I could not believe it. Sark never kicks in that situation and our kicker isn’t even that good. Not that Manning would’ve converted but you have to go for it there.
this was a head scratcher for us too. we have a very good defense, but being good at ending drives is not the same thing as holding a team to less than two yards on any given play. sark is smart enough to convert that consistently.
he saw Todd Bowles do stupid shit on Thursday and thought to himself "hahaha who would ever go for it there when you could kick and seal! (don't look at the distance from the goal)"
Just punt it is what I was saying. Take a delay of game if you have to get the depth. Pin them at their 15 with the Texas crowd right there and make Mateer play.
Fr just ask any falcons fan how bad sark actually is. Dude is just lucky the rest of the ncaa is trash so texas with its 9 figure checkbook can easily go into playoffs but they'll never win with dark.
HCs who call their own plays rarely win long term. I was shocked to hear that as well, but apparently it's a pretty recent trend, like the last decade and a half or so.
You forget OU has stopped UT multiple times on 3rd and short the whole game. And if your QB is Arch Manning I don't trust a quick throw from him either.
They were driving. Doesn’t matter. You absolutely 100% have to go for it there. OU wasn’t completing anything down the field then the last drive they did…
I'm one of the few I think who thinks Arch is/has the makings to truly be one of the higher end QBs. Plus, obviously with his family ties he has everything he needs.
His biggest problem seems to be just doing some stupid shit and letting himself go mentally. He's got to learn to just keep his shit together in the big moments like this
Just does bone-headed things. Not on a scale that leads you to believe he'll be bad in the NFL but he does them frequently enough where it definitely makes you go "he's kind of mid"
I simply don’t understand this level of delusion that makes people watch this man and think he’ll be a good NFL QB. Yes, to the level of he’ll bad in the NFL.
theres really only like hurts, herbert, and nix who had as much negative hype and turned out to be ok starters. shough to some extent, most people expected him to get injured before ever doing anything tbh. if the scouts see he has the tools and if arch aint gonna to stay another year or transfer, do you bet you can turn what he has into something. theres a lot of guys who can go top 10 but its seems kinda ho hum class overall.
Every one of those guys had special qualities one way or another that Arch hasn’t exhibited in the least. And every one of them had college seasons in a totally different stratosphere than Arch has exhibited so far.
I don’t get it at all. Acting like he deserves a college comparison to those guys is crazy!! Why are we doing this!
I mean, I don't think it's delusional to say he has the tools to do it. Because if you argue against that you're just straight wrong lol.
But I agree he has to put it all together in order to stand out in the NFL. That's something that the other members of the "bloodline" were able to do. Arch has shown on several occasions that he has the tools but as with many good college players will that translate? It's yet to be seen. And then you watch a game like today and see how ugly that was and it kind of does make even the most positive of supporters like myself go "yeah he might not pan out"
But as of right now the biggest issue with Arch is between his ears and he can't seem to get out of his own way. Which when it consistently appears to be a problem... Is concerning
His arm is an absolute howitzer and legitimately one of the strongest I have seen. Not strongest in the sense of throwing the ball far; strongest in terms of fitting the ball into windows that others can't.
Which might actually hurt him as it enables bad habits he can get away with mentally in college he won't in the NFL.
Arch is who he is. He’s not what folks thought he was (or would be) coming out of high school.
He’s a 22-year old kid with a famous last name. Arch is being very well $$ compensated, in large part because of his last name. Still, it must be tough for him to realize there are a lot of college quarterbacks with more demonstrated talent.
We lost the OU game in very similar fashion a few years ago. Took a long 50+ yd FG - which was not a gimme at all - on fourth and like four in a tie game against a gassed OU defense. Ewers had recovered from a rough start and was absolutely dealing. Like 19 straight completions or something stupid.
Texas went up 3 and OU went down and scored to win. 4 yards to foreclose on any chance of losing in regulation and he passed.
Texas could have done similar today by taking a chance on 4th and 2 in a game where their backs were averaging north of 4 ypc, and they had hit on throws of 16, 14, and 7 on the drive already. Nope, let’s kick a fucking 53 yarder.
Such an obvious decision from a win probability perspective. I’m so tired of his shit.
A good sign of it being a bad decision is when the opponent is happy with your decision. I assure you all OU fans had a sigh of relief when the FG team came out
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u/FunkBeaver Alabama Crimson Tide 6d ago
The last Arch pick was horrifically bad, he just panicked. Literally just chuck that out of bounds or take the sack and the games going to OT