Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel (8) warms up before a Bedlam college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
Jeff Lebby had his worst performance in clock management of the season against Oklahoma State.
With a two-score lead in the second half, the Sooners snapped the ball with 20 seconds or more on the play clock regularly. Instead of bleeding the clock, the Sooners opted to keep their possession time to a minimum and kept giving the Cowboys the ball back. Dillon Gabriel wasn’t throwing it well and Lebby kept calling his number late in the game instead of running behind Eric Gray and Jovantae Barnes, who had good days.
Head coach Brent Venables made no bones about how he felt about the clock management from the offensive coordinator and the quarterback in the second half.
“No actually, I wasn’t,” Venables said when asked if he was happy with the clock management. “You know, we gotta be better there. Make no mistake. Played 102 plays on defense. And really, for the most part, we’re getting, they got a couple of drives there, but we were dominating them. And so to continue to put the defense in that position, it’s not what you want to do you want to. You know, running the clock just to give them a little bit more time to recover and adjust. And I think that’s important that we, we do a better job of that.”
Yes, it’s Lebby’s style, but it wasn’t working, and it hasn’t worked all year. Had the defense not shown up, the Sooners would’ve blown a 28-0 lead.
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