One frequent denominator for Razorbacks persevering with to fall in a single rating video games

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Last week Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek talked about that Arkansas would not have the means essential to compete for a nationwide championship, which was a slap within the face to the present student-athletes that don the cardinal and white.

He truly may need been proper in spite of everything as this group would not look like aggressive for an American Conference title both, dropping 32-31 at Memphis Saturday afternoon.

Although the Razorbacks outgained Memphis in complete yards 500-489, the Tigers made changes within the second half to maintain its College Football Playoff hopes alive by erasing an 11-point second half deficit.

For everybody maintaining at house, Arkansas coach Sam Pittman has been constant in a single space, dropping one rating video games, as his report in such video games is now 7-19 since his hiring in 2020.

“I think we’re going to be fine, but we’ve got to get our confidence back defensively and we’ve got to help them with that,” Pittman stated following the loss. “Offensively, scoring three points in the second half we’ve got to get confidence back there, too.

“We’ve obtained to point out them we’re teaching them nicely sufficient to alter that. I just like the group, we will be positive so far as being prepared for Notre Dame. We know they are a actually good group.”

Throughout the sport, varied Arkansas defensive gamers, even just a few with the “C” on their shoulder were caught loafing on any given play. Those lack of effort plays result in missed tackles, missed assignments, and bad angles.

Senior linebacker and team captain Xavian Sorey’s had several shoulder tackles go wrong, including one that resulted in Memphis quarterback Brendon Lewis scoring a second quarter touchdown.

Pittman mentioned postgame that Sorey could be dealing with a bruised quadricep muscle he sustained against Arkansas State.

Memphis running back Sutton Smith used bad angles taken by Arkansas defenders to go 64-yards for the game winning touchdown with 4:51 to go in the fourth quarter.

Even the Arkansas offense can’t rid itself of discipline issues driving for the go ahead score with two minutes left only to have a different player fumble the ball away.

These same type of mistakes continue to happen with each passing season and there is a common denominator that goes along with it.

Coach Sam Pittman doesn’t commit the penalties, fumbles, throws interceptions, misses tackles or kicks, but he is ultimately responsible for having his team disciplined.

Look around the country, at the good teams that are in the top half of every league and those teams don’t make the same mistakes each week. Why? Because they learn from mistakes and don’t allow to dwell on insanity.

For the praise offensive coordinator receives for revitalizing Arkansas’ offense, it’s fair for his second half gameplan to be questioned.

The Razorbacks’ offense has been held to 10 combined points in the second half over the previous two games which begs the question if Petrino’s move to the press box has paid off at this point.

While Memphis was only able to get Taylen Green down for one sack, its defense utilized disguised blitzes to disrupt any tempo Arkansas was trying to run with.

“The greatest factor is we weren’t operating the ball within the second half,” Pittman said. “On first down we have been making an attempt to run the ball and we have been making adverse yardage, and I believe that was possibly the most important factor.

“In the second half, we made a conscious effort, because we were running it pretty good in the first half, that we were going to try and run, and play action a little bit more in the second half. It’s hard to play action when the run’s not doing very good. So we just started behind the chains.”

For the sixth time since 2023, Arkansas scored 30 factors or extra in a sport and misplaced, which is tied for the nationwide lead in that point span.