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1. First of all, deep breath, fumblegate didn’t lose OSU that game. Did it help? No, obviously not. But you get the 4th and six stop on their 29 and you’re sitting pretty in your Big 12 title defense. I posted the photos and the video because I know you guys want to see them but I don’t choose to believe that cost us the game (obviously you’re entitled to your own opinion).
2. Repeat after me: there is no QB controversy. I saw a little chatter of this after the game and I agree that Walsh is a gamer but Lunt is the guy. We can have the “would OSU have won if Lunt was the QB” talk all night but the bottom line is that Walsh put up numbers and played great despite Monken only halfway trusting him with the playbook. He might be the best backup in the nation, but he’s not the starter.
3. Conversation coming into the season: “ok, we’re going to be good at OL (always good), RB (ditto), WR (so many guys!), probably QB (usually are), LB (studs returning), and our DBs might be the best unit we have.”
Uh no, Gilbert and Brown have been terrible so far. David Ash went 30/37 and threw Chris Leak’s deep ball, which he definitely purchased on Ebay, at will. That’s 2/4 on good games from a group that was supposed to be stellar.
4. Charles Davis couldn’t stop comparing Joe Randle to Thurman Thomas and I couldn’t stop believing him. 25 carries for 199 yards and 2 TD and an 8.0 yards per carry average. Yeahh, welcome yourself to the Big 12 player of the year race1.
5. I would have had an honest-to-God heart attack if OSU had completed that uber-Boise last play. It would have been the most Gus ending ever. He easily would have topped this display (the Crawford part specifically)…
6. I felt sick all night for giving you guys the wrong uniform info. Like really, really terrible. I know that sounds silly but I pride myself on having stuff like that correct. You can ask Amilian, he gets sick of my “I’m going to throw up if I’m wrong about this” texts. This week was pretty crazy in terms of uniform information and I don’t felt like I’ve ever misled you guys about anything but I screwed up tonight. That’s totally on me and I apologize.
7. When J.W. is rolling out and he tries to throw back across his body I get the same feeling as I did when Prentiss used to slide under a punt: terror, numbness, tingling, fear, horrible things.
8. How did we lose to Arizona?
9. The crowd was insane on TV. I read a lot of “this crowd is terrific” tweets and you could tell. Big game, big time crowd, just fell a little short.
10. Let’s all take a deep breath. We just rolled with (apparently) a top 10 Texas team with a redshirt freshman backup QB and they were thrilled to death to sneak out of Stillwater with a win. I agree with Jason Kersey, this program is the real deal and a 5-point loss to Texas shouldn’t take away from that.
Win or lose, I consider this game indisputable evidence that Mike Gundy has built this program to last. They’ll be good for a long time
— Jason Kersey (@jasonkersey) September 30, 2012
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Good write up but I’m going to be honest here, our defense is terrible. Specificly in stopping the pass. I feel Bill Young needs to go for us to take the next step. We have been terrible against the pass and specificly in third down and four down scenarios. I don’t have the actual stats but I would be willing to bet we are one of the worst third down defending teams in the country the past 3 years. We got lucky a lot with turnovers the past few years. This year we haven’t got them and as a result are losing games.
My dad and I were talking about the same thing. We thought if you took the good CFB teams over the last few years, meaning crappy teams don’t count, OSU’s 3rd and 4th down defense has to be one of the worst. I wish we could get the data. OKC_Dave, get on it.
Adam, I agree with you on the 3rd and 4th downs…we suck. Just like when we had them 4th and 6 or 7 to go on their last td drive. Our defense had Ash & company out of sorts and confused…forced them to go for it on 4th down and then let them up. Instead of keeping the pressure on Ash and forcing him to throw it before he was ready, we backed off and tried to cover all his receivers…and we lost because of it. We play ‘not to lose’ instead of playing to win. And we give them a huge play and the ball game.
I could go either way on the fumble and they might have punched it in on the next play, but that ball did not go into the endzone. Would like to know what they were looking at in the replay booth. The ball crossed the goal line, but only after Lowe picked it up. You can even see that the side judge did not signal touchdown until he sees Lowe pull the ball out.
Ok. I’m seriously pissed off that nobody agrees with me that the game was given to Texas on a faux touchdown at the end of the game. There is CLEAR video evidence that there was a FUMBLE and CLEAR recover by Lowe. I can understand calling wrong on the field but after replay is when you get it right not, “well I don’t feel like looking at this so we will just say indisputable video evidence and go home. ” I’m not ok with that!!
And to everyone that says we didn’t lose that game on that play you’re just fooling yourself trying to make yourself feel better. It DOESN’T matter if you give up 3000 yards, we still had the lead and if the game was OFFICIATED correctly on that FUMBLE we WIN!!!!!!! It’s just that simple!!! They can’t punch it in on the next play when we are in victory formation at the 25. So when Sean says he could go either way on the fumble that’s like saying “well I could go either way on if we win or not.” That’s not my attitude. I don’t want to rip on Sean (sorry dude), but I’m seriously pissed. I don’t get the “coach talk” from everyone.
Regardless of the call, good teams don’t let the game come down to ONE call. There are plenty of things we could’ve done in the other minutes of the game so that it didn’t come down to that one play. I get that you’re angry, but you really should let it go. Continuing to talk about how we “should have won, if we’d have gotten that one call!” is a Sooner move. Just sayin’.
Proud of the pokes, look out Big 12 we have a team in Stillwater
11. The Quinn Sharp left foot punt was one of the greatest moves I’ve ever seen from a special teams guy in a long, long time. That play alone kept us in the game in my opinon. Without that, we may have lost by way more.
That really may have been the play of the game. Not kidding.
and does this mean Boone won’t be following Tracy Moore on twitter now?
Me and my dad noticed at the game on third down and 4 yards or < we went to a nickel defense and it didn't work the first 5 times, but we never changed.. we stop them on 1st and 2nd choke on 3rd because we changed the D. I find it hard to believe a 21 year old kid and his dad can notice this but our coordinators cant.
That punt was awesome!
You’re right on about Gilbert and Brown. Someone a few weeks ago said “they need to stop reading about how great people think they are” and truer words couldn’t be spoken. They need to pull their heads out of their rears and get to work!
I tried to tweet this question to you during the game, but it wasn’t happening in the stadium. What exactly is the new “no noisemakers” rule? If the paddle people are not allowed to hit the wall while the play is live, why were the Texas fans allowed to ring their annoying bells through every OSU offensive play? Also, the TX band played MANY times while the play was live which I know for certain is not allowed. Soooo, what gives? Why were they not given penalties?
1. Crowd was great
2. Texas fan was bad (spilling beer on elderly woman, f bombing, and talking trash all game) OSU fans were civil to her though
3. Does Brodrick Brown run a 5.2 40 yard dash? Is he hurt? Out of shape?
4. Left foot punt was great after being horrible and dropping snap
12. It really sucks that TX figured out how to tackle in the second half and OSU forgot how.
13. Gus Johnson and Charles Davis are the only announcers that I genuinely LIKE. Everyone else is simply tolerated at best.
14. I just can’t figure out what our defense is missing. Is it Markelle Martin? It that the whole deal? – I say that because everything looks good on paper – like Gundy said, it’s the most talented defense ever wearing OSU orange. The D-line is getting more penetration than I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen more TFL’s than I’ve ever seen. They are twice as good defending against the run as they were last year, BUT THEY ARE TWICE AS BAD DEFENDING THE PASS!!! We have the same two CB’s and one of the same Safeties, SO WHAT GIVES??
15. If the ‘chances to convert’ rule was changed to 2 downs instead of 4, we’d be AWESOME.
16. I am sick and tired of playing so soft on 3rd downs. It has been that way for 3 years. I’m not getting on any “fire Bill Young” bandwagon or anything, but if the opposing team needs 5 yards, why do we inevitably give them a 10 yard cushion??!! I fell like the coaching staff and players are so paranoid about letting one get over their heads that they let opposing teams wear them out dink-and-dunking it all the way down the field. The difference between last year and this year (besides forcing turnovers) is that they ARE STILL letting them get over their heads.
17. Did anyone else feel like the game was eerily similar to the Stanford Fiesta Bowl win during the last few minutes, with us playing the role of 4-down choking Stanford?
18. Can’t remember if it was the giant gain 4th- down catch or not (I think it was), but Gilbert actually defended the play perfectly. The TX receiver won that play more than Gilbert lost it. Gilbert’s right arm was pulling down on the receivers left arm as the catch was made – 9 out of 10 times the receiver probably doesn’t hold on. The rest of the night I have no excuse for.
19. Even in the past couple years where the passing D was LESS suspect, it seems like this team has a trademark of making mediocre QB’s look awesome, and great QB’s look terrible. Anyone else noticed that?
20. This team can’t seem to catch a break this year. Just a lot of unusual anomalies all coming together to prevent the team from living up to its potential. I don’t believe in ‘luck’, but for lack of a better word, they are missing it… Losing the turnover battle, the ‘I’ word in plural, Gilbert having no kick return for a TD against TX, the list goes on…
Apparently all that time I spent last night curled up on the bathroom floor whimpering caused me to sleep in this morning……….Gundy (and at least a zillion other coaches) have always said you can’t leave yourselves where one bad officiating call can swing the game; nuff said…it sucks and sh*it happens. We’ve got to figure out 3rd & 4th down defense; if not, we’re going to get eaten alive by the pass happy B12. Gilbert and Brown need to step up, they aren’t redshirt freshmen. We’ve proven we can score points, and if Walsh is just the backup, we’ve probably got the best backup quarterback in the country…..now, I need to go throw-up again…..
You want to improve the defense? They need to practice tackling! Looked like a bunch of high schoolers. I still like ‘em though!
“Bend, not break”, makes me crazy! I understand the strategy against some opponents, but not as a defensive strategy you spend all season trying to perfect. It’s also easy to “bend not break” when our offense can score 60-70, reliably. Coach Young can call a different game; last years Bedlam game was a defensive work of art! We are getting much better athletes than we used to get, so let them play! By the way, IT WAS A FUMBLE!