck Brooks in at RT, Kibble in at RG, Robertson or Cruz in at C and Neto in LG. Why the hell not, can't be any worse lol.

That's the most confusing part, right? How in the hell are we not able to get any pressure? Even against the g5 teams we played, they still struggled. Makes no sense. We're too reactive instead of being proactive on D. I know PK doesn't like to blitz, but you need something. Way too much talent there for them to be THIS bad.

Sorry I meant to say do we really think he is an issue. But I don't disagree, seems like outside of the RB coach, everyone's job might not be safe on that side of the ball.

You're not the first person to say this, I don't know much about S&C, do we really think he is the issue?

Pretty much nailed everything I would say. Coach Sark needs to really think about his staff at the end of the year. Not talking about a complete clear up but if he doesn't hire a better OL coach, that is a travesty. If anyone is asking for more NIL after the showing this season, tell them to take a hike, imo. It seems as if the teams has regressed. We're 6 weeks in now, this team isn't going to drastically improve. This is who they are. Coach Sark definitely overestimated what he had. Top 10 roster in the country, but they certainly don't play like it.

We thought we had a good thing with PK now, Nansen, too. But how can you have this type of edge rush talent and you're not getting any pressure? Why are we not blitzing Lagway and making him uncomfortable? This has been a pattern this year so far. No pressure on opposing team QB's. I thought it was because we're playing "vanilla" but I think it just means we're not as good as we thought that we were. It's a big shock to me considering the supposed talent. My thinking is, considering this is week 6, that it's who we are this year. We had a couple of good years but we've come crashing back down to reality.

Okay, I went back and looked at the stats here. He had 14 tackles (Hill) but it it felt like you barely noticed him lol. I'm going to need to do another watch through.

We definitely should've gone all in on that kid from USC that's at Oregon and the Rice transfer that is at Ohio State, both of those guys would've started for this team. There was also experienced C's that we didn't even go after in the portal. I'm not sure that Sark and Flood really thought about that or maybe Sark just blindly trusted Flood to get it done? I'm not sure, seems like a complete failure on both of their parts. Same with RB. They could've grabbed the guy that's at Missouri or Miss State both of those guys are better than any RB on our roster, imo. I know people will say we can't get everyone but when you need help on that side, you don't take no for an answer.

It feels like PK regressed a bit in this one. Maybe it's the new DB coaches? Who knows. But he's not very good at dialing up pressure with the talent he has there. I thought he was just taking it easy for several weeks but that really is the D we have and they aren't as good as we assumed. So if our O is dog water and our D is overrated, that's not a good recipe for success.

Even at 100% he's not t hat great of RB, imo. He's a good RB but that's about it. But him and the OL combined were not good, at all.

Wisner had a run of 6 yards. Which was more than half of his total yards.

I don't really have an explanation for it. Maybe Sark isn't a great motivator? I've honestly no idea lol.

Well, damn I think we were wrong bro LOL. We just flat out suck.

Yeah, probably right. The downside of NIL?

I'm honestly surprised by how average Hill and Simmons have been. If Hill keeps this up, he will be back next year. Not sure if he's hurt or what, but he has been a shadow of himself. Simmons was talking all that before the season and he's got 1.5 sacks and not done much in the run game...lol. I just can't understand it tbh.

Oh good point, might be between you and Connor.

Yep, it is very bad. Not sure they can right the ship on this one. But I'll gladly admit I was wrong if they do. Very clear regression and I don't care that they lost guys to the NFL, so did every other top team. It's no excuse to be this bad.

Clark had a carry, for 0 yards. Gibson had zero carries, for whatever reason.

With this D and our O playing this way, we're not beating Vandy and Miss State is better this year than they were last year. They have one of the best RB's in the SEC and we just played Baugh who is also one of the best in the SEC and he had his way with us. I'm not willing to say anything bad about other teams, when we looked this bad ourselves.

I'm looking at the stats now, our "elite" D gave up 457 offensive yards to Florida, Baugh ran all over them, Lagway had almost 300 yards passing and we had...wait for it...ZERO sacks. Where is all that elite edge talent? Where is Moore, Spence, Hill, Simmons, Burke...anyone? Our interior DL who had played well, completely got manhandled by Florida. By the way, we had 53 yards rushing....Wisner was 8 carries for 11 yards. Manning was 15 carries for 37 yards. Niblett 2 carries for 4 yards and Clark 1 carry for 0 yards. No run game and a passing game that only started getting anything going at the end of the game, when Florida knew they had things wrapped up. There is so much wrong with this team right now and a lot of it has stemmed from recruiting fails the last several years.

You were easily the closest lol.

I cringed reading that but you are not wrong lol.