One cringe moment turned Arch Manning into a QB who says nothing | Opinion

He's quite the loquacious fella. A real wordsmith, this one.

Ask Robot Arch how he feels about playing at Tennessee, where Real Arch’s uncle became a legend, and Robot Arch will say something like: Excited for the game.

Ask Robot Arch a follow-up about why he’s excited for the game, and he might say: Should be a good one. Very excited.

Here’s one real exchange between a reporter and Robot Arch (who replaced the human we used to know as Arch Manning).

Reporter: “Why do you feel like y'all haven’t had more explosive plays on offense?”

Robot Arch: “Yeah, I just gotta be more explosive in the offense.”

Robot Arch sounds like a 1.0 iteration of an LLM, just figuring out this communication thing. Robot Arch seizes on a few words within a reporter’s question, and then repeats them back in a short-sentence form.

Nothing Robot Arch said this week could have offended anyone, unless it bothers you that he's “excited” to play Tennessee.

Robot Arch briefly faltered once. He smiled when asked what he thought of Tennessee’s "Rocky Top" anthem. He then snapped back into form.

“It's not bad,” Robot Arch said.

According to one journalist who covers Texas…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/