West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast

In Part 1 of 2, Lee brings you the news and notes of the week leading up to Saturday's OU-Texas game. After Jalen Hurts opens the show, Lee gives his take on why Jalen Hurts gave that opening statement (4:45). Lee tried to figure out why Hurts acts this way before every single game and Lee also enjoyed a piece of life advice that Hurts references (7:40). Adrian Ealy and Erik Swenson are both "highly questionable" for OU-Texas. Bill Bedenbaugh explains what it's like to deal with all the shake ups on the O-Line and he provides an update on the young tackles (10:30). Lee gives his take on the offensive line's current situation and tells you whether he believes Swenson and/or Ealy will play this week (16:15). Texas LT Samuel Cosmi said some things about Neville Gallimore and Ronnie Perkins. Perkins has responded (19:25). Tre Brown had nothing but nice things to say about Texas this week (22:25). Perkins was very short when he was asked about Sam Ehlinger (24:30). Charleston Rambo provided Texas with a little bulletin board material (26:55). Alex Grinch soundbites take up the rest of the show. Grinch on Texas' offense, that Nickel/Sam position, and he talks about not getting enough turnovers (29:40). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Lee presents two different questions you've got to ask yourself about this Sooners' defense. Then Grant joins to provide his rebuttal to Lee's opening take (8:35). Parnell Motley didn't play as well Saturday as he's played previously this season and Lee's concerned about his inability to catch the football (19:55). Did the OU safeties play their best game of the year? And Brian Asamoah flashed Saturday (24:10). Lee highlights what he thought was the best defensive moment vs Kansas (29:15). Trejan Bridges looks like he's back at wide receiver, and the guys were shocked to see Robert Barnes playing cornerback** but Lee is wrong and he'll have to admit his failure on the next episode** (32:20). No Adrian Ealy, no Erik Swenson... Grant's worried about the health of the OU offensive line (34:45). Lincoln Riley expects Kennedy Brooks to play against Texas and we talk about Rhamondre Stevenson's great game vs KU. Plus, these OU running backs have not been gettting a lot of work so far this year (39:55). Dissecting Jalen Hurts' performance vs Kansas plus KU's ability to make things difficult at times on OU's run game (44:25). CeeDee Lamb is an elite player and we want to praise him yet again before we try to figure out if there's anything OU can do about all these penalties (48:00)? TJ Pledger returned and he looked pretty good in limited action (54:50). Lee loved how Riley took a lot of the blame for the offensive problems (55:40). It looks like three wide receivers have been established as "go to" guys and we briefly touch on the H-Backs (57:50). We finish up with all of your "3-Word Reviews", talk about that toilet flushing during Riley's postgame press conference, and Grant's got some early thoughts on Texas (1:00:40). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Lee presents two different questions you've got to ask yourself about this Sooners' defense. Then Grant joins to provide his rebuttal to Lee's opening take (8:35). Parnell Motley didn't play as well Saturday as he's played previously this season and Lee's concerned about his inability to catch the football (19:55). Did the OU safeties play their best game of the year? And Brian Asamoah flashed Saturday (24:10). Lee highlights what he thought was the best defensive moment vs Kansas (29:15). Trejan Bridges looks like he's back at wide receiver, and the guys were shocked to see Robert Barnes playing cornerback** but Lee is wrong and he'll have to admit his failure on the next episode** (32:20). No Adrian Ealy, no Erik Swenson... Grant's worried about the health of the OU offensive line (34:45). Lincoln Riley expects Kennedy Brooks to play against Texas and we talk about Rhamondre Stevenson's great game vs KU. Plus, these OU running backs have not been gettting a lot of work so far this year (39:55). Dissecting Jalen Hurts' performance vs Kansas plus KU's ability to make things difficult at times on OU's run game (44:25). CeeDee Lamb is an elite player and we want to praise him yet again before we try to figure out if there's anything OU can do about all these penalties (48:00)? TJ Pledger returned and he looked pretty good in limited action (54:50). Lee loved how Riley took a lot of the blame for the offensive problems (55:40). It looks like three wide receivers have been established as "go to" guys and we briefly touch on the H-Backs (57:50). We finish up with all of your "3-Word Reviews", talk about that toilet flushing during Riley's postgame press conference, and Grant's got some early thoughts on Texas (1:00:40). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Lee presents two different questions you've got to ask yourself about this Sooners' defense. Then Grant joins to provide his rebuttal to Lee's opening take (8:35). Parnell Motley didn't play as well Saturday as he's played previously this season and Lee's concerned about his inability to catch the football (19:55). Did the OU safeties play their best game of the year? And Brian Asamoah flashed Saturday (24:10). Lee highlights what he thought was the best defensive moment vs Kansas (29:15). Trejan Bridges looks like he's back at wide receiver, and the guys were shocked to see Robert Barnes playing cornerback** but Lee is wrong and he'll have to admit his failure on the next episode** (32:20). No Adrian Ealy, no Erik Swenson... Grant's worried about the health of the OU offensive line (34:45). Lincoln Riley expects Kennedy Brooks to play against Texas and we talk about Rhamondre Stevenson's great game vs KU. Plus, these OU running backs have not been gettting a lot of work so far this year (39:55). Dissecting Jalen Hurts' performance vs Kansas plus KU's ability to make things difficult at times on OU's run game (44:25). CeeDee Lamb is an elite player and we want to praise him yet again before we try to figure out if there's anything OU can do about all these penalties (48:00)? TJ Pledger returned and he looked pretty good in limited action (54:50). Lee loved how Riley took a lot of the blame for the offensive problems (55:40). It looks like three wide receivers have been established as "go to" guys and we briefly touch on the H-Backs (57:50). We finish up with all of your "3-Word Reviews", talk about that toilet flushing during Riley's postgame press conference, and Grant's got some early thoughts on Texas (1:00:40). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Lee presents two different questions you've got to ask yourself about this Sooners' defense. Then Grant joins to provide his rebuttal to Lee's opening take (8:35). Parnell Motley didn't play as well Saturday as he's played previously this season and Lee's concerned about his inability to catch the football (19:55). Did the OU safeties play their best game of the year? And Brian Asamoah flashed Saturday (24:10). Lee highlights what he thought was the best defensive moment vs Kansas (29:15). Trejan Bridges looks like he's back at wide receiver, and the guys were shocked to see Robert Barnes playing cornerback** but Lee is wrong and he'll have to admit his failure on the next episode** (32:20). No Adrian Ealy, no Erik Swenson... Grant's worried about the health of the OU offensive line (34:45). Lincoln Riley expects Kennedy Brooks to play against Texas and we talk about Rhamondre Stevenson's great game vs KU. Plus, these OU running backs have not been gettting a lot of work so far this year (39:55). Dissecting Jalen Hurts' performance vs Kansas plus KU's ability to make things difficult at times on OU's run game (44:25). CeeDee Lamb is an elite player and we want to praise him yet again before we try to figure out if there's anything OU can do about all these penalties (48:00)? TJ Pledger returned and he looked pretty good in limited action (54:50). Lee loved how Riley took a lot of the blame for the offensive problems (55:40). It looks like three wide receivers have been established as "go to" guys and we briefly touch on the H-Backs (57:50). We finish up with all of your "3-Word Reviews", talk about that toilet flushing during Riley's postgame press conference, and Grant's got some early thoughts on Texas (1:00:40). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Grant takes a look at the last decade of defensive performances against Kansas. Then Lee joins to thank the listeners for some recent ratings/reviews before explaining why this OU-KU game is more interesting than others in this series (4:00). Jalen Hurts is under the weather and Adrian Ealy's status is up in the air, which leads Grant to consider going full conspiracy theory (8:00). Grant has some news about Miguel Edwards and Lee got some more information on backup center Ian McIver (12:00). Let's play a new segment called "Stuff Alex Grinch Says That Makes Us All Very Happy" (14:30). Alex Grinch says his expectations for Jalen Redmond are unrealistic, which leads up to another thing Grinch said that made us happy (19:25). We got an idea of why Parnell Motley's been so good in 2019 (23:30). Lee asked Grinch about Trejan Bridges and we think it's pretty clear the Sooners want this experiment to work (28:45). Let's take a look at the Jayhawks offense that has now lost their top rusher and was just dominated by TCU's defense (31:30). What can we make of KU's quarterback? And Lee goes over what he saw from KU's offense against TCU (37:15)? KU's defense seems like they have some talent, they try hard... but unfortunately they're just not very good (42:30). The guys let you know what they *want* to see happen Saturday (46:30), followed by what *will* happen when OU travels to Lawrence to play KU (54:00). Join us as we go over the Big 12 games this week (1:00:10) before making picks in Iowa-Michigan, OSU-Texas Tech, Auburn-Florida, Michigan State-Ohio State, and Cal-Oregon (1:04:50). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Grant takes a look at the last decade of defensive performances against Kansas. Then Lee joins to thank the listeners for some recent ratings/reviews before explaining why this OU-KU game is more interesting than others in this series (4:00). Jalen Hurts is under the weather and Adrian Ealy's status is up in the air, which leads Grant to consider going full conspiracy theory (8:00). Grant has some news about Miguel Edwards and Lee got some more information on backup center Ian McIver (12:00). Let's play a new segment called "Stuff Alex Grinch Says That Makes Us All Very Happy" (14:30). Alex Grinch says his expectations for Jalen Redmond are unrealistic, which leads up to another thing Grinch said that made us happy (19:25). We got an idea of why Parnell Motley's been so good in 2019 (23:30). Lee asked Grinch about Trejan Bridges and we think it's pretty clear the Sooners want this experiment to work (28:45). Let's take a look at the Jayhawks offense that has now lost their top rusher and was just dominated by TCU's defense (31:30). What can we make of KU's quarterback? And Lee goes over what he saw from KU's offense against TCU (37:15)? KU's defense seems like they have some talent, they try hard... but unfortunately they're just not very good (42:30). The guys let you know what they *want* to see happen Saturday (46:30), followed by what *will* happen when OU travels to Lawrence to play KU (54:00). Join us as we go over the Big 12 games this week (1:00:10) before making picks in Iowa-Michigan, OSU-Texas Tech, Auburn-Florida, Michigan State-Ohio State, and Cal-Oregon (1:04:50). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Grant takes a look at the last decade of defensive performances against Kansas. Then Lee joins to thank the listeners for some recent ratings/reviews before explaining why this OU-KU game is more interesting than others in this series (4:00). Jalen Hurts is under the weather and Adrian Ealy's status is up in the air, which leads Grant to consider going full conspiracy theory (8:00). Grant has some news about Miguel Edwards and Lee got some more information on backup center Ian McIver (12:00). Let's play a new segment called "Stuff Alex Grinch Says That Makes Us All Very Happy" (14:30). Alex Grinch says his expectations for Jalen Redmond are unrealistic, which leads up to another thing Grinch said that made us happy (19:25). We got an idea of why Parnell Motley's been so good in 2019 (23:30). Lee asked Grinch about Trejan Bridges and we think it's pretty clear the Sooners want this experiment to work (28:45). Let's take a look at the Jayhawks offense that has now lost their top rusher and was just dominated by TCU's defense (31:30). What can we make of KU's quarterback? And Lee goes over what he saw from KU's offense against TCU (37:15)? KU's defense seems like they have some talent, they try hard... but unfortunately they're just not very good (42:30). The guys let you know what they *want* to see happen Saturday (46:30), followed by what *will* happen when OU travels to Lawrence to play KU (54:00). Join us as we go over the Big 12 games this week (1:00:10) before making picks in Iowa-Michigan, OSU-Texas Tech, Auburn-Florida, Michigan State-Ohio State, and Cal-Oregon (1:04:50). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Grant takes a look at the last decade of defensive performances against Kansas. Then Lee joins to thank the listeners for some recent ratings/reviews before explaining why this OU-KU game is more interesting than others in this series (4:00). Jalen Hurts is under the weather and Adrian Ealy's status is up in the air, which leads Grant to consider going full conspiracy theory (8:00). Grant has some news about Miguel Edwards and Lee got some more information on backup center Ian McIver (12:00). Let's play a new segment called "Stuff Alex Grinch Says That Makes Us All Very Happy" (14:30). Alex Grinch says his expectations for Jalen Redmond are unrealistic, which leads up to another thing Grinch said that made us happy (19:25). We got an idea of why Parnell Motley's been so good in 2019 (23:30). Lee asked Grinch about Trejan Bridges and we think it's pretty clear the Sooners want this experiment to work (28:45). Let's take a look at the Jayhawks offense that has now lost their top rusher and was just dominated by TCU's defense (31:30). What can we make of KU's quarterback? And Lee goes over what he saw from KU's offense against TCU (37:15)? KU's defense seems like they have some talent, they try hard... but unfortunately they're just not very good (42:30). The guys let you know what they *want* to see happen Saturday (46:30), followed by what *will* happen when OU travels to Lawrence to play KU (54:00). Join us as we go over the Big 12 games this week (1:00:10) before making picks in Iowa-Michigan, OSU-Texas Tech, Auburn-Florida, Michigan State-Ohio State, and Cal-Oregon (1:04:50). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9

In the opening take, Lee tries to figure out what kind of Texas Tech team OU just beat. Then Grant joins to talk briefly about being the bad guy of the show according to some of the iTunes reviews we've gotten (2:30). Grant says the ceiling of this OU team is quite high (4:55) while Lee continues to be impressed with OU's offensive explosiveness and is happy with the way the Sooners' defense finished off Texas Tech (6:20). Two straight games without a garbage touchdown and OU's holding teams to FGs in the red zone as opposed to TDs (8:50). Kenneth Murray had some bold words about OU's defense after the win (11:00). So, why did Jackson Tyner start that game for Tech (14:50)? Lincoln Riley's best soundbite after the game revolved around playing fast defense (17:30). Jaden Davis continues to impress, while the pass defense in general is still sharp (23:30). Let's talk Trejan Bridges playing Nickel (25:45). Neville Gallimore's effort led to a forced fumble and a takeaway. Which led Alex Grinch to say something awesome about his defense's effort (29:40). Sure, there were some negatives defensively. Brendan Radley-Hiles still has a problem with tackling and OU sometimes has troubles holding the edge (32:20). CeeDee Lamb broke out in a big way. Have fun in the NFL big guy (36:05). Adrian Ealy missed the game, Bray Walker got his first start and Ian McIver continues to get a bunch of snaps at center (38:15). Pretty lucky that Kennedy Brooks isn't severely injured after taking a cheap shot (42:15). Rhamondre Stevenson is fun to watch and legitimately looks like Jamaal Charles (44:30). Spencer Rattler vs Tanner Mordecai doesn't seem to be very much of a competition right now (46:40). Gabe Brkic handled the kicking duties quite nicely (49:00) and we finish up with 3-word reviews (50:00). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9