Oklahoma Sooners recent struggles were predicable, says Fox Sports’ analyst Joel Klatt

After beginning the season with three consecutive victories, the Oklahoma Sooners have fallen on laborious occasions. The Big 12 powerhouse finds itself on a two-game skid main into the Red River Showdown with Texas. While the drubbing from TCU was an eye-opener, Fox Sports school soccer analyst Joel Klatt believes that the Sooners’ struggles were predictable. After a offseason filled with turnover each within the teaching ranks and on the roster, Oklahoma was pressured to fill extra holes than anticipated and it has proven the final two weeks towards Kansas State and TCU. 

Oklahoma has a significant alternative to get again on observe when going through Texas and head coach Brent Venables expressed that toppling the Longhorns will not be a straightforward feat. 

“Yeah, they’re playing disciplined,” Venables mentioned. “You know, (defensively) they’re enjoying very well collectively as a unit, giving up simply over 20 factors a recreation. Have given them a possibility to play very well towards Alabama, have given them a possibility to win each recreation. They’ve acquired some wonderful soccer gamers at, once more, all three ranges. They’re huge. They’re lengthy. They’re athletic. They’re enjoying the nice toughness. And offensively, similar factor. Both traces of scrimmage are actually good. But defensively, once more, they’re simply giving up over 100 yards a recreation speeding and have accomplished a superb job getting strain on the quarterback and a number of disruption within the run recreation.

Once the battle with Texas concludes, Klatt believes that the Sooners’ schedule turns into solely extra daunting as a difficult convention slate stays. 

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Below is everything Klatt said about the state of the Oklahoma Sooners on the Joel Klatt Show.