OU’s offense has 2 major roadblocks keeping them from realizing their full potential.
1. QB cannot process the game quick enough. He has the arm talent, he knows the plays. His reaction time from seeing the field to making a decision is just too slow. That’s why balls are overthrown, underthrown, or held until sacked. It’s rarely happening on time or in sync.
2. No killer instinct. This is a result of coaching. This team operates with the idea that the defense kills the opponent, and the offense avoids killing itself. This offense does not look like they are lead, or held to the expectation to go out and take souls. It’s purely look for safe and easy gains, and prioritize field position over points.
All of this is a result of coaching philosophy. With QB they value practice evaluation over game evaluation. The speed of the SEC has been too much for Mateer since he got there. He’s protected in practice, it’s much easier to look good with no threat. When they say “he gives us the best chance to win”, it’s because they view it through the lens of not expecting killer instinct plays. They want safe short passes and runs that get them to a good punting position. Their whole offensive strategy to dink your way up to field, and over the course of the game you’ll get a couple drives that keep going long enough to score.
Under Lebby and DG, the offense was looking to kill. I think Brent blamed that for leading to defensive struggles. So he changed his offensive philosophy to be more about preservation, and less about aggression. All to obtain “complimentary football”. That’s flawed though, because it has always been about “the offense is hurting the defense”. Everything is built around defense as the main act, and offense as the passive support group.
BV needs to figure this stuff out, or he’ll continue to solidify himself as a failure as a head coach.
Huge mistake by the OU offense. They’ve been working hard to not be productive, but they just accidentally scored a TD. Unbelievable!!! I’ll take it.
Ahhh. Another day of OU’s offense doing literally everything they can to not be productive. Literally the same brain dead running in circles we’ve seen all year.
James retweeted
The Change Oklahoma Actually Needs:
(with visual aids)
Brent Venables has given Oklahoma’s defense something its offense hasn’t received:
Patience and Investment.
After comparing years of national rankings and OU depth charts, there’s a pattern.
It’s actually easy to see 🧵
Considering OU is nearly, and in all effectiveness, dead last in all meaningful offensive metrics, you can’t get any worse.
Now is the time to fire OC, OL coach, and build for next year with a new QB.
At least I’m not one of the idiots throwing my money at this joke of a programs NIL. I’ll never send a dime to OU NIL. They don’t deserve it. Keep milking the billionaires who are too drunk on riches to realize lunatics are running the asylum. John Matters potential ceiling holds no weight to his guaranteed floor. Keep playing him tho. I’ll keep my money to myself.
