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	Report Comment Greg, Bixby (10/4/2007 7:20:13 AM) good stuff.....gave me a good chuckle. I also read your blog, and as a long time Sooner fan I have to agree with you about OUs pass defense. I've got to think it's the coach and the system. It's hard to play pass defense when your corners play so far off the ball. Walker and Smith are good corners, but the scheme kind of takes them out of the play.I'm no expert, just my thoughts.
	Report Comment Yoda: sports Talk Radio 3 Stooges:, Tulsa (10/4/2007 8:29:07 AM) Hey pop, did ya listen to Romey today? Lets talk about what he said! In fact, let me practice talking like him too. Next up, the high school sports the magazine dude who forgets he's on air and says um, but, duh, and stu-stu-stutters a lot.
	Report Comment Nora from the hills, (10/4/2007 9:51:11 AM) Mr. Picker: Ain't none of um bettern you at pickin futball games and huntin dawgs! Mizzou RAH.... Ackeydemik leader of the Big 8 + 4 = 12 (Glad I had enuf toes for that one!)
	Report Comment sctrojan, (10/4/2007 2:00:43 PM) Yes!!! Thank you Yoda I thought I was the only one that thought that Austin Chadwick has no business doing radio. He always starts a sentence then throws an um in there and then he gets ahead of himself. Before people start bashing me saying you try radio, I did it for three years and when he is on there I cringe. In his universe and magazine there is Jenks and Union every issue and maybe another school is thrown in for the heck of it. He is a hack that is living off his average college playing days! Way to go picker on the OU/Texas matchup and as a SC fan i hope Florida will knock Les Miles off his horse! Remember this quote sooner fan, "Two teams will play this saturday..... Miles is such a douche!!
	Report Comment Yoda, 74105 (10/4/2007 2:15:32 PM) Ha ha! I'm glad I'm not the only one either. Chadwick is absolutely horrible to listen to. I cringe as well, and then change to my CD player. That guy needs to stay behind his mag and off the air and give up aspirations of TV. I've seen him and his cronies at restaurants sporting their HSPTM golf shirts, and the way he walks with his chin up makes me laugh. OVER RATED clap clapitty clap! By the way, I've never picked up his magazine, seeing that my high school years were over in the 90's.
	Report Comment Ian, Tulsa (10/4/2007 2:26:23 PM) Why in the heck is the picker throwing in these little political jabs in the middle of his column? I read the sports section because it's the one thing that DOESN'T revolve around partisan politics. After nearly 7 years of W in office I'd kiss up to Bill too if it could get him back in the whitehouse. Picker, Tim Russert is a respectful and intellectual journalist, and in the playing field of journalism, you couldn't hold his jock strap!
	Report Comment Sundevil, (10/4/2007 2:31:37 PM) I agree with you boys that Chadwick sucks! I wonder how he is getting by when his little magazine is free and it really isnt that good to begin with. He needs to stay off the air because he stumbles more over words than W! Also I love how he said that they took their hummers up the union game in Ohio, what an idiot1 I wonder how much the fuel costs where and also Oh well Austin keep writing your little magazine and playing playstation at night pretending you are contributing on the football field as opposed to trying to write about it. You were a pretty good player in high school and average at TU on a horrible team!
	Report Comment austin c, (10/4/2007 2:33:55 PM) Um, hey guys, c'mon I can, um speak on the radio! I mean, um, did you see jenks or I mean Union, um I played there! I played a few plays at TU and I know Steve Kragthorpe! Um, Pop or PLank, um help me!!
	Report Comment Stacy, (10/4/2007 2:35:44 PM) Those guys drive Hummers around with High school magazine painted on them? Wow how lame and you know what they say about hasbeens driving hummers? In case your not that bright i am referring to not much in size below the belt!! I do listen to them on the radio and he is soooo bad!! Plank is funny but that guy sucks!
	Report Comment World Picker, Tulsa (10/4/2007 4:12:46 PM) Hunting is a sport. Russert stalks everybody but Mr. Bill with old quotes featuring lies and mistakes. Plus, Arkansas plays somebody unknown this week, and I needed to get something about that state in the piece.
	Report Comment austin c, (10/4/2007 5:40:31 PM) um uh did i tell you that i played for TU? Im also a talentless magazine founder.....oh well Ill give up and agree with everyone i suck!!
	Report Comment Tee, Tulsa (10/4/2007 11:21:40 PM) Ok, Chadwick is not great. However, I'd rathe listen to him ALL DAY than that freakin' celf-centered Mr. Interuptous, what-I-have-to-say-is-more-important-than-what-you-have-to-say, Guthrie-pimpin' Haxton. I cringe each time I turn the radio on while he is on. The Animal "Top 10 class 5A" - Guthrie #1???? HA EC Cardinals and/or Bixby would tear them apart. The only reason they are # 1 is 'cause Haxton. Haxton - quit interupting and upstaging the folks that are on the air with you. Maybe I can turn back to 97.1 between 9 and 11. GO PICKER! You rock
	Report Comment Sundevil, (10/4/2007 11:44:37 PM) You are right they both suck! Think of being stuck in that lame hummer with both chadwick studdering and Huxton interupting him...wow! Guthrie isnt that bad of a team this year, by the way I live in Broken Arrow, but what Ive seen is pretty amazing. They have scored 299 points in 5 games and only given up 10! Their schedule hasnt been that tough other than dismantling Tukcer Brown and Shawnee they really havent played anyone special but then again neither has EC. No matter how u spin it EC beat a below average 6A team in Sand Springs and then destroyed hapless Rogers. Broken bow was the one game the EC played that was pretty good but they are a 4A team the cards should win that one and Bixby is doing fine but their only great team they played, jenks, spanked them! That and bixby only got a field goal to beat 4A Glenpool? Hmm i see the spartans getting knocked out in the 2nd round but a Guthrie-EC would be an amazing final and hopefully it will be at Union or BA instead of out west! My compliments to the picker and go Tigers tomorrow night!!
	Report Comment JB, Broken Arrow (10/5/2007 2:06:44 PM) This is a little off the current posting subject, but here goes...the Picker asked in one of his blogs this week if anyone could remember when the OU pass defense came up with a showing that actually had an impact in winning a big game. Correct me if I'm wrong, Picker (and I'm sure you will), but the Big XII Championship game last season was a pretty good one for the OU pass defense. Especially in the 4th quarter, Nebraska was stopped several times by the safeties and corners as they approached scoring distance. I think they intercepted Taylor twice in the 4th, if I remember correctly. That may not have been what you were looking for, but it's one in particular I can remember that is recent. It wasn't exactly a brilliant game all night for those guys, but they did step up when the momentum was swinging and helped out a pretty inept offensive team in that game. Aside from that, one would have to go back to the Texas Tech game for OU last season to find another close example. Tech did little in the second half as OU turned a tight game into a comfortable decision. Obviously, they don't have games like these all the time. And I agree with you the Sooners have had some pretty abysmal showings in pass defense, but you said to come up with one game where the chips were on the table, and last year's conference championship game should qualify. The Tech game is a stretch, I'll concede, but if they played the second half in that game like they played the first, they wouldn't have been in KC in December anyway. But I agree with you that they're still no good as a whole. And even though they have their moments, that team (and previous teams) has shown an ineptitude in that area. Sooner fans should hope for opposing QBs to play like their own did versus Colorado. It seems like any QB with a pulse can have a great day against them.
	Report Comment World Picker, Tulsa (10/5/2007 4:53:22 PM) JB, I meant against high quality teams, in big games!
	Report Comment JB, Broken Arrow (10/8/2007 11:21:39 AM) Picker, I get it...a conference championship is not a big game. But that's probably because it defeats your point. I said you'd try to prove me wrong, and you tried. For a team with a WR playing QB, against a team with an established QB, playing in a conference championship game at a "neutral" field (80-20 in favor of Neb fan) is a pretty big game. To further my own point, can you remember the first play from scrimmage? Neb WR fumbled and a DEFENSIVE BACK recovered the ball and nearly scored. It was a PASS PLAY. Therefore, the passing defense came up big ON THE FIRST PLAY OF THE GAME, not to mention other portions of the game when it seemed Neb was bound to score and the pass defense turned them away. Forget about Nebraska this year. Last year's Neb team was every bit as talented as last year's OU team. LAST YEAR, Neb was a pretty good team, especially flinging the ball. They had a good QB; they made some plays in the game throwing; OU's pass defense just made more. You said nothing about it HAVING to be a BCS or MNC game. You only said against a good team or in a big game. And as far as I'm concerned, any conference championship is bigger than all but one bowl victory. The only bowl win that matters any more is the BCS title game for the mythical national championship. But you hate to be rebutted, and take every opportunity to dismiss people that disagree. I expected you to sarcasm your way out of a discussion. So I conceed to your infinite wisdom and unwillingness to engage in healthy debate (otherwise known as having an closed mind) and will look forward to more of your columns. One thing you have going for you is your sense of humor. THAT, I enjoy. But it would be more fun if you would let someone challenge you on all your "football knowledge" instead of proclaiming it all the time. I have given basis and logic for my thoughts. You have yet to offer any on your behalf. Come up with something that rebuffs me on mine, and I'll view your work as more than something that offers a smirk and a chuckle - if that's what you so choose.

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