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Chris Landry on Oklahoma's Concerns · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  And you look at Oklahoma, you can make the same case. I mean,
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  they're ten and four against Arkansas, winning records against Kentucky Tennessee. They
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  just destroyed Missouri over the life of that whole deal, sixty seven to twenty
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  four. They have a winning record against Alabama. They have won a gain
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  rerecord against Auburn. But you know, Oklahoma again, as I think there's
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  a little lot more unknown there, especially when you talk about Brent Vinable's brand
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  new offensive front. There's there's a lot of question marks in Norman, where
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  it doesn't seem to be as many in Austin, Texas this year. Yeah,
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  I think that's there, and I think with Brent, I think that
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  was a more difficult transition. And what I mean by that when Lincoln Riley
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  left, what was that Oklahoma program? It was offense, it was tempo,
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  it was defense that was not very good. But what does Brent Venables
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  want to do? Why was he hired? Well, he had the background
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  at Oklahoma, but what was his background? Of course, defensive coordinators successful
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  one at Clemson. Gonna rebuild that defense, everybody think, So Brent Venable's
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  coming in, snap your fingers. The defense is going to be great.
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  It's ben't worked that way. He's going to have to put things in place,
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  and how well he's able to recruit and sustain and keep defenders in the
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  program is going to determine how good this program can be, because look,
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  there's no doubt you have to be good offensively. There's no doubt though that
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  you have to be to me a championship pedigree on defense. Whether Brent can
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  do it or not and be successful doing all of those things remain to be
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  seen. But there's no question that he's not going to have the Lincoln Riley
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  approach, that is, you know, we're going to outscore everybody. I
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  think that's the real concern that I would have if Lincoln was still there,
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  as good as he's doing offensively at USC, I'd have concerns about Oklahoma with
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  Lincoln going in the SEC. Now does that mean that Brent can, you
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  know, build the defense? I don't know, but I think if you're
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  going to be success, yes, well that's what you have to do.
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  That's the philosophy you have to have Heaven. The philosophy Heaven. The foundation
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  of how to do it is one thing, but being able to execute it
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  is the other. And that's what we're going to find out with it.