No mas.
Just before the distasrous ending of the first half in the venerable Cotton Bowl, the OU Sooners rolled over and collectively whispered,” No mas.”
I’ve now thought about this for two days before posting on the Red River Rivalry on my blog. But this is what I’m left with. Brent Venables and Jeff Lebby gave their players a death knell game plan with Davis Bevelle taking almost all of the quarterback snaps and the breaking point came after OU foolishly used a timeout in the last ninety seconds of the first half to aid the Lohnghorns’ in expanding their lead to 28-0 heading into intermission.
Who in thier right mind thought these Sooners, even if they could have stopped Texas on third and thirteen, could have possibly scored points with Davis Bevelle running the show with less than a minute left in the half?
No mas. The Sooners quit…even Braden Willis, Farooq, Eric Gray, Marvin Mims, and Drake Stoops.
What OU basically did in this game was play 10 on 11 football with the Horns on the power play for most of the game.
This was nothing more than capitulation from the open kick-off to the miserable end of the game.
No mas.
“If our coaches don’t give a flying f–k…then why should we?” “Why should the players?”
Can anyone really blame them or us?
They quit. The second half was a formality and Texas could have scored 70 points if they so desired.
Here’s some math for you on this listless, heartless OU defense…in the last three games this group has given up close to 1,800 yards of total offense and 156 points against the collective group of K-State, TCU, and Texas.
The score when Dillion Gabriel left the field in the TCU game was 34-10…Horned Frogs.
While clearly Davis Bevelle should not be playing anything but a down here and there at most….the OU issues on this team are much deeper on the defensesive side of the football.
When you can’t read or react or tachle that’s a defensive problem which got worse for the third straight game.
This morning on WWLS…Pat Jones said the OU defense is terrible. I would say that’s a generous assessement.
I don’t know what to write at this point. Did Sam Presti take over the reigns at OU for Joe C? Is this a new variation of tanking at the college fotball level?
And yet…OU is still favored in Vegas to beat a pesky Kansas team which came close to beating the Sooners in Lawrence last season.
Let’s circle that game in red from last season. Perhaps, it was there and then in Lawrence both Lincoln Riley and Caleb Williams starting planning their escape from rogue red Oklahoma to USC because they better than anyone else knew what the Sooners would be on the defensive side of the football this season.
The end…for now.