Post-Practice Blitz: Could a freshman solidify OU's O-line once again? 

How quick people forget why Lincoln let Schmitty go in the first place. There were too many injuries.

You can’t control someone rolling up the back of someone’s legs during practice or someone stepping wrong and spraining an ankle. I guess you want to go back Wiley and his soft ass ways?? People get hurt playing football. It’s just easy to blame someone for bad luck. They’ve already said Schmitty isn’t near as demanding as he was when he first was here so there goes that excuse.

Or we can go back to Lincoln Riley’s aerobics training and then complain when we get stuffed in a locker

What a silly concept, you have to practice hard to grow as a player. Schmity been around a hell of a long time, but now it’s an issue all the sudden because the players can’t stay healthy? I think we need more durable players

@@yarpyepiddyI agree… are these players hungry to play for pay?

I appreciate the sentiment and agree to an extent. Firstly, we don't know exactly how they mix up their rotations. Secondly, and more notably, it's mathematically nearly impossible to get game ready chemistry from 7-8 guys with a total of 10 or so OL combinations. Let's say they have 100 plays, and let's say they need to practice these 100 times to get even just some cohesion. That's 10,000 reps per OL rotation throughout spring, summer and fall camp, and they've had more than 10 combinations total. You don't have enough reps to go around, and if you preemptively take hundreds and thousands of reps away from your 1st depth to give to the 2nd and 3rd, you will never be as good in your first 2, 3 or 4 rotations.

@@phillips3994 I'm not just talking about only bringing in O-line guys, I'm referring to every position. So, if Nic Anderson is for some reason is unable to make it back or Bauer Sharp goes down, the 2's & 3's under them aren't looking like a deer in headlights if they're told to start during Texas, Ole Miss or Bama games

@@moderndaycaveman2519 I imagine they do this at practice, but nothing is like game time. Even then, it's beyond logical for your 1s to get the most reps, and to taper it from there. Your 2 and 3s will never have the same repetition, or you draw from your 1s. There's a balance. Probably like the physicality of practice. Not enough of it, and you're soft. Too much and your guys are likely to get hurt in practice. I believe we are seeing the process newbies being thrown to the fire, albeit not the fire that lies ahead. Even professionals drop simple passes. I do think they've tried to save guys via redshirting and don't believe that's good management. You gotta find the appropriate drives or situations to get their feet wet, early and often. I totally agree there.

Have you ever heard the word “route”? The ball is thrown to where the receiver on the route is supposed to be.

Bro the typing he had with the receivers that are currently injured DEFINITELY, mattered. Gioson, Farooq and nik anderson, are out and jackson is young and inexperienced with a shaky ol, ,

​@Ryan.Willis He's referring to the deep ball. When the route is for the receiver to go deep, it's on the qb to place the ball out far enough to where the receiver can make a play on the ball without breaking stride.

Yup. And remind me, Schmitty was the S&C coach first that team too?

That's almost impossible! The staff has a certain number of hours per week for practice. Which is dictated by NCAA. They have to jam practice, meetings, film study, conditioning, and lifting in, a max of 4hrs per day with a max of 20hr per week! That is all the coaching staff can mandate to the players! So there are only so many reps during practice and the 1s are getting 80% of those reps, 2s are maybe getting 15%, and 3s, 4s are splitting that last 5% of reps, at most. That's why there can be such a discrepancy in timing and comfortability between JA and WR's, the OL and running backs. That's why player led practices and meetings are a thing! The coaching staff can not force those, call for those, lead those. Hell, I don't think the staff can even be present during those player led activities. A usual practice in pads is 1-2hr, with 15-20min of that practice the players are stretching just to get ready for that practice. So, the team has 1.5hr for individual drills and running plays as a group. I invite you to get a group of 85+ 17-22yo boys to do anything quickly and efficiently lol

That depth conversation was never the case for the O line, unfortunately.

Bear

Goofy? That's ol'Barry.

A Goof!! That was the most asinine question a reporter could have asked 😂

Is this a joke lol? He is the most all over the board on every sports animal segment he is on. Jim and Al been pressuring him for ever to ask a tough question and this is is best attempt. Then he concedes maybe it is just injuries. None of these local media have any ⚽️ 🏀 on them

@@theSparkyWatts true this world is about ass kissing to win unfortunately.

All facts

Exactly. BV sounds like excuses 2 me and I'm a BV fan...... smh.

We knew the Oline didn’t have competitive depth. And when 4 of your top 5 guys at wr are injured then it didn’t matter how deep you were.

If the safety room lost 4 guys they wouldn’t be lookin too good either

As long as I don't have to watch

Are you insane? BV makes millions to answer these questions. What is wrong with your brain.

How is that a stupid question? He asked what is wrong with the offense and when did Brent see it coming. He then post-scripted by allowing that “injury” was an acceptable and understandable answer. Berry is one of the OU reporters that doesn’t pump sunshine, much needed in a market of softball questioners. He asks tough questions but still has a great relationship with the program (business dealings and friendship with Bob Stoops amongst others). The OU staff have respect for him, and many consider him to be the best sports journalist in OK history…

It’s the soft pathetic attitude like yours that has gotten us to where we are now. Entering year 24 of zero National Championships at OU.

​@@The_Ghost_In_The_Machine_soft? He is factual.

@@-sensibleChris No facts. Just more telling fans how to be fans. It’s a soft cuck attitude. OU is no longer a football school. It’s now a softball school. Keep enabling mediocrity and that’s exactly what you’ll end up with. Mediocrity. Year 24 now. And counting..

1000% spitting facts. Boomer SOONER!

This isn't going to age well sparky... Keep this energy...

I agree. Had over two seasons to prepare for the SEC and we didn’t recruit barley at all for OL and the guys we pulled from the portal for this season (season we enter the SEC) are not SEC caliber players. Now they are facing the consequences.

🤡

6 wins?😂 At this point that sounds pretty good.

If there's not a drastic improvement, there's only one more win on the schedule, and that's Maine.

So it's time to boo the team, run off the talent we do have, and create a "bad fan base" label that can take 20 years to get rid of.

@@-sensibleChrisyes, if you can’t uphold the standard that is OU football then be gone

@@-sensibleChrisnobody said boo the team. You can be critical of this team, disappointed in the on field product and still love your team.

Jones is arguably the best recruiter on the staff. Bates being the only other coach that's close.

@@JB-sc1tg Brandon Hall is their best recruiter.

Texas has 3 5 stars at receiver now I checked Johntay Cook Isaiah Bond Ryan Wingo They have 2 committed for the 25 class and 1 more projected per on3 Jamie French Kalique Lockett Michael Terry is projected to commit to Texas I didn’t realize how much better Texas is recruiting than Ou , Texas looks to have a top 3 class by signing day We need to step it up

For real I thought he would be ready to go

Bro its only been 2 games lol Relaxxx, give them more time sheesh

I see betas

lol it’s called the Schmidty Effect

Your trying not to let the OTHER teams know. You know... strategy.

The question is why are they so fragile or injured on offense but not Defense?

Got ya Coach

No, he’d have similar problems. When you have different levels of talent of OL players with little chemistry. That, imo, is mostly the problem.

Only you can

Another Texas loser or has no life so you got time to troll OU RU-vid.

Talk shit today.......

@@hotcarl3854bingo 😂