Not much from the Sooners in the second half yesterday as they led 6-3 going into halftime, then basically were dominated in the second half by the Longhorns.
John Mateer played, but did not play well as he was intercepted three times and almost a fourth time on a backwards pass which was ruled a lateral.
OU did not create a single turnover and only sacked Arch Manning twice. OU gave up a punt return touchdown as well in the fourth period as the wheels came off for the previously unbeaten Sooners.
Adding to problems was OU’s poor clock management in the last minute of the first half cost them a field goal which would have increased their lead to 9-3 at the half.
In the third period, Texas scored its only offensive touchdown from scrimmage on a bust from OU’s Kendal Doby who left a Texas receiver wide open in the back of the endzone on a third and long.
Texas definitely won the line of scrimmage defensively and OU averaged a meager 1.9 yards per rushing attempt and sacked John Mateer four times.
Long story short from me.. if OU wants to finsih 9-3 or even 8-4 Bill Bedenbaugh’s offensive line needs to pick it up in a big, sigfificant way next week-end at South Carolina.
OU’s next six games are all tough. There is not a single game on the remaining slate where I would see OU as a favorite minus perhaps the South Carolina game… and that will be a tough, tough road game.
OU’s blocking and tackling were both poor in this game. It was by far OU’s worst game tackling of the season in the entire second half. Way too many yards after the first contact by the Soners.
Hence…I in no way as the editor of content on this blog can play the OU Greatest Physical Hits of All-Time on the blog this week.
We have a butterfly mini-park out here on the Deer Creek mini-ranch—so instead of brooding over the Sonners’ poor perfromance yesterday…I’ve been watching the monarchs today. When I was younger…I in no way could have handled a Sooner loss in this manner, but at sisty-eight years of age and a Stage 4 cancer survivor–you learn to modify the order of importance of things in your life.
Would I trade a half day of watching the monarchs for a Sooner win? Of course I would… probably. But since that hasn’t been offered to MJ–I’ll just work my way through the loss in a calmer manner.
Eternal peace.
MJ