OKBoomerSooner

I’m not optimistic for Leavitt for this year and I’m not sure what that means for the future at QB.

I think his problems are fixable and that recovery from last year’s injury cost him a lot of development time toward those fixes, so there’s potential to see a big leap.

However:
1. He’s in year 4 of 5 already. Some of those fixes are things you’d expect not to need fixing this late in the game. And the payoff for investing in those fixes is that maybe you get one great season next year.
2. If the fix involves an offseason, we’re writing off a lot to wait until then.
3. It can’t be good for keeping the other 2 QBs around to shrug and say “well we think he can figure it out next offseason, so let’s keep playing him to build continuity and confidence instead of seeing what we’ve got.”

Hopefully the premise is just wrong and he figures it out midseason. But I think you diagnosed it right, it’s stuff like footwork and throwing mechanics and not seeing the field that typically don’t get fixed quick. And the obvious culprit is that he developed rough habits in a minor league where his athleticism could hard carry him, and then he missed an offseason under Lane to correct those habits due to recovery from serious injury. None of that suggests a turnaround is right around the corner.

Hope I’m wrong because I’m watching every game and cheering hard anyway :cheers:

Florida may beat Ole Miss, and Trinidad may even throw the game-losing interception, who can say. But calling him overrated is insane.

Well that’s spooky as hell lol. Who’s got next in Jordan-Hare?

I think we had a terrible gameplan for the first half. The last TD they had before the half illustrated it perfectly. Dropped 8 into zone coverage and still gave up a strike down the middle. We were worried about Trinidad running, which I get, but (1) he's also a great passer when you give him time to read a zone, and (2) we're evidently not a good zone defense team to begin with.

We brought more pressure in the second half and it immediately fixed our problems. I'm not saying this as a moral victory but to diagnose a problem - we outscored them 17-8 in the second half. It must have been pretty obvious to the defensive staff that this new gameplan wasn't working, because we immediately went back to what we'd been doing the first 2 games, and it worked like it needed to.

TBH this felt like the type of game the Ole Miss fans warned us about. Big matchup, Lane and the coaching staff put a ton of effort into a gameplan tailored for the opponent, but it drifts too far away from what we've already been doing well and ends up feeling cute instead of sharp.

I think people are more worried about Sam and the offense because he's a 4th year player and 3rd year starter, but he still looks an awful lot like a 1st year, 1-read-and-run QB. I think the calmer heads pointing out that he's only been practicing and learning Lane's system for a couple months are right in the long run, but for this year I think Sam's too limited to take us deep in the playoffs. I love his athleticism, but he's not so good that he can just casually improvise against SEC defenses like Johnny Manziel. Maybe he's got potential to develop more disciplined reading of defenses and more precise passing, but I worry he's not going to reach that potential in time for this season. Our receiving corps is low key not very good if TreyDez is out for a while too...

Same place that made up horrible false rumors about Mary Kate Cornett.

What a dogshit university. Disgraceful.

Sam is good, people are overreacting.

Trinidad is better.

That matchup comp basically comes down to how good Ole Miss’s new staff is. Lane is the system and Charlie is a great playcaller. OM looked solid hanging 41 on Louisville IMO, but the jury is still out on how good their new staff is.

We blasted these fools so bad that Laura quit reporting on Clemson to chat with our cheerleaders and Kirk and Chris are reminiscing on walking in on each other in the shower.

We are so fricking back.

These threads are always such a gigantic no-win situation for OKC fans. You guys always pretend like the conversation just started yesterday, and act like we have to forget all our attempts to have levelheaded conversations on here for the past 2-3 years, and all the times those attempts were rejected by other people who would rather troll and flame us than talk ball without the bullshite. You guys don't make it worthwhile for us to do anything but act like dickheads back.

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That said, they hunt fouls. And where other teams can admit their players flop, OKC fans don’t. They refuse to believe they flop and resort to whataboutism.

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What does it mean to "resort to whataboutism"? Of course OKC plays for the whistle. Every team plays for the whistle. The rules systemically favor it. Is acknowledging that basic fact about the modern NBA "whataboutism"? Or are you claiming OKC is exceptional in playing for the whistle relative to other teams? If so, how is anyone supposed to answer that without comparing to other teams?

That straight 0 statline except for points is sending me. You have to love a guy who knows what he's there to do and does it

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I’ve watched a lot of basketball but I’ve never seen a team surround the ref crew after the game.

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This place would explode if we flipped the teams :rotflmao:

Storied franchise has a team huddle with the refs to cry at the end of the game. Glad I'm not a fan of a bunch of grifting foul baiters that cry to the refs all the time :cheers: