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Jackson Arnold talks offseason growth, calls turnovers vs. Arizona unacceptable

Jackson Arnold spent time assessing his performance against Arizona and SEC Media Days. He’s ready to be QB1.

[autotag]Jackson Arnold[/autotag]’s first start was far from what many Oklahoma fans and recruiting pundits had in mind. For the former five-star quarterback out of Denton, Texas, his first-ever collegiate start was a roller coaster ride that ultimately ended in defeat. In Oklahoma’s 38-24 loss to Arizona, Arnold threw three interceptions and had a lost fumble.

Since that game, Oklahoma has undergone a myriad of changes. They’ve added players from the portal and Arnold’s had an entire spring to work with new play-caller Seth Littrell. Arnold had his first spring game start.

At SEC Media Days, Jackon Arnold stepped up and reflected on his first collegiate start and what went wrong. He also gave the press an insight into what he’s worked on the most as the starting quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners as he gets ready for his first full season.

“For Arizona, they did a great job mixing up looks and attacking certain concepts that we run while jumping routes,” Arnold said. “But for us, for me, the turnovers were unacceptable. You can’t have that. Especially coming to the SEC. That’s something I had to learn after watching the game, studying the film, and seeing what I did wrong, whether it was timing or a poor decision. You learn from it; you move on from it.”

It’s completely reasonable for anyone to be frustrated with Arnold’s performance. However, it was the young signal caller’s first start at the collegiate level. Arnold reflected on becoming a better player and leader in the offseason, hoping to flush that memory away ahead of his first full season as a starter.

“After that Arizona game, I had to mature and grow up a lot,” Arnold shared with a full media room. “Stepping into that QB1 role, I had to be a real leader for us, for our team, and just stepping into that role, I know I need to mature as a person, as a player too. And the person I am now and the player I am now has improved drastically from where I was in that bowl game.”

Arnold’s coaches and teammates have recognized his accountability for his play against Arizona and his growth. [autotag]Danny Stutsman[/autotag], one of Oklahoma’s defensive stars and leaders, discussed it during his media availability. Stutsman said, “Only playing one game last year and having all these expectations thrown onto him, he’s done an amazing job filling that role and doing whatever it takes. I think Jackson is starting to understand that and trying to do everything he can to be turned into that leader.”

Oklahoma’s former starting quarterback, [autotag]Dillon Gabriel[/autotag], had a wealth of experience before he took a snap with the Sooners. His journey as the starting QB at OU differs from Arnold’s. However, Arnold signed with Oklahoma, knowing they would be joining the SEC and that he would have the opportunity to be the quarterback to lead them into this new era of Oklahoma football under [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag].

He’s had an entire offseason to acclimate and prepare for what’s to come. All that’s left is for him to prove it come August 30th against the Temple Owls.

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247Sports’ Josh Pate doesn’t believe there’s a gap between OU and Texas

Is there a sizable gap between the Sooners and the Longhorns? Josh Pate of 247Sports thinks there isn’t.

The Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns are officially members of the [autotag]Southeastern Conference[/autotag]. After nearly three years of waiting, Monday marked the official move of OU and UT from the [autotag]Big 12[/autotag] to the [autotag]SEC[/autotag].

With both football programs making the move at the same time, naturally the question is posed by fans and analysts alike: Which team is ahead of the other heading to the SEC?

Most national analysts believe Texas is ahead of Oklahoma going into 2024. After all, the Longhorns are entering Year 4 under head coach [autotag]Steve Sarkisian[/autotag], while the Sooners are only in Year 3 of the [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] era. Both coaches inherited programs that weren’t trending in the right direction, but Sarkisian has had a year longer to build his team. Both earned contract extensions this offseason.

Texas won the [autotag]Big 12 Conference[/autotag] and made the [autotag]College Football Playoff[/autotag] in 2023, finishing 12-2. Oklahoma went 10-3, narrowly missing the conference title game and settled for a berth in the [autotag]Valero Alamo Bowl[/autotag].

One national analyst, however, doesn’t think there’s a gap between the SEC’s newest teams. 247Sports’ Josh Pate outlined both programs’ standing going into 2024 on his show “The Late Kick With Josh Pate.”

“Oklahoma is 7-3 in the last 10 against Texas. They are 11-4 in their last 15 against Texas,” Pate said. “Oklahoma’s got a 14-4 lead in conference titles since 1996, that was in the Big 12, now they’re coming to the SEC. … The last five years, Texas has averaged a ([autotag]recruiting[/autotag]) class ranked 7.4, Oklahoma’s has averaged being ranked ninth. Not a huge gap in recruiting. What about the portal, Texas has done good there, Oklahoma has done better. So they’ve got the head-to-head, they’ve got history on their side, both recently and more long-term. Recruiting has been pretty comparable, portal has been edge Oklahoma, so where in the world is the perceived gap coming from?”

Pate went on to outline three reasons Texas is seen as a step in front of OU at this stage.

“I think three things are at play. There’s bias toward Texas that I think’s undeniable,” Pate said. “No. 2, I think there’s a lot of recency bias, and what they do is they don’t think back to the [autotag]Red River Shootout[/autotag] last year. If they did that, they’d know Oklahoma won the game. More recent than that, we saw Texas make the playoff … finally Texas made some folks look smart and they love them for it. Oklahoma won double digits games last year as well and there were a couple of one-possession losses that stood between them and maybe doing a whole lot more than just a nice solid bowl game.”

But Pate’s third and final reason is the one that stands out as the most likely reason for the gap some perceive to exist.

“For some reason, the stink of Brent Venables’ first year and his record being 6-7 still lingers much more so than Sark going 5-7 his first year,” Pate said. “That was a year prior to Brent Venables’ first year, but also, Texas has a playoff appearance … whether it should or not it just washes everyone’s memory clean. Because Oklahoma had a nice year last year .. wasn’t a playoff appearance though.”

Certainly, the standard in Norman is to make the CFP once again, especially with the expansion to 12 teams. And certainly, Texas made it to where OU wanted to be last year. But, as Josh Pate suggests, the gap between the two schools isn’t nearly as big as folks in Austin and all over the country believe it to be.

In fact, there may not be a gap at all.

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Oklahoma finishes in the Top 25 in 2023-2024 Director’s Cup standings

Oklahoma Athletics had another strong year, finishing 24th in the Director’s Cup Top 25.

The Oklahoma Sooners had another very strong year, as OU has finished in the Top 25 of the Division 1 LEARFIELD Director’s Cup standings  once again.

The Sooners finished ranked 24th, marking the 21st time in the last 24 years that Oklahoma has made an appearance in the final rankings.

Points are awarded based on each institution’s finish in the NCAA Championships. For Division I, 19 sports are counted, four of which must be baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball. The next highest 15 (maximum) sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, are used in the standings.

The football team led by [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] participated in the [autotag]Valero Alamo Bowl[/autotag] following a bounce-back season in 2023. The Sooners posted 10 wins for the 42nd time in program history, including the signature win of the Venables era to this point. Oklahoma beat Texas 34-30 on October 7.

Obviously, the Sooners got a big jump from [autotag]Patty Gasso[/autotag]’s softball team winning their fourth national championship in a row an eighth overall.

But while football is always the headliner at Oklahoma and softball has become a force with their dynastic run under Gasso, plenty of other sports had remarkable seasons as well.

After winning its first-ever [autotag]Big 12[/autotag] regular season title, OU baseball hosted an NCAA regional for the first time since 2010. [autotag]Skip Johnson[/autotag] was named Big 12 Coach of the Year.

Women’s basketball won its second straight Big 12 championship under the direction of head coach [autotag]Jennie Baranczyk[/autotag], and first outright since 2009, en route to a third consecutive NCAA Tournament. The Sooners advanced to the second round of the tournament.

K.J. Kindler and the Women’s Gymnastics team made the NCAA tournament championship finals. Mark Williams and the Men’s team finished third in the NCAA finals.

Men’s and women’s tennis saw both squads advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Men’s golf placed ninth at the national championship, earning the program’s seventh top-10 finish in eight years. The squad won the NCAA Rancho Sante Fe Regional to qualify for the program’s 13th straight NCAA Championships – the second longest streak in the country. Women’s golf, returned to the postseason by earning a spot in regional action.

Joe Castiglione continues to be one of the best athletics directors in the business. The Sooners are in good hands as long as Joe C wants to keep doing it.

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Jackson Arnold listed in Tier 4 of ESPN’s QB rankings ahead of 2024 season

Jackson Arnold in Tier 4 of ESPN’s QB rankings to start the season.

2024 is a big year for college sports. Major realignment has changed the face of the sport forever. The Pac-12 as we know it is gone, and the remainder of the Power Five, now Power Four, will be accepting new members.

One thing remains constant amid the newness: the Oklahoma Sooners are looking for that elusive eighth national title. And as they head to the sport’s toughest conference the Sooners are having a revolution of sorts themselves.

[autotag]Dillon Gabriel[/autotag] is no longer the starting quarterback. He’ll hold that role at Oregon. [autotag]Jackson Arnold[/autotag] is now the man on campus for the Sooners. With just months away from his first full campaign, projecting what Arnold will look like is fool’s gold. We don’t know. We saw a young quarterback making his first collegiate start in the [autotag]Valero Alamo Bowl[/autotag].

ESPN writer David Hale ranked every FBS team’s quarterback situation into tiers (subscription required.). While there is no [autotag]Caleb Williams[/autotag] or [autotag]Drake Maye[/autotag] level of surefire quarterback, there is talent throughout the nation. Jackson Arnold was placed in Tier 4, deemed “The Young and the Restless.”

It features names like Avery Johnson (Kansas State), Dylan Raiola (Nebraska), Nico Iamaleava (Tennessee), and USC‘s Miller Moss.

There’s a lot of recruiting pedigree among these names. Multiple four – and five-star quarterbacks, but they only have a combined four starts. Raiola is a true freshman this year and has yet to take a snap in a real college game.

Hale believes that there’s a real possibility that a couple of the players in this group could rise to Tier 1. Oklahoma’s hoping and banking on that. Arnold’s arm talent is second to none. Still, he needs the repetitions and the experience to materialize into the quality of quarterback that people have come to expect in Norman.

For all of [autotag]Lincoln Riley[/autotag]’s deserved praise for the QB play in Norman during his time here, Brent Venables’s hire of Jeff Lebby netted plenty of good QB play with Dillon Gabriel. With Jackson Arnold taking the reigns this year, the Sooners can continue to remind the nation that great quarterback play didn’t only happen under Riley’s watch.

Arnold’s ascension is a massive storyline related to Oklahoma’s hopes this year. If he does take a leap forward and elevates himself, Oklahoma could very well be making its return to the College Football Playoff.

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5 takeaways from the Sooners 38-24 loss to Arizona in the Valero Alamo Bowl

5 takeaways from the Oklahoma Sooners season-ending loss to the Arizona Wildcats.

Team 129 had one final chance to play together on Thursday night in San Antonio. Brent Venables’ team tried to make the best of it, but it finished the 2023 season by losing to the No. 14 Arizona Wildcats, 38-24. Oklahoma ended its season 10-3.

The game was incredibly entertaining if nothing else. It had some head-scratching moments that will stick with fans for the next few weeks into the offseason.

Jackson Arnold was up and down, as one might expect for a freshman. He showcased some real talent and things that his coaches would love to build on in the offseason. He also made some decisions that someone who had fewer than 100 snaps in real game action would make.

Turnovers ultimately did the Sooners in. One of their six on the evening turnovers was returned for a touchdown.

In the wake of the Sooners’ loss, here are five takeaways:

5 Arizona Wildcats to know ahead of the Valero Alamo Bowl

Taking a look at five Arizona Wildcats to know as Oklahoma prepares for the Valero Alamo Bowl.

Oklahoma’s final game of the 2023 season will see them return to San Antonio for the second time in three years. The last time the Sooners were there, they were coached by legendary Oklahoma coach [autotag]Bob Stoops[/autotag]. Brent Venables will wrap up his second campaign as the head man at Oklahoma, returning to San Antonio to take on the Arizona Wildcats, led by head coach Jedd Fisch.

This season has been a much better experience than his inaugural one, and Venables will look for his first bowl win as a head coach. To get that, the Sooners will have to take down a tough Arizona team that finished 9-3 and third in an ultra-competitive Pac-12. Fisch has a hungry team that certainly is talented, with 13 players receiving all-conference honors.

Oklahoma would be wise to check their egos at the door and remain humble. Arizona won’t roll over, and if the Sooners approach this game taking the Wildcats lightly, they may get run off the field.

Arizona has a surplus of impact upperclassmen coupled with Pac-12 Freshman of the Year quarterback Noah Fifita.

Let’s look at Arizona and break down some key Wildcats ahead of Thursday’s Alamo Bowl.

Oklahoma Sooners depth chart for Alamo Bowl matchup vs. Arizona Wildcats

A look at the Oklahoma Sooners depth chart heading into the Alamo Bowl.

The Oklahoma Sooners released the depth chart for the 2023 Valero Alamo Bowl matchup with the Arizona Wildcats.

The depth chart is one of the more intriguing storylines, considering the opt outs and the transfer departures. That is particularly true on the offensive side of the ball. Oklahoma will break in a new starting quarterback and multiple offensive linemen when it takes on an Arizona defense that ranked No. 27 in the nation in points per game allowed.

The biggest storyline for the Sooners comes at quarterback. Jackson Arnold is set to make his first career start for OU. That alone makes the game incredibly intriguing for the Sooners, who hope Arnold can take their offense to another level as they prepare for their first season in the SEC.

The Oklahoma Sooners depth chart heading into the Alamo Bowl:

Sooners projected to play in the Alamo Bowl by 247Sports

An early bowl projection has the Sooners in a bowl they are familiar with having played in it within the last two years.

We’ve hit that part of the summer where the anticipation is beginning to build toward week one. The 2023 college football season can get here fast enough.

To keep building that anticipation, national publications are releasing season predictions and bowl projections.

247Sports released their latest bowl projections ahead of the 2023 season.

This one had the Sooners in a bowl they are familiar with, having played in it just two years ago.

They have the Sooners taking on the Washington Huskies in the Alamo Bowl.

Brad Crawford with 247Sports said this is a make-or-break season for Brent Venables and Co.,

Should the Huskies finish short of the New Year’s Six, it’ll come via close losses to other Pac-12 elites. Consider Oregon in that group as well. That might be the toughest conference to call when you look at the wealth of quarterback talent out there. Brent Venables hopes to finish with a winning record in Year 2 with the Sooners. If not, the jeers begin and they will be loud. – Crawford, 247Sports

On the surface, the Alamo Bowl isn’t a bowl that’s going to get fans excited. It’s not the College Football Playoff or a New Year’s Six bowl, but in 2021 when the Sooners played in the Alamo Bowl, they had 10 wins going into that game. So, it’s not a terrible bowl to be a part of. There was much more disappointment with that season after being the favorites to win the Big 12 and struggling down the stretch, including a loss to Oklahoma State and the departure of Lincoln Riley the day after.

Crawford’s projections have Texas in the playoff, so you would hope the Sooners are at the least the Big 12 runner-up, earning an opportunity to play in one of those NY6 bowls.

Ultimately, we’ve said it a lot, a nine-plus win season has to happen, and it would be a great building block for Brent Venables and his staff.

Oklahoma is about winning championships, but you have to start somewhere. This rebuild was bigger than people thought, including a complete roster turnover.

Most of the players who participated in the 2021 Alamo Bowl are no longer a part of the program. They’re either off to the NFL or found a new home via the transfer portal. Of the players that played more than 20 snaps in that game, only Drake Stoops and Jalil Farooq remain on the offensive side of the ball. On defense, the Sooners have eight players still on the roster that played more than 20 snaps in the win over Oregon. Ethan Downs and Danny Stutsman were true freshmen, and D.J. Graham moved to wide receiver.

It’s going to take time before Oklahoma is back to competing for national championships. That’s not making excuses. That’s just a reality. Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day. But with what the Sooners have added over the last two offseasons, Oklahoma’s laying the foundation for to be national championship contenders in the future.

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Washington 27, Texas 20 Valero Alamo Bowl What Happened, What It All Means

Washington 27, Texas 20: Valero Alamo Bowl what happened, player of the game, and what it all means

Washington beat Texas 27-20 to win the Valero Alamo Bowl. What happened, who was the player of the game, and what does it all mean?

Washington 27, Texas 20 Valero Alamo Bowl What Happened, Player of the Game, What It All Means

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Valero Alamo Bowl What Happened

– Michael Penix Jr. threw two touchdown passes in the second half, Wayne Taulapapa ran for a 42-yard score in the first quarter, and Washington took a 27-10 lead midway through the fourth quarter. Texas struggled to get the offense going, but it was able to pull within seven after scoring ten unanswered points. The final Longhorn drive stalled at midfield on a long pass.

– Helped by that long bomb that ran out the clock, Texas QB Quinn Ewers finished with 369 yards with a touchdown pass to Jonathon Brooks, but too many drives stalled. There were a few crisp scoring marches, but two ended in field goals and there wasn’t enough consistency.

– Fourth downs mattered. Washington is always pushing the ball deep, but Penix Jr. was able to come through on some of the shorter plays. too. He and the Huskies were good at keeping the chains moving – going 2-of-3 on fourth downs – and Texas was also able to connect on two fourth down tries. Washington was able to do more with its conversions.

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Valero Alamo Bowl Player of the Game

Bralen Trice, DE Washington 
The offensive parts for Washington were great, but Trice headed a terrific effort for the much-maligned defense with a team-tying six tackles with two sacks.

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Valero Alamo Bowl Fun Stats

– Michael Penix Jr. completed 32-of-54 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns with a pick. Wayne Taulapapa ran 14 times for 108 yards and a score.

– Texas QB Quinn Ewers completed 31-of-47 passes for 369 yards and a touchdowns. He was plagued by a slew of drops.

– Third down conversions: Washington 11-of-20 – Texas 6-of-15. Washington held the ball for almost 36 minutes.

Valero Alamo Bowl What It All Means

For all of the good things Texas was able to do, and even though it closed the regular season winning three of its last four games, it was bowl loss in what was essentially a home game.

After failing to get to a bowl last year, this was the chance for a reset. Steve Sarkisian was going to get a being win, the program was going to go into 2023 with a ton of momentum, and instead, Washington had the bombs away attack and fun offense Texas was supposed to.

With this loss, the streak of four straight bowl wins is broken – it was the first loss since 2014 – and Sarkisian is now 2-3 in bowls. He was 1-2 as the head man at Washington.

Of course it would’ve been nice if Washington didn’t gack away a loss to Arizona State and could’ve played in the Pac-12 Championship with a College Football Playoff berth on the line, but going 11-2 with an Alamo Bowl win over Texas is a really, really nice first year run under head coach Kalen DeBoer.

It’s the first season with 11 or more wins since Chris Petersen took the Huskies to the College Football Playoff in 2016, and it helped the overall bowl run. It’s the first bowl appearance since winning the 2019 Las Vegas, and now the program is 2-3 in these since 2015.

Even bigger, Washington knows just how good it can be under this head coach in this offense. This might be just the beginning.

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Texas vs Washington Valero Alamo Bowl Prediction Game Preview

Texas vs Washington game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Valero Alamo Bowl on Thursday, December 29

Texas vs Washington prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. Valero Alamo Bowl, Thursday, December 29

Texas vs Washington Valero Alamo Bowl Prediction Game Preview

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Texas vs Washington How To Watch

Date: Thursday, December 29
Game Time: 9:00 pm ET
Venue: Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
How To Watch: ESPN
Record: Texas (8-4), Washington (10-2)
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Texas vs Washington Valero Alamo Bowl 5 Things To Know

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– You never know when it comes to these bowl games what kind of mayhem you’re going to get, but for all intents and purposes, Texas has to use this to set the tone for a potentially monstrous 2023. There are still plenty of great players in place, but it’s missing superstar RB Bijan Robinson and, potentially, a slew of important players on the defensive front.

The team was good late winning three of its last four, but the O stalled against TCU and couldn’t get by Oklahoma State before the finishing kick. It was able to crank up the ground game in the win over eventual Big 12 Champion Kansas State, but Mr. Robinson had something to do with that.

– Texas lost its main guy in Robinson, but QB Quinn Ewers is rolling. So is Washington QB Michael Penix Jr., who announced he’s coming back next year – this is when the 2023 Heisman campaign starts.

The Huskies closed out with six straight wins after losing back-to-back road games against UCLA and Arizona State. The offense caught fire, the defense held up just enough to to get by, and overall it was a fantastic first season under head coach Kalen DeBoer.

– This is Washington’s first bowl appearance in a few years, beating Boise State in a blowout to close out the Chris Petersen era in the 2019 Las Vegas Bowl. Before that it lost three straight bowls and was an ugly 5-13 since getting past Michigan in the 1992 Rose. On the other side …

– Texas has been a bowl game monster. It’s the first appearance since the Tom Herman era – his teams went 4-0 in bowls highlighted by a Sugar Bowl stunner over Georgia. Helped by the great run under Mack Brown, Texas has won 13 of its last 17 bowls since pulling off the 2001 Holiday over … Washington.

– This makes it three appearances in four years in the Alamo for Texas – it beat a strong Utah team in 2019 and whacked Colorado in 2020. Now it’s up to Washington and the Pac-12 to finally stand up to the Big 12. Overall the Alamo has been a dud over the last three seasons, but it was strong before that with four games decided by five points or fewer.

Washington State beat Iowa State 28-26 in the 2018 version. Other than that, the Big 12 is 6-1 in the last seven vs the Big 12, and 9-3 since the two conferences took over the bowl tie-ins in the 2009 season.

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Why Texas Will Win The Valero Alamo Bowl

The passing game will still work.

It’s Texas, so there are still running backs to rotate into the rushing mix behind a decent offensive line, but it’s not going to get nearly the same production without Bijan Robinson carrying the mail.

However, QB Quinn Ewers is still special, and so is future NFL starting WR Xavier Worthy – he’s still a year away from being eligible – going against a pass defense that was the least efficient in the Pac-12 and allowed 242 yards per game.

Washington brings the pass rush, but as long as Ewers can get into a groove, the offense can move just fine.

The Husky defense doesn’t take the ball away and doesn’t generate enough big plays, but it can get pounded on, too. The Texas passing attack takes center stage, and Robinson might not be there, but the ground game has to try. UW is 2-2 when allowing 150 rushing yards or more.

The Longhorns have to control the tempo, but …

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Why Washington Will Win The Valero Alamo Bowl

Here comes the high-flying Washington offense that leads the nation in passing and third down conversions.

Texas lost both times it allowed 330 passing yards or more, and that’s par for the course for Penix Jr. and the Husky attack. It only failed to get to 330 passing yards four times, and it made up for it in three of them by running well.

Texas can be run on – it’s 1-4 when allowing 140 yards or more, and Washington is 4-0 when it gets to that mark – it’s going to get physical when it can.

The offense turned it over multiple times just twice – in the loss to UCLA and the win over Washington State. Washington isn’t going to beat itself, and Texas doesn’t force takeaways. To pull this off, Ewers and the Longhorns will have to keep pressing.

Again, Washington has a pass rush to at least be disruptive, but …

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