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Malik Charles and the entire defensive end group were grown $#$ men on Saturday. Malik had a HUGE sack after a really confusing sequence. OSU got a stop on 3rd down, and it looked like it was going to be 4th down, but there were offsetting penalties, and no one made an announcement. So, Oregon got to do 3rd down over, and any time you give Dante Moore and those dudes that Oregon has a second chance, you hold your breath. But Charles got the sack, BPS went nuts, and it was another HUGE moment for that defense. The official play-by-play has it at 11:41 of the 2nd quarter, on the replayed 3rd-and-9. James Williams made the 1st and last plays of the game, Keviyan Huddleston and Jaleel Johnson each had HUGE sacks, DJ Jackson did a great job putting pressure on Moore, and the unit overall was what we told you it should be. Very deep, very explosive, and very good. Containing Dante Moore is NOT easy, and much of that duty fell on the shoulders of the D-Ends, and they dominated that role. They are kind of the in-between pieces in terms of leverage. They have to play outside leverage of the tackles, so they have to be connected to them. But then, they have to play different types of leverage based on how many LBs Coach Cassity has on the field at any given time. So they have to be in total sync with the LBs, while playing very connected leverage to the tackles. And they have to do it all at the same time. They were not only explosive, but they were also disciplined and played the leverage each call asked for. There's a reason the coaches praise them so much. Just re-watch the game if you need to know why. #GoPokes #OkState
D-Ends Played Like Grown $@#$ MEN!
Coach Morris Media Availability - Opening Thoughts. Coach takes you through the offense, how well the O-Line played, how proud he was of the effort, and he breaks down some of the units he was most pleased with. And he also takes you through the injury updates. He also mentions Carson Kolb, who caught the first pass of his college career, which was a TD against Oregon...Wow! Full Media Availability Link https://youtu.be/hP0wWlm8Rm4 #GoPokes #OkState
Coach Morris Opening Thoughts From Media Availability
Coach Brophy joined me and broke down the details of what led to the great performance Saturday in the win over Oregon. Absolutely awesome job all the way around, and Coach Brophy is somewhere near the top of that tree. Coach keeps the communication lines organized while everyone is making the adjustments they need to make on the field. He’s the conduit that brings all that information together and gets it to the different units in digestible chunks. He also has a relationship with Drew that is crucial to keeping the mentality headed in the right direction and keeping this offense firing on all cylinders. #GoPokes #OkState
O-Coordinator - Sean Brophy Media Availability
Coach Cassity dialed it up on Saturday, and he got his defense to play fast and physical. The OSU defense was anywhere from good to dominant on basically every level, and they won the big moments — including the biggest one of all, the end of the game when they had to seal the deal. This dude was dialin' it up from the first play of the game all the way 'til the end. And players want to play for a coach who is this smart, which Cassity obviously is, but also has NO fear. And he 100% does NOT! He's a great young coach who has taken a bunch of dudes from just about everywhere and gotten them to buy into the team concept. You just need to look at the way they fit everything together and the way they've embraced their rotations to see it. That's coaching. Well done, Coach. More Cowbell, please! 🥁 #GoPokes #OkState
Skyler Cassity Media Availability Post Oregon
Charles was part of a defensive end group that had one heckuva day on Saturday. They were responsible for keeping Dante Moore contained, they set the edge, then they brought the heat and got some HUGE sacks and pressures, especially when it mattered the most. Malik had 1 sack and a TFL and used his combination of size, athletic ability, and motor to win the trenches for OSU. #GoPokes #OkState
Malik Charles Media Availability Post Oregon
Coach Morris met with the media and discussed the big win against Oregon, what went right, and how the team has to handle it in a mature way moving forward. He praised Coach Cassity and the defense, Drew Mestemaker, Same Keltner and the special teams, the O-line, and basically everyone from top to bottom in the organization that had a hand in this. He also addressed how this should help the program catch up in recruiting as well. This was a HUGE day for OSU football and, TBH, the Athletic Department itself. Hope you check it out! #GoPokes #OkState
Eric Morris Media Availability
Oregon was elite up front, and there's just no debating that. And for the "misfits" that OSU's offensive line has been forced to become, it's really phenomenal how well they handled themselves. A large part of that was that, with Drew being a threat to run, it allowed us to leave a defender unblocked rather than having to assign an H-back. Because if you have to assign an H-back to block a backside player, then the defense is going to add one to the box, so you're not really changing the numbers. And, as Coach Morris says in this clip, when you can run the ball, it opens everything else up. And TBH, I think he'd probably be the first one to tell you it's a lot easier to call plays when you stay ahead of the chains. It gives the play caller a much larger margin for error because they don't have to be perfect with every call. Kudos to the O-Line for the protection they gave Drew and for paving the way for OSU to have over 200 yards on the ground. That allowed OSU to possess the ball, pick up 25 first downs and, ultimately, give the Oregon offense fewer opportunities. Then, Coach Morris chose situations when Oregon wasn't bringing pressure to take the deep shots, because that gave Drew the best chance to have a clean pocket long enough to get the ball down the field. As Coach always says, it ALL works together. And it ALL did THAT on Saturday. #GoPokes #OkState
OSU Won in the Trenches...Big Boy Ball!
It's always interesting to see which way coaches go when their team doesn't have the amount of success everyone wants them to have. Fans are always screaming for more, while great coaches typically understand that it's about less in those moments. Simplifying things allows players to think less, which, in turn, frees them up to play faster. As players play faster, they win more of their one-on-ones, and that leads to better execution. Better execution leads to better results. It's so tempting as a coach to try and "scheme" or "technique" your way through the tough moments. If we just do this, or if we do that, they won't have a guy here, or they won't have a guy there, and there's no one left...etc. Those thoughts are legit, and they have their time and place, but not always when execution needs to be the SOLE focus for improvement. Which, as Coach Morris addresses, it was for OSU last week. So, the idea that players were going to be graded on fast/not fast, and not nearly as much on technique, is ELITE head coaching. Absolutely ELITE! And, obviously, everyone bought in, which is elite assistant coaching. When you put that in the oven and let it bake, the coaches and players put a product on the field that was MUCH faster, and much better. And it was SUPER visible to the fans, which made them excited and then the boys fed off of that. Which tied into his next point, about home-field advantage. It's great to have a lot of fans in the stands, but Coach Morris understood that the team had to do something to get them going, then keep them going. And there is NO book that tells you how to do that. So, the fact that he trusted his gut and instinct this week to make sure he was coaching to the points he thought were most important is another example of ELITE head coaching. It's putting winning above ALL else, which goes back to my point of advantage having your Head Coach also be the one that calls plays. And when you have that type of leadership, it's not hard for the kids to "buy in," especially with older and experienced guys who have high "I get it" factors. And that improves execution as well. And it's where the "Belief" system starts. Then, you see it happen on the field, and before you know it, Drew Mestemaker is running up and down the sideline telling everyone that we're gonna win because this is who we are. And every player actually believed it because, for that one day, and at that moment, it was 100% true. Great stuff, boys....More Cowbell Please! #GoPokes #OkState
Eric Morris’ ELITE Coaching Decision That Changed OSU Football 🔥
Drew Mestemaker played one of the best games we've EVER seen a quarterback play in an OSU uniform, and that's just not, in any way, an exaggeration. He threw for 317 yards and 2 TDs, then ran for 109 more. The 2 INTs were tips, so while they do go on his stat sheet, there's no one to blame, though. But that's really just the beginning of his story. The way he threaded the needle on the underneath routes kept OSU ahead of the chains and was a big part of why we had 25 first downs. And to beat Oregon, you have to limit their possessions, because if they get their offense rolling, they can create an avalanche of scoring in a very short amount of time. So, keeping that from happening by never letting Oregon get a grip on the momentum of the game was, IMO, the biggest non-X-and-O factor that led to the victory. Then OSU had to time its deep balls, which Coach Morris did by picking run downs to take his shots. That gave Drew the time he needed, and he was spot-on with the explosive plays. And this team had to have those explosive plays. Then, the way he handled the pressure Oregon puts on a QB was totally pro. The way he rolled and made plays off-script when needed was vital to being able to move the chains as much as we did. And the QB simply being a threat in the run game makes things so much more complicated for the defense. As Coach Morris says in this clip, we still need to clean up some of our short-yardage issues, but it was a LOT better on Saturday and left a LOT to build on. #GoPokes #OkState
**Drew Mestemaker May Have Played One of the BEST Games in OSU QB History** 🔥
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