Yes, I said it:  Coleby Clawson is the dirtiest player in college football.  And that’s my opinion, and it’s not getting rescinded.
at Arlington Heights 21, Azle 3
#3 Oklahoma 13, #20 Fucking Mormon Pussies 7, Blind, Half-Assed Officiating 7
at #22 Nebraska 49, Florida Atlantic 3
UBuffalo 23, at UT-El Paso 17
Dallas 35, at Minnesota 31 (preseason, does not count in the record)
Heights & Azle suffered through 2 separate rain/storm delays, finally ending sometime after 23:00.  Probably should have called the game a lot earlier.
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Naaman Roosevelt set a UBuff record with his 20th career TD reception as the Bulls pulled the mild upset of the Miners.  Zac Maynard had 159 yards on 12-19 in his debut.
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I must admit, kicking Howard Schnellenberger’s ass for that travesty he pulled with Miami against the Huskers back in the ’80s never gets old.
Zac Lee was 15-22-214 in taking over for the graduated Joey Ganz, and Roy Helu had 157 yards on 17 carries as the Huskers rolled, and the Blackshirts contributed with two interceptions.
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The Fucking Mormons came in with the perfect game plan:  Knock Sam Bradford out of the game, and you win.
Well, they did, and they did.  And I’ve already expressed my opinion on what I think of the fucking little Mormon bastard who did it.
Truth be told, though, it’s hard to figure out what’s more responsible for this debacle:  the loss of Bradford, the shitty officiating, or Bob Stoopes’ brain fartage-ery in the second half.
The officals were fucking flag-happy, except when it counted, i.e. during the last Fucking Mormon drive, when their tight end literally backed into the Sooner defensive back in the end zone, drawing a bogus pass-interference call – the fat-ass might as well have had the beepers installed on his backside.  The Fucking Mormons were holding all damned night long, but it was always the Sooners who got called for it, or something, on first- or second-down of most Sooner drives throughout the game, putting both Bradford and backup Landry Jones in deep holes far more often than not.
But OU could have (and should have, IYAM) won this game – or at the very least, we could possibly still be playing overtime right now, even with all of that, except Bob Stoopes and his staff suffered what has to be the Mother Of All Brain-Locks™ in the fourth quarter.
Scenario:  OU has just intercepted Maxine Hall and gotten the ball deep in Fucking Mormon territory.  DeMarco Murray & Chris Brown have just gashed the FM defense to the FM 5.  After a pass-interference call in the end zone, the Sooners have the ball at the 2.  Three plays later, the ball is on the 1-inch  line, and it’s now fourth down.
And here is where I tear my hair out at teams I like who do this.
OU has this nasty habit of bringing the offense up to the line quickly, getting set…then having the QB back off and turn to the sideline for any possible audibles, based on how the defense lines up.  In a situation like the aforementioned 4th-and-1-inch, you want to just line up and go.  Maybe do a hard count to make the D-line jump and get off-balance before you ram it down their throat, but you just want your line to fire off and push people back.  Besides, with 4th-and-1, everyone knows what’s coming anyway, so it’s not like anyone’s gonna be fooled, right?
Right?
Well, Bobby Stoopes has Landry Jones turn back to the sideline to get the call – except they don’t have time this time to do that, and they lose track of the play clock.
Boom – flag.  Delay-of-game, five yards, still fourth down.  Jimmy Stevens kicks the field goal, and OU has 13 when they should have had 17.  Ball game.
Bobby Big Game, I’m severely disappointed in you and your staff’s collective ass.
Lookit.  You just lost to a vastly  inferior team.  TCU’s gonna take these pussies and beat the shit out of them in Provo in October – and you let them hang around.  And after the BCS championship game, you had all spring & summer to game-plan for this one, and you fucking blew  it and lost to a half-assed excuse-for-a-team whose best shot was to cheap-shot your quarterback.
You people need to pull your heads out of your asses now, before you have to play the Miami Hurricanes in a couple of weeks.
If I were you, I’d game-plan right now to bomb Idaho State out of Owen Field next week.  Every effin’ play a drop-back pass, just to get Jones used to a rush.  Else, it’s going to be blitz, pressure, sack, rinse, lather, repeat  until Bradford comes back, and maybe even after that.
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Remember I mentioned the two-out-of-three game facets thingie a couple weeks back?
I s’pose you could say Dallas did okay on offense – it was hard to tell with four turnovers, three of which led to ViQueen touchdowns.
But Patrick Watkins had a helluva game – he saved a touchdown with an arm tackle in the second quarter, blocked a field-goal attempt at the end of the first half, then got a pick-six early in the third quarter, one of two on successive plays (rookie Steve Octavien got the other) to bring the C’boys back.  Rudy Carpenter then led Dallas on a 14-play TD drive, and Jesse Holley (Michael Irvin’s Fourth and Long  winner) returned a punt 82 yards for the game-winner.
It’s not often you see your special teams & defense outscore your offense.  Weird way to win a ballgame.
Here are the notes:
Ogletree secures his spot on the roster.
Caught three balls on the first C’boy drive, the last for the touchdown.  Kid is catching everything that’s thrown to him.  Fully expect this kid to crack the starting lineup by the eighth game.
Penalties are still a problem.The most-penalized team in the NFL last year is the second-most penalized team in this preseason.  One penalty in the 2Q cost Dallas a first down.  So much for Coach Stay-Puf doing things differently.
A backup QB who can take care of the ball would have been nice to get this year, Jerry.Kitna mishandled yet another snap this preseason, losing this one.  And, thanks to shitty backups in the secondary, it cost Dallas the ViQueens’ first touchdown.  Kitna later pulled a Romo, letting himself get stripped on a sack and losing the resulting fumble – which (surprise, surprise!) Minne-haha converted into yet another touchdown.
Stanback justifies thecomingdecision to cut his ass yet again.Muffed the ensuing kickoff and was fortunate that it bounced through the endzone.  Another team can take a chance on him, AFAIC.
What’s this?  A Cowboy QB (Kitna, 2Q) runs for a first down?Tony Romo, take note.
Thank God Keon Lattimore isn’t going to be one of our running backs.Committed yet another Dallas turnover in the 2Q.  So did Julius Crosslin, who got assigned to the practice squad.
This week:  Four 3-1.  Overall:  Four 3-2.
The PFW will return Friday for our first full week, at which time we’ll revive a sacred tradition, and also ask the burning question:  “Can the C’boys’ defense shut down a team without an offensive coordinator?”