Game Thoughts Oklahoma State

[cyclone1209]

First of all, what a relief. I think we showed today that we can beat some teams in the middle of the Big 12. Baylor, TCU, Cincinn, Kansas, BYU are winnable games I feel this year with that kind of offense.

Offensive Positives

• Jaylin Noel I owe a sincere apology, he was a massive difference maker. So sweet to see him gain confidence, get some yac and burn people. We used him the right way today! He is a good deep threat down the field. Longer post routes and go routes are in his wheelhouse.
• Daniel Jackson - where has this been? He looked pretty natural in running precise routes, catching the ball with ease, he looks like he can help the rest of the way
• The offense took a step forward today with Stevo Klotz, I think he makes a pretty big difference run blocking. Same can be said for offensive guard Brendan Black who played in simmon's old spot. In the second half our ground game looked quasi respectable.
• I think Eli Sanders, Sama, and occasional Carson Hanson need the RB snaps. Cartevious (i know he's injured) runs into piles and doesn't have enough speed in my opinion. Eli Sanders in particular brings some juice to the running game. We had about 75 yards rushing, we don't have to light roof on fire in this area but we have to be at least competent, which we were at times today.
• The running back pass to the flat HAS TO BE a part of what we do. If defenses stack the box we have to make them pay. The 20 yard running back pass to Sama was a thing of beauty.
• Rocco Becht: 3 TD, no picks and over 350 yards. We can win with this guy folks. He is accurate and a gamer to me. I'll say he is "Purdy-like", not saying as good as Purdy, but his game is similar.

Defense

- One sack by Singleton was a key play in the game I thought
- Ike Ezeoguo DE needs to play more in passing situations, he has a clear quick first step, and seems to get pressure better than Peterson or others. He looks great as a freshman
- Tampa with a huge pick to seal the game was fun to see.
- The hit by Cooper on their receiver in the 4th quarter was terrific, dude plays like he's shot out of a cannon.
- Defense got a little loose in second half but I thought played well most of the game. OSU always has talented guys at WR and RB, we were up to the task at the end

 

[Acylum]

First of all, what a relief. I think we showed today that we can beat some teams in the middle of the Big 12.

Wait what?

 

[ZuriCyclone]

First of all, what a relief. I think we showed today that we can beat some teams in the middle of the Big 12. Baylor, TCU, Cincinn, Kansas, BYU are winnable games I feel this year with that kind of offense.

Offensive Positives

• Jaylin Noel I owe a sincere apology, he was a massive difference maker. So sweet to see him gain confidence, get some yac and burn people. We used him the right way today! He is a good deep threat down the field. Longer post routes and go routes are in his wheelhouse.
• Daniel Jackson - where has this been? He looked pretty natural in running precise routes, catching the ball with ease, he looks like he can help the rest of the way
• The offense took a step forward today with Stevo Klotz, I think he makes a pretty big difference run blocking. Same can be said for offensive guard Brendan Black who played in simmon's old spot. In the second half our ground game looked quasi respectable.
• I think Eli Sanders, Sama, and occasional Carson Hanson need the RB snaps. Cartevious (i know he's injured) runs into piles and doesn't have enough speed in my opinion. Eli Sanders in particular brings some juice to the running game. We had about 75 yards rushing, we don't have to light roof on fire in this area but we have to be at least competent, which we were at times today.
• Rocco Becht: 3 TD, no picks and over 350 yards. We can win with this guy folks. He is accurate and a gamer to me. I'll say he is "Purdy-like", not saying as good as Purdy, but his game is similar.

Defense

- One sack by Singleton was a key play in the game I thought
- Ike Ezeoguo DE needs to play more in passing situations, he has a clear quick first step, and seems to get pressure better than Peterson or others. He looks great as a freshman
- Tampa with a huge pick to seal the game was fun to see.
- The hit by Cooper on their receiver in the 4th quarter was terrific, dude plays like he's shot out of a cannon.
- Defense got a little loose in second half but I thought played well most of the game. OSU always has talented guys at WR and RB, we were up to the task at the end

OSU is really bad, somebody had to win, back to reality in Norman

 

[State2015]

Wait what?

I agree with him, I think we CAN if all cylinders are firing. Do I think we will? No, but we have the weapons

 

[cyclone1209]

Wait what?

You don't think our defense can keep us in some games this year? Did you think Rocco looked bad today? Tell me more Deb Downer.

 

[CyGuy5]

I really don’t know how much of what we saw was improvement vs Oklahoma State being really bad. That is not a good football team and we struggled to run the ball, and uncharacteristically struggled on defense. Purchase in particular didn’t play well, and we’re going to need him against Oklahoma. The run game still wasn’t good today. We need to throw it down the field, and a lot. Regarding the OL, from what I saw today in both our game and theirs, OU’s DL will take our souls next week.

 

[Marcelason78]

Petros really liked the “smooth” Rocco we saw today. Very high on him, Noel, and our safeties.
And I’m sure most of us agree with his other assessment that our “o-line still needs a lot of work”.

 

[Acylum]

You don't think our defense can keep us in some games this year? Did you think Rocco looked bad today? Tell me more Deb Downer.

No. No. Okie Lite is horrible.

 

[heitclone]

OSU is bad but there were plenty of positives. There were a lot of times we used the short passing game to set up plays downfield instead of the running game. I wouldn't have minded a few less runs on early downs but we mixed it up more than any other game this season. It allowed the offense to get in a flow and make it look like there was actually some kind of a plan which let them get aggressive downfield, we didn't see that the first 3 games or much last year.

 

[Cyched]

First time in a while you can say we legitimately won in the margins.

 

[aeroclone]

I feel like we may have seen the end of the Gundy era. I'm not sure if we really turned the corner or not. We seemed to open up the playback a little more which was encouraging.

 

[Big_Sill]

Happy to win, but we our going to be 100% reliant on Rocco to win games this year. Our o line and pass catchers are bad / unremarkable.

 

[CloneIce]

Of note - two huge plays by true freshman DBs Jamison Patton and TaShawn Jamison.

WR- Daniel Jackson can play! And Higgins needs new cleats, dude slips on 1/3 of his passing routes.

Helluva win! Rocco can play.

 

[Clone95]

On thought is why is Perkins booming it through the end zone from OSU’s 46 but kicking it to the 35 twice from his 30?

 

[hiltonisheaven]

Great win today. Rocco really played well and great to see Jackson and Noel getting open and making catches. Rocco has a quick release and accurate throws.
There are still many glaring problems but we can enjoy the win today.

 

[NENick]

OSU is really bad, somebody had to win, back to reality in Norman

I expect an ass-kicking next week. That doesn't mean the next 4 after that aren't winnable. I saw A LOT of positives today.

 

[Clonehomer]

No. No. Okie Lite is horrible.

There’s several bad teams in the Big12. I’m not ready to say we’ll win many games, but I think there will be opportunities for wins.

Next week is not one of those though

 

[twojman]

Glad we didn't run up the middle 50 times for 30 yards. Good job letting Rocco throw the ball. Lots to work on but plenty to build on.

 

[clonebb]

Someone had to win the turd bowl. Might as well be us.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

I’m not usually this hard on the coaches, but I thought the players won today in spite of the coaching. We could/should have won that game by 2-3 touchdowns. It should never have come down to the last drive.

- At the end of the 3rd quarter we had 23 runs and 24 pass attempts. We were averaging 2.2 ypc at that point. We had 323 passing yards to 53 rushing yards at that point. To have that ratio of rushes to passes, with those results, with the game in the balance, is absolutely inexcusable

- I disagreed not going for it on 4th and inches late in the 4th up 14, but I understand why it was done. What’s inexcusable is to punt the ball with 20 seconds left on the play clock. Absolutely no reason to do that.

- Squib kicking it with 43 seconds left in the first half while OSU has 3 timeouts left. Bitched execution led to the kick going OB, but even if it hadn’t, that is way too much time when the opponent has 3 TOs to be squibbing. We gifted them 3 points.

- After OSU’s last TD, we absolutely have to play for a first down and even a couple. It doesn’t really matter if we make them use their TOs there. They’ll still get the ball back with 2 minutes which is plenty of time to score a TD. We needed to play that series to get first downs, not get them to use their TOs. We didn’t do that and they predictably ended up with plenty of time to match and score. Luckily the D held on 4th down.

Poor game management led to this being a 7 point win instead (and almost blew it) of a 14-21 point win.

Edit: Thank you to @MJ271 on the first bullet. That was actually 24 completions, not pass attempts. So not nearly as egregious as I thought.