The college football world has yet to let up on Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning.
It comes as no surprise if Manning’s weekly stat lines look like his numbers against UTEP: 11-for-25 in passing completions and one passing touchdown, plus two rushing touchdowns. It’s not good, and even worse when you consider that Manning threw 10 consecutive incomplete passes at one point during Texas’ win over UTEP.
Does Texas football have a problem on their hands?
Analyst Joel Klatt thinks so.
“Arch Manning has played really poor so far this year, really poor,” Klatt said on his show this week, per Sports Illustrated. “They’ve got quality wide receivers, they’ve got quality backs, they’re good up front. Now have they played their best around him? Probably not. But, this is, to me, a more specific Arch issue with their offense.”
Klatt thinks Manning’s poor play isn’t a result of injury.
“For young quarterbacks that don’t have a ton of experience, the first thing you have to look for is ‘is the speed of the game affecting their play,’” Klatt continued. “It looks like that’s the case with Arch… I do think that facing a defense as difficult to face as Ohio State in Week 1 did not do him a lot of good, but he is clearly not comfortable.”
“The timing of the offense is held in the quarterbacks’ feet,” Klatt added. “I personally believe, after watching Arch, he is too fast right now. He is pressing and he is ahead of the offense… he is ahead of the time of the offense. When that happens, typically you lose your balance, you lose your pocket presence.. You lose your wide receivers. When you do let go of the football, you are moving so fast in your own mind, you typically throw those balls short.”
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