Defense? We Ain’t Got No Stinkin’ Defense
It is now official, I’m just as great a psychic future fortune teller as was Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce or Jean Dixon.
OU’s football team should never again play Kansas State under any circumstances, anywhere, anytime ever again – without some Witch/Conjurer/Sorcerer who magically transports themselves to the center of the field wherever the teams are playing and then proceeds to cast a spell on football ineptitude, stupidity and poor play over every second of KSU’s play.
The Curse Of The Wildcat has struck OU again. And this time, it was not only ugly proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that, right now, Venables, et al on the defensive coaching staff, have no Sooner magic over a barely acceptable, very poor defensive squad.
In the Sooner’s mystifying and epic defensive collapse last Saturday a seemingly dumbstruck Venables, the head Defensive Coordinator, and Co-Defensive Coordinator Ted Roof looked bewildered in the post-game press conference, with not a real answer between them of how they are going to fix the Calamity Of The 12 Defense that trotted onto the field in Kansas?
Venables: ‘I’m pissed about all the things that happened….’
Last week in Lincoln the Sooners showed they could play complimentary football (a balanced offense and defense) — in a good way to beat Nebraska.
This week back in Norman they showed they could play complimentary football — in a bad way to lose to Kansas State.
Both squads bear the responsibility for failure on Owen Field on Saturday night, when the Wildcats upset No. 6 Oklahoma 41-34.
And a noticeably angry Coach Brent Venables said so in his post-game press conference.
“I am pissed about all the things that happened out there today….”
The only highlight of the game was a raucous crowd. But even some of them began to file out of the stadium with 8 minutes remaining when K-State extended their lead to 34-20 and the Sooners defense had no answer for KSU running back Deuce Vaughn (25 carries for 123 yards) and quarterback Adrian Martinez (21 carries for 148 yards).
On a third and 16 from their own 41 yard line, Martinez scrambled out of the pocket for 55 yards to seal the Sooners’ fate. The Wildcats scored two plays later, extending the lead they had maintained the entire game to 41-27 with 1:58 left.
“It broke our back at the most critical of time,” OU Coach Brent Venables said of Martinez’ play.