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Dave: Painfully obvious Venables’ culture change will take time (especially on defense)

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It was foolish of us to think that Brent Venables could take the reins of Oklahoma football and immediately contend for national titles.

While there is a lot of talent to work with, the culture change that needs to take place will not be instantaneous. Especially on the defensive side of the ball.

He who shall not be named left the defense in shambles basically through in-difference. He thought he could just out score everyone. And his defensive coordinator could have made the “All-Just-Standing-There-Team”.

All this was painfully obvious while watching a mediocre K-State team with a mediocre quarterback in Adrian Martinez run all over the Sooner defense to the tune of 41 points and over 500 yards of offense.

Kansas State won’t do better than an 8-4 record this year. Unfortunately Oklahoma might not either.

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Sooners need balance as November ‘playoff’ stretch begins in Waco

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It was nice to see such a dominate performance from Oklahoma in their last game, even if it was just Texas Tech. 

Tech can still toss the ball around.  But the return of some key defensive players certainly helped keep the Red Raiders under control which allowed the Sooner offense plenty of chances to run up the score on a beautiful day in Norman. 

Jalen Redmond, D.J. Graham and Delarrin Turner-Yell were all back to full strength and it showed.  Redmond create havoc on his own, but that also helped Isaiah Thomas to have his own party from the outside. 

But perhaps the biggest difference was Turner-Yell back at strong safety which allowed Tennessee transfer Key Lawrence to move to cornerback. 

Lawrence shined with several pass break ups and blanket coverage.  And that in turn, in my opinion, allowed Grinch to have the confidence to play his defense backs much tighter against the opposing receivers. 

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Inept defense sinks Sooners for first loss in Ames since ’60

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You can point to key penalties and a late fourth quarter interception by young QB Spencer Rattler, but the Sooners lost for the first time in 60 years in Ames, Iowa because of something much simpler: tackling.

Or rather, the Sooners’ defense’s inability to do it.

Oklahoma’s 37-30 loss to Iowa State on Saturday night dropped them to 0-2 in the Big 12. It was the first back-t0-back loss for the Sooners since 1999.

The Sooners will go into the Red River Rivalry next weekend with a 1-2 record.

“Our backs are against the wall as a football team. We know that, we accept that. Our guys are hurt. Most of the guys in our room have never experienced a start of a season like this, but it’s still how you respond and I believe I know how this group will,” Coach Lincoln Riley said after the game.

Rattler played well. He threw two touchdowns (to Jeremiah Hall) and ran for another. The redshirt freshman completed 25 of 36 passes for 300 yards.

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