Sark doesn't give coach speak as bad as others. He's certainly not a Parcells (giving coaching clinics during press conferences) but generally speaks directly to matters. Mack/Strong/Herman never even wanted to discuss what happened on the field for fear of not "keeping it in the locker room".
Yesterday was an execution problem, much of that caused by the TCU pass rush. The game started with a ball going through the hands of Worthy and bounce out of the hands of JT. Both passes were not on target but catchable. WR bubble screens that normally have yardage looked completely out of sync without being able to stick with blocking assignments. On defense we were doing the same thing to them.
Then when tcu knew the passing game was off, they brought the LBs up and built a wall that neither Bijan or Roschon could run past. Maybe had we run the ball more we could've broken one off as well. But until we could establish something in the passing game, running plays were going to be wasted plays. They tried Bijan on the wheel route and other ways to get him the ball, but nothing was working.
Ewers had 4 good games, and now 3 bad ones. LHN showed a graphic yesterday where his completion percentage dropped from 68% to 45% comparatively in those games. Ironically Casey had a similar trajectory last year. His was due to injury in the ou game, and all the sudden he couldn't throw. Reportedly Ewers has an injury, but whatever the reason he can't hit a receiver right now. Sark is having a difficult time managing these games, and doesn't have a backup plan when things stop working.
Still, if we finish 8-4 it's the improvement most were asking for before the season started. 9-3 was a stretch goal, and 7-5 would be disappointing. No matter how good we've looked at times, or other teams that happened to hit the jackpot, that's still reasonable improvement for a second year.
