r/CFB • u/TermAccomplished1868 ECU Pirates • 2h ago
Discussion The media's fandom for Arch Manning is insufferable.
Their lust for this kid makes Texas games borderline unwatchable. Is it as bad as Bill Belichick's Tarheels or Shaduer Sanders? Debatable.
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u/WhoElseButMe_ Texas Longhorns 2h ago
I want him benched. Literally stared down an open receiver and held on to the ball and fumbled. Cost us 2 weeks in a row.
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u/jk137jk Penn State Nittany Lions • Texas Longhorns 2h ago
He needs to be. But I also want to highlight that the offense came back on the field and didn’t have 2 plays planned before the 2 minute warning. You’re facing the clock and instead of prepping the offense with 2-3 plays to get in before the TMW, Manning is waiting for a play call and rushing to snap the ball. Just poor play all around.
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u/WhoElseButMe_ Texas Longhorns 2h ago
Yeah Sark thinks he’s so smart hiking the ball before the 2 min warning.. he’s not
Let the 2 min warning come and regroup the offense and let’s get some good play calls. Worst case we just need a FG
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u/admiraltarkin Texas A&M • Prairie View A&M 44m ago
I was going to make a joke about trading QBs but knowing our luck Reed would win a Heisman so I'll pass
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u/nigeldog Clemson Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs 2h ago
I have conflicted feelings about Arch. He’s clearly a nepo baby with no business starting at Texas, but I can’t blame him for going to the team he felt gave him the best chance to develop as a quarterback. I also haven’t heard anything bad about his personality.
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u/Negativefalsehoods Tennessee Volunteers • Duke Blue Devils 2h ago
I think he would have developed better under Josh Heupel vs. Sark
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u/Glyphlessthan1 2h ago
Uhoh!! You gonna get sum hate for sayin that truth… come to Tennessee Arch! Been sayin that since last year! 1000% agree!
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u/nigeldog Clemson Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs 2h ago
Same. Sark is a good coach, but I think Arch and his family might’ve overestimated his ability to develop passers.
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u/Davidellias Virginia Tech • Wisconsin 2h ago
I saw a post lastbyear that said Arch was a big fish in a small pond in HS. I think he really could have used a qb guru coach.
Hope Peytons kid does better at his private school. Tennessee does usually have a decent Private School football gauntlet
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u/OscarDelta333 FIU Panthers 2h ago
He should publicly blame his teammates, coaches, and the fans for his poor play.
That might help.
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u/JohnnieTightLips Wake Forest • Ohio State 2h ago
What pisses me off is espn building up this kid and then tearing him down like they weren’t the ones glazing him on the first place. God I hate that network
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u/HelioFilter Arizona State Sun Devils 2h ago
As a Texas hater, I’m really concerned Arch will declare for the draft …
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u/golfscool45 Illinois State Redbirds 2h ago
What school would Arch be QB at if he had a different last name?
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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 2h ago
Illinois State
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u/152is2after150 Georgia • Illinois State 2h ago
Maybe he could have won the FCS championship for us
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u/Local-Finance8389 Texas A&M Aggies 2h ago
Bowling Green.
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u/sundaym00d 2h ago
in this scenario does he also lose the elite coaching since peewee?
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u/R1ckMartel Missouri • Bowling Green 2h ago
This is the unspoken truth. He's had every coaching and financial advantage his entire life. He's probably played fewer than five games ever when his team didn't have a monstrous talent advantage
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u/ashdrewness Texas Longhorns 1h ago
He’s a great representation of the current class of kids that played travel sports since they were 10yo not because they were the best but because their parents could afford it. Now those same Private Equity-backed leagues are charging for player rankings.
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u/FloggingJonna Arkansas Razorbacks • Miami Hurricanes 2h ago
The training bit I’ll definitely grant. But if you really dig into the weeds a shit ton of D1 kids played at highschools that just thrashed most of their competition. Kids with parents with far less means than Arch will get their kid at the best school with the best team in the area.
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u/Proverbial_Progress Alabama • North Alabama 1h ago
In my experience this is true even of parents who's children have no higher ability or aspiration than a scholarship to a D2 school.
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u/FloggingJonna Arkansas Razorbacks • Miami Hurricanes 1h ago
Yeah realistically if they’re a D1 talent a localish high school will somehow make sure the kid has the means to get an apartment in their district. At least that’s how it is where I’ve lived. The big high schools will have middle school “camps” that are essentially city wide recruiting efforts.
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u/Beaux7 LSU Tigers 2h ago
Eh, Newman wasn't that good of a program lol they would get dog walked by most big New Orleans schools
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u/griffinhamilton Southern Miss Golden Eagles • LSU Tigers 2h ago
Yeah our best football season ever in HS absolutely derailed by Rummel
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u/Lane-Kiffin UC San Diego Tritons • USC Trojans 2h ago
Great question—
Let’s assume he still grows up wealthy. His dad Cooper and his uncles Peyton and Eli run a plumbing empire across southern Louisiana.
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u/Th3_LoNe_eXiLe Texas A&M Aggies 2h ago
A&M. Have you seen our QB?
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u/Crying_in_99Ranch LSU Tigers 1h ago
He wouldn't be high enough rated without his last name to go to A&M and underachieve there
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u/SuicidalApendices Texas Longhorns • Iowa State Cyclones 41m ago
Dang. I didn't know how bad things had gotten for y'all until I saw this.
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u/Th3_LoNe_eXiLe Texas A&M Aggies 37m ago
I would love the opportunity for our QB to throw the game away with the game on the line. Instead I have to watch Reed look out of his league again Citadel. Being an Aggie sucks right now.
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u/KingKliffsbury Texas Tech Red Raiders 2h ago
UT…El Paso
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u/Desperate_Gift_9366 Indiana Hoosiers • Ball State Cardinals 1h ago
Arch Doesn't Deserve UTEP. That’s the home of the 15th best Mcdonalds in El Paso
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u/KingKliffsbury Texas Tech Red Raiders 1h ago
Deep cut. I like it. Would tag that guy but idk his username
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u/magnoliaAveGooner Texas Longhorns • TCU Horned Frogs 2h ago
Maybe Tulane or ULAMon. He is a fraud.
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u/Mavman31 Minnesota Golden Gophers 2h ago
Gophers, he reminds me of a taller Tanner Morgan. Good arm (not accurate) and can run the ball.
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u/BajaFerret Arkansas Razorbacks 2h ago
we'll take him
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u/Imadeyoulook1 2h ago
He can’t survive the sec with good weapons what’s he gonna do in the same conference with a worse supporting cast
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u/TheUltimate721 Nebraska Cornhuskers 2h ago
Probably still P4. Something like West Virgina or Illinois.
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u/JakeSteeleIII Paper Bag • South Carolina Gamecocks 2h ago
I never hear anything about Arch unless I’m watching Texas or I’m on this board.
Maybe I just don’t consume college football talk shows/podcasts/post shows like others.
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u/Particular-Way-3805 Clark Atlanta • Georgia 2h ago
Arch needs to stay one more year he’s not nfl ready
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u/OnMyNerves23 Paper Bag 2h ago
God I hope it’s not at Texas. Eli hinted to it on a podcast he could stay another year but it can’t be at Texas.
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u/FCoDxDart Texas Longhorns • Texas A&M Aggies 1h ago
Watch him leave for A&M and ball the hell out. I wouldn’t even be mad. If that happens Sark has to go.
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u/Outrageous_Picture39 Texas A&M • Sam Houston 1h ago
I genuinely feel like if we switched QBs both might actually do better. The football gods love irony.
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u/Own-Lavishness4029 Texas Longhorns 28m ago
If he leaves and gets out of this shit ass offensive coaching squad, he will thrive. Sark actively makes qb's worse.
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u/OnMyNerves23 Paper Bag 1h ago
Sark needs to go no matter what. This is year four. He won’t hire an OC. I don’t care if Arch goes somewhere else and wins a Heisman.
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u/aksoileau LSU Tigers 47m ago
Sark, Kiffin, and Riley are the same damn grifters bringing their "elite" offenses into mediocrity everywhere they go.
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u/spwnofsaton Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats 2h ago
But he needs to transfer. It isn’t going to happen at Texas.
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u/flaginorout 2h ago
Hard to say. He’s certainly had a lot of advantages that got him where he is.
If his name was John Smith and went to a decent 6A public school, he’d probably still play in college. He’s not terrible when compared to the pool of college QBs. He has the tangibles in terms of size and arm strength.
I was watch the JMU game today, and Arch is better than their guy. So he’d be competitive in the Sun Belt. Maybe eventually transfer to a bigger school.
He’s over hyped and his name definitely made a difference. But he’s not god awful like people are making him out to be.
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u/AutographedSnorkel 2h ago
LMAO, UT will probably pay him $5 million to go away once the Longhorns are eliminated from playoff contention. If he plays next year, it will be at Western Kentucky
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u/More_Image_8781 Missouri Tigers 2h ago
You really think things will change with another year? Straight garbage
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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal 47m ago
Don’t you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!
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u/Trumpburnerforlibs Texas Longhorns 2h ago
What is more annoying is people complaining when they are clearly talking about how bad he is playing
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u/Lavaswimmer Michigan Wolverines 1h ago
This sub has a long history of hearing what they want to hear and never diverting from pre-established narratives even when reality does
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u/Icy_Meat9199 Texas Tech Red Raiders 2h ago
Arch Manning is a product manufactured for TV since HS. They chose money over truth, and no one is brave enough to speak up because they would bite the hand that feeds
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u/Sytherus Texas Longhorns 2h ago edited 2h ago
Texas played like a top 10 offense over the back half of 2025 (6.55 yards per play over last 5 P5 games) without a true #1 receiver and a bad running back room.
Arch isn't the elite NFL prospect we were told, but we have seen him head an effective college offense. Instead of building on that (quick spread passing) offense, we are running the Sark grab bag joystick offense again.
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u/flaginorout 2h ago
True. I kind feel bad for him. He’s a young man with outrageous expectations placed on him.
But- he’s getting paid and will never have to work again if he doesn’t want to.
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u/Sytherus Texas Longhorns 2h ago
Sark has been the coach of Texas for 6 years now and has had a top 10 offense once (#6 in 2023 per SP+).
Arch is playing terribly right now, but he's not the reason Texas has gotten to this point. Texas is here because our QB whisperer is unable to develop QBs or coordinate an offense that maximizes it's talent.
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u/suppaman19 2h ago
I'm still trying to figure how people talk about Cam Coleman being an elite WR/NFL prospect.
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u/LasixSteroidsAbx Georgia Bulldogs • Virginia Cavaliers 2h ago
I have to watch Alabama, Texas and Lane Kiffing games on mute. .
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u/The-Spirit-of-76 Georgia Bulldogs 2h ago
I think its impressive how clearly Herb St. talks with Alabama's balls in his mouth the whole game
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u/LasixSteroidsAbx Georgia Bulldogs • Virginia Cavaliers 2h ago
Its ridiculous. Kiffin and Texas are widely inconsistent and Saban is gone. Find a new narrative.
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u/rabouilethefirst South Carolina Gamecocks 2h ago
It’s about as insufferable as Fox sports obsession with the Dallas cowboys
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u/dwts16 Tennessee Volunteers 2h ago
Booger taking up for him right now and putting it all on Sark is laughable.
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u/sabek Ohio State Buckeyes 2h ago
I hate boogers analysis on just about every but in this case it is sark who recruited him and keeps starting him so technically it is his fault right? 🤣
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u/KiffinSchoolofEthics Ohio State • Alabama 1h ago
Booger is like listening whatever dumb shit the Acho brothers are peddling and dialing it up to 11
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u/tomregal 2h ago
He needs to get benched. He doesn’t process the game fast enough and looks sad when he plays
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 55m ago
Everyone wants their family friends to be successful.
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u/PowerHour1990 2h ago
He probably would get far less hype if people stopped arbitrarily posting about him.
Do you know anybody who arbitrarily posts about him?
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u/honeybadgerrulez UConn Huskies 2h ago
can i flip it around? the hate for arch is also sometimes insufferable
i get it he’s not hitting expectations but he never had a chance because his last name was manning he was expected to be amazing. he’s just an ok college qb and that’s fine
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u/HonoluluMaizeandBlue Michigan Wolverines 2h ago
Except the Manning family and Arch himself put him in commercials at the start of last season before he had proven anything. The Manning's fanned the hype
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u/honeybadgerrulez UConn Huskies 2h ago
i mean that’s kinda my point, i don’t think they did him any favors hyping him up so much
no 20 year old is saying no to a commercial they’re gonna pay you 500 k for an hour of work
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u/hollister82 Purdue Boilermakers 2h ago
If he wasn’t a Manning he’s pretty much Ryan Browne. They play the exactly the same
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u/altimazoo Texas Longhorns 2h ago
What the hell are you babling about? He has been getting roasted for weeks, and for a year by a good number.
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u/CrashingBlumpkins46 New Mexico Lobos • Alabama Crimson Tide 2h ago
The nepo baby is awful. I'm convinced Bama's backup QB Austin Mack is better than Arch.
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u/Mulching-SZN /r/CFB 2h ago
Awful? Come on man. Overhyped but certainly not awful
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u/CrashingBlumpkins46 New Mexico Lobos • Alabama Crimson Tide 2h ago
He's awful. Just got outplayed by a backup QB on the opposing side.
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u/accelaratorforlife South Carolina Gamecocks 2h ago
He's definitely a nepo baby but like does he actually have any character concerns? Never liked him but still im assuming he is a solid guy
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u/NeptuneMeridian Texas Longhorns • Arizona Wildcats 2h ago
Unfortunately, I don’t see anything changing. Sark’s ego won’t allow it.
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u/Lazerdude Nebraska Cornhuskers 2h ago
IDK, as a Husker fan living in Austin I find these types of games fun, lol.
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u/Legitimate-Low2363 2h ago
“The moment is set for Arch Manning.” My eyeballs rolled out of my head when Tessitore said that before Arch fumbled to end the game.
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u/discretionN903 1h ago
Because of nepotism he got the offer, job, NIL money, and is excluded from being benched.
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u/DisruptiveLove 1h ago
You probably need to branch out lol the media as a whole has been skeptical since the end of last year and have been exceptionally skeptical this year
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u/KarmaDispensary Notre Dame • Jeweled Shillelagh 1h ago
My experience as a ND fan has taught me that thinking of the media as fans is a category error. They are in the take business. Any topic has a built-in audience and they can tap into it with new takes. Extreme takes get extreme reactions, including expanding the reach for a period of time. The Manning family is just a piñata for them. Notre Dame is a piñata. The Cowboys are a piñata. Just take a swing and the audience shows up.
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u/T_y_l_e_r_4 Boise State Broncos 58m ago
Colorado when they were half decent/interesting turned every broadcast into a SNL skit, I don't think Arch is quite at that level. He hasn't really done anything wrong besides play poorly.
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u/twc666666 2m ago
I really enjoy it when Manning or Belichek or Sanders lose -- it's the only reason to watch their games
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u/CraigCartonNYC Miami Hurricanes 2h ago
I feel bad cuz there’s definitely some stud nepo guys playing at other positions but the qb ones that don’t live up to the hype ruin it for rest
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u/dankestmaymayonearth Virginia Tech Hokies 2h ago
If his name were anything else he'd be the laughing stock of the entire media
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u/ahotpotatoo LSU • Northwestern State 2h ago
I beg to differ. He wouldn’t be discussed at all
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u/dankestmaymayonearth Virginia Tech Hokies 2h ago
I feel like since its texas they would talk about them more than other programs
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u/Putrid_Piano4986 Missouri • Missouri State 2h ago
I don't care about the kid, but you're just a hater. It's obvious.
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u/ItsTimetoLANK Texas Longhorns • Paper Bag 2h ago
Are you even watching the game or do you just love to bitch for internet points? This is a stupid ass post.
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u/TermAccomplished1868 ECU Pirates 2h ago
I've watched several games w/ Texas playing and the dick sucking is insufferable.
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u/No_Play_3556 2h ago
It’s Time’s When Manning Is Good Then He Play’s Horrible Horrendous Other Time’s Especially When Throw’s Way Too Many Picks During Crucial Time’s
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u/ShevanelWozzeck Alabama Crimson Tide • Alabama Crimson Tide 2h ago
Why did you capitalize every word?
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u/PointBlankCoffee Texas Longhorns • Paper Bag 1h ago
Hes been getting nonstop roasted for the last year and a half dog, even by our own fans
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u/_Zoom_Zoom_ Texas Longhorns 2h ago edited 2h ago
I've never seen a quarterback so criticized, yet people are so convinced that a cabal is unirghtfully pushing him forward. He is famous. The media talks about famous people. Especially when you are watching a game with him. Duh, they're gonna talk about the quarterback. Y'know, the guy who touches the ball every snap.
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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 2h ago
They’re literally talking about how poor he has played