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DrummBeat: Pregame Red River Rivalry information | Jacobe Johnson

Just some information that I don't know if some of you saw it in my mailbag yesterday, but multiple sources told me that Jacobe Johnson has been practicing on both sides of the ball for the last three weeks, with one source stating, "He has packages for offense and has looked really good. He's a natural and it has come back really quickly for him," one source said. "He can play and likely will play both sides during the game on Saturday and is still one of (OU) best special teams guys, too."

Now, as I said in the mailbag, I will believe the both sides deal when I see it. However, I do think you see JJ on offense today. He got considerably more reps in pregame at WR than he did with Auburn.

Just throwing that out there so that you all know that two-way playing for JJ is on the table today. Again, not saying it will 100% happen, even with both sources being very good that told me that. But I still will believe it when I see it.

Well, worse offense since Blake days

Hawkins is going to be good but he was a wide eye freshman. We could have run the wildcat offense with the same results. Personally, I was waiting for Jackson to come in for a new look. OC needs to be changed. Defense can't hold out with all the 1 minute drives by our offense. With a better offense, this would have been a tight game in my opinion. That's all but hopefully better next week.
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Hope is good, but reality...

First, the good: Eli Bowen was finally sent out on the field and he just made play after play after play. He should play every defensive snap! The defense has played better but they were stingy in the red zone. Tatum fumbled but man did he look good on the rushing attempt.

Reality: The oline is bad and if they were going to morph into good, it should have happened by now. The WR's (when the camera showed them downfield) just don't get open much. This offense may not get to the 400 yard mark in any game all season. This offense is bad. Hawkins has a lot to learn and with this line it will be very difficult. Oh, and the TE's don't block.

The defense is stout but they have way too many missed tackles. RMT was a big disappointment. Needed him to ball out and he didn't. I just don't think this team has the needed mean streak in them to reach the next level.

Coaching: I've continued to give BB a pass on the oline. But it's time he's held accountable. His line is soft. No fight in them. They still appear to be unathletic. Yes, they've moved all over the place because of injuries. However, even freshmen should perform better than what we've seen. Hard to teach a QB to stand in the pocket when the oline allows it to collapse so quickly and easily. I was a big supporter for the Littrell hire. But I've questioned him a lot the last couple of games. However, I don't know how you can realistically judge him with no WR's and horrible oline play. Just not much to work with there. One certain flaw is not utilizing Tatum more. He could be a great one. I also have been a strong supporter of BV. But he has allowed this team and coaches to be too undisciplined. I saw mistake after mistake but the only one punished was Tatum and that was after 1 carry that was their best run of the day. This is an undisciplined team but I guess Tatum was held accountable as he didn't play another meaningful snap. JJF has done a terrible job with the TE's. Their blocking is atrocious.

Even bigger dose of reality, it will be hard to get to 7 wins and the SEC has no terrifying teams this year so texas might be able to run the table. And why don't I mute the announcers anytime when texas is playing?!

Football LIVE GAME THREAD: OU at Auburn

Myself, Parker, Brandon and Bryan are in Auburn and will have you all fully covered with coverage.

Game time is 2:30 p.m. on ABC.

Check back here for live updates.

Anyone have any score predictions?

(Pregame reading: Things to watch, Cookin' With Grill Boy, Jacobe Johnson 'eager' to move to WR)

OUI 2024 Survivor Pool - Week 7

Well, that was crazy. A landscape-shifting Saturday in the world of college football meant a landscape-shifting day for our Survivor Pool. So much of what we thought we knew is now out the window. Despite zero undefeated teams facing a top-24 opponent, somehow, seven of them managed to lose. Our survivors came away smelling better than one might expect, but there was carnage nonetheless.

A fond farewell, and better luck next year to:

Rolled by the Tide (2) - @Fort Mill Sooner , @kelleyschubert
Jammed by JMU (4) - @BuddyJ7 , @shobbs007 , @soons n dc , @TPAV1
Vexed by the Vols (1) = @Soonermagic33
Forgot We Were Doing This (4) - @HunterPhillips , @kcsooner8360 , @Mismax5211 , @TexSooner817

Here's a recap of where that leaves us after 6 weeks of play:
  • 12 undefeated FBS teams remain
  • Of 214 original competitors, only 119 remain
  • Of the 119, 33 are presently in a tie for first place, having used only 2 currently undefeated teams
  • Penn State (75) and Indiana (65) have been the most heavily used teams among our remaining survivors
  • BYU (1) and Liberty (3) have been the least heavily used among our remaining survivors

Post your Week 7 selections in the thread below. Boomer Sooner, Texas Sucks!

The Actual Ability to Win this Game…

Is so incredibly small with this offense. From an execution standpoint, Hawk just doesn’t see the field well enough to find open receivers. He doesn’t have pocket awareness or presence to know when he has time versus when he needs to bail. Not his fault or even necessarily unexpected, but that’s the reality. The run game has had its moments, but the bad moments are so, so ugly. Ran what looked to be read option with two untouched defenders off the edge that almost killed Sawchuck. Run the delayed counter and Sexton literally doesn’t touch a soul on the pull.

From a play calling standpoint, I’m still scratching my head. 3rd and 3 and we run outside zone out of a 2 back set against a loaded box. We’ve run sprint out nearly every pass play with zero success. 3rd and long as we call the most predictable tunnel screen in the world. I know SL is limited with a frosh QB, no WRs, and a below average OL, but it’s just hopeless watching them right now.

Not to mention multiple false starts, missed FG, bad special teams.

Maybe there is some Sooner magic on deck, but boy, this is could get ugly

5-8

Here is OU’s offensive leaders in first half:
Passing: Hawkins 6/10 51yds fumble
Rushing: Hawkins 12 car 19yds
Receiving: Kearney 1 rec 15yds

This ain’t Auburn. Neither is Missouri, S. Car, Ole Miss, Alabama, LSU.

The only other team this team beats is Maine. I’d also bet they don’t pass for over 200yds or rush for over 150yds.
Final score something like 30-10
Defense scores
Special teams scores on a muffed punt.

We are all going to have to face it. These ain’t the good ole days. We were blessed with Stoops and even Riley(I said it). Defense is really good now and can be great but, OU has nobody to recruit great offense players or to play all great games.

This team goes 5-8 barring any kind of miracle 6-7.

And the only way they’re going to do anything about it is if people stop giving them money.
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