Shades Of 2005 OU Drops Season Opener
by ccmachine on Sep 5, 2009 10:48 PM CDT
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just wanted to send best wishes to Bradford, Gresham and the rest of the OU football program this season…
Vanquish the Foe, a BYU Cougars blog at SB Nation
Of course you do
Because you want an 11-1 OU on your resume….and you are a class act too of course. Thanks
Boomer Sooner!
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The worst part of 2005 was
an undefeated Texas team led by a dual-threat quarterback beating a defending champion juggernaut (fresh off defeating OU in Miami) with a quasi-messianic quarterback for the national championship in Pasadena.
Leinart was no Tebow, but I’m just saying…
Well said, and I have to question the offense as a whole. Caleb & Tennell lokoed like they were getting after it and Brown ran tough when given the opportunity (not enough in my opinion). But if your offense line is your question why continue to try to run a no huddle/hurry up type tempo. That might work to get it to gel against the Idaho St & La Monroes but not against a top 20 team. Also why did the coaching staff not call a time out on the delay of game on the foot line. They can call from the sideline….poor poor coaching. I will say thought that the stadium was very disorienting to me, perhaps the odd location of play clocks had a little to do with.
I wish Bradford a speedy recovery
I was at the Texas game so I did not watch OU, but I heard the news that Bradford went down at the stadium and while I obviously do not cheer for the Sooners, I was not happy and simply winced. We may be bitter rivals, but Bradford is a good kid, and it’s sucky to lose when your QB goes down like that.
by TheElusiveShadow on Sep 6, 2009 1:23 AM CDT reply actions
Goal line play call
I hate the looking back at the coaches during the goal line. Just line up and run the damn ball. Everybody knows you are going to run the ball. It seems like coaches don’t let the players play and make their own decisions. Just snap the ball.
There was a firefight!!!!
BYU fan..
First of all that sucks about Bradford, really. We need you guys to rock it the rest of the year.
Second, don’t overlook that while OU didn’t play mistake free (penalties and turnover) neither did BYU. We fumbled on the 1 and a muffed punt led your your only TD. We also had 2 ints. So we were far from perfect.
BYU fan...
Additionally, Bradford seems like a class act.
Sorry guys
I’m a Mizzou fan, so I can’t have a lot of compassion for OU, but I never want to see a class act like Sam Bradford go down. I hope he gets back soon. If he does the Big XII just might be all kinds of awesome this year.
Get healthy soon Sam.
Boomer?
M-I-Z (had to do it)
He hit it good. He hit it good.
Goal line calls
Saturday was full of bad goal line calls, if you ask me. First, look at Navy’s horrible decision not to run the option (or some variant) on the two-point conversion attempt against the Buckeyes. Then the Sooners try to ram it up the middle from the 2, relying on the muscle of an offensive line that clearly didn’t have it together last night. Spread things out, quick QB look to the wideout, then give it to DeMarco.
Bradford's injury
was not why OU lost.
Sloppy play, procedure penalties, lack of defensive stops on 3rd down….This was a team loss, and had little to do with Bradford’s injury. I mean the offense wasn’t exactly ringing up points WITH Bradford in the game.
Landry?
As much as we all want Sam to get healthy fast, let’s not forget that Landry has a TON of potential and, with a few offensive adjustments, just might surprise everyone in the coming weeks …
Landry played
….alright. He didn’t make any plays, but he didn’t do anything to get us beat. The only mistake he made was not getting the timeout on 4th and goal in the 4th quarter. Anybody on the field could have called that timeout, so I’ll call that a team mistake.
He just didn’t get any help from the offensive line. I’m totally comfortable with him as our backup quarterback.
Landry's Backup?
Hate to think these thoughts, but who’s next up behind Landry?
Me. I'm the backup to the backup to the backup to the backup
who sits on the bench handing out water telling the team at practice how good they are. I never get to touch the ball, I hand Coach Wilson his paper, tell Coach Heupel how improved we look and that our team is going to be Okay.
That is the way it appears anytime we need any sort of substitute player.
Sorry, can't blame this one on Venables
There were mistakes made in all aspects of the game for sure, including some deep coverage assignments blown (the guy all alone in the endzone…hello safety?). But at the end of the day I felt the defense was carrying the offense most of the night. The problem with that is part of defense is keeping the ball on offense. Even if you’re not scoring points, at least win the battle of field position and stop giving the other team the ball at mid field. Also, when you are not winning the time of possession part of the game and your defense is constantly on the field, they are eventually going to wear down. This was not just because Sam went out, but I do think we would have come up with more points to win if he were in. That line was absolutely pitiful…..3 false starts in 1 series???? You gotta be kidding me!
by leatherneck1061 on Sep 6, 2009 11:12 AM CDT reply actions
Tough Job
The coaches are going to have their hands full this week trying to figure out a way to square away/motivate the O line guys, and fast. Coming into this game, those fellas were expected to be a disappointment and, of course, they didn’t prove the pundits wrong – now the whole Sooner Nation is mad at them. I’m sure they feel horrible – the coaches need to do some serious, uh, coaching and find a (new) way to get these guys mentally and physically prepared. Whatever preparation they cooked up coming into this game clearly didn’t work.
oklahoma has more class than alabama fans
you were probably not paying attention to all the excuses alabama had when utah beatdown alabama in the sugar bowl last year. your posts just express ways for your team to get better and have some better coaching. hopefully bradford will be back for conference play and you can go from there. osu looked really good against georgia but i’m not sure how good georgia is. they might go 8-5 with the schedule they got missouri had its way with illinois so i think your conference will be alright. p.s. another mountain west team goes into hostile territory and wins the game. byu had some issues of it’s own. they did not have their best rb play, harvey unga. they also had to redo their offensive line and it was a very clean hit on bradford. nothing dirty about it byu deserves recognition and so does oklahoma on how they are handling it. thanks.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Sep 6, 2009 1:21 PM CDT reply actions
I don't know if this offense can be turned around
I’m astounded at how thoroughly unprepared we looked yesterday. Penalty after penalty after penalty. Receivers and backs allowing turnovers. Interceptions. Not calling a timeout on 4th and goal with 1 yard to go……….
I had a fear that our offensive line, the most glaring deficiency of our team yesterday, would not protect Bradford like last year’s line. The coaching staff knew this was a weakness! I blame the sloppy OU play squarely on the coaching staff.
Just as a sidenote gripe, I went to a sports bar here in Amarillo that usually has a steady showing of Sooners fans, but not last night. There were probably about 200 Longhorn fans and 5 OU fans. That was torture! LOL! I especially didn’t appreciate all the cheering when Brandford went down hurt. I didn’t do that when the UT player was carted off the field (of course, personal safety is a concern of mine). This year’s RRS is going to be UGLY.
+1
Coaching staff lost this game. If Stoops and Company do not admit this totally I lose all respect for them. Excepting a few players like Reynolds and Brown who played their hearts out no one else was prepared. I was there and it sucked. You don’t play like that and then tell us fans it was only a few mistakes and an injury that cost us the game. H.S. teams are better prepared than that.
Coaching staff
I’m beginning to think that Bob Stoops doesn’t have the drive anymore. And no one on the coaching staff has been willing to stand up and argue with Bob since Mike Stoops left. We haven’t had a smash mouth defense since Mike.
But clearly this loss was on offense. The defense did manage to keep BYU well under last years average PPG.
And how many times did our D plant Hall?
come on watch the same game. Our D got beat by a 3rd string walkon running back all night, I mean all effin night long. Give me a break. The secondary did nothing when it came down to nut cutting time. Nothing, zilch. It was coaching and a total player letdown.
A thought from a Texas fan...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boomer! Loser!
by UT2001 on Sep 6, 2009 5:28 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Uncalled for.
The swine flu takes a Will Muschamp shot every September.
by pleaseplaykindle on Sep 6, 2009 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Speedy recovery
To Bradford. With Idaho State on the schedule and two weeks off, I think OU has the best schedule imaginable to get ready for the meat of their season.
OU will not win by scoring only 14-18 pts.
if that is the case with all the 3 and outs, 6 in outs if you count the great penalties we get, that means the defense is on the field too long. Worn plumb out! It would be easy for TU to score. I would be tempted to make the offense stay onb the field and play defense just to give the defense a breather.
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