Ole Leave out trainer Lane Kiffin is not too nervous about Oklahoma’s offensive adjustments getting into the 18th-ranked Rebels’ assembly with the Sooners on Saturday afternoon in Oxford, Leave out.
“We now have were given numerous stuff to paintings on ourselves, that we labored on throughout the bye,” Kiffin stated.
The Rebels have dropped two in their ultimate 3 heading into the sport, speeding for simply 137.3 yards in line with contest.
“I believe like we now have been out of rhythm for a little bit bit right here,” Kiffin stated of his offense.
However whilst Ole Leave out (5-2, 1-2 Southeastern Convention) has dipped on offense in three-point losses Kentucky and LSU, the Sooners were suffering on that aspect of the ball all season.
After ultimate week’s 35-9 house loss to South Carolina, a staff Ole Leave out beat by means of 24 at the highway in early October, Oklahoma trainer Brent Venables fired offensive coordinator Seth Littrell. Tight ends trainer Joe Jon Finley will take over playcalling tasks and offensive analyst Kevin Johns might be co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks trainer.
“It was once a shockingly onerous resolution on many ranges,” Venables stated Tuesday. “With a ten,000-foot lens, it was once no longer so tricky. We weren’t taking part in profitable soccer on that aspect of the ball and idea a transformation can be suitable — a transformation in management, a brand new voice, a brand new standpoint a brand new lens, technique, game-planning, sequencing, all of the ones issues that cross together with that place.”
The Sooners input this week ranked 128th nationally in overall offense (out of 134 systems), 116th in passing offense and 114th in speeding offense.
“We now have been an abomination on offense this yr,” Venables stated.
Oklahoma (4-3, 1-3) additionally will flip to a brand new quarterback.
Quarterback Jackson Arnold will get started in opposition to the Rebels, Venables introduced previous within the week, after taking up for Michael Hawkins Jr. early in ultimate week’s loss. He finished 18 of 36 passes for 225 yards and a landing.
Arnold began the primary 4 video games of the season sooner than being benched in desire of Hawkins.
“Jackson stepped in and performed lovely neatly,” Venables stated of Arnold’s efficiency in opposition to the Gamecocks. “Made numerous in point of fact excellent selections within the sport, took command proper from the get-go, and once more, a number of drops that may have made the day even higher for him personally.”
It definitely would possibly not be simple for the Sooners to turn growth offensively. Ole Leave out leads the rustic in fewest speeding yards allowed in line with sport (66.6) and ranks 2nd in issues allowed (10.6).
Finley spent the 2020 season on Kiffin’s team of workers because the tight ends trainer and passing sport coordinator sooner than becoming a member of then-head trainer Lincoln Riley’s team of workers at Oklahoma.
“He did not name performs right here, and he is were given a distinct scenario there,” Kiffin stated. “I do not believe that him having labored right here sooner than would lend a hand us in any respect in understanding what he’ll do.
“With just a week to name performs, normally folks simply more or less upload a play right here or there however stick with the similar device. You’ll’t reinvent the device in six days.”
The Rebels and Sooners have met simply as soon as sooner than within the 1999 Independence Bowl, a sport Ole Leave out received 27-25.
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