Correct. The receivers understand that the ball just doesn't always come their way...
Game Thread: OFFICIAL POSTGAME THREAD - Bama v. The Sooners...
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Waddle might be big in the Clemson game. Tua obviously has faith in all of our receivers! One of them will be open on almost every play.
Whoa! Not a lot of aisle space on that plane! That is some serious whoop-ass there.
I think there are several contributing factors:
1. We spent a lot of the game in personnel groupings with 1 TE + 2 RB or 2 TE + 1 RB. There just weren't as many snaps out there for him because the personnel choices were not ideal for him.
2. Devonta Smith being 100% healthy. Smith was the clear #2 receiver before he got injured; Waddle assumed that mantle by the end of the regular season.
3. Ruggs is hard to take off the field because he's probably one of our best dirty work receivers while also being one of those guys who just has a knack for scoring touchdowns.
4. 10 of the 25 receptions went to non-WRs. I don't have the hard stats on this but this game may have been one our highest usage rates for tailbacks out of the backfield.
5. Oklahoma seemed to have some extra attention paid to Waddle and the deep shots on passing downs in general. OU didn't want to get burned which is why those swing passes to the tailbacks were so effective.
I think he will have a big role in the next game though. Irv Smith or Waddle could be the playmaker of the game honestly.
I guess they found out that doing all that worked about as well as ND’s stare-down in the tunnel back in the 2013 game!
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TBH, I still view Lincoln Riley as an OC. How many head coaches at elite programs call plays on offense? It's obvious he doesn't understand the defensive side of the ball. OU's defense and special teams are way below standard. He's a great play caller but this is exactly why I've been saying for weeks that I'd pump the brakes on saying OU "hit the lottery" with Riley like many of our OU friends have been saying. Let's see what happens when he doesn't have a Heisman QB. A small step back in QB play and OU loses at least 3 games next year. This is another reason why myself and other referred to OU as smoke and mirrors i.e. a product of a poor conference the BIG12. Last 7 bowl games:
2012 Lost Cotton Bowl to Texas A&M 41-13
2013 Won Sugar Bowl against Alabama 45-31
2014 Loss Russell Athletic Bowl to Clemson 37-17
2015 Lost Orange Bowl to Clemson 37-17
2016 Won Sugar Bowl against Auburn 35-19
2017 Lost Rose Bowl to Georgia 54-48
2018 Lost Orange Bowl to Alabama 45-34
They're 2-5 in their last 7 big match-ups. 4 of the 5 losses were blowouts. Those results depict a team that gets into big games because of the weak conference they play in..
I’m not sure I understand either of those things. You mean he was just walking up to our players and clapping in their face right before the game? That’s just weird. And blocking access to the locker room? What did they do, put their players in front of the entrance and not let anybody in? Again very strange. In all my years of following college football I’ve just never heard of anything like this before.
Didn't the visitors locker room at Tennessee only have cold water for showers following the Alabama game? And I read a story about a locker room being painted pink, I think in the Big 10 or Big 12.
Antics . . . don't convert to wins on the field.
Yep, and that’s why their OL had so many personal fouls. They did not react well to getting their butts hand to them.
I watched the OU postgame press conference on YouTube last night. All four of their players at the table just looked beat up and we’re pretty humble in their responses to questions, except that punk Dru Samia who sounded defiant and unwilling to acknowledge that he had just been whipped. Riley said they lost the first qtr but then dominated the last three quarters. Basically I got the sense that other than the obligatory†Bamas a good team†comment that they felt the loss was more because of their lack of execution than just being dominated by a much better and more physical team. Despite the physical beat down we administered to them they still just don’t get it.
This is a perfect illustration of Riley's petulance that people are complaining about. His assertion (if this is what he said) is just dead wrong.
The scores were 10-10 in the 2nd, 10-0 (for OU) in the 3rd, and 14-14 in the 4th. And Bama started taking knees at the Oklahoma 8 yard line when everyone in the stadium knew they could put up another TD if they wanted.
If that is Riley's definition of "dominated" then it's no wonder they've lost pretty much all the games that really mattered on his watch...
No, but this does, or maybe it’s the team in the other locker room
It was something like "We beat a pretty good football team 17-3, the last three quarters." He doesn't really know what happened. He believes it. Believe it or not, on OU boards, posters were calling our players "thugs," after their behaviors...
We must have watched 2 different games.
Yeah, that "Zero U" moniker is making more sense now. (Originally a dig, by our version of Pawl F-baum. He didn't like the "whiny orange" either.)
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Guys... I don't know how to say this, but after reading the following stats, I realize how inferior we are to the mighty Oklahoma Sooners. I may not even finish watching the season...:biggrin2:
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What does that have to do with the price of tea in Norman?! I guess those fans just don’t get it.
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