I was texting my sister last week discussing how important the Tech game was going to be to the rest of the season.
She put it this way: It was the quicksand game of the season. Step in it, and if you start flailing you’ll just keep sinking and sinking the rest of the year.
I think she was dead on. OU could not afford to lose two games in a row, much less two conference games. Fortunately the coaches and the team avoided the trap and exposed the Tech defense that was rated #1 in the nation coming into the game.
And let me give credit where credit is due. The offense, particularly Landry, played their best game of the season.
Landry was strong in the pocket and delivered some great throws. His play during the game however highlights a somewhat tenuous reality. This Sooner team will only go as far as Landry will take them. If he has a bad game we’re in trouble.
This team does not have a dominate defense or superstar running back to bail him out.
On the other hand he has the capability to play as well as any quarterback in the country.
It’s his consistency that is in question. And it will be all year. We will just have to hope that he is on his game as the Sooners head down south to the Cotton Bowl to face a texas program that seems to have pulled itself out of its two year slide.
And let me just get this out of the way right now. The texas longhorns.
Man do I hate those bastards.
Oh how I wish for another 65-13 beat down. Or maybe a 63-14 thrashing. I would even settle for a 55-17 butt whipping. (By the way. Isn’t it nice that we as Sooner fans can fondly recall such huge blow outs against our fiercest rival, and as recently as 12 months ago?
Since Stoops arrived the shorthorn fans have had to hope for a win of the smallest margins, much less a blowout…much less THREE blowouts in the past twelve years).
But alas I don’t think that’s in the cards this Saturday. Big surprise, right? With their quarterback woes solved and a potent run game, our defense will be tested much more than what they experienced in Lubbock.
Ash is more comfortable at QB and is throwing at a 70% clip. And Johnathan Gray is the real deal.
The thing that most concerns me is our lack of depth and playmakers on the defensive line, particularly the defensive ends. Gone are Frank Alexander and Ronnell Lewis who wrecked havoc on Ash last year.
We just don’t have the same star power at that position this season. And the interior will get even weaker if McFarland is hampered by his injury from the Tech game.
I was hoping that Bob would reinstate Stacy McGee in time for texas to give us more depth on the D-Line. No dice. He must have really screwed up because I’m hearing he’s not coming back before the Notre Dame game.
All this adds up to a worry meter spiking at 85%.
Let’s face it. The worry meter has a tendency to be on the pessimistic side anyway. When it comes down to OU/texas, it’s down right morbid due to the fact, well…I hate those bastards.
But anyway, here’s hoping that as the game clock trickles down on another Red River Rivalry, we get to bask in the glow of another Sooner blow-out. With all that being said….BOOMER!!!
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