Texas Longhorns Face Growing Pressure as Arch Manning Debate and Offensive Struggles Raise Quest

Texas Longhorns Face Growing Pressure as Arch Manning Debate and Offensive Struggles Raise Quest

Texas football is under scrutiny as fans and analysts debate whether Arch Manning should replace the current quarterback. Coach Steve Sarkisian admitted the team is not playing attacking football and said everything will be evaluated, echoing a situation Michigan recently addressed with a change. The growing pressure highlights concerns about the Longhorns' offensive performance and quarterback decisions.

Why Texas Is Cooked: 'There's Not A Lot of Good Things to Say'. | Transcript:

Where do you want to start, because there aren't many good things to say about Texas? I mean, first of all, everyone's talking about Arch Manning. In Texas, Steve Sarkisian is asked if he has considered replacing Arch Manning. What does it say? We're not playing good attacking football at the moment. So everything will be evaluated. Do you know where we've heard that before? We heard it in Michigan. And now we've seen Michigan make a change. Listen, I hate to be, I'm not the type of person who asks for layoffs. I'm not the type to have extreme opinions, because I really don't like those types. Exact. But at some point we must understand what we are up against. And listen, this isn't Arch's fault.

No. It is n't. In my opinion, this is Sark's responsibility. Last year it was Sark's fault. This year it's all Sark's fault. I don't know, the coach needs to understand that this needs to be handled differently. But anyway , the ground game doesn't work and they don't understand the answers, even though there are open-minded people. I will say that. So I'm not going to leave Arch out of this Oh, no. It's because of some people, but they, the receivers are open, but. A $40 million staff Listen, I've been part of football for a long time. I don't know if that can be fixed. It's like you can't fix what happens in mid-October. Their problems include a lack of ability to diagnose plays

before the serve, and, hey, they need to step up their game on the offensive line! Stop letting everyone through as if nothing is wrong. That's not the case. Let's analyze some plays and see which stocks go up and which go down. And I have a feeling that, after hearing that, you're not very convinced. Yeah. You 're not buying into the Texas project for the rest of the season. I 'm not. So, are you going in with your horns down?

Horns down. Is that what you're going to do? Turn the devil down? Horns down. And look, a lot of this stems not only from the loss they suffered yesterday, but, man, they're losing to unrated SEC opponents. That's obvious, but the expectation surrounding the enthusiasm for Texas. You know about the money spent, the expectations they might earn. They went and got a very prestigious team, and even that isn't working. But we mentioned it before. Losing possession at inopportune moments. A turnover in the first quarter, that's fine, great, you can recover. But you can't afford a catch and fumble in the last quarter, with one or two minutes of play remaining. Those are untimely losses, and I'll say this: Arch is not playing

well. And I'm not going to say it's all Arch's fault, but I look at that offensive line, you look at it overall, playing against a Florida team that isn't really good on defense, and they make 11 tackles for loss. They also allowed five captures. So, when you concede that many negative yards, it means you've been dominated in the trenches. You're not giving your quarterback a chance, and besides, your quarterback should be able to make plays, because there are other guys out there who can stand out. That's why my expectations for Texas have lowered

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