I'm with Joe H. You can't judge BV on the offensive talent we've lose this year. I don't believe the OLine is as bad as they've looked, though they are BAD. But we don't have a wide receiver playing that can treated a defense. We've lost OUt top five guys.
The only thing I hole against BV in this is the possiblility that practice sessions need to cut down on the physicality in practice. He wants his defense to be so prepared that he wants high physicality, and that just won't do it As I look across the country, this stringent new playoff system, that the best team in the country might not win it. It's the one who's luckiest with injuries who probably will win it. Teams are losing their key players. And the physical challenge of the SEC might cause the whole conference to falter. This will be tough for any team to survive. And the toll on players is just going to becoma heavier.
One other factor for OU fans: We've been spoiled with OUr quarterback situations over the last decade plus. Every quarterback we've had has gone through his freshman season elsewhere We had Baker for three years after he did a half dozen starts at Tech, where he'd been damn good. We actually had the number one pick in the draft sitting on our bench behind him. Kyler got his freshman problems out of the way at A&M. Then we had not the first draft pick, but a second rounder for one year, who is as good as any NFL quarterback, Hurts, who spent three previous at Bama. We saw a good bit of the freshman issue at QB, with Rattler's redshirt freshman season. He was good enough to start NFL games too soon, but he made it. He looked pretty bad when he started for us. We gave him that experience. Then he wasn't horrible at South Carolina.
The next year, the wunderkind freshman who probably had the best raw talent of any QB at OU ever. But he traveled with the traitor after still have many freshman mistakes. Remember the trip to Lawrence. He looked dreadful. The we had another successful transfer, in DG. Look where he is now. New offense, new teammates, new HC, new OC. and beat up by TCU. Now he's another Heisman candidate. Elsewhere.
If we're going to attract another great transfer quertetback, who's already been pretty successful. we HAVE to find a quality OC who's also a QB guru. We don't need a former fullback or a former tight end to run our offense, and coach our quarterbacks. We need a salesman who can coach. Despite the miserable ending in Columbia the other night, I still believe that Jackson Arnold will be an outstanding college quarterback. I hope it's at OU.
But I also believe that the most underrated thing in college football, or for that matter the NFL, is high quality wide receiver talent. If you have wides that cannot consistently be covered by one man, it makes for such a better running game. And you can't just have one. You have to have multiple quality guys that defenses have to adjust to, and who catch the damn ball. Consistently. Right now, active on our team, we have none of those. In large part, that's who we have no running game. And we have to live with that freshman, and all his mistakes, which are exacerbated by all the other guys are hurt issue. I believe that two years from now, JA will be a high draft pick. Somewhere. Hepe it's here. He will have to live with maybe a portal guy starting next year. His freshman performance probably proves that.