SoonerScoop video: OU players practice No. 5
OU is now five practices into preseason camp, and SoonerScoop had a chance to catch up with multiple players. Here are some of the best quotes from the Tuesday afternoon session to go with the video interviews.
QB Dillon Gabriel
“That’s what I love about our team is we push a lot of people. We ask a lot of them and that’s something that’s not super easy on a lot of guys. Obviously that translates to production on the field. So I try to push them but I also try to love them even harder just because I know it’s demanding and there’s a lot of things that come with it. But just knowing that they can trust me and the connection off the field, that also allows you to demand a lot.”
Surprises?
“I’m just gonna say the O-line unit as a whole. I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but those guys are playing their butt off and I’m proud of them. Everybody, they just compete and they’re really smart just in everything they do. That group as a whole is a bunch of guys I’m impressed with.”
DB Daeh McCullough
“It’s just a lot of plays. Just a lot of things to learn. A lot of things to pick up on. I’m a summer enrollee. I didn’t enroll early, so I’m kinda behind in other people’s eyes. So I gotta catch up and just keep my mind in the books and just keep on grinding through and just look at the players, really, is all it is.”
No. 1 safety priority?
“Run fast. Hit hard. Be smart. Aggressive.”
DE Rondell Bothroyd
“Our depth is crazy. I think we have depth probably up there in the top of the country and just the way we pay attention to details. Coach Chavis, Coach Bates, they demand the best out of us every day regardless of how you feel, regardless of what’s going on, so I think we’re relentless and our depth is probably the one thing I would say.”
The Brent Venables difference?
“He’s intense. He’s really intense. You can’t kind of know what you’re doing. You’ve got to know what you’re doing because there’s a reason for it. And if you mess up — You probably hear him sometimes out here. It’s intense stuff, but it’s good. He knows what he’s doing. And if we know what we’re doing, it’ll all work.”
DB Woodi Washington
“Definitely. Like you said, we got a lot of depth. It’s competitive depth. It could be a game where you don’t know who starts on the other side of you or starts beside you. Like you said, it’s really competitive. That’s a great thing because it forces guys that don’t normally get to play, they get to come into the game and play and take as many reps as they can. And the guys that do play a lot of minutes, they can kind of get a breather when they’re out there.”
