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I too feel bad for Conner, but Ollison seems equally capable. Hence, I think the diminished depth will hurt Pitt more than the loss of a single player. Can Ollison carry the ball for an entire game by himself against a good Akron defense? I don't think so. If our offense can get going, I think the Zips win.

Rodney Coe, possible cramp with 5 minutes left in the third. He had some nice penetration multiple times in the game. Hope he is healthy for Saturday. Here are my quick thoughts on the game. I'm not going to get too excited over this game. I take away two obvious things from this game, OU has a talented team, and the Zips offense needs to produce to help their very good defense. • I was impressed with Mayfield, once our starters got fatigued, he made some very nice decisions combined with an accurate arm. He seemed to make all the throws necessary to open up your playbook. This is not the case for our QBs. We are limited in effective routes at this time. • Our defense is as good as advertised. Don't let the second half TD's get to you too much. That will be the deepest, most talented team we will play all year. • Every piece of video I have seen from Jerome Lane was impressive for the small amount of time that he has practiced being a receiver. • OU's skill players were also impressive. I can see why fans are excited about Mixon, he reminds me a little of LeVeon Bell how he stops, finds his destination, and accelerates. He has the unteachable instincts in the open field too. The receivers provided excellent blocking downfield on multiple occasions. I'll definitely check out another Sooner game this year. • I could pick apart our offense, but I'm not going to judge the group by one game. There are many frustrating things I saw, hopefully the team can adjust, and move on. I watched most of the Pitt game Saturday, their are a LOT of yards on the field for our offense, go get them. • If you did not watch the game, and only listened to it, I suggest you give it a look. • The team is back at it this morning and getting ready for this Saturday's opener. PS twenty six thousand views on our opening game thread. Not bad.

Not trying to pick on you but this was unintentionally funny and accurate. Football is supposed to be the marquee sport but I agree with you it has become the Marquis (as in de Sade) sport. All of us who follow it year after year have to have some masochistic tendencies. :-)

We have a head coach too!

The ODU loss remains a mystery to me, but looking at the schedule before the season, I'd take a 3-1 start no questions asked. Way to put the loss behind us and focus on the next challenge(s).

How many teams beat Georgetown and Maryland back-to-back on the road?

Maybe Laryea is the striker we have been missing since Mattocks?

richie laryea....man of the match 3-1 zips yes!!!!

Richie Laryea, "the most impactful player on the pitch." Thanks, MD announcer.

Why did anyone do PPV when you could read about in the ABJ?

Yeah, but I took it with a grain of salt coming from those 2 unprepared homer schlepdick announcers.