Jalen Hurts confident in Oklahoma move

4Q Basket Case said:

Jalen will rack up video-game numbers at OU.

Part of that is because he's improved. More is because neither OU nor anybody else in the Big 12 play defense.

Jalen has always torn up defenses that are average or worse. His issue has been the lack of ability to make good defenses respect the pass. So against a D that is already stout, he becomes one-dimensional, and it's death.

Fortunately for him, his own team's lack of defense will put him on the field needing to score a lot. More fortunately for him, no defenses in the Big 12 have seen anything like Jalen. Get prepared for it...he's going to be in New York for the Heisman presentation.

None of that means he's suddenly gotten elite. It means he's playing in the right system, for the right team, in the right conference.

We would shut him down.

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owenfieldreams said:

There are 2 questions that won't be answered until the fall: how does the new OL ( 4 new starters ) perform & is there marked improvement on D? Hurts is surrounded by an incredible array of offensive talent and will be schemed by a true offensive savant who knows how to exploit the talent he has to work with. If the 2 questions are answered positively, we will be in the playoff; if not, we will struggle to win our 5th straight conference title.

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BamaMoon said:

I think this is your biggest concern. I think Jalen has improved his pocket presence significantly, but he has always gotten real happy feet and bailed to run, usually to his right when the pocket starts to collapse.

There's some evidence he's starting to overcome that, but if your OL can't protect consistently, my concern if I'm an OU fan is he'll revert back to his "tuck and run" tendency.

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owenfieldreams said:

My observation as I watched him in the spring game was that he did leave the pocket too soon. Now, he only had 2 of the 5 projected O-line starters on his team. 2 were assigned to the Mordecai led team and one, the only returning starter, Center Creed Humphrey, had minor surgery and missed spring camp. One of the best things both Mayfield and Murray did was hang in there and find passing lanes and go through their progressions. We shall see how well Hurts does in these areas.

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