Unfinished product
Bradford is efficient, needs to become a playmaker

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: February 25, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

NORMAN — Spring football practice arrives at OU next week, and you would think there would be little quarterback drama.

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Sorry, hotshots Kid Nichol and Landry Jones, but Sudden Sam Bradford is entrenched, as anyone should be after throwing 36 touchdown passes and just eight interceptions in a Big 12 championship year.

But this spring offers plenty of quarterback intrigue for the trained football eye. Not on who gets the job, but on how well the job is done.

Bradford in 2007 was a superb freshman quarterback. That does not mean he was a superb quarterback period. Sudden Sam's gaudy numbers hide the truth that he was a functional quarterback, a system quarterback, last season. A good system quarterback. Dang good.

But not a playmaker. Not a quarterback who can rise above the breakdown of a play.

Missouri's Chase Daniel could and did. Kansas' Todd Reesing, too, much of the season. OSU's Zac Robinson. Texas' Colt McCoy.

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