That was probably the worst tackling performance I’ve seen from a Tom Herman team. From top to bottom and from every single position coaches and players. If I’m going to point at Orlando at something it would be that we didn’t account for Hurts at all. I said in another thread before our game last week that we have to have someone there to spy on Hurts. I even suggested it be Tyler Owens since he’s got incredible speed (outran the first 40 meters against the fastest kid in HS history at the 6A state meet) we acted like Hurts wasn’t a threat to run or that he’s or not capable of running. He’s by far the key to that whole offense and they depend on his running ability. We should have taken that away and sent an extra athlete on blitz on average every other play to force him to pass quick or have him tuck the ball and try to run, which we would depend on Tyler Owens to be there to clean it up.
We allowed Hurts to sit back there comfortable and pick us apart through the air or run. We never took him outside of his comfort zone.
It’s about attitude. We just didn’t have it yesterday. We played timid and even looked scared to be aggressive. Our O-line weren’t holding them out and Sam was hanging onto the ball. I haven’t seen enough film to know if there wasn’t anybody open or Sam wasn’t seeing the field well enough. But their defense did to Sam what we were hoping to do to Hurts.
I think we can rebound but we got to get that attitude we had vs OU the first game last year and vs Georgia. Also get some healthy players back. But that also can‘t be an excuse. OU lost their best OL and didn’t miss a beat without him. If we don’t make the necessary changes and attitude then we will see the first year under Tim Herman of us going backwards.
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Winner x 1
Last edited: Oct 13, 2019