re: Can John Mateer make a Year 2 jump

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If Mateer could keep his composure he’d be a lot scarier to opponents. Tends to panic and make bad decisions.

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Unfortunately, he had good reason to panic on a lot of occasions.

I think he can do a lot better if his supporting cast is better.

Yes, he made a lot of mistakes... but he also made something out of nothing on a lot of occasions.

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I expect he will have huge numbers

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of interceptions

OU will not be very good this year, and he will get knocked down and picked off a lot.

Would not surprised me.

Has he changed his god awful mechanics?

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Just curious how they will not be very good this year when they literally got better at every position this year after going to the playoffs last year. I'll hang up and listen.

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Literally every fanbase is saying how much better they are at every position. I’ve heard about a dozen podcasts from writers on different teams and they all say that.

Everyone is undefeated and has title hopes. Copy and paste every year

So what’s your prediction? 12-0? 11-1?

Since they are so much better. Show your Vegas bet slip for the over of 10 wins since that’s what they had last year.

Vegas win total is 7.5, the 5th highest in the SEC and tied with 4 other SEC teams.


Teams can be better and have worse records. Especially when teams are replacing 30-40% of rosters. You never know. Each team has 3-4 games that were a coin flip.

I have not decided our record. My question was if Mateer can make a 2nd year jump.

I will say our defense was stout and will only get better. On offense we return 75% of production but made some big additions to staff and players. That should only help Mateer imo.

He’s a 5th year senior who didn’t win the starting job AT WASHINGTON STATE until midway through his junior year. He is what he is, you’ve already seen his best.

His “injury” wasnt what took him from being an “early season Heisman favorite”. What changed is he wasn’t playing good defenses early last year that could make him uncomfortable and than he started playing defenses with actual athletes. Texas rocked him.

It will be similar this year. Put up big numbers against defenses that lack the athletes. Look like what he is against the 4-5 teams that have a real defense. He is an above average D1 qb with a non-average skill set that can be used to put solid numbers btwn the 20s. You’re fooling yourself if you think otherwise

Honestly OU fans are setting themselves up for a big let-down. Yall are not nearly as good as you’re letting yourselves believe… within your own echo chamber. Remember I told you so.

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That isn’t always a positive metric. Show me where returning production is correlated to success.

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This!

This is the stupidest metric. Last year Arizona State, Oklahoma state and Clemson had the most returning production, and all 3 had worse years

In today’s world it’s such a crap shoot. Look at the Heisman preseason odds last year. Nuss, Sellers, Klubnick and Lagway were 4 of the 5 top odds and all 4 had shitty years and regressed.

You just never know.