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BV confirmed today at his press conference that the plan is to redshirt Hawkins if possible. I'd be surprised to see him play against Temple. Maybe not even against Kent State. Just in case he is needed later in the season. I'd probably play him against Kent State, but if you are truly...

All you have to do is go to a single football game for either to know that will never happen. OU's campus this past Saturday was a thing of beauty. I've been a football season ticket holder since 1999. Been to pretty much every big game in Norman over that time frame. I've never seen the...

Bowl games don't count against the 4 games to redshirt. They are trying to redshirt him, but that gets tricky because you can't predict injuries. Unless OU just routes Temple, I think he might not play this week. I would hope Kent State is a game they can play him in though.

I don't think so, unless he gets a lot better. He still has plenty to work on, and with his low release, I'm not sure he'll ever project as a high NFL draft pick. I'd be pretty surprised if he isn't back next year.

Like I said before the Michigan game, some of you are going to have to be patient with the run game. Arbuckle is going to have to figure out what works. He didn't come to OU with some finally tuned playbook that integrated the run game well. Neither did Riley when he first got to OU, but they...

That's my bad, I was looking at one thing and posting about another. I still think the running game showed a lot of promise considering who we were playing. Good defenses can shut down run games. Michigan has a good running offense, and take away the one 75 yard bust, and we completely shut...

I'll be back to read and write more later, but some of you look foolish. I'll leave it at that for now.

It's much more likely it's a coaching or training decision to keep them out, then the players. Like I said, a couple of of those guys are fighting for a starting spot. Guys like that don't sit out games they are healthy enough to play. Simmons is a Senior. 1/12th of his season is gone. You...

I'd argue that we don't have a lot of data on what other teams are doing. I think you POSSIBLY sit guys because of the playoffs. Those extra games. Also due to the importance of the bigger games, and the number of bigger games. This isn't the Big 12. We can't get our best players hurt...

Pretty sure EPL redshirted last year. He's also a project. Late to start playing football, iirc. And again, let's not act like the OL did nothing well. They did VERY well in pass blocking. And they did well enough in run blocking that Blaylock was running it fine before he got hurt.

You and Gabe make it sound like it's the player's choice. It's not.

Like it or not, we're going to be a lot more finesse on offense this year than some of you want. I don't believe that will hold us back, but hasn't that always been the argument with an Air Raid offense, that the OL tends to not be dominant in the run game? We've heard it for years. I think...

It's not that simple. I'd argue they literally did nothing to try and get movement. Wasn't what the game plan was. How does OU improve as a team by pushing around Illinois State and playing bully ball? They don't. You could tell what they wanted to do and work on, and it wasn't the running...

How was it a full line that played together last year? It was missing 3 of the top 4 OT's after the first series. The guy that played RG all last year and all camp moved to LG, because the starting LG was out. The new RG was a true freshman. The guy that took most of the snaps at LT wasn't...

Some of you all are going to have to be patient with the run game. We're back running more of a true air-raid offense. Yes, you can run the ball effectively out of such an offense. Yes, we're going to have to be able to run the ball effectively in the SEC. But Arbuckle didn't have a ton of...