Okie State

great time to show the rest of the football world that we are not the same Huskers they had seen the last few years. We can and will bring our A game each week. Lets kick these brokeback mountain cowboys in the ARSE.

 
Well they do sound like they will attack our corners which is nothing new unfortunately!!! We should be able to move the ball well against them with all of our weapons on the offensive side of the ball. If the Blackshirts play like they did this last weekend we should beat these guys!!!! Having said that though looking at the last four games (sounds weird to say that already) We can lose two of these if we screw around with 'em. I think Okie State and Mizzou are huge games!!! Obviously A&M has to have some attention to it as it is at the 12th man and we should easily beat sCUm at our house!!! We have to finish this schedule strong and with a statement fellas so lets start this Saturday!!!! :restore

 
I go to OSU :wasted , so I guess I will throw in my two cents. :boxosoap I think that OSU is getting better, but I don't believe that they can play with this team. On offense, they have a stable of one dimensional backs. Hamilton lacks speed. Toston doesn't run with a whole lot of power, and he is a freshman so his vision isn't really refined. Savage has been slowed by injuries, but he is probably the back of OSU's future. Bowman is a beast, and imo D'Juan is the most overrated of the Woods brothers. He occasionally comes through with a deep ball, but he routinely drops wide open, short completions to maintain drives. Reid has the concussion. He runs the option well, and is surprisingly accurate on the short routes. We have to maintain passing rushing lanes, or Reid can run for days. The OL's have not faced a pass rush like we are going to bring. If Reid doesn't play, I think Redshirt Freshman Zac Robinson will spend most of the day on his back. The defense is okay. The defensive front has been a disappointment. It was supposed to be the strength of the d this year, but the extremely young LBs have really surprised. However, last I heard, LB Chris Collins was hurt and may not play. He is the best LB and flies from sideline to sideline. The DB's are okay. QB-turned-S Donovan Woods gets beat deep almost as often as I see him bite on Vince Young's pump fake on Young's 70 yd TD run last year. I think that we will be able to run and pass at will. I think we will dominate from the kickoff. If Reid plays, Nebraska 35-OSU 17. Without Reid, 'skers 28- OSU 3, only because our defense shuts them down completely, and we pound the ball for 6 yds a pop all day and consume game clock. I am more concerned with who is going to win the Mizzou-OU game than I am with the Cowboys. Well, maybe not, but you get the point. Ya, my insight is very popular around Stillwater :nutz . On a side note, I intern in the athletic marketing dept here at OSU. I will be on the sidelines. I am planning on trying to make it to the tunnel as Neb runs onto the field. Because of my job I will have to wear orange, but I am considering wearing my :restore t-shirt underneath and losing the Orange when the huskers come out. Oh, and I was going to wave my Blackshirts towel. It will probably get me fired.....but is it worth it?

 
i went to the KU vs OSU game that KU lost. KU jumped on them early as usual for KU and blew it in the 2nd half. I noticed that OSU's QB seemed to make mistakes when rushed. KU put on a good rush and got 2 or three interceptions. In the second half KU sat back and didnt rush so OSU's QB had time and was able to find his wide outs...if you give him time he can make plays..but overall i was not impressed at all...in the first half i thought they were really bad but in the second they played better but that was also against the MIGHTY BUFFET EATER and he seems to find ways to lose games...we should win this game with little problems unless we go into a base defense or something instead of being aggressive....

 
This maybe the most important game of the season now. If we go out and perform well on the road again, it will show a lot about the testiclular fortitude of this team. Take that Texas loss and shove it....move on and get them next time!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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We should be able to move the ball against OSU. Again, I'm beating the dead horse, but I'd like to see us throw the ball more on the road. Let's get back to running the ball hard, then going for the kill down the field. I don't think OSU has an answer for Purify and Co.

We need to contain Reid. If we do, we will be ok.

 
The skinny on OSU (from an OSU fan that has seen them 5 times this year)...

Offensively: Bobby Reid practiced on Monday and will play this weekend. It was a mild concussion (thank God) and he now has all his marbles back. Reid has developed into the great double threat player that everybody expected him to be out of high school. He runs the run/pass option that Vince Young made famous last year. He started the season a little tentative, but the Houston game was when the light switch came on. He owns the OSU record for yardage in a game passing the mark set in 1989 by now head coach Mike Gundy. The previous analysis of the running backs was pretty accurate. OSU goes with the hot hand. I'd wager that Mike Hamilton will start. If he's successful, he'll probably get most of the carries until the 2nd half when Savage will get some work. Nearly half of Savage's 300 yards have come two long TD runs. But he's just now getting healthy after suffering an injury during two-a-days. The WRs are an offensive strength. Bowman is deserving of national attention. Being a legit 6'4" and 215-220 pounds running in the sub 4.5 range and having some of the biggest hands I've ever seen, he gets moved around a lot. He lines up in the slot making it nearly impossible to double team him. The offensive line has been very good with their combination of youth and experience.

The offense finds a way to put points on the board, but they do tend to start off a bit slow. Of Reid's 7 INTs on the year, 5 of them come in the first half.

Defensively, this is a case where the whole isn't as good as the sum of its parts. Arguably the best player on OSU's defense was a freshman that is out for the year (Chris Collins). However, OSU is 7th in the nation in sacks, so that is a strength that we really didn't expect. The defensive line is where OSU has veteran players. DE Victor Degrate is the man who is responsible for a lot of the sacks. I think he'll be a very good 3-4 OLB in the NFL. The rest of the DL tends to do well in collapsing the pocket, but they are there more to free up the LBs. The LBers are young but very talented. FR- Patrick Lavine, JR- Rodrick Johnson, and SO - Jeremy Nethon will likely start with JR - Alex Odiari getting some snaps. They really miss having Collins on the field here. The defensive backfield is where a good portion of the problems exist. They tend to make key mistakes in coverage at just the wrong time. The starters are FR - Andre Sexton and JR- Donovan Woods at Safety and JR - Martel Van-Zant and FR - Parrish Cox get the start at corner with SO - Jacob Lacey getting a lot of snaps. Every one of these guys look like they should be all conference players, but the only one that is playing consistently good football is Andre Sexton. Woods is a disruptor, but he isn't always where he should be.

Special teams up till last year was always a point of strength for OSU. But last year was a bad year and this year is odd. OSU is among the best in the nation in kick returns and punting. Kick coverage, punt coverage, and field goal kicking aren't very good. The punt return team is OK. Last game our punter (Fodge) averaged nearly 12 yards per punt less than his nation leading average of 51. So now he's down to 47 yards per punt which is still good, but he had 4 blocked punts last year and a blocked punt that ultimately got KSU started three weeks ago. Basically, special teams is an area that I hold my breath on every game.

Advantages OSU has is that they do have one of the best offenses in the country. Having now fully implemented Fedora's (from Florida) offense and not turning the ball over at a record clip like last year has really made the offense as exciting as it has been since Barry Sanders' Heisman year. I will differ from the previous poster that said that Reid makes mistakes when he's under pressure (specifically in the Kansas game) as that simply isn't true. Half of Reid's INTs have come when he threw it into the end zone at the end of a drive including the one at Kansas. The only reason Kansas was up 17-0 on OSU was because 3 of the 4 OSU turnovers gave Kansas a short field. At the half of that game OSU had nearly doubled the KU yards. Kansas did force the fumbles on Keith Toston (who hasn't played since). Defensively, OSU tends to give up too many chunk plays. However having a QB that won't hurt them running the ball is a definite advantage to this defense. They tend to get burned by mobile QBs.

All in all, OSU is one of the youngest team in the conference.

Having Started - 6 Freshman - 8 sophomores (including punter and kicker) - 7 Juniors and 7 seniors (mostly on the DLine)

I expect this to be a good game. OSU for some reason can't seem to close anybody out. When the defense needs a stop, they don't have that guy that makes that great last play to close the door. Which is why they lost to KSU and to aTm. Both games were lost or tied in the final minute of play.

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