Today we are going to talk about Kyler Murray's health and Tua Tagovailoa's
health and all that's coming up after the bumper
What's s up kinfolk? Its RJ Young! I am NOT on a step mill. Consider
hitting the like and subscribe button because I upload a video every single
day. It's always OU-related college football-related sports-related. We have
a good time and today we are going to talk about the health of the
quarterbacks ahead of the 2018 Orange Bowl starting with the man the Heisman
winner Kyler Murray who did not make media availability at the Orange Bowl
today now they say that he's sick and far be it for me to say that a man who
says he's ill is not ill however we know that this was a thing for Baker Mayfield
last year and he showed up because he's Baker Mayfield he just wasn't gonna make
his teammates answer for him but the sick thing just seems it seems
convenient right I mean if he's sick he's sick but Cale Gundy also said that
it was news to him that he wasn't gonna make availability and that he practiced
the day before they said he might practice they might not look man we all
know that the things that he were going to be asked about we're all pertaining
to his professional future we know that he's going to have to make a decision
between going to the NFL Draft and going to play baseball now he says I'm gonna
go show up to the a spring training in February right we know that he's today
we know that he's going to play baseball we also know that if he said that he's
going to play football and focused on football everybody with a mock draft
that matter says he's a first-round draft pick especially with the news that
Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert is going to return for his senior season so
the number of quarterbacks dwindled by one and the number of quarterbacks that
were going to go in the first round dwindle by one so now you get to raise
the price and raise the draft status on Kyler Murray ahead of the biggest game
of his season we all know the tools man we all know that Kyle Murray is a surgeon
back there we all know that he will pick you up
to give him time perhaps Alabama's gonna try to drop seven and make him throw the
football for which they're like okay fine he completes seventy percent of his
passes he's got the highest passer efficiency rating in college football in
history there's nothing you can do to stop Kyler Murray from being Kylie
Murray you can only hope to contain him now
would you want to truck Kyler Murray out there today in front of all of the
cameras all of the national media all of the local media who have things that
they want to talk to this man about since finding out yeah you put your name
forward to the NFL for an early draft evaluation
you also want to know yo is this real for me and we all know that it's real
friend we all think it's real for him we all know that NFL scouts thought that it
was real for him because NFL scouts were told by the Oklahoma football staff that
yo we think that he's going to play football as a pro so that's how they
filled out their draft evaluations now I remember
there was an instance kind of like this at the Cotton Bowl in 2012 when I
covered it and at the time the Heisman Trophy winner was Johnny Manziel and
Kevin Sumlin had a rule for Texas A&M that no freshmen were allowed to talk to
the media they have a similar rule at Oklahoma right now right you haven't
done anything and throughout even the season you really haven't done anything
but at these bowl games they have to make you available that's a rule so
Johnny Manziel was the it dude at the Cotton Bowl everybody wanted to quote
from that guy because he wasn't talking anybody and he just won the Heisman
Trophy which makes him the most valuable player in college football for all
intents and purposes that year we also know that Oklahoma has had its share of
run-ins at bowl games with players that are in the news that they don't want to
speak Joe Mixon few years back hadn't said a word right helped Oklahoma get to
a bowl game showed up didn't say a word he said weren't gonna take any questions
about his incident with a woman that he punched in
the face at a restaurant in Norman and it was very uncomfortable to watch it
was very uncomfortable to hear just how that went it was very
uncomfortable I'm sure for the SID and for Oklahoma because this is not the
kind of thing that you want to have to answer for you want to be able to talk
about football you want to be able to talk about the game you want to be able
to talk about how you match up but you're not able to do that when you are
the news Joe Mixon was the news Johnny Football was the news and Kyler Murray is the
news so I think it's kind of just a newfangled way that you could say it's
convenient and perhaps he is ill and for all intents purposes he probably
something right because he might have stood like septums we don't really know
we just know that he was ill enough to not show up to media availability at a
time when a lot of people want to talk to that dude about what he's going to do
with his future on the other hand Tua Tagovailoa below apparently is 80 to 85%
ready to go and healthy he had what he need to get done with his ankle and he
plans to be the dude that basically would have won the Heisman had Kyler
Murray not been Kylie Murray this year he is the person that drives that offense
forward but it ain't just him it's also Damien Harris it's also NajeeHarris it's
also Josh Jacobs it's also the Biletnikoff winner whether we like it or
not Jerry Jeudy and then there's Henry rugs and then there's Jalen Waddell &
that offensive line has a bit of a hole I guess you could say in that the guys
they want to start ain't gonna start but the guy who's backing him up was
starting so we'll take that as it is with Lester Cotton starting for Deonte
Brown and we'll see right but for all intent and purposes that we know and I'm
saying all intent and purposes a lot today—were talkin below is the guy
he's going to start I know some people think that Jalen Hurts is gonna be
pulled out of the back pocket of a guy like Nick Saban it's not out of the
question if you're Oklahoma you plan for them but more than that you're really
just planning to try to stop this offense if you can you're trying to get
in their way if you're the defense right and if you get a game out of this
defense Oklahoma wins the game we all know that Oklahoma ranks 108th in
total defense it is the worst defense to make it into a college football playoff
yada-yada-yada you get a couple turnovers out of this
defense you could win this football game now to Oklahoma and injuries again Trey
sermons says that he is 100% for the first time since suffering a high ankle
sprain against TCU that's back in October and he would aggravate it and
then he go down he aggravated and come back we like to have Trey sermon healthy
and these high ankle sprains as you can see they're nothing to play with
right you want these guys to stay off of them you want them to feel okay you also
want them to play because even at 70% Trey Sermon is still a really good
running back and your thinit running back if you're Oklahoma you need that
man healthy so to know that he's healthy and to know that he and Kennedy Brooks
are gonna share the load is a big deal for Oklahoma who is going to try to run
the ball against this really good Alabama defense that has maybe three
first rounders on it right now Deointe Thompson at safety Quinnen Miller
the dude at defensive tackle and then you got guys in the middle who can
absolutely fly to the football last note was depending on who you talk to you
Marquise Hollywood Brown is going to play he's not going to play I think he's
going to play I've said that I think he's gonna play Brandon drum was on the
podcast with me on young and drum said you know it's touch and go we don't
really know and if he does play is he gonna be a hundred percent we don't
really know we won't know until we get to the game but I continue to say
there's another thousand our receiver on this team at CD lamb and you know guys
like Grant Calcaterra are gonna play you know guys like Lee Morris are gonna
play and you know Charleston Rambo has acquitted himself well at that see you
receiver position so I don't think it is the big deal that a lot of folks are
making it out to be I understand the man has 75 catches for over 1,300 yards and
10 TDs I also know that this is Oklahoma and
what they do on offense in particular is reload and again ill Kyler Murray is
still really good Kyler Murray and there's no I don't necessarily think
he's gonna be ill when they play this game on Saturday because today is
Wednesday but as I've said before and I will continue say,
We have Kyler, and you don't. All right that's it for me.
Deuces.
No comments:
Post a Comment