John Mateer

Not significantly better, but better.

Protects John Mateer fairly well.

John Mateer does not have a great stat line.

He averages 5.8 yards per attempt, but he doesn't throw an interception.

And Oklahoma wins 26-7.

I don't see Oklahoma running for four or five yards a carry against this team.

I don't.

Which means John Mateer is going to have to beat him with his arm, which means Dylan Stewart is going to be coming after him.

No, I don't think Oklahoma's figured it out.

John Mateer asked for

forgiveness, and it's changed.

From who?

I mean, I guess we deserve to forgive him, considering we watched here.

I actually really like John Mateer.

I mean, he's probably fine as a person, but football-wise, it's just not been good.

And then, of course, when Kamaru Taylor got knocked out of that game, if I remember correctly, so it just got really ugly really quick for Mississippi State.

They win-loss, win-loss all season long.

But if they have this type of offensive performance, which they were able to run the ball, John Mateer didn't make any critical mistakes.

I know the final score, 23-15, looks like it was a ball game.

Oklahoma dominated this game.

It sucks for Mississippi State because doesn't it feel like their last year's Oklahoma in a sense? I know Oklahoma had the defense and they rebound.

But, you know, Mateer was the September Heisman a year ago.

I know somebody pulled up the 1-3 graphic from then where it was the Heisman straw poll and John Mateer was number one.

But that was – I mean, that was Kamario Taylor.

You know, some quarterbacks look lost.

John Mateer can look lost.

He never looked

scared or he never looked confused.

Um, But again, back to Arch.

Yes, he had drops.

We're going to talk about drops with Mateer as well.

And that Rocky Beers drop in the end zone of what that could have looked like.

You have that opportunity to do that.

Mateer has to continue to play with that mindset of, I'm going to take care of the ball.

I'm not going to force that.

If Hatton or Blalock or Vaughn is standing right across the line of scrimmage and the backer is three yards behind them, I'm going to dink it to them and let them try to make a play on that linebacker one-on-one.

Yeah.

But I think when it comes to kind of, again, the plan when I discuss it, just a conservative game plan, you can still make plays out of it.

And John Mateer multiple times made plays in a conservative game plan, especially in the RPO.

When he'd hand it off, pull it, and throw it.

Oklahoma goes to Mississippi State.

The thing about that game is that John Mateer throws for 283 yards and looked like a quarterback for the first time in about a year and a half.

Scare you for this coming weekend, or was that just Mississippi State's in complete disarray? You mentioned Taylor goes down.

Bothwell only had 111 yards.

It's so different when Taylor goes down.

It just changes the whole game flow.

I don't think John Mateer suddenly got good because he beat Texas and has some confidence now.

I just think that Mississippi State had to play more aggressive because they knew that the defense was going to have to get the ball back, probably give them short fields without Camario, and their offense just was anemic.

No, I don't think Oklahoma's figured it out.

John Mateer asked for

forgiveness, and it's changed.

From who?

That's

how we got John Mateer last year in the playoff game.

That one was a little bit different.

It was just Dave Brown.

You know, that's a part of the game, and injuries happen, and it's always next man up, but it's just been bad for us.

I really feel like, I don't know if Lincoln Riley cursed us or something, but it just ain't right down in Norman, and then I'm like watching John Mateer, how he played this past Saturday.

I'm like, man, why he can't play that all the time, you know, but Man, Paul is a damn explanation, bro.

And I just wanted to call in, let you know.