Some Advice From The Movie "Airplane"

by dishingoutdimes on Sep 6, 2010 2:00 PM CDT in Oklahoma Sooners Football

Calm down people!

We won the game.
If we really performed that poorly, the only way is up.
It's a long season and a lot can happen.
We have studs at running back (Murray) and wide receiver (Broyles)

For me, this season is channeling 2006. Paul Thompson was an adequate quarterback, but not a game-changer. We had a phenomenal running back in AD, and some solid wide receivers. We lost a couple high profile games (at Oregon, and the RRS), but wound up bouncing back and making the Fiesta Bowl. That team started off looking pretty mediocre, needing a 4th quarter comeback to beat UAB at home. However, the team gradually improved and came together as the season progressed, and it all worked out in the end.

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This year

we were picked by Kirk Herbstreet and Phil Steele to play for or win a National Championship. So if that is our goal and expectations…it should be expected to have a little panic attack and concern after Saturday’s performance.

I never like hearing…“It’s Fine to be mediocre”, “We’ll be better next game/year” I heard that enough during the Blake years. The Aggies from Stillwater say it every year.

But I’m a Sooner. I expect to hang half a hundred on teams like Utah State, and when the team plays like they did Saturday, I fully think here is ample reason to be concerned.

Damn, it I don’t want a hug from Coach Blake…I expect more and I don’t think I, any other Sooner fan, the coaches, the Players, or the Administration should be expected to settle for performances like Saturday.

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by Redhawk on Sep 6, 2010 3:01 PM CDT reply actions

Even great teams lay an egg every now and then

Otherwise how would Tebow have been able to deliver “the speech”? :-D

Nobody is saying its acceptable to be mediocre. But to judge one of the most successful football programs of the 2000s on one football game (a win, no less) is a little premature. I think everyone is concerned about the way the team performed, but at least we didn’t start off like last season – injuries, mistakes, AND a loss.

And yes, all this sunshine is coming from a fan who is usually as pessimistic as they come (i.e. my views on last season, my views on our basketball team, etc.)

Everyone’s got their own opinion, and mine is that we actually had a gift of getting our wake up call in Week One, and got it without putting anything up in the “L” column. It’s up to the team to respond now.

"But we all know that games aren't played on paper...they are played by little men inside our TV sets." --Kenny Mayne

by dishingoutdimes on Sep 6, 2010 6:35 PM CDT up reply actions

I’m in full out panic mode. That QB performance was…horrendous. I question if he should even be the OU QB

by Redhawk on Sep 6, 2010 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions

Lawrence, Kansas and Oxford, Miss should be concerned

Oklahoma just needs to adjust and learn from mistakes. That’s why these kind of games are scheduled, to see what needs to be worked on.

by ccmachine on Sep 6, 2010 3:08 PM CDT reply actions

I'd throw Gainesville

In there as well. I mean we looked bad, but they looked awful. So you’re right CC, it could be worse. We could be 0-1 like we were at this time last year. I think we’re all taking a collective step back from the edge of the proverbial cliff.

"Ronnell is a freak of nature. Anybody that big, powerful and fast shouldn't be allowed on the field. That's Ronnell. You saw in the Kansas game when he knocked that guy out, he changed the whole game."

by Jordan Esco on Sep 6, 2010 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions

That’s why these kind of games are scheduled, to see what needs to be worked on.

And why you shouldn’t put a team like BYU first on your schedule.

"But we all know that games aren't played on paper...they are played by little men inside our TV sets." --Kenny Mayne

by dishingoutdimes on Sep 6, 2010 6:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Great choice of YouTube videos, btw.

I didn’t watch the game, all I saw was squiggly lines. There were more white ones than I would have liked.

I said throughout last season that Landry Jones wasn’t the answer. Bob sticks to his guns, right or wrong, and he knows more about football than I do.

The closest thing I can remember was the White-versus-Hybl debate, which was foreshortened by the loss of an anterior cruciate ligament. Landry definitely deserves some consideration for what he did for us in a bad situation last year, and he has definitely shown promise. I’m a bit concerned that he seems to lock in on Broyles, but that’s also partially play-calling.

More than anything, if our defense of Saturday is indicative of our defense on the year, we’re toast.

In the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank what?"

by SaintSooner on Sep 7, 2010 6:38 AM CDT reply actions

More than anything, if our defense of Saturday is indicative of our defense on the year, we’re toast

you are exactly right.

I hope that is not the case but this weekend defensive performance gives me shivers thinking about it. If there is not 180 degree change in the defensive FSU will beat the daylights out of OU in Norman this coming Saturday

by scarab on Sep 7, 2010 8:10 AM CDT up reply actions