Iowa St. @ Oklahoma: Notable Stats

What a joke. You mean to tell me that we can’t pack the stadium?

Landry was terrific for much of this game. Watch the great drive at the end of the first quarter that ends with the Bell interception in the end zone. On the previous play, btw, the tight end possibly should have scored.

If you don’t think we have one of the very best qb’s in college football, just watch the next drive to start the 2nd quarter. Orchestrated and executed to perfection. If you don’t get it after watching that, you probably need to look at it again. And remember, this is into the face of a wind gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour and sometimes higher. (Not sure, but they also mentioned some drizzle and it might even have been chilly.) Watch his sense of the pocket, his timing, his accuracy—all under horrendous conditions.

You want to criticize him for lack of touch on a couple of short passes fighting gusts of 40 mph that blew a snap over the kicker’s head? Really? He’d better put some juice on it. You wonder why he threw 40 passes, watch this drive, look at his stats, and see. It was amazing.

The next three drives were excellent as well, including a qb sneak by Landry on drive 1that sure looked like a td on my screen; a beautiful pass for a td to Still on the next one that was dropped. And a great pass to get the team into field goal range with only seconds left on the final drive of the half. By then, the way the D was playing, the game was out of reach.

Jones makes some phenomenal throws. Seems like after every game..and I mean every game when people talk stats on these threads.. Many people point out the number of drops. And I’ll speak the blasphemous words… if Bradford was in the same situation as Jones this year would probably have the same results. In fact I’ll go so far as to say that Jones is a better QB than Bradford was when OU was/is behind in the score. Bradford had better playmakers around him: Upperclassmen wideouts, Gresham and Finely, Brown and Murray out of the backfield.. Pedal to the metal tempo. . Jones cuts out the knucklehead plays that are just a few per game (thank God he is no Taylor Martinez) and no one has a critical leg to stand on. Bedsides maybe Barkley, Luck, Wilson and (gulp) Weedon, who would do as well as Jones in this offense?

for 88 yards. Total misrepresentation of what happened: On the second Franks run, Landry had one of the key blocks, in fact I’d say the key block at the line of scrimmage that sprung Franks for 41 yards. It wasn’t a thing of beauty but it was an effective block that allowed Franks to gain the edge.

Speaking of Franks who doesn’t get much love here either, I noticed that each time IState kicked off (twice) they elected to kick away from him, preferring to let Finch return the ball. Hmm….