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Arch Manning (Cooper's son) 2026 Draft Elgible (1 Viewer)

Looked like a great QB starting his first college game in a hostile environment against the best team in the country.

Some errant throws, but absolutely the real deal. I’m not a heavy college guy but if I was the owner of the team with the #1 pick in the spring Arch would be the easy choice.
 
eighsse2 said:
SoBeDad said:
A couple of big time throws, but lots of inaccurate passes. Too early to call one way or the other.
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NO. Stop being reasonable. Pick a side, and flip the frick out.
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Bernie Kosar. He had a tough first start as a redshirt freshman in 1983 at the Swamp in a 28-3 loss. He won his next 11 games for the U culminating in a 31-30 win over Nebraska as a big underdog in the Orange Bowl game. National Champs. First overall draft by the Browns in the "Supplemental Draft."
 
irish eyes said:
Jacob's Ladder said:
This guy is legit. Anyone who says otherwise just just hating the name and the pub he gets after having not done much. What he does in the pros is anyone's guess, but he's going to be a top 5 pick.

EDIT - He can have a bad game and have the above be true. I can acknowledge he made some dumb decisions and bad passes today. He also made some throws that were :oops:.
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He didn't beat out Quinn Ewers who wasn't good.
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And Joe Burrow couldn't beat out Dwayne Haskins, Jalen Hurts couldn't beat out Tua Tagovailoa, Tom Brady couldn't beat out Drew Henson or Brian Griese, Drew Brees sat behind Billy Dicken and the list goes on and on. It doesn't matter.

If you can't watch Arch and come away impressed with his physical gifts and calm demeanor you must be blind. He will be fine, but the pressure or the moment or simply Ohio State's gameplan got the best of him today. He looked like his internal clock was sped up, there's no getting around that fact. Sometimes great players have bad games. Heck, the anointed one only had 43 yards receiving today. Should we move him down our boards too? :bored:

Like I said, top 5 pick whenever he enters the draft. 100% lock.
 
GoBirds said:
Jerry Jones is playing 3D chess to land him, be ready.
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It could happen in spite of Jerry's faults. If a team with a real #1 QB has them go down early in the season with an ACL (it's happened enough) and finishes last or if a team with a real #1 simply has a terrible year and finishes last, I could see them fleecing the Cowboys for 3 1st rounders and possibly more to move up to 1. That would be a crazy haul, heck, knowing what Dallas has to offer it might be worth tanking as a middling NFL team with a great QB (Bengals? Chargers?)? If a team like Indy or NO or Miami finish last and Arch comes out, it's a wrap.
 
Arch made some ill-advised throws, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s a process. I love the tools.
 
tommyGunZ said:
Looked like a great QB starting his first college game in a hostile environment against the best team in the country.

Some errant throws, but absolutely the real deal. I’m not a heavy college guy but if I was the owner of the team with the #1 pick in the spring Arch would be the easy choice.
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Theres no way you watched Texas today and said there's a great qb.
 
That one time the announcers said Texas should give their QB some easy throws to make so he can settle in, and then the very next play Arch delivers a WR bubble screen to the dirt.
 
I don't get it. Was he getting by on name? Was it nerves? I don't follow college football until late in the season, so I'm unaware if maybe in our haywire world where we're looking for stability if maybe we're looking in the wrong place based on name. Is that the case?

Also, he's young and this was his first game? Jeez. Let's not only give it time for him to develop into something potentially special but back off from anointing him as anything yet.
 
rockaction said:
I don't get it. Was he getting by on name? Was it nerves? I don't follow college football until late in the season, so I'm unaware if maybe in our haywire world where we're looking for stability if maybe we're looking in the wrong place based on name. Is that the case?

Also, he's young and this was his first game? Jeez. Let's not only give it time for him to develop into something potentially special but back off from anointing him as anything yet.
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I think probably the very last thing you said is the best. There was always just too much hype. I can garuntee you I would have not heard of him if his name wasnt Manning. There's plenty of top QB prospects who aren't nationally famous before they even play in college. There's also plenty of top QB prospects who end up not being very good either.

He shouldn't have so much hype and pressure from the very beginning. But he was born a Manning so he had kno it was coming.
 
Was my first real look at him. On the plus side he was calm, poised. The environment didnt seem too big for him. That said, it wasn't a great performance. While he was playing a great defense on the road, his accuracy rating was terrible. Far too many missed opportunities. Per ESPN, worst accuracy rate for a Texas QB in a decade.
Nobody is gonna write him off after this one, but it was a bad start to his year that wont quickly be forgotten
 
That was my first real look at Arch and while there's little doubt osu has a good D what i saw wasn't because the defense was lights out. He made 2 good throws, but by and large he looked really bad. Outwardly he didn't look rattled, but I'm willing to give him the benifit of the doubt (though he's been groomed for this his entire life and I'm not sure i can fully buy it).

He struggled making the easy throws and his mechanics were kind of suspect. Underthrowing, overthrowing, no zip, too much zip, no touch, no accuracy, there just wasn't much to be encouraged about. You can tell when a guy's got "it" even when things don't go their way and i certainly didn't see any "it" from that performance. I'm interested to see how he rebounds next week. As a football fan he's such an intriguing prospect, but that was a real shakey start.
 
That’s about as difficult a matchup as you can possibly have to start your season/career. They have a few cupcakes and then we’ll see what things look like in the swamp on Oct 4.
 
When evaluating college players I pay particularly close attention when their team is evenly matched or outmatched. It’s easy to run up numbers on cupcakes, but when evenly matched or worse you get some good evidence on how skills may translate to the next level, even though NFL Ds are far superior to their college counterparts.

This was one of those opportunities for Manning and he laid an egg IMO. He had some bad college level misses on what were open throws, and NFL windows are a lot tighter than what he saw yesterday. His mechanics are questionable when he’s feeling pressure and he looked a bit panicked more often than not.

This was a chance to put his team on his back and lift them up, like the guys who transfer well do, and he failed. Not sure how anyone watching yesterday saw any kind of good performance. He’s got a lot of work to do and his name is only going to get his foot in the door at the next level. After that he’s going to have to prove it while likely being under extreme scrutiny - maybe even more than Taylor Swift at a Chiefs game.
 
Bronco Billy said:
When evaluating college players I pay particularly close attention when their team is evenly matched or outmatched. It’s easy to run up numbers on cupcakes, but when evenly matched or worse you get some good evidence on how skills may translate to the next level, even though NFL Ds are far superior to their college counterparts.

This was one of those opportunities for Manning and he laid an egg IMO. He had some bad college level misses on what were open throws, and NFL windows are a lot tighter than what he saw yesterday. His mechanics are questionable when he’s feeling pressure and he looked a bit panicked more often than not.

This was a chance to put his team on his back and lift them up, like the guys who transfer well do, and he failed. Not sure how anyone watching yesterday saw any kind of good performance. He’s got a lot of work to do and his name is only going to get his foot in the door at the next level. After that he’s going to have to prove it while likely being under extreme scrutiny - maybe even more than Taylor Swift at a Chiefs game.
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:goodposting:
 
All is not lost but has work to do.
That quick sidearm throw he used under pressure was inaccurate with no touch.
 
If there is anything that Texas fans didn't know going into yesterday's game that they have learned since, it's the name of their backup QB.
 
I wonder how much being the highest-paid college player will factor into his development. We have seen plenty of guys get a good contract and slack off. He makes a lot for someone his age. Does he still have the drive to improve?
 
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I was a bit surprised how uncomfortable he looked most of the game, but it was a tough environment to have your first start and I think time will heal these wounds as the season progresses.
 
I’m rooting for the kid, but I’m worried he’s being so hyped that he ends up disappointing. Let the kid play and let’s see what he does. I liked his post game interview. He seems like a level headed guy that isn’t cocky because of his pedigree.
 
It's week one. He was in a hostile environment. The Buckeyes' secondary was a lot better than I expected. There was no film on what Patrica was going to throw at them. He missed some throws, and some looked a little ugly, but he seemed to warm up in the second half. Sometimes it takes a little time. Let's see what the next month brings.
 
Hey, the problem isn't people throwing dirt on his grave after week 1. No one reasonable is doing that.

It is the people who relentlessly pimped this unproven QB for two years and explained to all of us how he was the #1 QB entering the season, and he hadn't done ****.

So now all the donkeys who hyped him up want everyone to be reasonable and take some time judging him.


LOL


That is the biggest clown take ever.
 
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