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Dave: Rattler better than you think, but still not there yet

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The rumblings got a little louder after the Nebraska game last Saturday.  What’s wrong with the offense?  Why don’t we throw the ball deep?  Caleb should be starting! 

That last one is what I hear the most.  But you know the old saying, the most popular guy on the team is the back-up quarterback. 

Starting quarterbacks get all the blame when things are going wrong and they get too much of the credit when things are going right. 

Rattler does not deserve all the heat he is getting.  It’s true that he seems to not be as sharp as he was at the end of last year and he has missed some open receivers. 

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Dave: Huskers bring a mobile QB to town to test the Sooners D

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At the tailgate before the Western Carolina game, someone asked the group what did we expect to learn from the game that night.

My good buddy Mike said, “If we learn anything at all, it won’t be good.”

And he was absolutely right. There really is nothing to be learned from a 76-0 beat down in a really unfair contest. The only thing we could have learned would have been really bad. That might have been the worst team to visit Owen Field in the past 25 years.

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Dave: No worry this week, but OU must learn to win 2nd half

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That horrible screeching noise you heard last Saturday was the Sooners slamming the breaks on all that National Title talk that was so prevalent in the off season. 

The emergency brake was also yanked on Spencer Rattler’s Heisman campaign for good measure. 

Now I know it was just one game.  And my good friend Mike told me not to panic just yet.  They were mostly correctable mistakes.  And he is probably right. 

But if the Sooners really want to be considered for the big trophy at the end of the season, stuff needs to get real.  Like right now. 

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