Texas football: 3 key offensive players Steve Sarkisian met with this week
Quinn Ewers, QB
Without a doubt, Sark and Ewers need to get on the same page. I would say that a good portion of the struggles that the offense faced in different parts of the last three games could mostly be blamed on these two parties.
I will say, though, that putting too much of the blame on Ewers’ shoulders concerning the offense’s struggles of late is not fair in the slightest. He’s essentially a true freshman (at least as far as starting quarterbacks are concerned) that is learning a complex offensive system and isn’t getting much help from his supporting cast of late.
Receivers are dropping balls, the pass protection isn’t holding up well along the interior offensive line, and the ground game wasn’t as effective at certain points in the last few weeks.
It’s also worth noting that Sark didn’t do Ewers many favors in the loss to TCU by giving him so many play calls that were deep shots or timing routes on key plays when the offense wasn’t in rhythm.
Sark needs to call the game better than he did against TCU last weekend to make it easier on Ewers to get the job done when Texas does have better opportunities to hit those key intermediate and deep passing plays.
Moreover, Ewers also needs to make strides in terms of his pocket presence and throwing mechanics in the last few games this season. Ewers’ fundamentals have gone out the window at times in the last few games. And he’s not going through the proper progressions to find his open targets in the passing game on most passing plays, especially in the loss to TCU.
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The good news for both Sark and Ewers is that it seems like this was a good week of practice for the starting quarterback and the skill players. And Texas is set to face a Kansas defense this weekend that is very vulnerable to giving up rhythm and chunk plays in both the passing and running game. Ewers should be able to effectively lead a bounce-back effort that would be much needed for this unit on the road this weekend.