Lincoln Riley post game
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Agree there is a lot of holding, but I think there is less actual defensive pass interference that happens than most think, and probably more offensive PI than people think. Fans, and unfortunately officials, seem to have it in their brains that the offensive player has more right to the ball, but once it's in the air every player has equal right. If a WR and DB are pushing each other coming down the field that should be either no call or offsetting PI on both. The number of blatant shoves to clear space by receivers and TEs commit with no call is crazy. You are seeing more of it called now, but it still has to be blatant.
There is a lot of holding, impeding routes, which I think they need to crack down on more. But maybe it be reduced if defensive players weren't getting called for PI so much when there is just as much or more contact being initiated by receivers and TEs.
Between OL holding, PI, Def. Holding, calling pick routes, etc. the danger is once you take the approach of "it happens on almost every play" you get these different interpretations by different officials, and they get applied selectively and inconsistently.
Not to take anything away from Hall, but his players seemed afraid to tackle in the fourth quarter too.
Again I don't want to take anything away from our guys because I think they played harder, but when that cold rain started it was like ISU started hitting harder and OU started just hoping our players would fall down.
I turned to those watching it with me and said that our defense is freakin loving it when it started raining.
I watched Lincoln Riley on the recap show for Sooner football and he commented several times about horrible calls at pivotal times. The only credit that he gave was that ISU was a good team and Hall was a good back. He basically laid it at the feet of a combination of bad calls and his teams inability to make plays when Purdy threw several balls that easily could have been picked. He was in denial.I like to give that ISU team a little bit of credit for how good Mahomes is. I see it as the big moment that made him dig down deep to start on the path to being an NFL MVP.
.Riley came off as the embodiment of cool prior to losing these last two games. Glad Iowa State can do our part to help expose the level of whining which was just below the surface. We'll see the same thing when we beat the MensaMan.
It’s funny CMC could have had a similar post game call. Bad penalties, settling for field goals blah blah blah.
CMC being pissed after the game was pretty great actually.
He might be on the hot seat depending on how the rest of the season plays out for them.
I feel like OU is just different under Riley, they weren't unbeatable under Stoops but I feel like their swagger was real, they were more physical and intimidating. They are soft now. We've pushed them around the last 6 quarters we've played them. I love our guys and our staff but we saw a ND team that wasn't anything special big boy us 10 months ago. OU just doesn't feel like they are capable of that anymore. Texas isn't great but they are scarier in that regard than OU IMO.
Riley was lucky to have the QB's he's had at OU, even as an OC, he doesn't appear to have the right guy to carry them this year, he needs to figure something out or they are going to get caught a couple more times . KU is the only team I can't see hanging with them, they're going to be in dog fights all year.
Riley was lucky to have the QB's he's had at OU, even as an OC, he doesn't appear to have the right guy to carry them this year, he needs to figure something out or they are going to get caught a couple more times . KU is the only team I can't see hanging with them, they're going to be in dog fights all year.
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I feel about the exact same way about Riley. Part of that is Iowa State being a much more complete team that can hang with the likes of OU consistently, but they don't seem the same, either. Their defense has a lot to do with that. They are extremely soft on that side of the ball, and have been even before Stoops retired.
We may not be world beaters but our defense smacks people sometimes and can get real physical and that is something they lack.
