Beamer & Boulware
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the squib kick was not a bad call, it was poorly performed. Seiberts with his booming leg is the one who kicked it right at the guy.
The two things that always turn out bad in college football are the squib kick and the prevent defense. And in case of Bob Stoops, decisions to re-punt the ball.
The two things that always turn out bad in college football are the squib kick and the prevent defense. And in case of Bob Stoops, decisions to re-punt the ball.
and the decision for the corners to lay off 10 yards.......I don't think this was prevent, but just our defensive gameplan against Baylor. Agree with you though about the squib and prevent. Two of the dumbest strategies in football
I also don't think it was a bad call. Just poor execution.
The high school team I coached won a game because of a squib kick hitting the opponent. The ball bounced right back to us, and then we went on a clock eating drive for another TD. Our opponent had ran 3 plays on offense to score their 1st touchdown. By the time they got the ball back on offense there were 8 minutes remaining in the 2nd quarter and they were down 14-7. We ended up winning 22-20.
Timing of the alleged squib kick was completely ignorant. We had the lead and seemingly had momentum up to that point. Why give Poindexter a shot to drill the long FG ? That FG ended up biting us in the ***. The Dawgs capitalized and we were the loser in OT. Special Teams has typically been our soft n messy spot. Beamer better be given most of those coaching duties.
What if we would have kicked it deep and Georgia would have returned it for a TD?
I still think the plan was good. It was poorly executed though.
I still think the plan was good. It was poorly executed though.
Well given Siebert’s leg...he likely could have made it nonreturnable. Plus how many kick returns go for TD’s? Very small percentage. So that tells me that the brain trust had a coaching lapse. Siebert had a very high touch back percentage all season long...certainly the highest the Sooners have had as long as I can remember. I say tell him to kick the bladder out of the ball ..,all the time.
I understand why you thought he should have kicked off deep, but if I'm the head coach I squib kick in that situation 100% of the time. I don't want to chance the return for a TD.
lol I think that would have been highly unlikely. Just have Seibert kick it out of the endzone and Georgia would have most likely taken a knee. Some coaches just end up out thinking themselves and it bit us in the butt...again
If his touchback percentage is 100% I don't disagree with what you said. What if Seibert doesn't get his leg into it and it comes down at the 5 or 10 yd line? Now we have a return situation and it's possible that they return it for a TD.
I've lost a high school game because we didn't squib kick inside a minute to go in the game. Probably the wildest play I've ever been a part of in high school football. We had great coverage, made the tackle at the 25 yard line. The return man fumbled the ball, another player on the return team had the ball bounce right back to him and he returned it for a TD. We lost the game and it probably cost us a chance for a state championshp. The team that beat us that night got a better seed in the playoffs and ended up playing for the state championship game. There's a lot that goes into what coaches are thinking when they do it. This time the squib hurt us, but I still think that 99.9% of the time the squib kick will not hurt us.
Strange how a 3-point play was such a game changer in a 54-48 game, but it certainly was. It had everything to do with the outcome.
It's not the squib kick per se...its the scouted tendency we showed over the course of the season that was exploited. Beamer said as much in an interview. It's the same tendency we have shown in our kickoff and punt return game it's like all we are worried about is a safe catch with no fumble Beamer will change all of it we will be much more aggressive in the kicking game.
Usually this is correct, but then again it ended up being the key to victory for Alabama against Clemson a few years ago. It reversed the momentum and was the turning point for the rest of the game. Without that, Clemson may have won that game (and the natty) the way it was going.
While driving out of the Rose Bowl parking lot and since the OU broadcast was unavailable even in house (which always angers me when it’s not on ) I tuned into the Georgia broadcast where their coaches said they had scouted that play and had instructed that player to do what he did....The entire game turned on that play…
OU special teams has been missing that caliber of detailed coaching for a long time.
My hope is that with improved team talent and with some of the coaching changes we have seen that it will lead to better self-scouting and better play…I also want to see the proactive development of a second half game plan for the big bowl games.
OU special teams has been missing that caliber of detailed coaching for a long time.
My hope is that with improved team talent and with some of the coaching changes we have seen that it will lead to better self-scouting and better play…I also want to see the proactive development of a second half game plan for the big bowl games.
I completely agree with this. It was not a bad call just bad execution. You do realize that given the time remaining that Georgia was going to return anything not kicked out of the back of the end zone. So if we kick it 9 yds deep and they run it back 110 yds for a touchdown how many would be hollering why didn’t we squib it. Hindsight is always 20/20. Bad execution of a good call. The call that I will never get over is not going for it on 4th and 1. Our lousy defense finally does its job and we don’t let our strength-our heisman trophy winning QB try to win the game! Who in the hell though we were going to keep holding Georgia to field goals?
The squib kick gone bad didnt cost OU the game. What cost them the game was a very bad defense, Rileys play calling in the second half where he seemed to take the “ play not to lose “ approach and then not going for the kill in that first OT after holding UGA to a FG. He took the ball right out of Bakers hands and quite honestly I would have rather seen OU lose being aggressive in OT number 1 than playing for the tie for a second OT.
The squib had an impact as far as momentum went but it had very little to do with the ****** D that was put on the field.
The squib had an impact as far as momentum went but it had very little to do with the ****** D that was put on the field.
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I think Kenneth Murray will be, before his career is over, as good a MLB as we've ever had but in that game he was solely responsible for 2 Georgia TD's and for allowing them to get out of the deep hole Siebert's punt had put them in. We had a true freshman starting at the most critical position on the D and he'd never played the position before.