Wow, nothing in the scrimmage today?

[garyeb2]

Other than saying Landry wasn't primarily to blame for the loss vs. K-State (he was, IMO), I completely agree with this. And I've been a Landry supporter/apologist ever since his freshman year, when a lot of OU fans began to seemingly fault him because he hasn't lived up to the nearly-impossible standard Bradford laid out for him.

Landry played great vs. Tech last season, and played very well Saturday night. He was far from the reason why OU lost both of those games. And even the K-State game was the only bad game he's played this season. In fact, OSU last year was the only bad game he played that season, too.

Stoops made me laugh one day last season. He was a call in guest on the Dan Patrick show. Patrick ask him what Landry did better than Sam Bradford. Stoops paused for an usually long time and finally said, "nothing". He went on to say "Landry does alot of things really well, but, he doesn't do anything better than Sam Bradford".

 

[stoops4pres]

What does any of that have to do with whether or not OU should adopt their offense?!?

And let's be accurate. He brought them up, left them after back to back seasons of 4-7 and 5-6, and lost 12 games his first two seasons back. He also coached a lot of seasons against Big 8/Big 12 powers that were down. OU, UT, and Nebraska all were at nearly all time lows during parts of his tenure.

Snyder is a good coach, no doubt. But that doesn't mean his offense is the way to go. None of the traditional powers run it. It's hard to recruit to. The top QB's around the country all want to throw the ball. The lineman want to pass block, and run block to an NFL scheme. No good receivers want to go there. And it probably hurts defensive recruiting, b/c none of the NFL-type defenders want to go and practice against an offense they will never see in the NFL every day.

I don't even know why I'm arguing this, b/c Bob isn't going to change this offense (much). That is 100% a given. He has stated that. He'll adopt some to personnel, but we're going to be similar to what we are now for a long time, scheme-wise.

The scheme/system isn't the problem. The problem is that we lost 3 potential oline starters before the season even started, and two reserves after that. The problem is that we had some bad apples at receiver the last couple of years, and Landry had to break in all new receivers this year b/c of those suspensions. Brown, Metoyer, Shepard, Saunders.....none of those guys were on campus last year. And Landry, as good as he is, has a couple of bad tendencies/habits that make him susceptible to bad plays. He doesn't move well. He doesn't get through reads well. And he doesn't throw the most accurate ball, comparatively speaking. It's really pretty amazing that Stoops and Heupel have got him playing as well as he has while at OU. He won't do well in the NFL, I know that. But he's been coached up, and they cover his warts pretty well, all things considered.

So yes, I expect our system to be fine. We need to get our offensive line depth/experience back up to where it was suppose to be. We've already improved the WR's, and we have enough youth that they should be solid for awhile. The question is, do we have a QB on campus that can throw it well enough next year to not have a drop off? I don't know. Bell isn't ready now, but maybe after being the #1 starting in January, he'll get there.

This.

And it's not like Stoops has refused to implement a rushing mentality. When OU first implemented their no-huddle, perceived "finesse" offense back in 2008, they had one of the most vaunted rushing attacks in college football that season. The issue isn't the scheme, it's that we haven't had a stout run-blocking unit since that season. Hence, we've benefitted more by utilizing additional "dink-and-dunk" tendencies over the last few seasons, because that's helped mask our limitations. Not to mention, we've had some pretty damn good WR's too.

The hate that boca has on Stoops has always been comical (you're still my brother from another mother though, boca), but his staff has earned a portion of the blame for the lack of development on the offensive line over the past few seasons. Grant it, he does deserve some slack since he lost his two best OL going into the season, but there's no excuse to barely crack the positive yard mark in the rushing department like the offense did vs. Notre Dame.