Sooners News Daily 10.20.14
Posted on: October 20, 2014
FOOTBALL
It’s funny to me how the narrative coming out of the weekend is Big 12 beating one another is “playing themselves out of the CFB playoff picture”, but the SEC West is “such a meat-grinder” losses there only further prove just how great all those teams are.
This summed things up pretty well I thought. (USA Today)
The local media have caught on to what we fans have been harping on for years, OU’s mind-numbingly stupid wasting of timeouts. (NewsOK)
Some harsh but what I felt were absolutely fair comments from Jake Trotter here. The reality being OU simply isn’t an elite program right now and hasn’t been for going on six years. (ESPN)
I love this. Fans are the ones who overreact to things, but here’s an article from the paper dedicated to the “promise Cody Thomas showed” in a single drive that consisted almost entirely of handoffs. (NewsOK)
DeMarco Murray now the holder of an NFL record that could stand for some time. (USA Today)
Crazy story involving Texas Tech WR Jakeem Grant. (ESPN)
I could see anywhere from about five to, oh maybe 50 OU fans buying tickets for a AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl appearance. (ESPN)
From @SportsTaxMan: Cowboys' Demarco Murray has 913 yards rushing this season – 1 more yard than Raiders & Falcons rushing totals combined.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 20, 2014
Good to see my boy @KSTiLLS ballin today! pic.twitter.com/IMFBh1T6Em
— Ryan Broyles (@RyanBroyles) October 19, 2014
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Redneck ingenuity.
Looks promising.
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The defense doesn’t look like they know what play is being called. They’re unsure of their own assignment. Why are you playing 7 yards off a guy when it’s 3rd and 3? Also I know TK had a good game, he looks too uneasy in the pistol. It’s like he’s worried he won’t catch the snap. They have a lot of work to do and need get better. The season isn’t a lost cause.
“The season isn’t a lost cause”. HMMMMMMM……. guess it depends on what you expect from OU football year after year to be able to make that statement. For me, it IS A LOST CAUSE. Of course I’m a geezer, and spoiled, and have high expectations, and know we’re better than we’re showing, and THE POLLS FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS THOUGHT SO TOO!!!!! Lost cause, yep! Am I going to continue to be a Sooner! yep, Will I have high expectations next year? yep, Will I be pissed again if we lose to teams we should beat? yep Do I think we need to change either the identity of our offense, or the PLAY CALLER? yep yada yada yada….
Kenny stills looks jacked. Boy’s been eating his wheeties for sure.
Awesome picture of two great receivers.
As much as I still fume over the loss to Kstate I have to think the losses by Florida and Texass a and m are much worse for their fan base- like someone put their hands upon their shoulders and just kneed them repeatedly in the groin. Those are butt whoopin’ that make the entire program question itself. The USA article summed things up very well for a casual observer. I see what the TCU offensive coordinator did for them in the first half of his first season there and wonder why OU can’t get the same from their OC in his third (fourth?) season. The scary thing is OU will be playing with new OTs at least one OG next season, can we expect another line of excuses if the same happens next season? The defense will have at least one new safety, CB, De and OLB. The point being is a team will always have youth in key positions so that excuse is tired and has been worn out by Texass. I fear we have become like Virginia Tech and Georgia- in fact I think we are there- teams that stand on past laurels and annually underachieve.
The whole youth argument is flawed. In today’s college football world, you get a kid for 3 or at most 4 years and one of those is likely to be a red shirt year. Coaches have simply got to have these guys ready to contribute and dominate by their sophomore year.
I think there’s some definite overreaction to Thomas, but he did look sharp in passing, too. Maybe it was easier because the defense felt like they could focus on the run and force the freshman QB seeing his first meaningful action to beat them, but that worked against TK earlier in the year.
He really only threw one pass (yes, I know he got credit for two), so I’m not sure how much there really is to judge there.
I think it was a combo of two things. First, we’d all been led to believe that he was either incompetent or injured by the refusal to play him and the evident terror on the part of the coaches to get TK injured. Second, he stepped in with no warning and drove for the TD. Not a huge body of work, to be sure, but he did exactly what was asked of him, exactly when it was asked of him without warning. Small sample size, but what’s there was way above expectations.
That was Sam Grant, not Mark Andrews. Marks shirt is still red.
No disrespect to all your fine work with morning links Jordan, but it’s so much less fun clicking the bookmark to TFB the Monday after a disappointing loss haha
I completely understand.
The way I feel about this season is sumed up in two short sentences:
There is a whole lot to say but nothing really worth saying.
Something has to change if we want another championship.
in the news ok article, there are pics of game action……….there’s a couple containing #81, mark andrews, who was a highly regarded wr recruit, switched to te that he claimed he came here not to play, now apparently using up a yr on st’s for fgs/xp’s
That was Sam grant not mark andrews. Marks shirt is still red
that would make more sense though they’re both listed as #81 on roster……..thxs
I actually don’t see anything wrong with the article on Cody Thomas. At the time of that series I was pretty impressed with his cool under fire also. I don’t think TK would have completed a pass or chased down that bad snap at this stage of his development.
exactly…….he came in when the game mattered and led a scoring drive………I was hopeful that we would have some blowouts to this point and he could get some meaningful snaps but we’re fighting for our lives instead…..if the remainder of the season does head south I hope he gets more time to see what he can really do
Plus his ability to make something out of nothing on that busted play was nice. To me speaks to his intangibles. Knight would have hit the ground and covered the ball (not a bad choice but would have taken us out of a real shot for the td)
TK was the starting QB at this stage in CT’s development…
What I am saying is that Trevor Knight coming in for an injured Blake Bell, last year, would not have performed as well as Cody Thomas did.
Im saying that’s false.. Because he did come in for an injured BB during the Iowa St. game, we were down 7-0 & proceeded to win that game like 52-7…
You are correct. Trevor Knight is awesome because he curb stomped Iowa State. My memory of 2013 Trevor Knight, and his first significant playing time, was that of a QB that couldn’t lead a scoring drive against ULM until his 5th series. But you sir, have picked apart my comments and displayed your keyboard dominance. I salute you!
ok…
Thomas had good feet for such a big kid.
Thought I was going to be able to look at some stuff today without getting angry… Nope… See ya’ll Wednesday maybe….
More Shovels and Rope please
I put both of our losses on the coaches! Poor calls and game management have cost us a chance at the playoffs, unless others fumble their way out of the picture as we have. One could argue that we lost this past weekend because of the kicker and rightfully so, but he has been so clutch in the past that he deserves some slack. The interception was a bad call and very poorly executed, blame the OC for even calling the play. Both sides of the ball can be much better but overall they have played well enough to be undefeated, except for the coaches. Why are these guys paid millions collectively?
I will always be a Sooner, but c’mon coaches pull your heads out of your rear.
This was just on ESPN (don’t kill me if it was already posted);
West Virginia pulled the big upset Saturday, but from a recruiting perspective, the big story of the day was ESPN 300 QB and Texas A&M commit Kyler Murray taking an official visit to Norman to take in the Oklahoma experience. Murray, the nation’s top-ranked dual-threat quarterback, was seen hanging out with Steele Walker, an Oklahoma baseball commit, during the Kansas State-Sooners football game.
The big question: Is the visit just another opportunity to check out a different school and see how another program functions, or does it give the Aggies legitimate reason to believe Murray is weighing all of his options? Texas A&M has lost three in a row, including Saturday’s 59-0 loss to Alabama.
Connie…………….Murray is short of 6’0″ ( think jamelle holieway height) and OU has 4 QB’s returning next year. Murray is a luxury not needed…….OU needs LB’ers and CB’s and better talent evaluation and acquisition………
I liked what I saw from Cody Thomas and would like to see more. With his size he will see the field better. Alex saw him play several times in high school and says he has an NFL arm and has the size and athleticism to run the ball. We have to exploit the middle of the field more going forward. I think the spring is going to be very interesting for Trevor with Mayfield and Thomas in camp. It can only make them all better but I feel really good about the QB position next year knowing we aren’t dependent on Knight.
The season goals were shanked Saturday but every season is the same in Norman now. Mucho preseason hype and the team fizzles and farts their national aspirations away by mid October………now would be a good time to play some of the more inexperienced reserves to see if they can offer any help to the OL or DL/LB/DB areas going foward into 2015.
Don’t panic, we barely blew a few games with tons of correctable issues. OU is still the best team in the big 12 and top team Nationally. We are also one of only a few teams in the country with the ability to ruin espn’s investment in the sec. So we finish strong and if we don’t make the playoffs it will be by less than a touchdown combine. Then we get a top sec team in a bowl game and smash them again! This is our burden to carry. SOONER FOOTBALL best for the last hundred years! Best for the next hundred! I’m ready to hit someone!