Burning Questions: Texas Scored 59… But Can This O-Line Handle Ohio State? | Arch Manning

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3:03yard run. There was that 80 yard drive in the second quarter coach where it felt like it's been a while since I've seen the Texas offensive line get that kind of push. They just seem like things really bogged down after that. So coach, are you concerned or encouraged by what you saw on Saturday from the Texas running game? Well, I'm a little bit concerned. The offensive line didn't look as good as I hope they looked. But I think they got gassed. But here's what I think about the running backs we had last year running behind that offensive line yesterday. I mean, our running backs made some be Jean type moves. I mean, it's just really, they were really impressive. I think probably the best running back tan we've had since be Jean and Roger. But there were some really nice cuts and really hitting the whole hard and fast with their

4:06shoulder pads down. I think people miss an open spaces. But I just, I think our offensive line is going to be a work in progress. They're going to have to play themselves in the shape because you can work, you know, create, I mean, you know, they take breaks and stuff like that and, you know, in practices and everybody's, but you have to get in game shape, Marcus. You know that you've got to get in game shape and the temperature on that field, there's no telling what it was, you know, Saturday. So I'm going to give them a little grace, but I had very high standards when it comes to our, to our run game and to what, in my opinion, a good offensive line at the college level looks like. And I just don't know to me that you're still out on. Marcus, what do you, I know we were going to talk about some rushing yardage numbers before we got going. You know, what's your take on on is that the offensive line is at the backs. I mean, how much do you attribute to Texas State was maybe just putting some extra numbers

5:09in the box and bringing more guys toward the line of scrims. So when you sort through all of it, Marcus, what do you make of it? Yeah, I mean, a lot of what Coach said, I absolutely agree with. And I think a big piece of it, Jeff, is the context in which we're viewing this season, right? I know I picked them to go 11 and one in the regular season. So, you know, and further to that, I also said, I think they have a shot at and or that's you know, the team I'm picking to raise the trophy in Vegas for a national championship. So if that is the case and if that is the standard, and I know that's certainly the standard that coach Sark is holding himself and his players to, right? We've heard them even talk about how they know what this season means and what it could be if they played to their potential. Then that's where we get into, you know, quote unquote, nitpicking of 59 to 7 win. And so with that, you know, I was curious a little bit at, you know, what some of the numbers would look like. I know certainly how it felt watching it in the stadium to Coach's point. It was extremely hot.

6:11You know, I mean, you could even see how it was impacting folks up in the stands, right? And a 230 game like that is not something that, you know, you're going to have to be dealing with next week, but it's still something that you do have to kind of work your way into. And so from an offensive line perspective in the run game, I felt pretty good about the edges, right? So you're both of your tackles seem pretty solid. I don't see it. It's that middle interior of the offensive line that certainly was something that we were wanting to see coming into the season. I think, of course, he started the game pretty quickly. Lauren Seymour was in there at left guard. And so, you know, they were certainly working to kind of get their rhythm down. And then from the back standpoint, I absolutely agree with Coach. They are extremely explosive. They have the ability to make you miss. I think, you know, even in the past game from the back, you didn't probably even see everything you'll see out of Raleigh Brown, but I certainly was really impressed with what they were able to do with smothers in that aspect of the game.

7:13But I do think that, you know, the offensive line still has another step to take. And I don't know if it was again, you know, a lot of just very vanilla concepts and making sure that, you know, they were able to kind of get lathered up pretty good. I think Jeff, you shared with me through the third quarter. If you removed the, you know, sack that Arch took, they were roughly at five yards of carry. I think you told me it was about, you know, 26 carries for 130-ish yards or so. And so, when you look at it from that perspective, it makes the numbers, you know, feel a little bit better. And that's kind of what my eye test even told me. And I think even with that, if we really took a look at it, you know, most of the guys started coming out of the game mid to late third quarter. And so at that point, you really were working with your back up. So I do want to see them fire out a little bit more in the interior. I did watch it back once, once I got home and it looked like at times on the interior, we were catching and then fighting a little bit as opposed to, you know, just striking

8:15out initially. And again, I don't know the play calls. I don't know what they were, you know, kind of truly trying to work on. And so from that standpoint, I certainly do give them, you know, the grace that Coach spoke about. But, you know, heavy as the crown, man, and if you want to be able to wear it, you know, those are the type of things that, you know, I think they're certainly looking at on film today and going to, you know, be able to process in a manner that gives them an opportunity to work on it throughout the week as Ohio State comes to town. Coach, I want to go back to some market setting and you hit on it a little bit. It did feel like, especially after the 80 yard drive where there was a second and one that the, Derek Cooper converted. There was a third and one that Hollywood Smothers converted where the push was good. The hope was there like the back didn't have to really, you know, fight and turn to convert that first down. I haven't seen that in a while from a Texas offensive line and then it bogged down. So, Coach, kind of the year point and it's something market said, it seemed like guys were catching blocks. There wasn't that same kind of juice coming off the ball.

9:16So that's where I don't know. It's kind of a concern, Coach, because I don't know if it's a conditioning issue, if it's a lack of focus issue, if it's an elements thing, but that's where I'm kind of most got my, I'm not going to call it a red flag, Coach, we're a yellow flag I'm putting up in that regard this morning. Yeah, I think that's very valid. Now we do have one of them, not the biggest offence of line in the country, you know, and the old coaching, I didn't remember you said it, but fatigue makes cowards of us all. And, you know, there's just, you know, that's going to happen. This was going against a defensive line and a defense that we didn't hear a lot of stuff about before the game, you know. But granted the last season, we also did not run the ball well. I get some pretty poor defensive. So it's just kind of mind boggling, you look back at, you know, to the arguably, you know, A&M and Ohio State last year, we ran the ball effectively.

10:18It's just, it's just the really kind of a complex situation. And I don't know what the industry is yet after seeing those guys play two and a half pours. But I do think when you, as Marcus was saying, when you, when you do start catching blocks, typically that's fatigue. You, you've lost the energy to fire off and be the aggressor and move the line of the screenage. But again, these running backs are going to really help. I felt like protection wise, arch had a lot of time. I mean, I, they, you know, there were times that the DBs are playing off almost 10 yards. I don't know why we just didn't throw some quick game stuff, you know, and, but it seemed like, I don't know if we were running slow developing plays or they were, they were dropping back, you know, eight guys in the coverage and doing a good job of coverage. I, I know one time, um, Emmett mostly got almost knocked down, you know, trying to go across the middle and, and you can't be redirected like that in the open field.

11:19It's one thing to be redirected on, on a man coverage, uh, on a, uh, uh, uh, close man coverage. But running across the middle field and getting rewrote it like that is, is, is not, not good. And it's something that he'll, he'll learn from. For whatever reason, I felt like, uh, we just weren't getting rid of the ball long time and, and arch was having to do a little bit scrambling, but I felt like it was more of a, of a, uh, uh, uh, deep, deep, intensive coverage situation, not necessarily break down in the offensive line as much. Yeah, Mark, because I, I agree with coach on that. It, it felt like, you know, arch had plenty of time to throw the football, but it did seem like there were a couple of instances, uh, maybe when he did feel pressure where it felt like it was more of kind of a coverage related pressure than, than things up from breaking down, which I'm encouraged by that, Mark, it's because we expect this to be an elite past blocking offensive line. Insurance is at one size fits all. That's why drivers have enjoyed progressives.

12:19Name your price tool for years now with the name your price tool. You tell them what you want to pay and they'll show you options that fit your budget. So whether you're picking out your first policy or just looking for something that works better for you and your family, they make it easy to see your options. Visit progressive.com, find a rate that works for you with the name your price tool, progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates, price and coverage match limited by state law. Absolutely. You know, and, and I think that, you know, it was a really good point again, kind of on the watch back and, and to coach this point as well. It looked like in a number of instances, there was still a lot of slower developing routes, pushing the ball down the field quite a bit. I mean, you even noticed a couple of times in, you know, fourth and short or, or, you know, third and short, they were still going to the air, right? I can't remember what the down and distance was, but I, you know, kind of vividly remember that catch that Emmett Mosley made, you know, on the sideline where Arch had to, you

13:19know, chunk it across the entire, you know, other side of the field more or less. And he, he put it right on the money, but, you know, that was in short yardage and, and he at least had some of the time to do it. You did see once or twice where, you know, they certainly kind of sent the house to try to heat Arch up some and he had to step up in the pocket and or just, you know, make a throw, you know, under duress. And so he, you know, certainly took a face mask full on the, the touchdown where, you know, Cam Colman made the contested catch. But again, I think that was also part of our, you know, conversation all in the off season. And then, you know, earlier during camp is that, you know, you have a guy already, like Orion Wingo that showed the ability to make some plays. Well, now you have Cam Colman that can make some of those 50, 50 balls more like 80, 20, 90, 10, you know, balls in his favor. And that's something that you saw as well. So, you know, again, it is one of those deals where, even from my offensive play calling standpoint, I thought it was still pretty vanilla. I don't think Sark showed a ton.

14:20There were a couple of concepts. Maybe that he put out there just for the sake of film, but I definitely don't think he went deep into his bag, you know, as we've discussed it different times where he really has the offense humming. And so I think some aspects of this were, you know, let's put a couple of things on film, but let's also, you know, try to see what, you know, some of this chemistry does look like when it's live bullets and going against. I think the point that, you know, you and coach of May Jeff is that we didn't know what this defense was going to look like. You know, they did bring in a due defensive coordinator in a similar vein that we did. And so there was no film to go off of, at least with Ohio State. Next week, you have some history and some film there, not only against them last year, but then, you know, full seasons were under Patricia. So it's one of those deals where, you know, again, my standard is equally as high as coaches in that, you know, my expectation for this team is to compete for it all. And so with that, you know, we are nitpicking.

15:21But I think that's what you do when you have teams with, you know, this kind of talent and ability to be extremely dynamic in the passing game and, you know, more than adequate in the run game, you know, some of the stuff should be given. And then the rest of it is, okay, where do we really, really have to improve so that when we're in, you know, back against the wall type situations, we know what we can go to and we can be confident in it. All right. We'll get to the Texas defense here in just a second. But before we do that, got to think our sponsor for this edition of on Texas football and let you know that this edition of on Texas football is brought to you by prize, patient. You know, we're always looking for ways to make watching the games a little more fun. And that's why we love prize picks because it is America's number one sports picks out. And it's about as simple as it gets because for player picks, all you gotta do is choose more or less on a few player stats, lock in your lineup and you're good to go. And if you're someone who likes picking teams instead of players, prize picks as you cover there too, because now you can pick the winner of the spread of the total on games or fights.

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17:28not being really exotic with your schemes. We saw that from Sark on offense. It's pretty bland stuff. And that's kind of what you expect from the opener. But coach, this Texas state offense, it's kind of in that, you know, that art, briles, Gus, Melzahn, Veer and Shoot, it stresses you in so many ways. There were probably maybe a few more explosives in the run game and the past game that we're giving up. And I think a lot of people were comfortable. But coach, where do you draw the line between that's a really good offense and we did feel like Will Musham held some things back for Ohio State next week? Yeah, you know, you've got to look back. That 24 Texas state offense was fifth in the nation and overall offense last season. You know, that's a good offense with, you know, three of their biggest weapons returning this year. I do think obviously we had some busted coverage on the one play where the quarterback kind of threw a duck and floated me in a guy running wide open down the middle of the field and was still able to make the

18:30catch and get a lot of yards after the catch. I'm hoping that was a, a blown coverage. I think, I think as the game went on, I saw probably more so defensively than offensively. I felt like that our defensive lineman got gassed, you know, and they were able to get some runs right up to the middle. We didn't have, we didn't have a run support safety there or anything. I'm sure we were dropping people back and coverage trying to prepare the big pass play. But, you know, I think it was a good effort by our defense. Again, what's the standard? You know, is that an act? Can you win a national championship with that defense? You know, I think the potential is there to play for a national championship. You know, after watching LSU play, it's like, okay, what? Wow. Yeah, we, that's, that's, they're kind of the standard to me right now. You know, what we've got to play like. But again, they had the luxury of playing in that game. So wasn't quite as hot of the one. I'm sure

19:31he's very muggy. But I, I think our linebackers looked very impressive to me. I really liked the way our linebackers played. I felt like Colin was, was, they had a big old tackle on a lot and it was really hard and he would get him inside. And, you know, this Marcus, those tackles can grab you. Your shoulder pads like hand-to-barge. They're holding you. But as long as the officials don't see a jersey being pulled like this, they're not going to call it and they'll tell you that, you know? Right. Yeah. And so I feel like he was being held a lot. That's not an excuse. That's just the reality of, of how people were going to try to, you know, block you. But I was out of all the groups. I was most impressed with our linebackers. I thought they were, although they were, they were on point and made a lot of good plays. Marcus, we talked a lot about the standard on this. The standard for him, Biles has been pretty high in game one. We expect him to create some havoc. He gets an interception. I was impressed with the interception because he read Brad Jackson's

20:32eye all the way. Well, you talk about going for a strip and then there's going like, you know, Mike Tyson style jab on the football punch and that ball out to coach Chip was point where he and Biles delivered as expected. Marcus, anything either concerning or encouraging for you with what you saw from the Texas defense on Saturday? Man, you know, we heard a lot about Kobe Black in the off season. And I know, you know, there must have been something going on with Xavier Phil Simebe because he wasn't, you know, dressed out. And you saw Kobe Black take the field first next to Jalani McDonald and he certainly delivered. He kind of woke it up with a big hit for me. That was encouraging. I really don't remember the last time I've seen something like that. And it was pretty cool too. And you think about how the season ended. Kobe Black had a really big interception being aggressive and driving on the ball against A&M. And then in the first game for, you know, kind of one of my lasting thoughts to have been, you know, still related to him was certainly impressive. I agree with

21:36Coach from a linebacker standpoint, at least when I was watching it. And from what you can see, you know, on a watch back on the TV copy, I haven't looked at an all 22 yet. I never really saw a situation where I felt like a linebacker was out of position or had a mental error. There were a couple of instances where you could kind of see that either in the secondary or along the defensive line. And so, you know, again, when you talk about areas of concern, it's not all that different than what we were talking about on the offensive side of the ball in that it's hard for me to truly judge it. Again, one I didn't get to see, you know, kind of a wide angle where you get to see the all 22, if you will. But it looked to me both in the stadium. And then when I watch back the TV copy that they were playing pretty vanilla defense, much more vanilla than what we heard has been going on in practice. You know, I didn't see anything really exotic. I didn't see, you know, much stunts or blitzing any, you know, kind of wild personnel packages, if you will. And so to that end, that gives me a lot of hope with respect

22:39to what it's going to look like when you can kind of empty the clip, if you will, next week. You know, even with that, though, there were a couple of times like Coach mentioned, you know, whether it was Colin or I saw it happen with hero Kondo once where, you know, it almost looked like everybody was in place. And Jeff, you know, this as long as you've covered it, coach, you know, it really well as long as if you've been a part of it. It only takes one guy being out of place or peeking inside or remembering the long Brad Jackson run scramble, I think, to kind of set them up, you know, on the goal line down there. Colin kind of had, you know, his guy and he looked in for a split second. And that was just enough for, you know, the line, I mean, to kind of wash him down a little bit more. But then, you know, again, I don't know if there was someone else's responsibility to also, you know, kind of help with some of that outside contain. I don't think you have as much of a threat with something like that against Julian saying, but you will see guys that can run it. Pretty well from the quarterback position to coach Shipley's point, you know, it certainly looked like Sam Levit was moving around pretty good. So those will be things that you have to

23:42clean up, you know, later on down the line. And again, from a, from a secondary standpoint, I even had a bit of trouble at times really seeing, okay, what happened on this play? But I did notice a couple of times in which it looked like a, you know, a guy would get flat footed and a back would be able to kind of cut on the inside. I don't know what, you know, they're calling it now. We used to call it a Texas route or kind of that, you know, angle route coming out of the backfield. I noticed that that wasn't a linebacker when I saw some of that happen. It would be, you know, maybe a nickel. So whether it was Bo Masco or, or Grayson Lutton, once or twice seemed to get kind of caught flat footed and they had some success there in the past game. But, you know, coaches, right, make no mistake about it. This is a pretty good offense. One that, you know, we've talked about a number of times was the only one in college football last year that had two 1,000 yard receivers. And both of those guys came back with the quarterback that was passing it to him and their offensive coordinator. So they were very well oiled machine and no kind of what they like and have some ways to adjust that. I'm not sure every single team on the schedule will do it, you know, to that

24:47fashion, but it was certainly a really nice tune up heading into, you know, Ohio State Week. And I certainly would prefer that versus, you know, team that was much more vanilla trying to do some ball control because they know that, you know, they don't really have the ability to hang in there. And so I think once we kind of see, you know, some of those pressures dialed up, maybe some different packages that, you know, we didn't fully see that'll, you know, certainly be a better look. But I was really encouraged by even the rotation of the defensive line. I mean, I even noted that, you know, I saw one point called in Vosik and Richie Wesley were in there pretty early in the game. So they're guys that they're comfortable going with and seeing what they can do. But I think they were, you know, largely just asking them to play some baseball ball. Yeah, real, real quick. I want to go back to defensive line because coach you mentioned it again. It didn't seem like the big guys got tired. We got gasped a little bit. And I think that's when we start getting this off-finished pressure you so much, you're going to gash a few runs. Coach, you think that stuff is going to get worked out where it'll be let going forward. It'll be less about rotating,

25:52trying to keep guys fresh, where in key situations you'll have the key personnel you want on the field. Well, there's not going to be many teams we're going to play that's going to go as fast as Texas State did. Right. And I'll tell you if you're 340 pounds and you're being subbed out running 30, 40 yards to get off the field and then running 30, 40 yards to get back on the field can be as tough as, you know, sometimes I'm not so sure you're not better staying out there trying to catch your breath certainly against an offense that doesn't go as fast as Texas State. So I think they're, I think they're going to play themselves in shape. But especially when you're trying to sub when the offense has it sub and it's a sense of urgency to get out the field and get on the field that's like running windsprints, you know, and I thought that must champion a good job of running guys in and out of the field. But I think eventually we'll get in in gain conditions so that the guys we

26:56need on the field at for certain situations are going to be out there. I'm not saying all those guys are going to be three down players, you know, in every situation you're going to have your runstopper, you're going to have your passbusters in that type of thing. But I do think it's going to get to the point where we're not going to have to sub out quite as much. I don't know what the temperature is going to be in Columbus. No, and often next week I'm sure it's going to be hot again. So they're just going to play themselves in shape. No doubt and we'll see how it plays out as Texas State in the rearview mirror. Now we get ready for the big one is Texas and Ohio State coming up on Saturday. Top five showdown at BKR and we'll be talking about it here on the channel. Marcus coach, thank you guys for the time of knowledge. The until the expertise as always tackling some burning questions after a 59 to 7 win over Texas State. Thank you to Matthew Minesens for producing it. Thank you to prize picks for sponsorship of on Texas football. If you're not a member over at on texas football.com now is the time to get over to the site plenty of

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