Doug Meacham Reveals what Teams Inspire Him as Cowboys Continue Chasing First FBS Win

Oklahoma State interim coach Doug Meacham has earned a reputation for mixing in a fair share of trick plays, many of them successfully executed, this season.

While traditional head coaches often struggle to watch games outside of the bye week, Meacham apparently juggles a few favorite offenses during most weeks, including the bye.

“There’s a handful of teams I watch that are kind of Air Raid-type teams that match some of my thought,” Meacham said. “And then I cut up two NFL teams and two college teams every week. I cut up everything out of their tapes that may give you a screen idea or a run idea or an RPO or a trick play or something. The (Kansas City) Chiefs and Washington (Commanders), because Kliff (Kingsbury) is at Washington.”

That makes sense considering the Andy Reid-Patrick Mahomes combination remains the duo everyone else in the League chases, and Kingsbury has long been viewed as one of the sport’s offensive innovators.

“And then (for college) North Texas,” Meacham said. “I cut them up quite a bit because it is Air Raid-friendly in the things they do and then USC.”

Lincoln Riley is another well-respected coach, though maybe not as much in the state of Oklahoma for obvious reasons. He has the Trojans at 7-2 in his fourth season in LA.

UNT coach Eric Morris is interesting because he falls into the category of hot head coaches who seemed primed to make the jump to Power Conference jobs. Marshall wrote what he thought of Morris as a potential option for the Cowboys two weeks ago.

Oklahoma State’s offense peaked against Kansas, but Meacham made the case that the Cowboys could take things even further following a bye, partly due to improved health and partly due to a few wrinkles he might have picked up in the last two weeks.

“(The bye let us) self-scout and look inward instead of outward,” Meacham said. “And how can we improve and find out what defenses are actually seeing in us and maybe break some tendencies and do some things.”