Recruiting Forum: UNofficial Oklahoma Pre-Game Thread

#1,402
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I'm glad we Don't play the fighting Beavises this year. Their oline and run game ars stout. Well I guess everybody else we play is better or just as good anyways
 
#1,409
#1,409
1. Offensive Line: I have seen TN rush for negative yards on multiple occasions against Florida, and especially remember Alex Brown sacking Tee Martin on seemingly every play back in 1999, but I feel like this is the worst offensive line performance I have ever seen. I will not bash anyone, but the unit, as a whole got Worley killed, probably concussed, and took away 80% of the playbook with their inability to slow down the outstanding Sooner defensive front.

2. WR Drops: One of the most perfect passes you could throw went right through the hands of our biggest WR for an interception in the endzone. That was devastating. There were other drops as well. When you are struggling on offense, you cannot afford those drops. We probably dropped 80 yards of offense tonight.

3. The Measuring Stick: We have known for weeks that this game would be the measuring stick for what we can expect for the rest of the year. Our defense is legit. If they continue to grow, we are going to be in some ball games. They are not perfect... especially in the secondary, but the front 7 are playing great football, given their limitations. SEC defenses now have a nice idea of how to stifle our offense. Blitzes a plenty are on the way, and UGA is going to kills us if we don't plan accordingly.

4. Worley: Tough, tough game for him. It's very easy for some posters to sit back with their Bud light and criticize, but that guy had a serious defense in his face the entire night. Yes, he got rattled. Yes, he began to stare down his receivers. Having 1.8 seconds to throw the ball will do that to you. You don't have time to read the field and go through your progressions. Striker was in his bloody face all night long. He picked his guy, and went there. This is not a recipe for success, but he was literally in survival mode. Tough performance.

5. I Hurd that!: Bajakian was afraid to run the ball in the first half. For good reason too. Outside of Worley's sacks, the first half runs went for: 3, -3, 2, 3, 1, -2, 4, 2, 2, 4. Accounting for the sacks, TN had -11 in the first half. I had thought that TN could possibly have negative yardage on the ground before the game began, and we were certainly going that way till Hurd crushed two monster runs in the 3rd and 4th Qs. I had been quietly waiting for Hurd to burst free all season, hoping that he was not going to be a bust. He finally showed some nice burst, and we need that going forward to keep the defense honesty and to keep pressure off of Worley.

6. Heal up: Time for a bye-week before we get UGA between the hedges. The Bulldogs will be licking their wounds after losing to SC this week, but they have an easy one against Troy. I wish they had another tough game to play, but we better be ready. If the OL could improve, and we could be more dynamic on offense, we could have a good run at UGA. Right now, I am not so sure. We missed Wolf tonight. The TE would have been a great out for Worley, and of course, Von would have been a huge weapon. Ultimately, we shot ourselves in the foot too often, and it is time for this team to show their resiliency as we will likely be underdogs in 5 of the next 6 games.
 
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#1,410
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Hopefully VP is back for UGA and croom can watch how to play WR. Have North,Malone, VP, Smith, and Piggly do work, and Hurd and Lane combine for 160 yards rushing
 
#1,413
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OL did not come to play, and Bajakian boggles my mind with his play-calling. A TD gets us firmly back in the game, but we throw a pick six. Cannot happen. 3rd and 2 on the goal line. Take your chances on the ground.
 
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LynxVol said:
OL did not come to play, and Bajakian boggles my mind with his play-calling. A TD gets us firmly back in the game, but we throw a pick six. Cannot happen. 3rd and 2 on the goal line. Take your chances on the ground.
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We had two picks in the end zone and one was a pick six. If we had not done that, it'd been 24-27. I didn't get some of the play calling, but the oline made play calling all but impossible. What play do you call when there is no blocking by the big boys?
 
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jman9865 said:
We had two picks in the end zone and one was a pick six. If we had not done that, it'd been 24-27. I didn't get some of the play calling, but the oline made play calling all but impossible. What play do you call when there is no blocking by the big boys?
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Quez North was in man coverage all night like they didn't respect him. Why didn't he see more touches? They finally came toward the end. Where was Pig Howard? For three quarters of the game, it just seemed like our staff forgot who our playmakers are. The INT in the end zone on the deep route is what it is. I'll accept the that one. No risk no reward. The pick six was unacceptable to me. We had established somewhat of a run game at that point, and we straight up abandoned it at a key point on the goal line.
 
#1,418
#1,418
And on North - they had safety help many times, especially deep, but just get him the ball to get in front of the damn chains.
 
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LynxVol said:
Quez North was in man coverage all night like they didn't respect him. Why didn't he see more touches? They finally came toward the end. Where was Pig Howard? For three quarters of the game, it just seemed like our staff forgot who our playmakers are. The INT in the end zone on the deep route is what it is. I'll accept the that one. No risk no reward. The pick six was unacceptable to me. We had established somewhat of a run game at that point, and we straight up abandoned it at a key point on the goal line.
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The run game was hardly 'established' we hit one big run at that point, we'd had negative run yardage before said run. The call to pass on the pick six wasn't bad, where it was thrown was terrible, but the OC ain't the one who chose that. How many of the sacks and throwaways were going to be headed for North or pig? How many times did Worley throw to a hot route or his first read? He didn't have time to survey the field much, regardless of who was in man coverage. We didn't go to the tight end at all. That's a more valid complaint to me.
 
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jman9865 said:
The run game was hardly 'established' we hit one big run at that point, we'd had negative run yardage before said run. The call to pass on the pick six wasn't bad, where it was thrown was terrible, but the OC ain't the one who chose that. How many of the sacks and throwaways were going to be headed for North or pig? How many times did Worley throw to a hot route or his first read? He didn't have time to survey the field much, regardless of who was in man coverage. We didn't go to the tight end at all. That's a more valid complaint to me.
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I know it's very convenient to remove certain plays during analysis, to suit your point, but if you remove Hurd's two big runs, TN rushed for 40 yards on 31 carries for a 1.29 YPC average
 
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LynxVol said:
And on North - they had safety help many times, especially deep, but just get him the ball to get in front of the damn chains.
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This I agree with. He's strong and broke a tackle when it did go to him there. But I still think that in retrospect it's easy for us to say so and so should have gotten touches or should or have run this rushing play, but when they're making those calls, the don't know which side of the oline is going to horribly whiff and where pressure will be. It was not one guard getting beat all night. I saw whiffs by everyone on the line, the TE, even an RB and a TE on a pulling block. You can't fix it if every gap is allowing someone through on a play. I've not seen blocking so bad since those two Florida guys blocked each other last season. It was really really bad until they backed off started defending the big plays, and dared us to run late in the 3rd.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
I know it's very convenient to remove certain plays during analysis, to suit your point, but if you remove Hurd's two big runs, TN rushed for 40 yards on 31 carries for a 1.29 YPC average
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I didn't remove it. I said that 1 run does not constitute 'establishing a run game. In that whole quarter, the third, that one run was the only one for greater than 1 yard. In the two quarters before that we had negative rushing yards. We had not 'established the run' we had one big 43 yder and nothing else. Then we had a pass for no gain and the pick. We hadn't established squat in the run game by the law of averages we were the blind squirrel that found a nut. Passing was our entire offense and was working. They called a pass, it failed massively. That happens, but it's not bad play calling it's bad execution.
 
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