The Dude

Haha at least we'd get some linebackers on this team if Wade was running the defense. He is a great defensive coordinator. Just a terrible head coach. I know you were just joking but he is a much better defensive coordinator than Carl Pelini. Let's not kid ourselves, Bo was running the defense the last two years. Hmm.. Wade Phillips... I think you're onto something...

Right, because no one get seriously hurt in soccer... -----my point----- -----your head----- People get hurt playing golf. That doesn't make it a contact sport.

No thanks to our porous defense.

Some sound tackling and a little pressure on the QB would have kept OSU in check.

I agree about seeing his potential, it was nice seeing him get his feet under himself in the pocket and checking down to receivers and going through the progression of all of his receivers. Haha whoops, I thought you were asking about next year, not next week. I just want us to remain balanced like we did this week. Whatever the coached did to coach up the receivers..... DO THAT. They had a great game. I loved the play action out of the zone read look. That will open it up for Martinez, Helu, and Burkhead to run. We got to keep this Tiger defense off balanced.

Taylor Martinez is our biggest playmaker on offense. Basically I just want him to mature, and our offense will be fine for the next few years. He showed yesterday he has the potential to be a true dual threat.

Hopefully we learn how to play run defense by then.

Missouri has better lineman on both sides of the ball. 9 times out of 10, that means they'll win. I have a bad feeling about this game. Plus our offense had a great day against a HORRIBLE defense. That means next week they be believing their own hype and fumble 6 times. Mizzou has been playing better defense than us all year. MUCH better. And I don't know if you guys have heard........ but it's a home game.

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I was impressed. He called more than 3 plays. Well done Wats.

I'm not confident about this game. Mizzou has a better defense than us. Our offense is horrible at home. Our D-line is awful, and we're paper thin at LB. At least we got a good secondary. We'll need them to have a HUGE game to have a chance. Gawd I hate saying that, but it's true.

The people in charge of the game, at both college and NFL, apparently disagree with you. They don't call minor, incidental contact. The people in charge have never stepped foot on a football field. The people who actually play the game disagree with the people in charge. And yes they do call minor, incidental contact. They just did in this Oklahoma/Mizzou game. By and large the people in charge are businessmen looking for ways to make it more of an offensive game. For TV ratings.

The thing that people need to realize is the VAST majority of helmet shots are incidental. Everything happens so fast out there you can't always control what happens. A guy jumps higher than you think, you hit his head, a guy goes lower than you think and you hit his head. There were DOZENS of helmet shots in that game, in every game, but they're barely ever mentioned unless a guy get's hurt. A guy happens to get hurt and all of a sudden the guy making the hit is a dirty player or a head hunter? That's BS. Go watch soccer if you can't handle it. Finally, Martin's hit was clean and legal. The announcers were idiots.

Martin's block was a thing of beauty. Yeah, it's too bad that kid got hurt, but it was a legal, clean, MONSTEROUS hit. Can't hate him for playing physical.

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but our defensive line is god awful.

Uh-oh helmet to helmet hit on Niles. Let's throw a hissy fit. Oh wait, he didn't get hurt? Carry on.

Defense needs to wake up in the second half.

There's the Niles Paul we all know and love. EDIT: I see someone was thinking the same thing. Lol

Carl needs to worry about the defensive line so Bo can take care of the defense. Seemed to work the last two years. Way to run out of bounds Paul!

Sorry, your just plain wrong about Martin's hit. It was completely legal. A. It was not helmet to helmet. B. If it was, and it wasn't, it wasn't against a defensless receiver. Learn the game. I never said anything about a defenseless player. The guy wasn't defenseless from what I saw. But it was clearly helmet to helmet. Go back and watch the replay next time you get a chance. Irrelevant, legal block either way. lmao...helmet to helmet like that is illegal. ./ignore...not gonna waste my time with someone that doesn't even get that. No, it's not. Someone just had a helmet to helmet hit on Martinez, but since he didn't get hurt, nobody cared. Learn the game.

Pull your head out Pelini!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, your just plain wrong about Martin's hit. It was completely legal. A. It was not helmet to helmet. B. If it was, and it wasn't, it wasn't against a defensless receiver. Learn the game. I never said anything about a defenseless player. The guy wasn't defenseless from what I saw. But it was clearly helmet to helmet. Go back and watch the replay next time you get a chance. Irrelevant, legal block either way.

Yep. Besides two really good cornerbacks and one good linebacker, our defense is just plain awful. Stevie Wonder could see that.

Sorry, your just plain wrong about Martin's hit. It was completely legal. A. It was not helmet to helmet. B. If it was, and it wasn't, it wasn't against a defensless receiver. Learn the game.

Our defensive line is awful.