Arch Manning

They're 6-1 against the spread this year.

Their quarterback is now better than Arch Manning, apparently.

He's going to go earlier in this draft.

Right now, Oklahoma State, 9.5-point favorite.

Now they righted the ship with a nice win against Ole Miss.

The whole Arch Manning situation is really up in the air right now.

There have been buzz that Arch Manning may actually come back for another year of college football.

Understand nowadays, the new ruling by the NCAA is you have five years of eligibility.

It used to be at four years of eligibility that you could play over five years.

You can actually play five full seasons online.

under the rules of the NCAA of college football.

So if you're Arch Manning and you see your draft stock drop, potentially, by the way, he may come back for a fifth year of college football and he may not even be at the University of Texas.

Is there anybody who you think is going to be really affected by the landscape change that you would either want to get in or get out on? General thoughts on how this 27 class will impact the quarterback position in the NFL?

The issue is that we were promised this incredible quarterback class, headlined by Arch Manning.

Now the hopes are resting on Dante Moore, who's currently hurt, Drew Mestermaker, potentially.

Now everybody sees

Not so much anymore.

I mean, people even suggesting that Arch Manning, who at the beginning of the season was the consensus to be the overall number one pick, Now it's a possibility he doesn't even go in the first round.

And I think that's clear when you look across the college landscape.

There might not be one one quarterback that goes in the top 15 of this draft.

I get it.

There's no – after last week's game, there's no way I could see Envision Glenn coming back.

But the thing is, too, I'm looking at their future is – Moody going to be in charge or is, is we're going to get somebody like Tomlin who's going to be totally in charge and Arch Manning is going to be available.

It looks like it.

You know, he says basically, like, it's a long-term development thing with St. Clair because everything is there, just getting him prepared and ready for that type of level.

Well, something that you, like, everything that you're talking about TV on St. Clair, that sounds like Arch Manning.

Because Arch Manning, if you all look at what Arch Manning was playing up against other high schoolers, they're like a foot and a half shorter than he is.

Like, a lot of them.

And you're like, oh, well, of course he dominated.

He's one of the best quarterbacks in the country.

He is out.

Shows my faith in Arch Manning.

You see a player.

Arch Manning was a big one for us.

I was high on Arch Manning.

Connor was not.

Obviously, he's proving me right there right now.

He rushed for about 80-something yards from the quarterback position.

Arch Manning had positive yards from the quarterback position.

So, I don't know that Brent Venable is going to sit there and let Lenores run it on him because he didn't last year.

But – That is kind of a kryptonite for this defense as a running quarterback, like scheme-wise, if you look through the history.

So you move on to Kentucky and Jay Bateman, and he's got kind of an odd stack three or stuff.

Brad white isn't quite as creative.

He's kind of the cousins of those, but he threw some things at them and, And I think how many times did they sack Arch Manning, Florida? I mean, how many times? I think they said eight times out there.

It was

All of a sudden, everybody says he's the number one pick in the draft.

And, you know, maybe Arch Manning doesn't even go in the first round.

So if you're the Jets and you're looking at next year's draft, they're going to get their franchise quarterback, and all of a sudden it's not quite as plentiful as we thought it was going to be.

Yeah, and also I think, too, we're realizing that just for the Jets, maybe you weren't just a quarterback away.

Every year, we get very excited about the draft and the next crop of NFL quarterbacks that are going to be the future of the league.

The truth is that the next crop of quarterbacks have maybe a .01% of entering that Mount Rushmore of quarterbacks in every generation.

So I know we were projecting Drew Messamaker and, of course, Arch Manning and Trinidad Chambliss and all that.

The truth is that most likely five years from now, the list of the top QBs is probably going to be the same five dudes that we've been saying for the past five years as well, where it's Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson.

The problem was Auburn had multiple third and double digits.

And on top of, you know, it's a play that I don't know if we spent a ton of time on it last week, but, like, if you're a fan and you just watched Arch Manning go on third and 17 for a scramble, like, you know, like, when you've had some painful third and longs and you see that be a problem, like, I get why that would be frustrating as a fan if you're sitting there in the game.

Auburn's third down convergence because of the length felt a lot more backbreaking, where Ole Miss was just kind of in those tweener downs and were pretty efficient in converting them.

And then on the running game part of it, though, like with Georgia coming in next week where it feels like Ole Miss' season largely comes down to that game, even though they still have to go to Norman, the running game today was just very steady.