Mid Season Review- Offense

This review is going to have a heavy slant towards what needs to happen the rest of this year, and what needs to happen for next year since right now most of OU's major goals are behind them not in front.

So where does OU stand right now? And what if anything can we expect for the rest of the year? And where's that going to leave OU for 2010. (I hate looking ahead, but unless OU starts getting in sync on offense, and UT starts losing. It's Cotton Bowl/Holiday Bowl/or Alamo Bowl time).

Apparently the guys in Vegas know a thing or two. After setting UT as a 3-point favorite, the city now collectively smells even more like vault, taking everybody's push money after a 16-13 Texas win.

Should it have gotten to that point, though? No. OU left three points on the field for sure with (another) Stevens missed field goal. A first and goal on the opening drive of the game stalled and resulted in three points rather than seven. A fumble deep inside Texas territory on a drive set up by a brilliant Dominique Franks punt return took away at least another three.

It was really more "strange" than it was a "classic."

Tell us before the season that Bradford would only take eight snaps in the game, Gresham would miss the entire game, Murray, Lewis and Williams would get hurt at one time or another in the game ... we're all thinking that Texas runs up the score. What we didn't know at the time was that OU has a pretty good quarterback with the Stache, we basically got sold a bill of goods on this "revamped" OU offensive line, UT's offense is putrid, Muschamp's pass defense is still the same, shitty product we saw last year and ... this is still OU-TX (actually, we did know that one).

Another mid October saturday at the Cotton Bowl, another colossal kick to the Sooner nuts.  Really proud of the team and effort we rolled out though so let’s take a look at it.  You could argue that this is the 1st big game in a while, against comparable opposition, where we outcoached the other team.  Venables and Stoops had Greg Davis in a familiar position (the fetal one) for all of the 1st half and parts of the 2nd with a fantastic defensive scheme that was more than good enough to win this game.  Any time the defense holds the other team to under 17 points and you fail to win - the offense has failed.  Anyone who saw the game would agree with this conclusion.