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Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Why, Exactly, Is Arch Manning Good?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9916 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice joins Richard in this new episode of “Scheme School,” focused on one very famous QB. Arch Manning finally takes the reins of the Texas Longhorns this weekend at Ohio State. For a quarterback who’s been talked about more than any other QB prospect in maybe the whole history of the sport, we haven’t talked much about the specifics of Manning’s game.

* What we’ve seen in limited reps so far

* What, specifically, Manning is good at. “Eyes” and “balance” come up a lot.

* The things he hasn’t done well in a small sample. You can’t go broke taking a profit, but Manning hasn’t always taken it

* How Steve Sarkisian’s offense makes Manning easier to project as an NFL quarterback, and how that might affect his future plans

Producer: Anthony Vito

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're coming, and we ain't backing down.

0:01.9

We don't need a bunch of cats in here. Looking in the mirror. Everybody just do your job. You understand that? Hey, will you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. Ah, fuck it. Thank you, Lee. and thank you to Nate Tice Yahoo's own Nate Tice for joining me we're a little later than usual Thank you, Lee. And thank you to Nate Tice, Yahoo's own, Nate Tice, for joining me.

0:22.8

We're a little later than usual. We typically do some kind of preseason QB chat,

0:29.8

QB vamp, but my man here has had a very busy summer, has made an addition to his family.

0:35.9

I'm very proud of you. I'm very happy for you, buddy.

1:30.3

And so he'd been out of the mix a little bit. Thank you. Yeah. Uncle Richard, he's met Jack before. You came over the one time, or at least I've met Jack who I've been taking a nap, but you came over the one time. No, but thank you so much. I appreciate it. I thought it was just last year's cycle, particularly one quarterback in last year's cycle that may or may not have gone in the fifth round after everyone told us he was not going in the fifth round or the fourth round or the third round or a second round. They're probably going the first round. I thought you were just exhausted about that. And so you're like, yeah, well, let's take a minute before we talk about QB prospects. There is also that, to be honest with you. I know, actually. This, you know, but this year's guy actually is justifiably. Yes. Yes. So, uh, one archmanning, perhaps you've heard of him. Uh, this is this year's exhausting quarterback prospect. Yes. However, there's an upside with this year's exhausting quarterback prospect.

1:32.0

That's why I wanted to have you on.

1:32.9

It's week one.

1:34.1

They play Ohio State week one.

1:39.2

And I think there's so much hype and there's so much excitement for that game, obviously.

1:45.2

But then we come around to Arch and it's a conversation that I've had with a few people over the last couple weeks who aren't really as in it. Just kind of like casual sidewalk fans just thinking about

1:49.6

the game and they're like, well, like, what exactly makes Arch so good? And it's a very

1:55.0

for us, it's like we overlook that people could have skepticism of a player like that.

2:02.9

But I understand for the casual fan or even the non-casual fan, I mean, Arch has only really played two games or started two games.

2:11.7

Why you don't want to do the thing of quarterback who you've heard a lot about five star recruiting rankings. Yep. Hasn't really played. Why should I care about him until he plays? I get it. But here we are with Archmanning. So let's talk about it. Let's talk about, frankly, what we've gleaned from effectively two games, two and a half games. And that concept in and of itself.

2:34.9

Let's start there with the concept of a small sample size.

2:38.3

Nate, as an evaluator, and by the way, Nate, former player personnel director at the now,

2:43.1

unfortunately, fucked, AAF.

2:45.8

The, was it the Atlanta team?

2:47.8

Yes, the Atlanta Legends.

2:49.4

I still got a starter jacket.

2:51.7

Atlanta legend starter jacket.

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