Wow. I’ve agreed with everything you’ve said but this. Colt was under constant pressure in 07 because of a young o-line. Give him the 2005 o-line, and he would not have thrown nearly as many picks. I’m not saying he wouldn’t have been in a slump, but saying you’d have seen the exact same performance behind a surperior o-line is a bit much. I think very, very few QBs would have done much better than McCoy in a similar situation, Bradford and Bomar included.

For the record, I think last year’s “slump” taught him a LOT and helped to develop him into the running threat that he has become.

Yes, Bradford is talented, but so is McCoy. Of course, who has more talent in your view depends primarily on which school you support.

“I just gotta a feeling Fozzy is gonna be better”
By “better”, do you mean healthy enough to play in more than one game?

“Since NateHeupel is unlikely to point this out I would also argue that OU’s current O-line is not as good as the best Texas line we’ve seen in the Mack Brown era. I rate the Texas 2005 unit second to none.”

Vince Young made those boys look better than they were more than once in pass protection. That said, I concur that the 2005 UT unit is superior to 2008’s OU OL. 2008’s OU OL might (and I emphasize might) be more talented, but UT’s ‘05 O-line unit came to play EVERY SINGLE WEEK. Just because I won’t point it out, doesn’t mean I disagree.

“OU’s running backs went 30-61 against TCU. The Sooner offensive line is much better at pass blocking than they are at run blocking.”
Agreed, but it’s very important to mention that TCU’s game plan against OU this year was the exact same game plan they brought to Norman in 2005, but Patterson put a sticky note on it about a big, fast TE. TCU loaded 8 in the box and blitzed with reckless abandon.

“Bradford has to deal with much less pressure than Colt and much less is demanded of him.”
This is why I told you to stop posting about OU as if you knew what you were talking about. TCU was the first team to go after Bradford since WVU. They came up with 3 sacks and several hits on the QB. All Bradford did was throw for 4 TDs and 400+ yards. All he’s asked to do is lead the fastest paced no-huddle offense in D1.

The last time Colt McCoy faced any significant pressure, he threw 22 TDs and 18 INTs in a season. In short, it’s a wee bit premature for the coronation.

I said this back at the end of 2006. I’ll say it again. Give Rhett Bomar the 2006 UT offensive line, and he’s an All American. Give Colt McCoy the 2005 OU offensive line, and you get his 2007 performance.

I had to go back and read your first post again to see if I missed anything… It turns out I DID! This… honestly. Fozzy is better than Benson, because Benson never turned in big games in Big Games? Since WHEN has Fozzy done this? HS playoffs? Fozzy has already missed nearly as many games in his career as Benson did… and Benson was suspended for 2.

DURABILITY is part of the package when it comes to “great” players. I don’t care what sort of super athlete you are… if you aren’t on the field, then you cannot affect the outcome of the game.

Who knows? That’s like saying that Aaron Williams is clearly a better corner than say… Nathan Vasher or Cedric Griffin. Yeah, he’s got a chance, but so does that “Ford” kid. I mean, who knows, maybe EVERY other corner on our team breaks a leg, and the every QB we play against starts throwing it to him, over and over. Hey, it COULD HAPPEN! I mean, he’s had pretty good coverage so far when tested….

Good Lord.

care to address the flaws in our financial system while you’re at it? I have a congressmen on hold looking for answers and he’s looking for some deeply flawed opinions on just about anything.

Thanks!

What is the point and the fun of prognosticating if you wait until the deed is done? For it to be worth a damn, you do have to sort of go out on a limb. Maybe not out to the limb I have gone, but you get the general point.

Stats are stats and while important, I have never been too impressed with them. The game has changed from the past, and it is not surprising that most of the runners high up on that list are recent tail backs. It’s cause teams in the past just did not rack up the yards like they do now. Any modern RB we have, if he is decent, is going to just rocket up that list of UT runners, if he plays for all four years, much like all the other offensive skill positions. So Fozzy is not competing, so much, with all the backs in UT history, but mainly the ones from the past ten years or so. I do not believe that Campbell had the most yards rushing in UT history (he just played in a different era), but I doubt if anyone would question that he was our best back by far and probably the best player to ever play at UT. To me, Campbell was one of the ten best running backs to ever play the game, period. He was just a man among boys, more so than Ricky, and Ced does even come close. So stats while important, ain’t all that.

Anyway, Fozzy like you said is just starting out. Give the man a chance. After four years in the program, you don’t think he will be high up on that list? I gotta say I am a believer from what I have seen so far. I could be wrong, but I suspect that this is far from “the dumbest thing you have ever read”. If anything, try rereading some of your own posts.

Must not have seen the Rose Bowl then, cause USC’s lines were clearly better than our own. I also believe that they had more players drafted and higher than the Texas O-line. USC blew our D-line off the ball all night long. Something that I thought could not be done. That is the main reason why USC gave our defense so much trouble in that game. If our highly touted D-tackles could have held their ground, we would have won that game walking away.

Don’t know if this current OU line if better than the 05 Texas line, but I do believe that they seem to be more physical and it shows primarily in the push they get in their run blocking. OU has always given Texas fits cause they have been simply more physical than us. You can debate as to why that has always been the case, but I think it is safe to say that this has been a plain jane fact.