"In the Weeds": Trace Ford's Strip Sack & Michael Hawkins to Jaquaize Pettaway in OU vs. Tennessee

[@mwright_boomer]

Hawkins looks confident, in control, and aggressive. Looks like he has some Baker in him

[@WilliamNeish]

He looked so good in the RRR 😂

[@_krimzen_]

Hawkins is so exciting! So much football left to play! Let’s go!

[@hughobrien4139]

I think Josh Heupel coached this game about as perfect as conditions allowed for. To myself it appears he understood the path of least resistance came through keeping our offense on the field and out defense off the field during the second half. The OU defense was drawing a schematic on how to beat the Tennessee offense and it had to be stopped. Heupel simply chose to hold his cards close and allow our offense to get in some much needed practices. Which did not disappoint considering the struggles faced. Still a miles away from any real offensive identity but a gain was made towards and I do not regret it at all. Hawkins will grow mentally and I hope Jackson Arnold’s frustrations mend to a sound play level. Jackson Arnold was thrown into a bad situation with the injuries and I believe it out him into desperation. I hope he grows from this and does not regret the wisdom. I’ll thank him for his dedication through all of this. We need growth not regret.

[@TheGenieLover]

I can't argue with any of that. Personally, I think pulling Arnold was the best thing for everyone, and that includes Jackson Arnold. Given the adversity and the opponent our offense was facing, I'm guessing that at some level, he was thinking he had to be Superman and carry this offense into the SEC on his back. Given the resources and coaching available to him, I suspect he'll one day he'll be thankful for the opportunity that this circumstance provides him.😎

[@TheRealAMR-]

we've been missing the offensive chip on the shoulder that baker and other greats of the past had. glad to see Hawkins bring the edge that our offense needed. hopefully we can build on it and shore up the season with great wins from here out.

[@GeorgiaBoyBoomer]

I really like and enjoy this In the Weeds series. Oddly enough I'm just amazed at the accuracy and fluidity Gabe flows with using the big yellow pen. Just awesome and well done :)

[@kylecavitt776]

I thought I knew football.. y’all are teaching me so much

[@lloydwhittlesey594]

Great "Oklahoma Breakdown" as always gentleman!!!!

[@55Dag]

Thank you for pointing out their starting D was still playing. And that was with 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter.

[@dgraham031588]

This was awesome, thanks guys!

[@toddcagle5494]

I appreciate you guys pointing out the positives of the game.

[@DedHedRy]

As far as the narrative around Oklahoma the great thing? We still have 8 games to change that narrative and it starts at Auburn this weekend. We play just as well on defense and we have a functioning offense we beat Auburn handedly and in just one game the talk will begin to change. Then 2 weeks later we really can change the narrative in Dallas but it starts this Saturday. So those of you worried about what the talking heads are saying right now those guys flip in two seconds and what they say has nothing to do with nothing. A lot of fans are acting like this season is over yet we knew we were going to lose games in the SEC and a lot of people had us losing to TN. All of our goals are still ahead of us and attainable and I promise you BV is preaching that exact message. As a player you view things so much differently than fans do and it’s not nearly as emotional with those guys. Put your head down, get better everyday, correct the correctable and then control the one thing you can control and that’s playing with effort. The effort and the passion is just lacking on the offensive side and the weak leadership has something to do with that. When the guy you’re looking to as your leader is literally in shock and so twisted and lost in his own head, how do you think those other 10 guys feel? Especially if MH has been playing that week through fall camp. Add on top of that, your QB is the single most important position on the field. Hopefully just the change in attitude and energy that MH will bring will get these other guys excited and going. It shouldn’t take that but sometimes it does. I HATE the lack of maximum effort on every single play that I see from the offense compared to our defense. If the offense could at the very least play with that same kind of energy the results would be completely different.

[@robbyclark6915]

Great point about the two TDs from Hawkins. Everyone nationally keeps downplaying them, but I promise you that the Tennessee defense was downplaying Nothing! They were fighting like wild men to keep Oklahoma out of the end zone. I was watching. There's a reason the refs called back both of his TD runs. Tennessee defense was flying around like men on fire to try and stop him! I'm OK with the first overturn, but not the second. There was enough of the ball past the line to call that a touchdown! That was BullSpit!

[@dynasty507]

They definitely were. Tennessee was aware of that long streak they had of keeping a opponent out of the endzone and working hard to preserve it. I don't know how people didn't catch that.

[@dewittmathews2508]

​@@dynasty507Man they caught it. They just don't want to admit it.

[@jamesbradford7888]

@@dewittmathews2508 I think the point for most people are that OU fans are overhyping 2 late touchdown drives during garbage time when the dude had over an entire half of nothing. That game was nowhere near as close as the final score indicated. OU’s defense is good enough to beat a lot of teams but you play that game 10 times with whoever at qb Tennessee still wins. Hawkins will help alleviate some of the OL issues but it’s not gonna get any easier from this point on. Good luck the rest of the way!

[@dewittmathews2508]

@jamesbradford7888 The game film says different. We can agree to disagree.

[@robbyclark6915]

I don't know anyone who's over hyping the play of Michael Hawkins Jr? I have heard a couple of people say that Oklahoma could have possibly won that game IF Hawkins had been the quarterback this season instead of Arnold, and I agree that it's "possible". Not likely, but definitely possible if Hawkins had 4 starts under his belt and had game planned for Tennessee and was playing at home. There's always a possibility of un upset with that defense and being at home. It's college football. But seeing a true freshman come in under that kind of pressure, against that defense, on prime time tv, with everyone in Oklahoma looking to him, and lead the team on two TD drives! It's hard to "over hype" that. That's impressive as hell! That's not luck. That's getting it done under the most extreme conditions!

[@clandestinesyndicate3463]

Gonna be at Auburn this weekend. Got a feeling we will get back into the WIN column very handedly.

[@jaredharper8336]

Me too! Lets not get too hasty tho

[@tullfarley4962]

Better hope so. Right now OU has the worst SEC conference record of any team. Every other SEC team that’s lost this season so far has SEC conference wins in their past. OU does not. They are 0-1 all time in the SEC. Better hope they can beat the 16th rated team out of 16-Auburn.

[@clandestinesyndicate3463]

@@tullfarley4962 Hey man, FUCK The SEC.

[@zacharbert6604]

Good Stuff guys, I love this "in the weeds" breakdown the best of everything you guys do. Absolutely love the x's and o's and the diagnosis.

[@HowardMagoo]

love these vids, it'd be cool to see some analysis of classic OU plays as well

[@derek17005]

2nd! My favorite recaps you guys do. Keep em coming! The Hawkins play is the perfect example of throwing a WR open.

[@nickbagnaro402]

Man if his decisions and balls remain that quick and crisp we will be a problem and able to compete. He has a double gear to get up field or to the edge. Very encouraging. Now if we can either just decide to run a gap scheme or get to the edges to run we might be back in business. We can do this.

[@dillonflanagan7237]

These in the weeds are soooo awesome!!

[@alextucker2805]

How does this podcast not have 5k likes on each video?

[@marruz0]

Because the analysis is ultra low quality and amateur

[@muco007]

Love these..Thanks!!!!

[@bdquest9]

This is the best defense I’ve seen in last five years.

[@isaiahwashington177]

So ready for Saturday🅾️🙌🏼

[@ryanmckinney-ec6jf]

Hopefully Fans support him through both his ups and downs. Expectations need to be realistic and if he happens to exceed those then obviously that’s great. As a player but especially a young player you need that positivity of a fan base behind you and not one that gets in your head. That’s the last thing we need. It looks like with his style of play that he will have the fan base excited.

[@buddyryeSE]

Thank you guys. I have hope in Hawkins. Work like Kobe, and leave the rest behind.

[@jakeburton1874]

gives me hope for this offense. love these breakdowns! BOOMER!

[@richardyoung2652]

Nice show guys

[@ukndoit74]

Just saw a headline that said Tennessee showed Mercy in blowout. Lol. That was no blowout and OU shut down Nico and their run game. Period.

[@leejr367]

Starting tackles out and nico had big plays but almost 100yds for sampson and 60+ for bishop

[@ukndoit74]

​​@@leejr367pshhh... Dolby got hurt and Out. Nic Anderson Out, Tons of others that OU had Out. Cannot consider injuries... OU defense had at most 5 issues. That is all I counted. 5. And made team Average 2.3 yards per run. If Mike started the game and they played 3 quarters how they did in 4th, OU would have won the game. There was no blowout. Zero.

[@jeffrlasley]

Shut down Nico?He had 194 yards and a touchdown on just 21 attempts.Oklahoma's defense did a good job but it was coach Heupel that shut down Nico by taking the air out in the second half with the big lead. And Tennessee's 2 running backs averaged around 4 yards per carry and gained over 150 yards so I wouldn't call that shut down either;limited maybe. But credit OU they played about as good as anyone can against a conservative Vols offensive game plan.

[@victorhinds9194]

The vols definitely showed mercy to them sorry ass Sooners. I been living in Oklahoma for the past 15 years and the Sooners are one of the most prideful bunch a bitches in college football . Don't nobody owe yall shit. To that fool that said it wasn't a blowout, so explain this , if OU defense so great. How did we score 25 points against the their defense. It ain't like we was playing ourselves, yall just ain't that great as yall think. It's just reality, live with it big dawg. This year just ain't it. OU got out coached, played, and honestly was to weak and little.

[@TheGenieLover]

Why don't we just take Coach Huepel at his word. He indicated that he saw that his defense was capable of controlling the game, so the playcalling changed in light of that. He also mentioned how great our defense was playing. Why would he take chances against an opportunistic opponent when he didn't have to. My QB has turned into a helluva coach, but we'll get the best of them next year😎

[@AdBoomer98]

I might be just as excited for Auburn than I was for Temple. Hard to match szn opener hype but Hawkins could be the difference in winning 9 or 6

[@RondaleDewayne]

Great. 411 on hawkins. Jr. I see records crumbling sat. Passing and rushing history being made. Today. I promisec

[@tomb5160]

It was nice you didn’t mention Hickman getting thrown into Febichi’s legs.

[@craigwaters6610]

great breakdown

[@marcusacosta8550]

Made with blue corn! That’s the fancy corn!

[@perrytaylor5877]

Thanks!

[@marruz0]

Don’t give these guys money anymore.

[@PassportBroHacks]

Based on Hawkins Jr.'s stats playing two quarters during the Tennessee game, if we copy those to the first three games and to Future games too, here is what his stats would have or could look like.🤭 . Now on the stats I gave him two touchdowns for TN game, since the referees took away the one that was 2 inches short, which was bullshit. But this would balance out anyways since the first three opponents were powder cake teams somewhat. I am just trying to get a "general idea" as to what his stats could have looked like or would look like based on what he has done during the two quarters against Tennessee, which the experts claim is a national championship caliber defense: . - Passing yards: 3,168 - Rushing yards: 528 - TDs: 48 - Pass completion %: 70 - Turnovers: 0 🤔😆🤷😲💪

[@blaynebittencourt5076]

I could watch the defense play all day.

[@JeffMankin]

In the weeds is too true for OU’s field. That was tall grass 😂

[@johnashe1469]

We have to embrace the good things this year. The defense is back and looking to get even better.

[@Mrgreens421]

Gabe calm down with the love for tenn 😂😂😂

[@StripedSooner]

feel bad for arnold, just wasn't ready for the gig. you have to have confidence and play with anticipation as a QB. only one of these guys is doing that. nothing else really matters at that point.

[@ukndoit74]

On that Trace Ford play, I only counted 10 players on defense. Where was the 11th?

[@bigtymetrader]

When i started watching this program it would be teddy complaining that Riley's staff couldn't coach good defense, and Gabe complained about the line and the lack of us being able to recruit a RB who could run as an elite runner. Here we several years later. And the defense is looking to be doing exactly what they should be doing and HUGELY improved, and the offense is still underperforming as an O-line and we don't have an elite runner and the offense is much worse. Coaching changes is what changed our defense around and unfortunately for me it seem that probably needs to happen more on the offensive side of the ball. You can't do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Could Hawkins come in and improve the team with his skill set. Sure. But the problems are still there your just relying MORE on one guy to be the savior. Caleb Williams same thing at USC. Give him some good tools around him heisman trophy. Don't and USC not even in the top 25.

[@jaymoore2154]

Great throw, but it looked like the deeper route was open for six

[@OK_Breakdown]

There's a deep safety? What are you talking about?

[@Link-we8so]

I still think they changed the offense in the second half. Not as many RPO's probably because they needed to score fast

[@DBizz-nd2eg]

In the offensive play Hickman got thrown to the side like a ragdoll…

[@joeyscott5342]

Good play concept, Litrell probably won't run it again.

[@TheSupra24ssv]

Everything looked different and better in 2nd half, line has issues no doubt but starting to think JA was not in sync with any part of the offense. We will see very soon but Hawkins threw some darts that didn’t know existed….LFG

[@deaconkav]

Off Play - great play but why have TE and RB run same route so close. If the 1st and 2nd reads were covered, well one person could have covered both te/rb. Did one of them miss a route assignment. Little things that need attention or they were decoys together?

[@dewittmathews2508]

Look like to me the TE ran a deep route, the back ran a shallow route.

[@gregfitts4683]

Compare Hawkins release to Dan Marino's release and see what you think.

[@ferg_life3841]

I like what brent has been saying. When you got young guys dont give em an option. Theyre throwing it or giving it. Gues you make an exception on the read option plays, but no more rpo's and the ball out of his hands fast. Use the cadance to see what the defense is in and then latrell calls run or pass. Hit the perimeter. There is still a lot of talent on that side of the ball. Too much to be as bad as theyve been on offense.

[@Gunterforever]

They say hawkins makes quicks decisions like that because he had a terrible o line in high school, we may be in luck here

[@hughmiller4822]

No mention of the hands to the face. If the call is made they might score.

[@FlipandBurn.]

Genuine question: how does Aaron Murray get access to the all 22 on Snaps; meanwhile you guys don't even though you work "in-house?"

[@OK_Breakdown]

He choose to use the TV copy because that's how you guys watch the game.

[@Oldmanred]

Be thankful Heupel called off the dogs. OU has one of the worst offenses in SEC, essentially the next Kentucky

[@WilliamNeish]

Narrator: Hawkins would go on to lose the RRR game in glorious fashion 😅

[@chrisoconnor9042]

Lucky they didn't flag Trace for roughing the way QBs are protected these days.

[@OK_Breakdown]

"Personal foul...he kinda touched his facemask, maybe. 15 yard penalty. Automatic first down."

[@lawnmowerchoke_9038]

The Saban tree lingo calls the low hole the Rat.

[@OK_Breakdown]

That's what Rex Ryan called it when I was in Buffalo.

[@marruz0]

⁠@@OK_Breakdown I don’t think you actually interacted with Rex Ryan at Buffalo.

[@blaynebittencourt5076]

I absolutely hate the narrative of this football game.

[@ruscoleman1741]

well Gabe settled that , no 3"s in the game for Tenn defense

[@dewittmathews2508]

I know, some of these people must have been drunk when they watch the game.

[@Boi-xc4dk]

According to Tennessee fans they could have won 65-0 but didn’t want to.

[@mitchconner2021]

I like Hawkins but QB is not the issue with this team. I just hope BV will have the balls to make changes on the offensive staff.

[@DBizz-nd2eg]

Are you blind? Not say there aren’t a ton of issues, but Jackson’s turnovers and poor decision making have absolutely been one of the BIGGEST issues. He killed us in the first half.

[@FroDough]

tennessee fans are new money gotta give em a little break lol they dont know how to act right

[@irockerz28]

Arnold looks likehe doesnt want tobe at ou now , prediction he eill be at Mississippi state next year

[@Cdubbilly]

Since febuary. Iv felt j.a wasnt gunna be our guy. 97.1 jim traber dean blevins. Al heshback. Have all said hawkins looks better. Ou auburm lets goooooo

[@This_isNotAThing]

Thanks! Boomer

[@underboss572]

Tennessee’s backups were in on the first OU touchdown drive. The second was the main rotation, but that play was primarily helped by a DB slipping. Not to take anything away from Hawkins, you play for the breaks and make them. His ability to run and not hold the ball is definitely a significant factor, too, but I don't think he is a game-changer. If your D plays well, though, he might be good enough to get you all 8-9 wins. But at the same time, I think you all might be setting yourself up for a letdown with him. If we don't put in some backups late and that weak hands to the face doesn't get called, there is a very real possibility he accounts for six threes and outs with a single first-down drive ending in Downs. Either way, it was a good breakdown, especially on the strip sack. It was a great move by the edge rusher. Makes me more confident to see how well we played it save Dayne Davis. I hope he is a game-changer, though we need some of our wins to age well. I would love for you to give it to Dorkwitz and those imposters in brown.

[@dynasty507]

He's definitely a game changer in the sense that he can actually throw guys open and has a accurate deep ball. If you go back and watch JA, He's waiting for guys to get open which allows the defender to recover. Not only that but it prevents the receiver from making a move after catching the ball and gaining extra yards. There's been numerous times where guys have been open but Jackson Arnold has missed them because he's scared to throw guys open in tight windows. He runs between a 4.4-4.6 40, the guy is fast/elusive and has good scrambling ability. With our O-line being the way it is it'll help. Hawkins is scrambling to throw whereas Jackson oftentimes just takes off with it. I think the thing that guys really have to get use to is coming back to the ball with him.. think Caleb Williams or Shedeur Sanders. The guy is just a true freshman so I'm scaling back my optimism but you definitely can feel There's something special about him.

[@HoustonCarver]

that field is ass

[@boomerb4477]

Notice how the markers and logos on the field haven't been refreshed with paint from the previous games. That's because the turf had a infestation of army worms, which has been mitigated, but they're babying the grass in the meantime.

[@Menu2Sports]

Guys!!! 😂😂😂 For the love of God!!! There’s 3 minutes left in the game, you’ve got 9 points. All Tenn is trying to do is avoid explosives to get out of these. I’m sorry, but yes you do suck just as bad as it looked.

[@marruz0]

Teddy Lehman didn’t say anything intelligent on this video.

[@Texas2005-k5y]

Man, Oklahoma is a ramshackle program. Hello, 6-6.

[@tylerthibber8822]

Could very well be. All depends on how they respond on the road with a true freshman. Could be great, could be a total disaster.

[@leejr367]

@@tylerthibber8822Tn has a rsFr first conference game but maybe 8-4

[@michaelwinn314]

Thanks!