October 26Oct 26 Popular Post Listen bros. Here is what I am going to say. Last year when we played good defenses like Georgia we looked completely inept offensively. Then there would come a point in the game where we would get desperate and Sark would start spreading it out and we would look like a completely different offense. Spreading the formations and running with more receivers cleans up the whole picture for the quarterback. If you are 4 and 5 wide, its hard for the defense to disguise what they are in. Further so if you are sending guys in motion every snap to make them declare man or zone. Last year when we played Georgia in the SEC championship Sark came out in 11 personnel or 4 wide and Quinn lit them up for 160 yards in 20 minutes. Then we settled into two tight end sets and we bogged down for the rest of the game. Well, take a look at what we did and how Arch responding from the end of the 3rd Qtr and on. 1st and 10 and we are in 11 personnel here(1 TE and 1 back). Us being in 11 personnel makes us faster because the TEs we are currently employing are slow. Take one off for another WR and routes get completed faster meaning Arch can let it fly that much sooner. State responds with a legit 3-2-6 which is a fucking mistake. Our line struggles with passing off rushers and our QB struggles moving quickly through his progressions. Now you just solved both of our issues in one fell swoop. Now look at the route concepts here. Two comeback routes on the outside. Easy to read. Easy to throw. A 5 yard drag for a hot and a 12 yard dig going the other way. Arch is superb here. Ball is out on the break. Not a G-damned thing the DB can do about it great ball! YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p.mp4 3rd and 10 and State is going to bring the house. We keep Wisner in to block and successfully wash down the defensive line allowing Manning to slide out to his left and buy time for these routes to develop. Yall should recognize the route combo. Its the same post with a dig combo we always run. Arch always fucks this up. The deep dig is almost always open underneath, and it's wide the fuck open here but it doesn't matter because Wingo is too fast for State safeties. It's double coverage and he still destroys their angle. When you see this you see why Sark had Wingo in there but damn it if dude doesn't fellate large phallus 50% of the time. Arch underthrows it a little as not to miss for a big gainer. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_2.mp4 . So here we are on the goalline in 12 personnel. We are going to motion Wingo to the boundary. Their entire defense is worried about Wingo, and both safeties shift to get a man over top of him. Sark just put their DB on an island 1v1 with Livingstone. At first when I saw this throw I thought it was late. But pay attention. The DB is in 13's hip pocket but Parker gives a little stiff arm right on his break that created space, and that's when Arch throws. any sooner and I am not sure it would be broken up. Beautiful throw by Arch and great catch by 13. Arch maybe could've thrown it 3 feet sooner at best. We max protect as we roll this pocket, keeping 7 in to block. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_3.mp4 We are in 11 personnel. We have a bit of a modified smash route to the boundary. Now the smash can be run a myriad of ways. Traditionally the inside receiver runs an out, and the outside receiver runs a corner. Sark changes this combo a lot but today the outside runs an out while the TE runs an arrow. The QB is reading the outside corner. If he is up he throws the corner route over his head between the corner and the safety. However, if he is playing off you rip the under. At the snap State makes it easy as they try to roll coverage to the field and Arch correctly takes the short throw. Now look at the pass rush. DJ's man beats him and comes completely free but Arch gets rid of the football so quickly that it doesn't matter. Normally Arch holds this ball looking for a deeper route and gets sacked. Nice work Arch. We had this same call on vs OU and he didn't throw it. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_4.mp4 3rd and 3. State is going to bring 6. Sark has a man beater on with Parker running the 5 yard drag. Arch correctly identifies the blitz but is just a touch slow getting this ball out. Regardless, at least he saw it. That's what needs to happen for teams to stop blitzing us so frequently. This would've been even better if Sark allowed the receivers to sight adjust. If Parker's man runs by him to blitz he should run a quick 4 yard hook. By crossing he ran himself right into the defenders in the middle. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_6.mp4 Sark is in his bag here. 11 personnel. We are going to motion Moore to the boundary which gives us trips to that side. A man comes with him which tells Arch it's man coverage. At the snap the TE runs up the seam carrying his man, but making sure to run outside the LB who is responsible for Wisner creating a natural pick. Arch hits him and Tre does the rest. Nice playcall by Sark. Again, this is the kind of ball Arch has to throw to beat the blitz. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_7.mp4 So back in 11 personnel. Remember that smash concept a couple plays ago where Arch threw the quick arrow route because the corner was playing off. Here is the same concept but the corner squats on the under so we just pitch it over his head. Pretty simple read that works against quite a lot of coverages. Why don't we run it all the time? We do. Arch is just dealing here. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_8.mp4 This next one is what Manning struggles with. Were are in 11 personnel. Sark is trying to isolate Wingo against a DB for a speed out that Wingo should win, especially with this much cushion. A few things about it. Yes, Arch is late on this throw and as you can see it allows the DB to recover and make a okay. But more importantly than that, Wingo runs a shitty route. He never stems his route(get the receiver to turn his hips) and just rounds the route off to the sideline. Then. Catch the fucking football G-damnit! This fucking guy. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_9.mp4 As yall know we run this fake screen all the time and I don't think it ever works when run with a TE. Takes too long to develop. Two receivers and it happens way faster and you can get the ball out faster. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_10.mp4 2nd and 10. State gives us a 3 man rush. Manning probably had more time to throw but checked it down quickly. I love to see it. It's 2nd and 10 and if you miss here State is bringing the house. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_12.mp4 So you remember that speed out that we just ran with bitchass Wingo? We flip the play and run it with Moore on the right. Same fucking defender. Number 13. As Moore runs up the seam he makes a subtle move with his feet making the DB step a little inside before me makes his break and look at how much more separation he gets. Easy pitch and catch. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_13.mp4 Remember this play earlier in the qtr? We motion Wingo to the field side this time. A defender comes with him and we hit Tre on the rail out the backfield. This time we catch them in a blitz and get a chunk play. Now we've run two plays twice in this Qtr. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_14.mp4 Enders wide open at the bottom of the screen. Missed him. Overall his decision wasn't bad, he just has to throw this before the receiver clears the first defender. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_15.mp4 Remember that speed out? Yep, we are about to run it for the third time in the quarter now. Except this time it's going to Livingstone. He fires upfield and runs the defender out of view, Nice easy pitch and catch even though he slipped trying to make a play after he caught it. YTDown.com_YouTube_Texas-vs-Mississippi-State-Condensed-WIL_Media_uUf47YeX4o4_001_1080p_16.mp4 So what coach did was go largely 11 personnel and run the same few plays for Arch. Probably something he executes well and likes. Arch responded it well, and because of that we will be right back to running double tights and slow developing plays. And for you Quinn haters, this was the same thing happening to Quinn last year it's just that Quinn is a bit more polished and could operate fine in Sarks slow ass offense until we came up against Georgia or the like. These are the kind of concepts and routes that Freshwater is running. He isn't some genius his offense just is a bit more basic. Edited October 26Oct 26 by Thatguy
October 26Oct 26 Author 8 minutes ago, ztejas said: What the fuck is this. Ignore the typos it's late.
October 26Oct 26 Thanks for the work you put in on this. It’s interesting that this approach seems like the opposite of the conservative, run first and short passes “identity” that worked against OU. So we have two extremes that this team runs well and Sark just keeps searching for the sour spot in the middle.
October 26Oct 26 Author Popular Post 1 hour ago, Bevo&Pevo said: Hahaha. Yeah. Reading that back in the am hurt my eyes too. This what happens when I am typing really fast at 2am, and just trying to finish. Terribad. So basically Sark simplified the offense for Arch in the 4th. He changed from his usual convoluted route concepts, to simple, easy to read/execute routes. Then he ran those plays repeatedly in the 4th. 1 hour ago, Duane Moore said: Thanks for the work you put in on this. It’s interesting that this approach seems like the opposite of the conservative, run first and short passes “identity” that worked against OU. So we have two extremes that this team runs well and Sark just keeps searching for the sour spot in the middle. That is what it seems like. I don't know why Sark hates spread concepts so much but everytime we use them the offense starts moving. All these kids come from this world, with all the 7 on 7 and such. Dude is just stubborn. We gave Arch basic, high school, Tony Franklin route concepts and dude was out there dealing.
October 26Oct 26 Popular Post Find yourself a woman that loves you as much as Sark loves playing TEs that aren’t a pass catching threat and can’t block for shit.
October 26Oct 26 Popular Post This saves me from rewatching to figure out what changed. Essentially, we played 2020s CFB instead of 2000 CFB. This shouldn't be crazy difficult: *Spread the defense. *Use RB or TE to protect when the situation calls for it. *Get the ball out quickly and let the skill players work. I can't even with these slow developing play action NFL ass pass plays that only work with quality NFL OLines (notice it doesn't work for the Texans, Panthers, Bears, Dolphins...) Get it out.
October 26Oct 26 Popular Post Damn this is beautiful. So I guess we won’t be seeing any of this against Vandy
October 26Oct 26 Author 3 minutes ago, Slacks said: This saves me from rewatching to figure out what changed. Essentially, we played 2020s CFB instead of 2000 CFB. This shouldn't be crazy difficult: *Spread the defense. *Use RB or TE to protect when the situation calls for it. *Get the ball out quickly and let the skill players work. I can't even with these slow developing play action NFL ass pass plays that only work with quality NFL OLines (notice it doesn't work for the Texans, Panthers, Bears, Dolphins...) Get it out. You are 100% correct. CFB was never better offensively than when teams were spreading the ball around in my opinion. I think what happened was some players got drafted off spread teams and had to adapt to the NFL style making them look like busts. So highly touted recruits started looking for CFB teams with more NFL concepts and here we are. What is your take on that Slacks? Why are we making offense difficult?
October 26Oct 26 Author Popular Post 32 minutes ago, elguapo said: Find yourself a woman that loves you as much as Sark loves playing TEs that aren’t a pass catching threat and can’t block for shit. That motherfucker loves him some TEs don't he? I just don't get it. Just more bodies laying on the ground for our RBs to navigate.
October 26Oct 26 This was all reminiscent of Tom Herman. Run my typical shit until the 4Q. Get behind and say spread them out and let the QB work. Time is a flat circle
October 26Oct 26 4 minutes ago, Thatguy said: That motherfucker loves him some TEs don't he? I just don't get it. Just more bodies laying on the ground for our RBs to navigate. Yeah but at least they’re good for a penalty or 3 every game!
October 26Oct 26 Author 7 minutes ago, D3zii said: Damn this is beautiful. So I guess we won’t be seeing any of this against Vandy You guessed it. We will trot out there with 88 and 84 first snap on Saturday, then promptly run play action off of split zone blocking schematics, where a TE has to come across the formation and pick up the backside DE. Because looks. Lol
October 26Oct 26 Author 3 minutes ago, Codaxx said: This was all reminiscent of Tom Herman. Run my typical shit until the 4Q. Get behind and say spread them out and let the QB work. Time is a flat circle Yep. They just employ different techniques on how to get a QB killed.
October 26Oct 26 3 minutes ago, Thatguy said: You guessed it. We will trot out there with 88 and 84 first snap on Saturday, then promptly run play action off of split zone blocking schematics, where a TE has to come across the formation and pick up the backside DE. Because looks. Lol Caldwell might actually have a better understanding of that offense, so if the line holds up at all (lol), it might actually work.
October 26Oct 26 Dude this is a great break down. Thanks for the time and effort. We really could have witnessed Wingo smashing school records yesterday if he could catch. I have no idea why sark fucking hates this offense that arch seems to be so successful in. The wait until your fucked. Incase of emergency break glass shit is why we are going into OT back to back weeks against the 2 worst sec teams. It’s obvious he can scheme the guys open and arch seems a little more swagger and comfortable in 11 man. Quick hitters 1-3 step Drops with pre determined reads. As we all already know this failure of a season is on sark but seeing that we are capable of putting up 24 points in 7 minutes after being stoned all game is frustrating
October 26Oct 26 Popular Post He didn't learn the most important lesson there is from Saban. You have to adapt to circumstances. You think Saban liked changing to a more open offense? He didn't, but he liked winning so he did it anyway.
October 26Oct 26 29 minutes ago, D3zii said: Damn this is beautiful. So I guess we won’t be seeing any of this against Vandy
October 26Oct 26 36 minutes ago, Slacks said: This saves me from rewatching to figure out what changed. Essentially, we played 2020s CFB instead of 2000 CFB. This shouldn't be crazy difficult: *Spread the defense. *Use RB or TE to protect when the situation calls for it. *Get the ball out quickly and let the skill players work. I can't even with these slow developing play action NFL ass pass plays that only work with quality NFL OLines (notice it doesn't work for the Texans, Panthers, Bears, Dolphins...) Get it out. Eh, GDGD was running 3 wides/1TE or 4/5 wides in the 2000s (different routes, similar formations)
October 26Oct 26 Just now, Sgt Hulk said: Dude this is a great break down. Thanks for the time and effort. We really could have witnessed Wingo smashing school records yesterday if he could catch. I have no idea why sark fucking hates this offense that arch seems to be so successful in. The wait until your fucked. Incase of emergency break glass shit is why we are going into OT back to back weeks against the 2 worst sec teams. It’s obvious he can scheme the guys open and arch seems a little more swagger and comfortable in 11 man. Quick hitters 1-3 step Drops with pre determined reads. As we all already know this failure of a season is on sark but seeing that we are capable of putting up 24 points in 7 minutes after being stoned all game is frustrating The underlined comes down to a few simple realities. First, I am confident it is Sark's ego that leads him to go right back to the offense that hasn't worked time and again. He actually believes, due to his ego, that somehow, some way it will, this time. Why? Because I think his ego has unfortunately allowed him to drink his own coolaide with help from media and others that he is an offensive genius. Second, all of the staff on offense are long-term friends of Sark's. Essentially, yes men that aren't questioning or arent in the position to question his choices. So nobody is checking Sark on them at all. (CDC should step in here) Third, because of the first two, not having contact drills in spring or summer, all combined with poor talent evaluation skills and a flat unwillingness to align the game plan to the strengths of the players and weaknesses of opposing defenses, Sark believes, actually truly believes that it will work, has to work. Part of that is the law of diminishing returns he has fallen victim to. His ego says he was right, he's been trying to show he was right all season long, if it now reverses course after all this time, effort and energy he will be forced to admit, to both himself and the world he was wrong. He can't be wrong because he's a offensive genius. He's coached these players, they will execute it next time. It's impossible that they won't, because he's a genius, came up with this scheme and knows they are capable.
October 26Oct 26 7 hours ago, ztejas said: What the fuck is this. I would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
October 26Oct 26 Sark is going full on Jimbo at A&M with Kellen Mond. Run an extremely complex “NFL style offense” have route trees and concepts so complex it mind fucks your WR and requires years of work to earn playing time. Recruit a bunch of fatass cubes on the O line that can’t run your exotic protections and finally have your extremely athletic QB do drop backs and stand in the pocket. Jimbo and Kellen Mond made me so much money in 2017-2019 because betting on A&M to cover was a lock as Jimbo and the offense would always fuck around for 3 quarters until the game was out of reach at which point Jimbo would let Mond start just making plays and running and all of a sudden the offense would come alive and score. Edited October 26Oct 26 by Not a Sock
October 26Oct 26 Author 20 minutes ago, Dahobbs said: Caldwell might actually have a better understanding of that offense, so if the line holds up at all (lol), it might actually work. It's hard to say how much he's absorbed since he has been here, but he seems to be pretty comfortable or maybe Sark knows what Caldwell likes and goes to his Caldwell playbook.
October 26Oct 26 2 minutes ago, Not a Sock said: Sark is going full on Jimbo at A&M with Kellen Mond. Run an extremely complex “NFL style offense” have route trees and concepts so complex it mind fucks your WR and requires years of work to earn playing time. Recruit a bunch of fatass cubes on the O line that can’t run your exotic protections and finally have your extremely athletic QB do drop backs and stand in the pocket. Jimbo and Kellen Mond made me so much money in 2017-2019 because betting on A&M to cover was a lock as Jimbo and the offense would always fuck around for 3 quarters until the game was out of reach at which point Jimbo would let Mond start just manning plays and running and all of a sudden the offense would come alive and score. Longhorns covered
October 26Oct 26 Thanks for this. I was at the game and had no idea how in the ever living fuck we managed to win
October 26Oct 26 That was a fantastic breakdown. As someone who shit on Arch's performance for most of the game, that was a great 4th quarter from him.
October 26Oct 26 Just now, MirrOlure said: Thanks for this. I was at the game and had no idea how in the ever living fuck we managed to win Me either. Wingo left another 75 yds on the field. Minimum.
October 26Oct 26 13 minutes ago, kevwun said: He didn't learn the most important lesson there is from Saban. You have to adapt to circumstances. You think Saban liked changing to a more open offense? He didn't, but he liked winning so he did it anyway. Yeah, Sark has spoken a few times in the past about the "adapt or die" philosophy he got from Saban. Too bad it didn't stick.
October 26Oct 26 Author 17 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said: Dude this is a great break down. Thanks for the time and effort. We really could have witnessed Wingo smashing school records yesterday if he could catch. I have no idea why sark fucking hates this offense that arch seems to be so successful in. The wait until your fucked. Incase of emergency break glass shit is why we are going into OT back to back weeks against the 2 worst sec teams. It’s obvious he can scheme the guys open and arch seems a little more swagger and comfortable in 11 man. Quick hitters 1-3 step Drops with pre determined reads. As we all already know this failure of a season is on sark but seeing that we are capable of putting up 24 points in 7 minutes after being stoned all game is frustrating 5 minutes ago, BurntEyes said: The underlined comes down to a few simple realities. First, I am confident it is Sark's ego that leads him to go right back to the offense that hasn't worked time and again. He actually believes, due to his ego, that somehow, some way it will, this time. Why? Because I think his ego has unfortunately allowed him to drink his own coolaide with help from media and others that he is an offensive genius. Second, all of the staff on offense are long-term friends of Sark's. Essentially, yes men that aren't questioning or arent in the position to question his choices. So nobody is checking Sark on them at all. (CDC should step in here) Third, because of the first two, not having contact drills in spring or summer, all combined with poor talent evaluation skills and a flat unwillingness to align the game plan to the strengths of the players and weaknesses of opposing defenses, Sark believes, actually truly believes that it will work, has to work. Part of that is the law of diminishing returns he has fallen victim to. His ego says he was right, he's been trying to show he was right all season long, if it now reverses course after all this time, effort and energy he will be forced to admit, to both himself and the world he was wrong. He can't be wrong because he's a offensive genius. He's coached these players, they will execute it next time. It's impossible that they won't, because he's a genius, came up with this scheme and knows they are capable. I know you aren't black, because this motherfucker spelled Kool Aid with a C. No black person would do that. 🤣 But y'all are dead right. The crazy part though is Sark has been in this situation before. If you remember he had Jake Locker and adapted to his playing style and what worked for him. He got him a 1st round grade too So he has it in him but for whatever reason he won't adapt.
October 26Oct 26 I texted a friend towards the end of the 4th quarter, "Arch all the sudden looks a lot better when we're in hurry-up and he's getting the ball out quickly". Much less robotic and more just playing. I also don't remember any of those accuracy issues that keep popping up. Weird.
October 26Oct 26 Author 3 minutes ago, mdmost said: That was a fantastic breakdown. As someone who shit on Arch's performance for most of the game, that was a great 4th quarter from him. As someone who shit on Arch in general I agree!
October 26Oct 26 Great break down. I agree and said it last week after Kentucky, we don't have the personnel to play 12, we need to play 11 and 10 because we have the WRs and RBs to do it, we don't have the OL and TEs. This is just another reason Sarkisian needs to go, he should have known this shit the first day of fall camp and pivoted. My guess is that Caldwell will also play better in the 11 and 10 peronnel groupings should Manning have suffered a concussion and have to miss the Vanderbilt game, but I would feel more better about our chances moving forward if Sarkisian would take his head out of his ass and go with what this team can execute at a higher level consistently. Edited October 26Oct 26 by HtownHorn
October 26Oct 26 3 hours ago, Duane Moore said: Thanks for the work you put in on this. It’s interesting that this approach seems like the opposite of the conservative, run first and short passes “identity” that worked against OU. So we have two extremes that this team runs well and Sark just keeps searching for the sour spot in the middle. If this is true I want to throw up.
October 26Oct 26 8 minutes ago, HtownHorn said: Great break down. I agree and said it last week after Kentucky, we don't have the personnel to play 12, we need to play 11 and 10 because we have the WRs and RBs to do it, we don't have the OL and TEs. I hate to pick on the guy, but if we do nothing else we need to park Spencer Shannon on the bench. Through eight games I have no idea what he's supposed to be giving us. Blocking, I guess, in theory.
October 26Oct 26 58 minutes ago, South Austin said: But what about Quinn? All the pigeons gonna run to him.
October 26Oct 26 Author 40 minutes ago, kevwun said: He didn't learn the most important lesson there is from Saban. You have to adapt to circumstances. You think Saban liked changing to a more open offense? He didn't, but he liked winning so he did it anyway. Saban? That's a life lesson. If I walk downstairs to get a drink from the fridge and the living room is on fire I just can't shrug my shoulders, grab my drink, and head upstairs.
October 26Oct 26 26 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said: Yeah, Sark has spoken a few times in the past about the "adapt or die" philosophy he got from Saban. Too bad it didn't stick. Saturday was a pretty big lesson in the philosophy. Let's wait and see.
October 26Oct 26 8 minutes ago, Red Five said: I hate to pick on the guy, but if we do nothing else we need to park Spencer Shannon on the bench. Through eight games I have no idea what he's supposed to be giving us. Blocking, I guess, in theory. It’s infuriating that we have young playmaking WRs who’ve been standing on the sideline all damn season so we can play Shannon and Washington
October 26Oct 26 4 minutes ago, Thatguy said: Saban? That's a life lesson. If I walk downstairs to get a drink from the fridge and the living room is on fire I just can't shrug my shoulders, grab my drink, and head upstairs. Yet it's the hardest lesson for coaches to learn. Their default response it keep doing the same thing, while telling everyone to just try harder. Edited October 26Oct 26 by kevwun
October 26Oct 26 I turned to mdleast before we started watching the game and said, like an asshole, there's no way Arch gets the same stats he did last year against Mississippi State. Last year, 26/31 325 yards, 2 TDs. Last night, 29/46, 346 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT.
October 26Oct 26 Author 8 minutes ago, Quagmire said: Now do the defense . Yikes . Lebby put PK in a bit of a quagmire
October 26Oct 26 Popular Post 22 minutes ago, Quagmire said: Now do the defense . Yikes . The defense held MS St to -21 yards on 17 plays on their final 4 drives. The comeback doesn't happen if the defense doesn't play great in the 4th quarter and OT. Edited October 26Oct 26 by mdmost
October 26Oct 26 19 minutes ago, Quagmire said: Now do the defense . Yikes . They attacked the Taaffe vacuum.
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