Houston's Ed Oliver injured against Temple

by **PonyPride** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:35 pm

The standout Houston defensive lineman left Saturday's game against Temple in the first half with an apparent knee injury and did not return. According to the Houston Chronicle, the injury is a sprained MCL and is not believed to be serious.

by **mrydel** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:43 pm

He was jumping around on the sideline after the injury laughing and dancing. He is fine.

by **smusic 00** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:57 pm

...or so he wants you to believe.

by **mrydel** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:01 pm

Well he sure looked fine to me. And if I am his coach and he really is hurt I don’t let him stand on the bench and dance and jump to the ground and bounce around.

by **smusic 00** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:01 pm

That’s exactly what they wanted you to say.

by **mrydel** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:03 pm

Well it sure won’t hurt us to prepare as if he is ok

by **ALEX LIFESON** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:24 am

mrydel wrote:Well it sure won’t hurt us to prepare as if he is ok

I saw it too, he didn't seem to be in much pain. Probably their version of SMU holding out Jordan Wyatt.

by **Black Horseshoe** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:37 am

https://twitter.com/joseph_duarte/statu ... 9440980993

by **AusTxPony** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:38 am

Injured or not, didn't our OLine handle him last year? Seems like I remember it that way. If so, let's hope they do it again.

by **smusic 00** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:14 am

But here’s the actual facts: 3 tackles, 1 for loss, 2 qb hurries. SMU lost one fumble that day (to UH’s 2). Oliver forced the fumble on Ke’Mon Freeman. But let’s not let that get in the way of your cool story.

by **mrydel** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:16 am

I remember him as a non factor

by **smusic 00** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:20 am

Their whole defense was pretty much a non factor.

by **mavsrage311** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:14 pm

CargoGunki wrote:
AusTxPony wrote:Injured or not, didn't our OLine handle him last year? Seems like I remember it that way. If so, let's hope they do it again.

No lmao. Oliver destroyed SMUs oline and forced fumbles had multiple tfls and swatted down some of Hicks' passes.

Fake news.

Evan Brown was universally praised for his play vs. Ed.

by **JasonB** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:11 pm

Brown got smoked a couple of times against UCONN. Need the whole line to play a little better against U of H.

I think the UConn game showed that our offense is really good when we don't have negative plays. But we aren't good enough to overcome a lot of negatives.

by **leopold** » Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:18 pm

Oliver a game-time decision for Houston:

http://www.espn.com/college-football/st ... jured-knee