OUInsider - Owen Field

Who the flip is Tre Walker. There better not be a Tre Walker.

It's because he is mentally weak!

I agree our receivers were terrible after last year after Ryan was injured. Of course we only have one back and one future star based on spring ball and a bunch of guys who have never seen a division 1 field. It is hard to imagine despite their talent the incoming guys are going to be superstars immediately.
Kenny Stills is being touted as a great receiver. He was poor last year!

Right, I'm sure that Bell is shocked and devastated to hear that Landry Jones will be the starting QB this year.

They have always done it. Mostly it is for tendencies. They grade that school and then give them their report as well. He has done it for years and years.

What a load of bullshite...

Last year started with... We need a running game and we need our recievers to catch the ball... We do this and with Landry we can with the title. In the beginning, due in large part to Whaley's tough running behind a decent OLine we were successful running. Whaley goes down and the only running game we have was the Belldozer when Landry is not in the game. Before the A&M game, Ryan Broyles was a vacuum cleaner and the other recievers were getting good looks because of all the attention broyles got and they made catches. Broyles goes down and they have tighter coverage, they start dropping the ball. So basically at the end of the season we have NO running game with Landry on the field and the only two receivers who seemed to be catching the ball (Jaz and Ryan) are out.... The offense sucks... I dont care what QB you have if there is no running game and the recievers drop balls you will look bad.

For instance:
Pre- Whaley and Broyles injuries (roughly first 8 games)

Landry passes for a 67% completion perc., near his career average.

Post-injuries Landry's comp perc drops to 56.6.. That is a 10% drop, that can be attributed almost completely to dropped passes. Now in the first eight games he averaged just short of 30 completions a game and 13.1 yards completion. So a 10% loss comes to 3 receptions for 36 yards (three first downs). This alone could make a huge difference.

BUT combine this with the running game as well. In that same 8 game period the running game averaged 5.29 yards per carry on 271 carries (34 carries per game avg). After losing Whaley, the ypc went down by .7 ypc. Figure 40 carries per game avg in the last 4 games and thats an average of 28 yards less in the running game each game.

So statistically we lost over 60 yards a game combined due to these two issues.. And this doesnt even address the defensive breakdowns for big plays.

Any coach will tell you, if you lose 60 yards per game from your average for any reason, it is HUGE.

To lay all of the blame on the QB for the complete breakdown this team had at the end of last year shows an incredible lack of knowledge of the game. Which is not surprising since this "Landry's the problem" mantra flies directly in the face of what the person who understands the game and these players better than any of us (Bob Stoops) is saying on the subject.

Your using logic to combat a troll.

No one is happy to be on the bench, but its hardly a surprise to anyone that LJ is our starter.

Boy I hope Bell gets a hundred carries because I get a coaches Texas tickets in 2013 in a bet.

DOn't make excuses for him. He was terrible the last half of the season

And the rest of the team was worse...

Ok, you can continue to stand on your head and tell everyone else they are upside down if you want... because obviously facts or logic have no effect.

I don't get the "logic" behind the notion that Landry hasn't won the position over Bell and Allen. No coach in his right mind, especially at this level, isn't going to play his best QB. If he doesn't, he starts losing and gets canned.