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The balls Corey caught was when they figured out how to get somebody besides JT to cover him. Not bad for a below average corner.... according to some.
Ya...according to some....not all college DBs could catch a ball thrown right to them either....
I was just trying to celebrate Jordan Thomas' play, not start a pissing match between factions. The kid played All-Amercan style football last night against one of the best wide outs in college football.
Sorry about that jobea01.
Ya there is no way to understate just how well Jordan Thomas played last night. As the game went along, it just kept getting more and more unreal that Coleman wasn't having a beast of a game. Man great props to the entire OU secondary for really making a huge stride this year. Clearly they took what happened against Tulsa, learned from it, and have taken their game to another level. Now they just need to keep rolling these next 2 games as well.
OUr D is really good and inproving. Their performance growth reminds of the 2000 team that could not stop Kansas in the first half early in the year and then shut down the Heisman winner to win the NC.
MStoops has extra bullets in his gun. Last night was a brilliant performance.
MStoops has extra bullets in his gun. Last night was a brilliant performance.
I agree. Tapper is playing big and fast and those DT's are really coming into their own. Watching the technique of their play last night, after the first series, it was textbook and they played mean as a rattlesnake. OU doubled their number of negative yardage plays for the year. It was a great, great performance. Now, I will say that edge they were playing with got out of control on a few occasions and it cast them 10-13 points, but that is super nitpicking and they were brilliant!
Briles did some stuff against OUr D that he hadn't shown much. They haven't had to show much with the lack of competition they've had. But we got it figured out. They were bringing the right tackle across the back of the line to lead up in the hole, then swapped it on the goal line. The adjustment was to have Striker, if he was on that side, follow the tackle across the formation and he got in the middle of it a couple of times for losses.
We also went lightweight in third and seven and we able to still stop their run. And we did it in such a way that the normally confident Briles wouldn't go on fourth down.
Both halves, they had a great drive to score on their first possession. In the second half, it would have been for an FG try had we not thrown their qb down late on third down in the red zone. And we even slowed their run a lot having lost OUr best run stopper, Dimon.
This year, the defense has enough guys shaving every day to be able to make adjustments from one possession to another. Now we'll see whether they're mature enough to play a great game the week after playing a great game. The mental stuff next week might be a real challenge.
We also went lightweight in third and seven and we able to still stop their run. And we did it in such a way that the normally confident Briles wouldn't go on fourth down.
Both halves, they had a great drive to score on their first possession. In the second half, it would have been for an FG try had we not thrown their qb down late on third down in the red zone. And we even slowed their run a lot having lost OUr best run stopper, Dimon.
This year, the defense has enough guys shaving every day to be able to make adjustments from one possession to another. Now we'll see whether they're mature enough to play a great game the week after playing a great game. The mental stuff next week might be a real challenge.
It seems to me that our best defensive adjustment/strategy from what we've done in the past against Baylor was planning to defend them without the threat of Stidham improvising and running when troubled.
That, to me, was the game changer for us. Look at what Baker - an all round better QB than Trevor - was able to do when our receivers were blanketed. We were able to do what we haven't done before which was to give them the QB running threat they've been cramming down our throats under Briles without the expectation that they would reciprocate.
All this is said not to take any swipes at Mike and our defense. They planned and played brilliantly. It was great seeing us play their receivers aggressively for once and being highly successful at it.
JMHO.
Boomer Sooner
That, to me, was the game changer for us. Look at what Baker - an all round better QB than Trevor - was able to do when our receivers were blanketed. We were able to do what we haven't done before which was to give them the QB running threat they've been cramming down our throats under Briles without the expectation that they would reciprocate.
All this is said not to take any swipes at Mike and our defense. They planned and played brilliantly. It was great seeing us play their receivers aggressively for once and being highly successful at it.
JMHO.
Boomer Sooner
Herby seemed at least be implying last night that Baker was as good as any quarterback of the Stoops era. That would be a pretty good quarterback. Four seasons of top three guys in the Heisman voting. Or is it top four?
Can't remember if Jason was third or fourth in 2004.
Can't remember if Jason was third or fourth in 2004.