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Summer Magic
Heat was on in camp; now, so is OU offense

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: September 19, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

NORMAN — Pro, college, prep, sandlot, backyard, living room, heck, maybe even video. Doesn't matter. Most football offenses start slowly.

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Malcolm Kelly and the rest of the Sooner offense have begun the season better than anyone could have expected. By NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN

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That's why scrimmages and exhibitions and cannon-fodder games exist. Let an offense ease into execution, so that when showdowns that really matter arrive, catchers and pitchers and runners and blockers are ready.

Yet the 2007 Sooners have zoomed out like a jet-fuel dragster, despite a rookie quarterback, Sam Bradford, who 17 days ago excited no one outside the OU practice moat.

How did this happen? How did Sudden Sam lead an offensive explosion that pales the getaways of Josh Heupel in 2000, or a fifth-year Jason White in 2003, or even a sixth-year Jason White in 2004?

The Sooners stumbled upon an elixir that pays unseen benefits. Offensive chief Kevin Wilson told us in August that coaches turned up the fire on OU's trio of quarterbacks.

Not just in scrimmages, but practices, too. More full-speed drills. More 11-on-11 drills. Less coaching, less listening, more doing.

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