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Sooner don’t make it easy; the blood pressure has now subsided – but oh my

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My blood pressure has subsided now. It’s about an hour since Oklahoma held on to a 52-46 win over TCU in Fort Worth.

In a game that had to have whacked a good couple of years off the life expectancy of most Sooners fans, we learned that the OU offense can be very good (thanks to David Boren’s decision to not to kick Joe Mixon off the team a year ago) and the OU defense can be very good at times, and very bad at times (unfortunately sometimes, as Saturday, in the same game).

I had begun to prepare myself for a disappointing laying of a crimson and cream egg in the first couple of minutes of the game when Oklahoma fumbled and TCU scored and before some fans had time to find their seats the Horned Frogs were ahead 7-0.

Then in the second quarter the Sooners came storming back and took a 35-24  lead at halftime.   But not before Baker Mayfield fumbled the ball and gave TCU a field goal that could have been important later.

The third quarter was all Oklahoma, especially the defense, which held TCU to 16 yards for the quarter. The Sooners at that point went on a 42-3 run. It even included a flea flicker that resulted in a 67 yard TD pass from Mayfield to Dede Westbrook.

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Let’s face the reality: We need better players and coaching for OU to come back

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The Sooners are who they are. About a top 15 to 20 team who will compete in a weak Big 12 and might even win it with some luck.

That’s the ceiling right now. They don’t belong on the same field with the Ohio States and Alabamas of the world. That much was evident when a very young and inexperienced Buckeye team took OU to the woodshed a few Saturdays ago.

Oh some people will tell you that the Sooners just made too many mistakes and they aren’t that far off blah, blah, blah. Nope. Not gonna fall for it. Ohio St. dominated and it wasn’t close. They had by far the better team that night.

Remember when OU was unbeatable on Owen Field? Those were the days. They are who they are for now. And it’s about players and coaching. We need better players and arguably better coaching.

The better players are on the way if the 2017 recruiting class stays intact. But it will need to be followed up with great classes in 2018 and 2019 to get back to the early 2000s dominance all Sooner fans hope for.

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Defense was a shambles — you tell me why Mike Stoops is still defensive coordinator

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Enough is enough. How much longer is the Sooner team going to be defined by poor defensive secondary play?

And this year we can’t blame it on Zack Sanchez.

This is all on Mike Stoops.

Even on the spectacular second quarter 21-yard TD catch by Ohio State’s Noah Brown, which was in fact well covered by wide receiver-converted-to-defensive back Miciah Quick, the Sooners had seven defenders in coverage of only three Buckeye receivers.  With Quick alone against Brown, that meant six defenders were covering the two receivers J.T. Barrett did NOT throw to.

That TD with 4 seconds left in the second quarter gave Ohio State a 35-17 halftime lead. Game over.

Brown caught five passes for the Buckeyes. Four were for touchdowns.

“(We’re) not coached well enough and not athletic enough or skilled enough to put ourselves in position (to defend on pass plays),” Coach Bob Stoops said.

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