Sooners Today

It's the midway point in the Sooners season. 6 games behind us, and 6 to go. I feel as though we've steadily progressed on both sides of the ball. Our running game is better than I think anyone expected, given the injuries to the offensive line and the question marks surrounding Dom Whaley's recovery from a broken ankle. As it turns out, Damien Williams has turned out to be an absolute monster, which is nice.

As for the passing game, we've got a really balanced set of WR's out there, and I think that's gone a long way toward making Lonnie really look at his progression as opposed to locking in a favorite every down. That said, he's looked solid 3 weeks in a row now, but still hasn't faced a decent defense in any of those games. Saturday will tell us a lot, as arguably the nation's most complete defense comes to town.

Historically, Mike Stoops guided defenses have taken a few games to get rolling and have gotten better as the season moves on. So far, this is looking to be the case this year as well. Though we've been putting up massive amounts of points the last few weeks, the D has been dominant also. The first unit hasn't given up a touchdown since the opening drive of the Texas Tech game...11 quarters ago.

The KState game is really starting to loom large. Not to get ahead of ourselves, we still play #5 Notre Dame this week, travel to a "tough out" on the road at Iowa State, go to a better-than-they've-looked the last few weeks WVU, and none of that even considers OSU (home) and TCU (road) which aren't gimme's, but that narrow loss that probably shouldn't have been is keeping us out of any championship talk for now. Plus, KState really only plays (a probably overrated) Texas Tech the rest of the year. They have a great shot of going undefeated.

With any luck our D will continue to play as well as they have. I don't envision pitching a shutout every week, but we can survive Lonnie and his inevitable melt-down's if the D continues to play well. I'm pretty excited to see how the season plays out, I feel like our D is the best it's been in years and I think if we can continue to protect the ball on offense (read: enormous "if" given our QB), we've got a chance to win out.

I'll be back later in the week, along with Mitch, to discuss an absolutely huge game this Saturday (for a number of reasons) against a suddenly relevant Notre Dame team that travels to Norman. Game Day is in town. It's "on", as the kids are saying.

Boomer to the Motherfuckin' Sooner