Really, 12 points isn't indicative of the belt that Oklahoma City gave the Spurs.

Yeah, Hardenstein was in foul trouble all night, so he only played 17 minutes in the game.

And I got to say this about Chet Holmgren is, you know, so much talk about what happened in the Western Finals last year, and specifically against Wimbledon Yarmouth.

And you can say, well, all he did was go for 14 and 7.

Well, yeah, he had 14 points, 7 rebounds.

He also had 4 blocks.

But he also went 8 for 8 at the foul line.

And so their season is not over, but it gets a lot harder now that you lost to Houston.

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But that, that offensive line, um, th- they, they, they didn't run the ball for much.

What, you know, 65 yards on 35 attempts.

That's...

I'm not good with the new math, Sam, but 35 times two is seven.

That's under two yards per attempt.

That's not very good.

What were your thoughts on the end of that game?

it.

Worst things could have happened, but I would just say this, Sam.

It's probably never as good as you think, and it's never as bad as you think.

And listen...

I'm not saying that I'm some genius.

I would have said, if you asked me before that game last week, I thought, oh, you should win this one by 24, 28 points.

And I had a lot of respect for New Mexico.

But did anything stick out to you, Craig Humphreys, last weekend in the NFL? It was a crazy Sunday, wasn't it?

And so you look at the game,

Sam, and, you know, OU had four more first downs and a bunch more yards than Michigan.

But what happened was the biggest stat in the game of football is the turnover stat.

And it was 2-0.

You cannot hand the ball to Michigan, and especially with 840 to go in a tie game, you can't just throw the pass that material threw.

You told me it was tipped.

Whatever.

What were your thoughts on the Cowboys this past weekend in their first game?

What are your thoughts on the Oklahoma Sooners as we head into this season? Highest expectations that Venables has ever had as a head coach.

Very intriguing, Sam.

I know most people have them like number 10 or whatever, which if you're a longtime OU fan like me, you think, well, what's the big deal about that? Because OU used to go into every year in the top five and many times as the number one ranked team or whatever.

But this, I mean, I think this team who won 10 games a year ago, right, Sam? Venable's now in his fifth year.

I think if you ask most OU fans or media members, they feel pretty good about what Brent Venables is doing and about what OU has coming back this year.

And, you know, the weaknesses of last year, some of them can be explained, you know, like, you know, Mateer was injured a year ago.

The offensive line was young.

What are your thoughts on Trinidad Chambliss as we head into the season?

But he's still a whole lot better than the decade of, you know, terrible football that we saw before him.

That is totally fair, Sam.

And I, I was reading Heather Dinich.

She gave some great stats on, on Sark.

Okay Um, all right.

Since he was hired as head coach in, in 2021, he's lost 12 games in AP-ranked match-ups.

That's ti- tied with Penn State for the most during that span.

23, yeah.