Answer: NO WAY!

Was Matt Leinart a Steve Young back there? Craig Krenzel? Ken Dorsey?

that was low even for you picker. that freshman year was completely unexpected & successful. have you been on the turf at lubbock, better yet been to lubbock? freaky things happen when 600 lbs of players come crashing on your head & bouncing it around on concrete.

Good job Thomas, way to bring OSU into the article. If OU fan's don't think OSU is a rival, then you guys sure have a funny way of showing it.

I'll admit beforehand that I am an OSU fan but I grew up completely impartial. I only picked a school because OSU had a better program for what I wanted to study. I'm not really impartial but I'll try.

Sam Bradford is a great QB, but the question still lingers as to whether or not he can really step up and win when the pressure is on against a quality opponent. He doesn't make the team but, as as evident against Tech, OU struggles without him at best. Iowa State does not count. In Mizzou part 1 he had the crowd in Norman, which isn't the greatest home field advantage but still high quality. Mizzou part 2 wasn't really much of a contest, there's not much pressure when your defense makes a Heisman candidate look foolish.

The point about quickness is that it can help take the pressure of the mental mistakes with the arm. If you don't think so, Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart would probably contend otherwise. If a quarterback feels pressure and doesn't see a good throw he can probably break for who knows how many yards if he has the legs like Vince Young.

The question still lingers about Bradford. He's still young. It would take poise rarely seen in a sophomore for him to handle a close national championship. It would take a blowout, which I don't see happening especially if Georgia goes. They proved in their bowl game that they are scary and any quarterback could soil themselves thinking about that line.

My guess: probably won't happen this year but he's still got two years of eligibility left and has to play at least one of them. He could easily be ready for the challenge then.

Quickness is certainly going to be a limiting factor this year. But the problem in CORNERback not QUARTERback.

If you're going to try to win a championship 45-42 you've got bigger problems than how fast your QB is.

To Matthew who thought that the Picker is ripping on Sam Bradford the person...he is not, actually he is not ripping on him at all just making a commentary that while he may be good and performed at a fairly high level last season, the deficiencies and lack of experience/maturity in big game moments may catch up to him against really solid teams. All of last year I felt Bradford would struggle when forced to move on to his 2nd and 3rd targets as I did not get the sense he understood how to read a defense and react accordingly. To be fair, OU's success on offense isn't predicated on Bradford having to make the calls and adjust. If OU is to contend for a National Championship it will be defense and the ability of the RB's that will get them there.

Wow, most of you missed that point completely. It is NOT that he isn't a good quarterback with the potential to win a championship. Here's a quick observation from football 101. You can gripe all you want about the defense from last year's bowl, but the offense needs to stay on the field longer otherwise the defense just gets destroyed. Hmm, playing longer makes you more tired. The question is without him being able to rely on his legs when he gets that dazed and confused feeling, like Vince Young, can he lead his team to a championship?

There may be something wrong with my monitor, but I think the question was, "compete?"

Answer: Yes. Absolutely.

Picker didn't ask if they'd WIN it. The obvious answer to that question is, No. But one would have the same answer no matter which team you asked the question of. That's just too hard to do.

Picker,

Don't, even for a second, pretend you weren't talking about Sam Bradford and OU. Other than him, to whom is it you are referring?

Absolutely......his team was in the hunt when he was a freshman.....

I would say that many of the teams that have won championships previous did not have "fast" qb's....ala Flynn, Leinart, Heupel, and Jason White to me is comparable to Bradford's speed and he competed for a championship two years n a row....

Yes, picker the Sunny Galloway hire was a complete joke. Most people around the ORU team... fans, parents, staff etc would have told you that.

the dentist... who played baseball first