Just need the defense healthy and young cats to step up and learn fast like they did in this game. It sure helps having Caleb in there. I don't see Spencer ever starting for Oklahoma ever again unless Caleb gets hurt. I figure that he'll transfer at some point. It would be nice if he didn't, at least then if Caleb gets hurt, we'd have a decent backup. I honestly have no idea what happened to him. It is like he got happy feet and struggling with decision making/ accuracy. I was super excited to see him go to OU. I thought that he'd be so much better than he is.
Let's talk about some things that are being overlooked, and then "circle back" to the main talking point. 1) The offensive line looks vastly improved. They're hitting their assignments far better. They're sealing that C-Gap both left and right beautifully, even sometimes opening the B-Gap which is freeing Brooks to run circles. The pass protection has been far better too. They're finally picking up delayed blitzes and inside/outside stunts. That's something they struggled with for awhile. Can we also talk about how beautifully the O-Line ran the counter plays? They also were pulling so efficiently. The bread and butter of OU is finally back. BIG CREDIT to the offensive line and their vast improvement. 2) The offense is finally tridimensional again which is what Lincoln Riley's offense has to have. Want to drop three and play man under? We'll burn you on bubble screens outside and delayed draws. Want to stack the box? We'll hit the B-Gap and throw it to Woods, Mims, or Hall over the top on those 1-1 matchups. Want to drop 8? Caleb will burn you and make guys miss. They have to keep a spy on him so it creates mismatches for Hall and Brooks every single play. 3) Grinch. What are you doing man. Please, stop running conservative 7-drop zones. Every single time he opens up the playbook and gets aggressive, the defense excels. He runs a beautiful drop 2/man under (Hybrid Tampa-2) with several stunts and a delayed nickel or corner blitz. It works every single time. Grinch is a brilliant coach, but he's so scared of his lack of talent on the field that he's causing the defense to look silly because they're not built to run zone in the way he's calling it. 4) The point everyone's making right now. Caleb Williams. The offensive line is playing better because Williams is making the necessary adjustments at the LOS. He's a true-freshman and he's somehow able to see the whole field. He works through his progressions beautifully, his footwork and arm are both remarkable, he's got unbelievable feel for the pocket, he's versatile and quick. His one issue is the shotgun snaps. The reason he's having that issue is because he's watching what the safeties, OLB, or nickel is doing instead of the ball. He's making his initial read immediately and doesn't have the snap with his center down yet. It's both a blessing and a curse. If you can immediately feel that delayed blitz or a one on one situation outside, you're going to nail it immediately. But you HAVE to feel where the ball will be on snap. The whole entire team rallies around him. When he makes a good play, the entire team is there celebrating with him. When Rattler would do something good, nobody was there. You can tell this team, especially the offensive line, is willing to play so much harder for Caleb, and you can see how much of a leader and how kind and caring Caleb is. Also, the WR's are blocking much harder on the parameter. Several times Hall, Stoops, or Woods was driving their man 20 yards downfield. This team is a different team under Williams. One way to tell if the team likes their QB or not is watch the WR's/TE's, and OL's block. If they are driving people downhill, and the OL guys show up in the endzone to celebrate with them, and they're always picking the QB up after plays, they love their QB. Creed Humphrey is ALWAYS there for Mahomes, Hill, and Kelce. Those big boys will protect you with their life if they like you. As a former TE myself, I know this personally lol. All of this leads to me saying that Spencer's career for OU is OVER. Caleb also spread the ball remarkably well. Woods had three catches all year. He had three catches in the first half this game. Mims got touches, Hall got touches, Williams got Grey and Brooks involved, when I say a near perfect performance, I mean it. Now we just need Grinch to be aggressive on defense and this team could very well go to the championship.
I think alot of the defensive issues right now have to do with the secondary being pretty banged up. I heard a lot of the analysts saying that once the starters get healthy it should be better. You can only play schemes that are as good as the talent that you have on the field.
That secondary has to get healthy for speed D with speed D and healthy secondary that can actually cover up on the recievers instead of 7 back is a unspoken blessing and OU simply does not have that luxury, DTY is also hurt OU has a nickel playing corner that's how bad OU is hurt right now. They have two true freshman on the outside right now. And it's a big advantage to have a true freshman DB covering you even if you're a true freshman yourself cause you know the play.
I agree with everything you've said, but have a differing view of the O-line and a comment about your comment on Grinch: 1. The offensive line pass protection has actually been pretty decent all year. I'm not here to pile on Rattler, but there were a lot of times, over the course of the first 5 games, when Rattler left a clean pocket for whatever reason. In other words, I think the pass pro was pretty good but sometimes appeared to struggle because Rattler bailed on the pocket when he didn't need to leave. (Also, a side note, I rarely saw Rattler step up in the pocket, he usually left if he felt pressure...whether it was there, or not. CW does a really good job of letting his tackles take their guys upfield, stepping into the pocket and finding his receivers). I will say that the O-line has been better overall in the past couple of weeks. 2. I absolutely agree with you about Grinch's nature to get conservative and drop 7 or 8 when he probably should be bringing pressure. It really feels like this defense is at it's best when it's being aggressive. If we're going to drop 7 or 8 and their going to complete a pass anyway, we may as well go aggressive and force them to make a play. I hope that's something he sees more and more on film and realized he should be more aggressive. 3. The only other thing I'd add is that I'd like to see Riley work to get Gray the ball in space more often. He's never going to be a 'between the tackles' running back, and he's at his best in space, where he can get slippery. Brooks and Gray are vastly different backs and I'd like to see Riley work those difference into the game plan a little more. I think our secondary issues will resolve some when we get Washington, DTY and Criddell back healthy. Riley said it should be in the next week or two, so I suspect we'll have all those guys back after the bye week. The sky's the limit for this team!
We got KU and TTU, probably to two worst teams in the big 12 and then a BYE week. So there is enough time for Criddel, DTY, Washington, Graham, and Redmond to heal up before the hardest part of our schedule being Baylor, Iowa State, and Oklahoma Lite. I think even without our 4 starting DB’s and 1 starting DL injured we can handle the big 12 schedule but we are gonna need them for the big 12 championship and playoff run. Hopefully we get them back or our secondary starts to produce. We need it bad.
@@seanoconnor2046 The SEC gets way too much hype every single year it's usually 2 or 3 teams and the rest are mediocre. We'll be fine, especially when the playoff expands that will give room for a regular season loss.
@@seanoconnor2046 Kensucky is still Kensucky make no mistake about that. A&M is the same garbage team we played every year in the big 12, tons of talent and a loud stadium that can never put together a respectable season. Auburn isn't very good either. Like the other two guys said, it's Bama and LSU or Georgia, then everyone else. We'll be just fine.
Last week was “Sooner Magic” and this week was “Sooner Football” from start to finish. CW brings a confidence and execution that just isn’t there with Rattler. I don’t ever remember seeing an Oklahoma QB regress like Spencer Rattler. Hopefully he sticks around as a backup and practice QB but his best future may be elsewhere because we got ourselves a QB boys and girls!!
Mr. Mac I gotta believe you enjoyed making this one as much as one you did for OU vs Texas. What an impressive win. Once again thank you for the quality video!
I feel excited for Williams but feel bad for Rattler, he's still a great QB and would be amazing in a system designed for quarterbacks that play like him like in the Big10 sadly he was lied to about being a good fit for OU whether he was lied to by others or he lied to himself doesn't matter he'll still have a great future just don't think it'll be at Oklahoma. On another note, Williams is a perfect fit for OU's system and he's a beast of a football player, also got the first team reps, the center got to know how he likes the ball snapped and bam no fumbled snaps I knew that was the problem, you could see that Rattler liked the ball snapped like he was catching a bullet, Williams not so much.
It's amusing to me how suddenly everyone acts like they always thought Rattler was a bum. Folk been raving about his arm talent for 2 years. Wanted him to start over Hurts. Statements about how only like 5 QBs in college could make the throw he just made. The spin escape vs TCU last year, ect. But now it's like he's never done anything good. Had they been able to run the ball, or even committed to the run like the last 2 weeks, his numbers would be great. Defenses just sat back & took away everything middle & deep. Why so much double coverage. Caleb is damn good too.
@@sOUnerfan Fr. I remember when every Oklahoma fan was saying to start Rattler over hurts. Also in 2020 his TD INT ratio was 28/7. Oklahoma's wrs lead the nation in dropped passing tds with 9. And 3 of those ints were all tipped in the kstate game. So his ratio is basically 37/4
Rattler looks like he has speed but probably runs like a 5.0 forty. Williams seems to transcend Rattler in every way, but I believe Williams is a freak of nature too. Regardless of Rattlers perceived talents and weaknesses, I hear he's quite cocky and immature. Whether it's true or not, it's hard to command the respect of your teammates like that
Williams is out there having fun and doing it with a big ole smile on his face, his team mates feed off of that. His athletic ability is scary good, he's a freak of nature, I'm really glad he's ours. Rattler will be a good qb for a team with an offense to fit his style of play. But, saying all of that, he's 15-2 as a Sooner qb, that's pretty darn good.
His throws are looking alot cleaner now. He must have been practicing his ass off on making the ball spiral. I remember in the spring game, his throws were wobbly and not too accurate. Same when he came in for mop up duty when playing that WCU team. This kid has a bright future ahead of him. While Rattler is getting worse, I can only see Caleb getting better.
I still don't understand so many missed tackles. There was one play where it looked as if 4 Sooner defenders had a hold of the TCU running back and he was still able to wrestle free and get more yardage! And this struggle with tackling has persisted since Mike Stoops got fired in 2018. Our overall D stats have improved under Grinch, but I'm still confused about the struggle with tackling. Look to player's effort, yes, but how much is it from player effort versus coaching in the offseason? If we are still struggling 2023 beyond then you have to look to coaching because those will be all of Grinch's recruits.
It's 6 non starters playing vs 11 starters playing. That's the difference. The OU secondary is torn apart right now both starting corners are out, one safety is out two LBs are put and a nickel is out plus two on the defensive line, Washington, being out is killing OU plus DTY went out again vs Texas, Redmond is still out, Coe got hurt, out of the 9 injuries on the team 7 of them are on defense 6 are starters. Grinch is doing great for what he has, he can't play speed D because he has to give help to the secondary it's just what happens.
@@zrod6348 then you aren’t who I’m referring to then. Rather the people that don’t see Caleb is better than Rattler and want him to stay because they are blinded to the hype from last season.
Caleb Williams don’t look like an 18 yr old kid, he looks like a grown ass man. Caleb Williams don’t play like an 18 yr old kid, he plays like a grown ass man.
Love your videos and edits, but in my opinion I wouldn't include plays where we play poorly and get bailed out by the other team. For example, 6:31, bad coverage, little pressure but Duggan just under-throws the receiver. Small critique, otherwise your videos kill!
Caleb Williams needs to get better at giving handoffs. Also props to Michael Turk for his 85 yard punt against Texas which was really 100 yards. And this game against TCU every punt he drives back the punt returner to get the ball. Respect. Michael Turk also has a RU-vid channel called, Hangtime.
At giving hand offs? What tha? His hand offs freeze defenders in their tracks!! It's like the old wishbone days, he pulls it back or gives it to the running back while holding it to the last second, I love it!!
@@randysoule8306 lmao right this kid has no clue what he’s talking about. I would consider him competent if he said we needed our starters in defense back. But the handoffs? The ones that freeze up every single defender so that he can make a move with his feet? Lmao come on
