Saturday's scrimmage sealed the deal for Sam Bradford. Coach Stoops today announced the redshirt freshman from Oklahoma City will be the starting QB.
We sat through the rain-drenched scrimmage (who knew that a tropical storm would come to Norman), thinking perhaps it would be the "separation Saturday" the sports pundits had labeled it. But, frankly, there wasn't much difference in play from Bradford, Keith Nichol and Joey Halzle.
Nichol and Halzle made more mistakes, that's true. Both probably knew they were playing catchup, so they took more chances. But none of the QBs were good throwing the football in admittedly difficult conditions.
The difference was Bradford didn't make mistakes. At least not many. And when he did -- such as when he under threw some balls -- his teammate made him look good, as in receivers coming back to the ball and making plays. This may be a season of the supporting cast making the starting QB look good.
We can live with that.
At least now Bradford will get the majority of snaps with the first team offense. He'll get better. Those timing pattern passes will get crisper. We're just glad the first test is against North Texas.
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