Originally published at: How Last-Minute OL Injury Changed Oklahoma State’s Gameplan Against Oregon
‘Those changes that we made in the night before (Oregon), so that puts you in a difficult situation.’
That might have accounted for a 3 point difference!
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Every player should be able to execute every play. Period. They may not be able to execute it like a starter, but a coach should never have to shrink the offense due to injury. That’s a cop-out and throwing Meach under the bus due to lack of recruiting and development along the o-line for OVER. A.
F—KING. DECADE!!! I can’t wait until Gundy is gone. 
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Over a decade actually. It’s one record he will always hold probably for the rest of his life as a college coach.
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I’m so sick and tired of listening to why players can’t execute, and why coaches can’t coach. If it’s truly that bad then fire the entire coaching staff and put a bid in to go to l a lesser conference where you might be a top 3 team.
Your chances of winning the conference and making the CFP go up. Especially if you plan on retaining Gundy. Because all he’s proven is that in a watered down P4 conference with no blue bloods that he can be worse. I wasn’t one of them those morons who thought he was going to start winning the conference once Texas and OU left.
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Hey champ,
Yeah, I’ve always considered you more of an all-around kind of “them those” moron.
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I will admit I was one of those, and I was so very wrong. I truly thought not having to fight OU and Texas would re-energize Gundy and increase NIL from donors. I’m realizing people simply won’t forfeit their money as long as Gundy is in charge. Same thing happened with Boynton at the end. People simply weren’t going to risk losing their hard-earned money with so little in return. I think it’s called “throwing good money after bad..”.
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This is idiotic. You don’t shrink your play sheet because you have to sub an O lineman.
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The only morons are the ones that make excuses for why we fail. Which you immediately did after week 2. Only a complete idiot would try to excuse this team for a 69-3 shellacking. I understand it’s Oregon, but that performance looked like the Kansas of old. Learn to observe and think better 
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At least you can be man enough to admit it unlike HeyChamp. Gundy has even proven he can’t do it when OU and Texas aren’t a factor.
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IMO we haven’t had a “good” O-line since Joe Wickline left…
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I never played OL, but I did play some TE and even with my limited experience I don’t understand how a backup OL would change the gameplan. The tackle is going to still have his same responsibilities in the blocking scheme. I can still remember our blocking rules protocol: On, Inside, Over, Outside…
I just don’t see how the OT responsibilities would change that much from play to play. OSU, I dont think runs any counter plays, so no pulling. This is just coaching bs in my opinion, but again I’m not well versed in blocking schemes.
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I think it has to do with Gundy’s philosophy of they don’t rep in practice, they will not run it in a game. For the most part moving to the left shouldn’t be too terrible, but Nuku had no chance to rep anything from that side at all. Grant hasn’t even played much tackle yet. I think it is more of their trust in play execution rather than coaching bs. I get both sides but I think they weighed their opponent as one that you cannot run plays that aren’t at least repped some in practice. I believe they really did have some fun things planned with pulling, potentially GT counter or something else with precise LT-LG footwork
Wow it’s so good to see all the experienced former D1 OL players and coaches making comments here and letting us know how simple things really are when it comes to the OL.
I actually did play DL in college. And while you would change the play sheet if you had plays drawn for a skill guy with unique abilities and then he was out, I’ve never heard of this being done or thought of for OL.
Not to mention a second issue: Gundy said in the postgame presser that they were too complicated and tried to do too much.
So which is it?
Too complicated? Or the play sheet was cut?
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One of them is a lie. The offensive numbers thus far would suggest that the play sheet was cut.
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You would be spot on sir.
You tend to get that way when the OSU coaching staff can’t be consistent on telling you what they’re doing. Probably because they have no clue what to do 
. Maybe you should pay attention to what happened last season, and so far this season .
I’ve come to believe that comment was a generalization. It’s not clear what he really means. Of course all of us super fans know exactly what he is saying SMH.
Well I hear all the time, and not just from coach Gundy, that having to rotate OL players to different positions is disruptive and lets not even consider that our OL is new pretty much across the board. But all you geniuses are smarter than everybody else I guess.