No respect for Tigers in soonerland

My question for the sooners is: Have you faced a team the played really tough man-to-man on the corners. This may be what gives OU the most trouble. It gave most teams in the SEC trouble. Most WRs are used to having space to make their catch. LSU leaves almost no room for the catch and hounds their every step (making it difficult run the correct route).

We have two extremely tough cornerbacks in Webster and Daniels. They are tall and fast. Daniels is more susceptible to being beaten (but only on perfect throws to the outside). The good thing is that usually when they the receiver does make the spectacular catch, it doesn't go for a TD and our D has another chance to shut them down. The CBs usually have such good coverage that they hit them as soon as they touch the ball. Honestly, this is the best secondary I have ever seen in College football. Most of it is probably because they are asked to do one thing... cover them until the QB is sacked (which isn't long).

Any passing success that can be found against LSU would be in the short stuff. But even that is not easy (see Turner's INT TD in the SECCG). Use the TE straight up the field and try to pick on our LBs in coverage mismatches (though we disguise this well). Better be quick, because if the Safety can get there, it could be a pick or a sack.

If you got to see the Ole Miss or UGA games, you will see that the deep passes that were completed were lofted way into the air as the QB was falling down (and not even looking where he was throwing it). If you can do that 5 times without 2 INTs for TDs (which OM and UGA could not do), you can win. If not...

Oh, and forget trying to use the Florida game to try to figure out how to beat us. That was long long ago and we should not commit a penalty everytime we gain yards like we did in that game.

 

In other words, they think the best approach to this game is the one they took going into Kansas State.

 

if I find a ticket and get to go to the game I am going to make a sign that says...


Will The Real M.Clayton, Please Stand UP!!!!

 

Re: Re: No respect for Tigers in soonerland

We don't belong in the game? Who deserves it more? USC? I don't think so. If they wanted to play in the Sugar Bowl they shold have beaten the unranked Cal-Berkley Bears. What if the roles were reversed here and you guys came in to your CCG undefeated and lost? Not only that but you had been ranke #1 all year and touted as a great team? Put yourself in our shoes for just a minute before you start running your mouth.

 

There is the point of K State being the first top 10 D that OU has played all year. We on the other hand have gone against top 6 rated defenses 3 times this year and hung a decent amount of points on all of them except UGA during the first game. Even 17 isn't bad for a D ranked #4 in the land.

 

I dread turning this into yet ANOTHER thread about who deserves the Sugar Bowl, but I find myself siding with OU on this one. Would it have been any different if OU had lost to a team like Nebraska in the last game of the regular season and then won the Big-12 championship the next week? Would that have made any difference? Why? In that scenario, you would have put them into the MNC game even though they would have lost to a lesser team than K-State! So what if it was the last game of the season. Does it make USC any better on the field than LSU because they lost earlier??? NO I SAY NO!!! Face it, OU is a better team than USC. They would paste them. I am sort of glad in some ways that we are playing OU. I want us to beat the second best team in the nation instead of the third best.

 

I think you'll see something similar to what you saw against Georgia last weekend: repeatedly bringing pressure against White, thus not allowing him to set his feet and "get comfortable" in the pocket.

Our secondary plays WRs tight because the QB has so little time on most passing downs. Mark Richt said it best after the game when he said LSU's pressure forces a QB to be perfect, a challenge few can live up to over the course of a game.

To be honest, I think both LSU's and Oklahoma's defenses are very similar, which is why the game comes down to both QBs and both team's running game as well as those things that normally come into play during tight ballgames--special teams, turnovers, etc.

OU fans who see a skinny white kid who can't run when they see Matt Mauck are gonna be in for a real surprise come gametime. I think Jimbo will purposely get him running in this game, just to keep the Sooners off balance.

 

I agree. Mauck runs in this game, ala the 2001 SECCG. I think we've been really conservative with his running all year because we were up the creek without a QB if he'd gone out. (Randall fans, please be serious before saying we have a capable back-up.)

This is the last game of the season, and Mauck will run--which OU will not suspect going in.

 

LSU will be very competitive with OK...in my opinion, LSU has one of the most dominating defenses that I've ever seen in college ball. It's not that they are good, but are almost unreal.

On the other side, the scary thing about OK is how they wiped Texas. Texas is a pretty good team and has quality athletes.

 

Agreed, lets not.

But they dont play defense, they just put up a lot of points. I think we will be seeing a lot of running from Vincent, Broussard, and Mauck. I wouldnt expect any more than 150 yards passing.