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Oklahoma football: Five best things we learned from Big 12 Media Days

By Chip Rouse

NORMAN, OK - OCTOBER 29: Oklahoma Sooners fans wait to enter the east side of the stadium before the game against the Kansas Jayhawks October 29, 2016 at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK - OCTOBER 29: Oklahoma Sooners fans wait to enter the east side of the stadium before the game against the Kansas Jayhawks October 29, 2016 at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /
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Riley wants the defense to get back to old-school Sooner football

Everyone know how explosive the Oklahoma offense has been, again, since Lincoln Riley came to Norman and brought with him the Air Raid offense. It was the perfect match at the perfect time: the young offensive mastermind Lincoln Riley and a gunslinging quarterback right out of the Texas Tech mold. The prolific results of the past two seasons speak loudly for themselves.

If anything has held the Sooners back, it has been inconsistent defensive play. Riley wants the Sooner defensive players to play more aggressively and with greater physicality.

“I remember growing up in the Big 12 (when he was a player, student assistant and assistant coach at Texas Tech), you knew when you played Oklahoma,” Riley said. “Coming from an offensive perspective, you felt it. You knew it was going to be physical, you knew they were going to be as aggressive (defensively) as they could be and you knew you were going to feel it on Sunday afternoon.”

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