SoonerScoop Sights & Sounds: OU practice No. 9
OU finished preseason practice No. 9 on Monday afternoon. It is expected to be the last time the media gets to view the first 40 minutes of practice.
SoonerScoop was out in full force Monday morning to take advantage of that one last look.
“We just finished our ninth practice. Good, competitive day,” said head coach Brent Venables after practice. “Had a scrimmage Saturday and it was really competitive. Really good work back and forth. Big plays on both sides of the ball. And really pleasing to see. You can be mad at both sides or be happy with both sides. That’s a great thing. Incredibly competitive. All good on good work.
“And still working at developing depth charts and seeing who can play consistency and knows what to do and plays fast and aggressive. And developing the team. I like our leadership. Again, great strain. Great competition. But trying to continue to grow the team up. Had 114 plays not including 13 plays of special teams on Saturday and came out of it really relatively healthy. Might have a guy here or there with a (muscle) pull or something but it was really good. Lots to teach from off the tape. Far from perfect.”
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Venables continued.
“We’ve still got a long way to go. Not coach speak, we’ve just got a lot we’ve got to improve on. But we’ve got, from Saturday, three weeks. Every day counts. We’re a week away from school starting so we’ve got to make all these days count. I like the spirit of the team. We’re in a good spot. And again, love the competition on both sides of the ball. We’ve got some young guys in some spots that are growing up really, really fast. Love seeing them get in there and get an opportunity with different groups and sub packages to see what they can do.
“So really, it’s in a really good part of camp right now. It’s exciting coming off that first scrimmage. We will scrimmage again on Wednesday, full scrimmage. And then a half scrimmage later on, situational scrimmage later on in the week heading into game prep and those last two weeks before kickoff.”
