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Brent Venables Just Saved Himself From Sooner Nation At His Press Conference · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, during Brent Venable's press conference today, he decided
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  Speaker 1: to save himself from all of y'all because he made
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  Speaker 1: some comments at practice after, you know, leaving Ben Arbuckle
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  Speaker 1: of his duties that ruffled a ton of our feathers.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me, I was ruffled too, but I think he
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  Speaker 1: saved himself. Let's talk about that. Before we do that,
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  Speaker 2: I'm your boy, Jay.
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  Speaker 1: BV may have saved himself in the light of all
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  Speaker 1: of us in our eyes because we all wanted to fight.
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  Speaker 2: Like, for real fight. I was ready to fight yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Not gonna lie. I don't, I'm not important. I'm a nobody.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I was only gonna use
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  Speaker 1: interwebs and start squabbling. But I gotta give it to BV.
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  Speaker 1: During his press conference, he addressed everything. He talked about
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  Speaker 1: why They're making a change at offensive coordinator. And his
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  Speaker 1: quote here is, Ben made us better in 2025. We
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  Speaker 1: went to the playoffs and some great things. There's regression.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we've made a change. And obviously you
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  Speaker 1: want to get in right every time. 100% right. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you point that out. The regression is
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  Speaker 1: why they had to let the dude go. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the stubbornness as well, because it
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  Speaker 1: felt like the dude was being overly stubborn in ways
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  Speaker 1: he shouldn't have been stubborn. So he talked about that
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  Speaker 1: and he talked about what he's looking for when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the next offensive coordinator of the job.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you this.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just put this out there for you all
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  Speaker 1: to know. I have on great authority without anybody having
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  Speaker 1: to tell me that Oklahoma has been fielding calls from
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  Speaker 1: agents inquiring about the job. from a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that y'all probably want, probably some of you don't want either,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to tell you, I know they are
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  Speaker 1: because they were fielding calls when Zach Alley left to
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  Speaker 1: go to West Virginia. They did get some people reaching
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  Speaker 1: out saying, Hey, what's up with the job? And it
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  Speaker 1: got to the point where BV decided, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go ahead and do this, right? I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go ahead and just run my defense the
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  Speaker 1: way I want to run my defense and see success
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  Speaker 1: in which he has. But, I know they've been fielding calls.
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  Speaker 1: I know that they've gotten people reaching out as soon
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  Speaker 1: as Ben was gone because this is a job. And
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  Speaker 1: BV even said it's a very attractive position, right? It's
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  Speaker 1: a very attractive job. It's the University of Oklahoma. People
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  Speaker 1: want to come in and say, I put up numbers
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  Speaker 1: at Oklahoma. And it can be either a springboard job
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  Speaker 1: or it's one of those where they feel like they
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  Speaker 1: can try to take over said job. People want to
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  Speaker 1: coach at Oklahoma. Just keeping it a buck. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. But this was the thing he talked
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  Speaker 1: about in his press. I'm going to play the clip
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  Speaker 1: for you all because when he said this, a big
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  Speaker 1: sigh of relief came from me. Before we do that, though,
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  Speaker 2: what BV said.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this was around, because Tuesday night, the question was, A, basically,
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  Speaker 1: are y'all going to bench John Mateer? And BV said,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't having no depth chart conversation. John's our guy.
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  Speaker 2: I threw stuff. We talked about it this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I lost my mind on the Locked On Sooners episode
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  Speaker 1: this morning because I was like, you're me, right?
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  Speaker 2: This is a joke. He cleaned it up. This is
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  Speaker 2: what he had to say.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brent, I heard you say last night that your
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  Speaker 3: guys still believe in John, that quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You've obviously made quarterback changes in the past.
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  Speaker 1: I was curious what you learned from that experience and
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  Speaker 1: what John has showed you to believe in.
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  Speaker 3: Him continuing forward. Yeah, I mean, everybody has a fresh start,
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  Speaker 3: a fresh slate with the change, and so we'll see
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  Speaker 3: where all of that goes. But players do believe in John.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a couple of good young quarterbacks in Witt
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  Speaker 3: and Bo, but we'll see where all that goes from here.
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  Speaker 2: That's a plus, right?
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  Speaker 1: To hear that we've got clean slates, but we also, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be allowing players There to be an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they do believe in John. The players do.
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  Speaker 1: Being honest, even with all of his issues, the players
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  Speaker 1: still love that dude and they still ride for him.
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  Speaker 2: They just want him to be better. But a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them know that.
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  Speaker 1: He ain't because he is who he is and he
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  Speaker 1: is who he's going to be. Granted, we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: Jason Witten can bring something out of him if he
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  Speaker 1: does end up winning things, but they are considering everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Cling Slate, it sounds like there's going to be equal
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  Speaker 1: amount of reps going on in practice for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the week. And if this is the case, there's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for this team to see somebody new on
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  Speaker 1: the field. But they've got to execute in practice. And
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  Speaker 1: if they're getting equal reps and they're making plays and
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing it, The staff has seen it. Hopefully it
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  Speaker 1: means that there will be a legitimate battle and we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be on here teed off that they
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  Speaker 1: just say, nah, we're just going to fall back to
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  Speaker 1: what we were. Because you can't do that if you
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  Speaker 1: want to see success. Now, we have Jason Witten here
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  Speaker 1: who now most likely will be using the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of his tight ends. I expect them all to be
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  Speaker 1: playing a lot and I expect Witten to be able
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  Speaker 1: to call some ball. He's got work to do here.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got some proving to do. Now, I do
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  Speaker 1: know that BV did talk about Witten. He mentioned how,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people, he's shown some leadership and he has
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  Speaker 1: a wealth of knowledge, blah, blah, blah. But for him,
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  Speaker 1: the non-negotiable thing is complimentary winning football. And he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: care if they're burning clock or not.
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  Speaker 2: He needs touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Scores help everybody. Gets the defense hype, gets the offense hype.
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  Speaker 1: you need to score points so in that case that's
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  Speaker 1: what bb is asking from his new offensive coordinator is
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  Speaker 1: go out there put up points dog score something we
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  Speaker 1: ain't been able to do since we had been our
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  Speaker 1: buckle let me know what y'all think hop in the
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  Speaker 1: comments want to hear your thoughts um how you feeling
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  Speaker 1: on it there's uh he did say one other thing
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  Speaker 1: though that it Kind of shooketh your boy, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not upset about. He did say that nothing's off the
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  Speaker 1: table on winning the job. But in my personal opinion,
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like four games is enough. Four games
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  Speaker 1: is not enough to tell me that.
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  Speaker 2: He should have the job. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: If they put up 50 points on the next four
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  Speaker 1: every week, then, I mean, it's kind of hard to argue, right?
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  Speaker 1: It means that his system may be working. But it
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  Speaker 1: makes me also concerned. They're year two and people figure
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  Speaker 1: them out. We're going to be like, dang it.
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  Speaker 1: So come hang out with us.
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  Speaker 2: We had a commitment from 2028.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't really dug into them because I haven't touched on
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  Speaker 1: 28 yet, but we'll do something after the 27s finish
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  Speaker 1: their sign. We'll go through all the players that have
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  Speaker 1: committed and what we think about them.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah. We didn't forget about you, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on. We'll talk soon.
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  Speaker 1: Peace.