OU report card
OU report card
By John Rohde
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Published: September 28, 2008
WR Manuel Johnson: A-
Johnson set a school record with 206 receiving yards. He also caught three touchdown passes, but cost his team a touchdown with a holding penalty that erased
Jermaine Gresham's 66-yard touchdown reception on the third play of the game.
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QB Sam Bradford: B+
A harsh grade, considering he threw for a career-high 411 yards (the third highest total at OU) and four touchdowns. But this was by far Bradford's worst completion percentage (55.9) of the season. Some throws were forced and he missed some open receivers.
OU Rush defense: A
TCU came in averaging 248.8 rushing yards a game and OU held the Horned Frogs to 102 yards. The
Sooners jumped out to big lead and forced TCU to pass, which it does not do well.
OU Pass defense: C
As noted before, TCU doesn't pass well, so 212 passing yards are too many.
OU Rush offense: D
TCU entered as the nation's top defense against the run at 30.0 yards per game. OU averaged just 0.7 yards-per carry and the Sooners shouldn't average that against anybody. OU finished with 25 yards on 36 attempts.
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Lendy Holmes: A+
Not only did Holmes recover two fumbles, he never quit on the Horned Frogs' first kickoff return when
Aaron Brown broke loose and seemed destined for an 86-yard touchdown return. Holmes caught Brown from behind at the OU 11-yard line and TCU had to settle for a field goal.
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Manuel Johnson: Agree with the A- for the penalty. Penalties are something you have to coach out of the players and they need to be held responsible if they cost the team yardage and downs.
Sam: I give him an A. I think the author of the article needs to weight the scale in Sam's favor on this because basically, if you don't have the run game, and you have pressure each and every down, pulling out the kind of plays Sam had is no small feat. That's why OU won the game.
Defense was good: Overall B.
Rush Offense: F- We have to do ALOT better there. Even the coaches agree that although they were able to pull it out by going to the air (What you are supposed to do, by the way in that situation), you don't want another team dictating whether you can run the ball or not.
Special Teams D. What's up with our big name kickers hitting knuckle balls and missing extra points, and not getting the ball in the end zone on kickoffs. You'd think we could do better at OU.
Good Game Lendy Holmes, and Manuel Johnson for sure.
Inconsistent with criticism, says you can't grade an individual and then criticizes the grade of an individual. You don't get a perfect score if you don't play perfectly.