It was great. A good practice. We had full pads, and going at each other for parts of our

team periods and it was good.

It’s loosening up for him and he’s moving around pretty well, really. He’s going to play,

but we’ll see.

You know, you got a chance to win the National Championship, that’s what I’m focused

on. No, that stuff doesn’t, you know we’ve won our share of games.

He’s doing really well. It’s just natural the more snaps you get the better you are, and

Mike’s doing that. He’s quite a bit further along than he was in the [Big 12]

championship game

Hopefully our guys from everywhere else have as much pride as they do, and I think

they do. I don’t notice it any different than all our guys. They’re all here at Oklahoma,

we’re all on the same team, so I don’t see how you can, it’s like me, I don’t love them

anymore than I do another. You can only love them so much.

I think anytime anybody’s a heavy run team that it all begins inside and then there’s a

discipline to it too because all the complications they give you with pulling people and

the different schemes that they run.

They’re great players, Manny and Juaquin, and consistent players, you know starting for

four straight years and you know, they make a lot of explosive plays, they got great

hands, really good route runners, all of it. They’ve been really solid and consistent for

four years now.

As much as anything, our downfield blocking with these guys this year has been really

solid and good, more so maybe than other years here.

We know he’s a great player. We got great respect for him. You know, they’re not a lot

of Heisman Trophy winners running around anywhere, so it speaks for itself. He’s an

exceptional guy.