OU-Tennessee Recap + Michigan Overpowers USC, Utah Beats Oklahoma State, Nebraska Stumbles & Ws/Ls 

Prayers for Dolby man!

We’ve all been waiting for this one 😅

Watch Teddy’s face when talking about the offense. Dude is PISSED.

Best defensive performance we've seen in 15 years and we lost....

It was also impressive to see all the fans show up for COLLEGE GAMEDAY.

OSU fan here, its almost like I watched the same game twice yesterday. Really good defense and sorry offense(O line issues sorry QB play most of the game). The good thing for OU is it looks like Hawkins gives yall something Arnold doesn't. Plus he showed a ton of guts done at the goal like multiple times, putting his shoulder down once then the flip. Hawkins should def be QB 1 going forward IMO. Good luck next week at Auburn.

Gentlemen, instead of getting on here to complain, I'd just like to thank you for giving us Sooner fans an honest assessment of what you all see when it comes to our beloved football team win or lose. Much appreciated boys!!

Tennessee fan here but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed finding this podcast. Y’all’s breakdown of football is top notch! Good luck the rest of the way.

Heroic effort by the D. The D was the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, The O on the other hand were the French in WWII. This is the worst I've seen an OU offense look since 1998, when Joe Dickenson was the OC.

We need Gabe to be on the coaching staff to coach up these offensive guys. These 2 are the best

OU fans were blessed to see a great defense team last night that we have been wanting for years. Unfortunately, we also witnessed one of THE worst offenses in decades last night as well. Let's hope BV gets this sorted out soon.

As a Vols fan, it kinda touched me seeing the OU players looking at their conrad getting carted off the field, that was tough, i wish that young man a speedy recovery 🤞🏾

You two guys are awesome, especially in terms of your experience and understanding of the game. Your analysis and informed perspective are, quite frankly, refreshing. Kudos

So glad Gabe ain’t holding back! This is why this is the best Oklahoma podcast period. These two know what the F is going on

Almost everything Gabe says goes straight to coaching

The "QB1 Battle" is really simple here, Hawkins looked like he wanted in and Arnold looked like he wanted out

I love your honesty Ikard !!!!! Don’t get fired !!!

Very concerned OU doesn't have a QB coach to develop these young QBs.

I’m pumped about Hawkins at qb. He looks like he just has it. Get this line somehow moving in a cohesive form and we will be ok. Keep positive vibes!

My Sunday therapy session

First time I’ve disagreed with Teddy. The play calling is a lot of the problem

Hawkins looked good imitating Simone Biles... won't last long doing that.

Should Seth and Finley be on the hot seat?

I think it's sort of funny that Zac Alley, a relative unknown, has shaken out as a pretty home run hire so far while Seth Littrell, who had a pretty good track record offense-wise has kind of been a clunker.

As a fan Im super proud of our defense.. IT was fantastic.

Lost my voice from last night my throats been killing me all day lol I was yelling until the end of the game. I really love and appreciate this defense!

His first snap of the game and his very first snap to Hawkins were both HORRIBLE

The entire starting 5 WR are all injured. The best RB, injured. Still no Kalib Hicks the entire season. O line playing blind. And now we have a true freshman QB as our only hope going into the hardest stretch in CB other than Floridas schedule… unreal. Seats are getting warmer…

We should have won that game....its super frustrating....imo Hawkins is the guy moving forward. Defense was amazing as usual

On behalf of Sooner Nation thank you! This episode was cathartic.

Thank you GABE for keeping it REAL. Honestly during the Tennessee game punting on first down would have gained yards. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Teddy I disagree. The offense is sooooo bad the coaches are too blame. You literally could do as well getting someone off the street. It starts at the coaches. They did not do their jobs.

The fans stayed engaged for the game, but that likely won't continue if the offense continues to look horrific.

Best show out for the Sooners!! I appreciate you guys weekly breakdown!!

Can someone please ask Venebles why we don't stretch the runs outside more on his Rudy's show?

Last night was tough. The defense was fantastic, but Arnold's turnovers were too much to overcome. If Hawkins had started, I think OU would have won.

Super proud of your honesty. We were massively out coached on offense. How can you NOT know your deficiencies at this point, including at QB? Head scratching. BV needs a quick hook at the end of the season if there isn’t massive improvement. So sad to watch our defense work so hard. Now the coaches didn’t throw a stupid interception or fumble or throw a backwards pass. And I’m glad they went with Hawkins. You need a foot for a TD and you line the qb up in the shotgun? SMH. Very disappointing. Thanks again for calling it like you see it.

Gabe please join the coaching staff

Should we hire a QB(future OC) Coach asap? Get him in there to at least develop the QBs now and get to know the team to setup for a real OC next season? Because I think we need a hungry OC/QB coach

Hey ,, I’ve enjoyed going back and forth with you guys on this channel for over a year . Love the commentary and insight so much this ole Tennessee boy subscribed to the channel. That being said it was a great game with two outstanding Traditions going at it . I will pull for y’all the rest of the year . Take care and God Bless from Good ole Rocky Top!

I can count on these two things: 1. Sooners D showing up to play 2. OK Breakdown Pod on Sunday nights

Was there yesterday at the game. Was awesome environment and the fans were amazing! Hope the rest of vol fans were cool! Appreciate the hospitality and good luck to you guys

Maybe time for true freshman O-lineman to get a chance?

I needed this today! Thanks for expressing the frustration we all feel! Y’all just earned a new listener.

I know a lot of people want Hawkins becaus of his mobility, but I'm sold becaue he looks better passing the ball. Not mechanically, but just decision and timing. There's a lot of plays that looks like Arnold just has the wrong read. I don't know the palybook, but lots of teams run Q Power with that toss, so I wouldn't be surprised if the fumble was a missed read and then loosing the ball in the pile.

Seth, Listen to Gabe!!!! Listen!!

OU ranks 126th in yards per play (4.45) - last among Power 4 teams. Only teams with fewer yards per play: Old Dominion, Louisiana-Monroe, Akron, Kennesaw State, Wyoming, New Mexico State, Air Force, Kent State.

Vol fan here. I hated to see the injury to Dolby, but that is something us Vol fans have seen happen to one of our guys. Bru McCoy also suffered a dislocated ankle early in the season last year against South Carolina. As you saw, he was back out there making plays Saturday. Prayers for a speedy recovery for Dolby. He can come back from it. Also, I was fortunate enough to make the trip to Norman, and y’all are first class. Great fans and environment. Will be rooting for the Sooners the rest of the way. Go Big Orange and Boomer Sooner.

"I guess he can't count to six🤣?"....damn

Defense looked elite! Offense looked like a bad high school team. Love the pod. The overall football IQ on here is second to none and that’s why I look forward to listening every single week. Gabe for OC??? Think about it! Just sayin. lol

Oh boooooyyyyyy, here we go

There is not an ounce of quit on this defense. Those guys played their asses off. Respect!

Well…Here we go

Glad everyone else is seeing it now, we’re not bad fans, we just know subpar play when we see it and aren’t afraid to call them out on it. Gabe, you are spot on brother.

At least Gabe isn't afraid to speak the truth.

On the broadcast, the announcers were saying Tatum fell on the ball, had the wind knocked out of him, and then they call his number to run again. Poor guy. That was a brutal 2 plays for him.

You guys' defense is good. Really good. Tennessee is a really well-rounded team. You guys get the QB position fixed, and that offensive line you will be a force in the future. I agree with the bad play calling as well. I actually thought Tennessee would blow you out, but you fought hard against a national championship contender. Keep your heads up

I irony of the jet sweep being our best play this year…..

OU hasn't been able to run the ball in 3 years. There hasn't been an All Big 12 offensive lineman in 4 years since Creed Humphrey. No other lineman since 2018! I understand some have gone to the pros, but Guyton didn't dominate last year. The transfers are all busts other than Turkin, and he is average at best! I think we need a complete overhaul of the offensive staff. I hate to say it, but go up to Tulsa and hire back Kevin Wilson. I don't know who to have as a QB coach. Wilson has been a winner at OU and Ohio State. Murray seems to be a great recruiter, but they don't seem to understand how or who to block! Tight ends can't block on the edge. Receivers are trash at blocking. I don't give a flying F*** about the injuries. These players are getting paid to play! They should embrace the chance to see what they can do!

Hang in there ya'll. Stay together, Sooner Nation!

Man...if we didn't turn it over like we did, it would be 10-3 at halftime. The turnovers are what killed us and let Tennessee play with a relaxed mindset--game is won dont allow any big plays.

Things need to get fixed, fast!

Damn Gabe got my blood pressure up again,i had just got it down😂

The coaches don’t know what they’re doing. It’s ok to say it

Environment was top tier, as a Vols fan that was at the bama Vols game in 2022 I can say y'all will fit right into the sec. It was awesome

If the defense can keep this up and the offense can be just decent with Hawkins, we can be a 9-3 team. We now have a great sense of what the SEC is like facing a team that definitely could win it, and we held them to a 10 point game with almost zero help from the offense. If Hawkins started this game, do we win? I dont know but i believe we would of taken advantage of those short fields. All in all just keep improving. Texas, Old Miss and Alabama are the only 3 opponents left that are in the Tennessee realm. The defense should keep us in those games, Hawkins i think could help us win one or two of them.

We need to convert Jacobe Johnson to wide receiver and start a Leach Air-Raid offense with Hawkins who shows shades of Kyler Murray's mobility and Baker Mayfield's moxie. Thank God we have Auburn this week where Hawkins will get the needed reps and be ready for the Red River Shootout!

I think it's safe to say DG would be struggling this year if he were still in Norman with the O Line play.

Bring Cale back to call plays the rest of the year-

Gabe is saying what us OU fans are thinking but in great detail

JA and Hawkins reminds me a lot of Rattlers situation with Caleb Williams.

We're in the SEC. We have to decide if we are truly elite or we're not. What do I mean? How can you have 17 wide receivers, not counting the 6 TE's. We have 20 OL's, 10 RB's and 5 QB's. We play maybe 40 to 50% of our players Elite teams in the SEC start with good players, but any given Saturday it could be a different O-Line, different backs and different receiver sets that start. We are told by the coaches it's next man up, but down deep we're not recruiting or picking players like it's next man up. We're not practicing what we preach. In the SEC you are going to get injuries, that's part of the league. Though most of our injuries came before game 1 with an SEC team. We've had 3 years to prepare. Our roster needs to have bigger NFL caliber players to play in this league. We have to get away from the Big 12 mindset that speed will get us to the playoff. That may be true for the Big 12, but SEC requires the big guys and lots of them. Big framed wide receivers like Michael Irving, Dez Bryant are what we need. They still had speed too. We need 300 lb OL's throughout that can block, pull fast and are coachable to play anywhere on the O-Line. We need more elite running backs. SEC play is about rotating big players and staying fresh. Practically the whole damn team plays regardless of who starts. Rotate, rotate, rotate. That goes for the D as well. When we recruit, we have to think big. 5 star recruits have showed me nothing. I'd rather have 3 stars that can be developed into great players rather than 5 stars that haved proved nothing at the CFB level. NIL would be cheaper too. You can't be an elite team if only 20 to 30% of your team is elite. Oklahoma better figure things out or we will lose a decade of being mediocre in the SEC.

Gabe Ikard OC? Seems like he gets it.

This level of incompetence is criminal

Jackson Arnold is Panickan Skywalker at this point. He’s a one read quarterback who instantly reacts like a deer in the headlights. Have to make a change there. That throw into triple coverage sealed it for me as he had time to make a better decision.

Double edge sword. Lose Gabe to the OU staff. Gabe no longer does OK breakdown

Our offense is charmin soft and the defense is nails.

Arnold must of been the #1 qb in the home school fb league cuz there was no way he played in Texas!

Why can't I have Gabe on the coaching staff 😭

Been waiting for this all damn day to hear if there is any hope for our pathetic offense!

Kirk kept praising OUs defense none stop on the tv broadcast last night

Hawkins seemed like he won over the team on the sidelines.

Gabe, you need to be our new OC.

Please Gabe, somehow, add OU OC-Consultant to your long list of job titles. You've probably got the pull to actually make it happen. So spot on with every criticism of the offensive play calling.

Super tough game to stomach from an offensive perspective. The defense gives us a reason to be hopeful going forward. Imagine if we would have had this level of defense during the Riley years, we would have won two or more National Championships. Even though it was a tough loss to take, it somehow helps to have Gabe and Teddy break it down for us and get their expert perspective. All we can say to the Vols at this point is: Sooner or Later We’ll Get Ya!

Worst decision as head coach to date: firing coach Cale Gundy.

Proud of the way our defense played. Played their hearts out.

I am tired of anybody saying how great a coach bendebaugh is

They just need to put Sharp on the outside as a receiver and have Roberts as the true tight end

Holding UT to 23 pts means it was a very winnable game. No defending those offensive coaches any more. Bill B, Seth, Joe John…all should be coaching for their futures at OU as coaches. Just head scratching we have such a poor Oline. How is that possible? I’ve heard many say BB isn’t a great recruiter. May well be true. Coaching acumen is obviously great. We should not be so incredibly limited at OL and rely so heavily on the portal. Poor OL play and a scared QB are a horrible combination.

Let get Jacobe Johnson at wr

Always enjoy the objectivity this pod provides. Get healthy and figure the offensive line out, looking forward to another battle in the cotton bowl come October. 🤘🏼

Play calling was terrible. Jackson Arnold sucks. Our offensive line is atrocious. Our defense is spectacular. Hawkins is a great QB. Boomer!!!

Let’s rage

Teddy rubbing his head like “oh damn he just said fu*k” madd me giggle instantly

Where is Andrel Anthony?

WHY ARE WE STILL RUNNING SOME OF THIS SHIT ON THE OFFENSE. HOW DOES ANYONE ON THE STAFF FOR THE OFFENSE NOT THINK ABOUT CHANGING SOMETHING IN THE SCHEME OR GAMEPLANNING? Doing the same shit over and over like running inside zone into the teeth of D-Lines that we know we can’t block worth a damn is literally the definition of insanity. I don’t understand how anyone on staff at a University like Oklahoma doesn’t have enough brains to change it. Absolutely baffling. How did we get here?

GABE FOR OC

The lack of game planning around our personnel and then the play calling is atrocious based on the personnel we have out on the field. It’s like having a 5’9” point guard and then playing him down on the blocks. I would have thought a guy with Seth’s experience would be coaching at a completely different level than he is. The lack of attention to detail under Seth is mind boggling. To me it looks like BV has never stepped foot into the offensive side of things. We look like 2 completely different teams out there with our offense and defense. No way would a BV coached group play like our offense plays. Has BV given too much latitude and put way too much trust in Seth doing the right thing? It sure looks like it. They play a completely different type of football from one side to the other. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen regarding the makeup of a team. I don’t know how the defense doesn’t just walk in and whip their ass the second they hit the bus. Just disgustingly embarrassing and so far below what an OU offense should look like. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such a disparity top to bottom than I see right now between the two sides of the ball. Just embarrassing Oh and the final thing…….absolutely NO LEADERSHIP ON THE FIELD. NONE! I’ve never played on a team at the high school or college level that was worth a shit without strong leadership and we don’t have strong leadership but we have ZERO! So confused on how BV has allowed that side of the ball to look this way. Biggest BV fan there is but you have to call it like it is and the buck stops with him at the end of the day and it’s his job to make sure this gets fixed the best it can. Oklahoma should. EVER have one side of the ball look like this. It was more entertaining under Riley with the roles reversed but we are worse on offense in year 3 by a wide margin than Brents first year. That is crazy to ke

Feels like the Offensive players don't believe in the scheme or coaches. And looks like none of them want to play. That is extremely concerning!

"Run a route" it all seems simple to everyone but the coaching staff 😂