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30 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Hard to find stuff on YouTube, here are some highlights last year vs. GA Southern. 

 

In these highlights I see somebody with a ton of time.

 

23 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Lots of Caldwell snaps here. Threw a few picks but almost brought them back. 

 

Here some under throws, over throws and throw away under pressure that should have been an interception.

Oh well last year it was Arch now it is Caldwell that is the favorite to overcome the deficiencies of our starter. Yet the only constant is Milwee and Sark that have done all our starting QBs no favors because we have seen no improvement from any them since they arrived.

amazing that people legitimately think arch should be benched based on two passes by caldwell

amazing that people legitimately think arch should be benched based on two passes by caldwell
I can't speak for everyone, maybe some want Arch permanently benched?

That said, those two passes were 1. A perfect strike for a game critical 1st down, 2. A perfect game winning TD pass that was placed where only Mosely could grab it. Both done cold off the bench and with very limited practice time the week before.

You can't tell me you aren't intrigued and don't want to see more from Caldwell...you just can't.

If we want to start huffing on the hopium with Caldwell, take a look at what Tennessee has been doing with a (late) offseason Sun Belt QB this year. Joey Aguilar arrived in Knoxville in May and has been at or near the top of all the SEC passing statistics this year. 

2 hours ago, OU Sucks said:

Defender used his arm/shoulder to make forcible contact with Arch's head/neck. Should've been targeting and the booth had plenty of time to review it, even with the on-the-field refs being blind to pretty much anything that would've favored us other than a couple of blatant PIs.

He hit his upper back area. 

1 hour ago, WBT said:

He can plant his facemask squarely in the back of arch's head and it wouldn't have been targeting

Seriously do these people even know rules? He didn’t even hit him in the head to begin with. What caused his concussion was his dome being planted into the ground on some whiplash. 

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1 hour ago, ousux said:

I can't speak for everyone, maybe some want Arch permanently benched?

That said, those two passes were 1. A perfect strike for a game critical 1st down, 2. A perfect game winning TD pass that was placed where only Mosely could grab it. Both done cold off the bench and with very limited practice time the week before.

You can't tell me you aren't intrigued and don't want to see more from Caldwell...you just can't.

if this was a team where him having a good second half of the season could be what gets Texas a national championship, sure.  but with this OL, combined with sarks stubbornness, theres just no chance of that. 

id rather continue seeing arch develop in preparation for a deep run next year, and hope they can at least finish the season with wins over pig and aggy

32 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

If we want to start huffing on the hopium with Caldwell, take a look at what Tennessee has been doing with a (late) offseason Sun Belt QB this year. Joey Aguilar arrived in Knoxville in May and has been at or near the top of all the SEC passing statistics this year. 

The only similarities between those two players careers is that they played in the Sun Belt.

28 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Seriously do these people even know rules? He didn’t even hit him in the head to begin with. What caused his concussion was his dome being planted into the ground on some whiplash. 

Yup. No foul at all.

The second hit just accelerated him into the ground and bounced his head off of it.

3 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Why wasn’t that hit flagged?

 

It should’ve been a personal foul minimum and targeting was possible. I don’t know how they missed it.   It was so obvious the way his head/helmet hit the ground. 

2 minutes ago, NashLonghorn said:

It should’ve been a personal foul minimum and targeting was possible. I don’t know how they missed it.   It was so obvious the way his head/helmet hit the ground. 

No it shouldn’t have. Lol he’s a fucking ball carrier. He was hit in his back as he was going down. 

Looks like a clear helmet to back of Arch's helmet hit to me. Should have been targeting.

If he starts I’m going to be fascinated to see how long, if at all, it takes the combo of Sark, the sieve Oline and a #1 receiver who loves to drop him some balls to mind fuck Caldwell. 
 

Right now he isn’t carrying any of that baggage. 

24 minutes ago, NashLonghorn said:

It should’ve been a personal foul minimum and targeting was possible. I don’t know how they missed it.   It was so obvious the way his head/helmet hit the ground. 

There is absolutely no foul on that play. Just insane stuff 

1.  Texas players never commit fouls.

2.  Texas defenders are held on every play.

3.  Rig 12 .. err .. secsecsec .. err .. all officials calling a Texas game are biased against Texas.

4.  Knowledge of the rules is optional.

What else did I miss?

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1 hour ago, NashLonghorn said:

It was so obvious the way his head/helmet hit the ground. 

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can flag the ground. 

On 10/26/2025 at 12:00 PM, Hank Kingsley said:

Here is every Caldwell play this season. 

 

a saw a few posters asking if Caldwell could run, he's got 2 massive runs in this replay list 

On 10/26/2025 at 11:31 AM, Wayne Arnold said:

amazing that people legitimately think arch should be benched based on two passes by caldwell

its almost like this has happen before. And ppl still don’t learn. Smh dumb asses 

How many threads are we going to to use to litigate targeting?

2 hours ago, BigHornedLurker said:

a saw a few posters asking if Caldwell could run, he's got 2 massive runs in this replay list 

He can but you don’t want to have him running too much because we are one bad hit away from KJ Lacey playing 

47 minutes ago, Stringer said:

How many threads are we going to to use to litigate targeting?

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5 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

22 TDs to 15 INT.  

Are these last season’s stats at Troy? Career stats? A little context would be helpful 

10 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Career. 13 TD and 8 INT in his only season at Troy: https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/4877717/matthew-caldwell

Everyone needs to seriously temper their expectations for this guy. 

I don't think things would go well if we had to rely on him for the rest of the season but hopeful in a 1 game situation where there isn't any meaningful film on him and playing against a decent (but not great) defense + full week of practice, we can put together a game plan with things that he does well.  I expect to see some pretty conservative play calls on 3rd and long (as long as we aren't playing from behind) as doubt we trust decision making in obvious passing downs.

On 10/26/2025 at 11:31 AM, Wayne Arnold said:

amazing that people legitimately think arch should be benched based on two passes by caldwell

 

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On 10/26/2025 at 4:04 AM, BurgleBro said:

The tOSU one was never reported or confirmed but it was obvious, he was walking all woozy like yesterday 

 

And he took a huge hit where he looked dazed af earlier this year against one of the shitty teams we struggled with.  Can't recall off top. 

Lmao

44 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

 

Just for context, Troy went on to lose that game 21 to 38. Caldwell went 14/21, for 156 yards, one TD, and one INT.

And before y'all think I'm shitting on the guy, that Iowa defense was really good. They held teams to an average of 18 ppg. I'm just saying let's not only look at the dude's highlight reel. 

27 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Just for context, Troy went on to lose that game 21 to 38. Caldwell went 14/21, for 156 yards, one TD, and one INT.

And before y'all think I'm shitting on the guy, that Iowa defense was really good. They held teams to an average of 18 ppg. I'm just saying let's not only look at the dude's highlight reel. 

Feel free to post all the clips of his incompletions, Debbie Downer

On 10/28/2025 at 1:49 PM, Navin R. Johnson said:

Fortunately for us Sark is a QB whisperer 

I look forward to watching Caldwell hit a higher percentage of slants, digs, and posts while opening up the middle of the field in our passing game. 

On 10/28/2025 at 1:49 PM, Navin R. Johnson said:

Fortunately for us he's only been playing for Sark 8ish months

Ftfy

Obviously targeting. You dipshits don’t know the rules, clearly. 
 

“Oh but the ground caused his concussion!!!” Doesn’t fucking matter, still targeting. Forcible contact with crown of helmet to ball carriers helmet. 
 

It was #22 who did the dirty ass go for the knees on the earlier FG too. 

On 10/28/2025 at 4:36 PM, Park Gothic said:

Just for context, Troy went on to lose that game 21 to 38. Caldwell went 14/21, for 156 yards, one TD, and one INT.

And before y'all think I'm shitting on the guy, that Iowa defense was really good. They held teams to an average of 18 ppg. I'm just saying let's not only look at the dude's highlight reel. 

Caldwell has looked good, but I have not seen him play with pressure. Behind this line, he will likely see a lot of messy pockets. On one hand he has looked good on limited snaps and on the other this is his 5th season, 4th team, only has 5 starts, and has never started an opening game for a team. 

On 10/28/2025 at 3:36 PM, Park Gothic said:

Just for context, Troy went on to lose that game 21 to 38. Caldwell went 14/21, for 156 yards, one TD, and one INT.

And before y'all think I'm shitting on the guy, that Iowa defense was really good. They held teams to an average of 18 ppg. I'm just saying let's not only look at the dude's highlight reel. 

Caldwell didn't start until the final 5 games of the season. He was a backup at Troy, but obviously that means he's excellent.

I wasn't joking about not having played for Sark long. Ewers regressed during his time at Texas and so has Arch. 

None of these help the fact that Caldwell isn’t also a top notch offensive lineman so he's stuck with the ones we have. Our only hope is Sark feels compelled to go with the simplified offensive scheme that he seems to hate because Caldwell is playing.

5 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Caldwell has looked good, but I have not seen him play with pressure. Behind this line, he will likely see a lot of messy pockets. On one hand he has looked good on limited snaps and on the other this is his 5th season, 4th team, only has 5 starts, and has never started an opening game for a team. 

It's so myopically bizarre to me that so many place so much faith in a guy who didn't start for Troy until the final 5 games of the season.

Troy.

But based on a tiny sample size he's the greatest thing since VY despite the reality that we have consistently had the most pressured QB in P4. It will also still be Sark calling the plays.

Just wildly amusing.

Again, we just all have to hope Sark goes with the conservative game plan our OL is actually capable of executing.

 

Edited by BurntEyes

4 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

It's so myopically bizarre to me that so many place so much faith in a guy who didn't start for Troy until the final 5 games of the season.

Troy.

But based on a tiny sample size he's the greatest thing since VY despite the reality that we have consistently had the most pressured QB in P4. It will also still be Sark calling the plays.

Just wildly amusing.

Again, we just all have to hope Sark goes with the conservative game plan our OL is actually capable of executing.

 

One thing to his advantage is he has not played behind this OL. I mean that seriously. He does not carry any of the scar tissue from being the most pressured QB in the SEC. We may see a more Quinn-like gameplan with him. Arch's ability to throw the deep ball is Sark crack. Even Sark has said he is throwing deep more this year. Calwell might not tempt him as much as Arch. 

Edited by Codaxx

7 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Caldwell didn't start until the final 5 games of the season. He was a backup at Troy, but obviously that means he's excellent.

I wasn't joking about not having played for Sark long. Ewers regressed during his time at Texas and so has Arch. 

None of these help the fact that Caldwell isn’t also a top notch offensive lineman so he's stuck with the ones we have. Our only hope is Sark feels compelled to go with the simplified offensive scheme that he seems to hate because Caldwell is playing.

I think we agree about limiting expectations for Caldwell, but I'm not signing off on this whole "QBs regress under Sark" thing. There could be some validity to it, but I disagree with the evidence people have used. First, Ewers looked a lot fucking better in 2023 than he did in 2022. And although he took a step back in 2024, that may be attributable to a nagging injury. That's what Ewers has said and it makes as much sense to me as the idea that he regressed under Sark. As to Manning? We barely saw him play before this season, and most of his snaps against good competition were as a wildcat QB. I don't think he threw a pass against a P4 opponent outside of MSU. And Arch looked good in 2024, but how much of that was Sark keeping things simple for him / playing poor competition / having better WR and OL? 

There's too many variables that could explain the apparent "regression" of Ewers and Manning for me to pin it on Sark. 

56 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Our only hope is Sark feels compelled to go with the simplified offensive scheme that he seems to hate because Caldwell is playing.

Yes, please

I think most of us want Sark to simplify the offensive scheme and merge our OU rushing attack with our Miss State, Q4 passing game. Whatever it takes. Our favorite player may get the start - the backup QB.

On 10/26/2025 at 11:59 AM, ousux said:

I can't speak for everyone, maybe some want Arch permanently benched?

That said, those two passes were 1. A perfect strike for a game critical 1st down, 2. A perfect game winning TD pass that was placed where only Mosely could grab it. Both done cold off the bench and with very limited practice time the week before.

You can't tell me you aren't intrigued and don't want to see more from Caldwell...you just can't.

Boy, I'd like to see it.

This thread will be the biggest, argumentative clusterfuck in Surly history if Caldwell plays and does well. I'm here for it. 😁 Personally, IDGAF who's playing QB as long as we win.

1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

It's so myopically bizarre to me that so many place so much faith in a guy who didn't start for Troy until the final 5 games of the season.

Troy.

But based on a tiny sample size he's the greatest thing since VY despite the reality that we have consistently had the most pressured QB in P4. It will also still be Sark calling the plays.

Just wildly amusing.

Again, we just all have to hope Sark goes with the conservative game plan our OL is actually capable of executing.

 

Here's what you continue to not only miss, but also misconstrue.  No one, except a few idiots, has come even close to saying anthing this stupid.

You completely missing the point that some make about "hey someone might be able to hit those simple fucking passes a little easier than Arch" is absolutely mind boggling.

I don't think anyone has realistically said Caldwell IS better than Arch, or thinks Arch is some bum who should never see the field again.

We ALL know the game plan sucks, and the OL sucks.  

HOWEVER what you continue to fail to acknowledge, is that Arch, unti lthe 4th quarter, absolutely was missing easy completions that almost any college level QB could make. Yes even with the OL issues, and yes even with the guy who fucked your Mom Sark calling plays.

Does that mean the team will absolutely be better with Caldwell? No, of course not.

But can we maybe see a guy who's maybe not going to throw balls in the fucking dirt, or behind/over/in front off a receiver way more often than he doesn't?

 

With you ANYONE who says "hey let's see what caldwell can do" when Arch is playing very poorly, means we think he's better or that it's ALL Arch's fault.

That's not the case.  WHEN Arch plays poorly it's the ONE thing that can be switched out easily enough just to see. Can't fire the coach or force a change in play caller right now...and it's not like they can put 5 different OL in there either.

33 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

Boy, I'd like to see it.

This thread will be the biggest, argumentative clusterfuck in Surly history if Caldwell plays and does well. I'm here for it. 😁 Personally, IDGAF who's playing QB as long as we win.

This is where I'm at.  Some guys think if you say "hey arch is struggling bad, maybe bench him for a quarter or the rest of this game and let's see what happens" turns into Arch hate.

When no...I just want to win. And yes Arch is much more talented. That doesn't mean he's seeing the field proper or making the right throws.  Maybe someone else can for the rest of that game. That's all.

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