The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…. Sooner part Deux:

The Good- Ty looking like his old self. Lotzier Brooks came to Play. The Defense flipped the game.

The Bad- Our OL and first qtr

The Ugly- How some OU fans started talking smack only first quarter! Their kicker lost the game with those daisy dukes
I have to say, that fact brings me great satisfaction.
 
The Great: Ty, Hill, Brooks, Germie, Horton, Cuevas, Talty, Zabien and the ENTIRE Defense

The Bad: Some Shakey OL play at times

The Ugly: Those missed FGs for OU (though it was Beautiful sites to see)

The Ridiculous: That Effort Play from Brooks on the 1st Score and the Insane Catches by Horton and Germie. Seriously the Top 3 WRs were KILLERS in this one. Game Ball to those 3 along with the Defense.
 
Good: coming back from 17 down and winning like that, flipping the script on the regular season loss with the pick 6 and the missed field goals. And there is the loss from 2002 that featured an incredible comeback by Tyler Watts and company only to lose in heartbreaking fashion at the end. Revenge is sweet.

Bad: the OL. I just don’t get it. That factor alone is the difference in where we stand and us being 13-0 right now. Yet… we are still alive. Survive and advance.

Ugly (in a hilarious way): all the hot takes on X after we went down 17-0.
 
The good - we won, we didn’t give up (well, some of us….)

The bad - need more consistency, better playcalling, better O line

The ugly - we are not an intelligent team. One of the key components of our success for awhile (this got worse in the final years of Saban) was we RARELY made monumental blunders like stupid, no reason for it penalties or obviously botched coverages. But not only do we do that - it is a lack of discipline, but I’m not sure how much of that is related to coaching in this instance how much of it is unfamiliarity due to things like NIL of the portal - but we do other things that stand out as self-defeating.

Two of them we did many times tonight:

1) not running as much time off before a snap when Oklahoma’s only chance coming back, depending upon time being on the clock (this cost us at least part the 2022 Tennessee game)

2) a clearly disputable play that might go to review, but it’s in our favor, and then we rush up to the line like we’re in a hurry up and can stop it, and then waste 15 seconds or so to give them a chance to stop the game for review instead of just snapping the ball.

As I said during the game thread, we just had the ball off anyway, and usually take a loss on first down and then the one time we’re not willing to call that is when it might save us losing the ball or at least yardage.
 
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