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Landry Jones: starter and finisher?
Published: 11/1/2009 8:38 AM
Last Modified: 11/1/2009 8:38 AM

During Landry Jones' first go-round as Sam Bradford's replacement, the redshirt freshman quarterback knew he was just keeping the seat warm until the Heisman Trophy winner returned.
Now that Bradford is out for the season, Jones knows that he isn't keeping the seat warm for anybody. The starting quarterback job is his, at least until a quarterback derby is staged in the spring.
There's a different mindset when you know that you are "the guy" instead of "the temp" and it showed in Jones' performance during a 42-30 win over Kansas State.
If the offense had flopped around like a fish, OU would have lost a home game for only the third time in the Bob Stoops era. But Jones directed two fourth-quarter scoring drives to help the Sooners get enough breathing room to survive.
Jones hit his last 14 pass attempts and was 10-of-10 in the fourth quarter. Jones also did some nice things in his earlier tour of duty as the guy taking snaps, but he and the Sooners didn't make enough plays to finish games against BYU, Miami and Texas.
Maybe Jones has progressed to the point where he is a starter and a finisher.





Reader Comments 2 Total
sooner mike (3 years ago)
jones looked good in the game Saturday night. and there shouldnt be a Qb battel in the spring Landry is the man and should be until he is done BOOMER SOONER
soonerwatch (3 years ago)
well then he should be done period
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