Media Carwash: Cowboys Go Through Media Spree in Fallout of Big Oregon Win

Since their historic win against Oregon, Eric Morris and Drew Mestemaker have spent a lot of time in front of a camera.

Oklahoma State’s coach and quarterback did a carwash of media obligations over the past few days to help promote the program’s 39-31 win against the Ducks. A lot of those talks hit on some of the same things, but here’s is a unique quote from five of those interviews.

Morris Gives Linebackers Credit for Dante Moore Tell

Morris did about a 10-minute hit with Adam Zucker and Brian Jones at CBS Sports.

One of the storylines discussed there was OSU picking up on a pass-run key that Oregon quarterback Dante Moore was apparently giving away by his stance. Morris was asked who identified the key in the leadup to the game.

“I think it was our linebackers,” Morris said. “Ethan Wesloski and Tate Romney — super, super sharp kids, played a ton of football. I think those guys are the guys.

“And two, coaches are always paranoid. We’re paranoid about are we getting our signals stolen? We’re paranoid about are we tipping something off by stance, offensive linemen, by the way the quarterback stands? So, we always live in a state of paranoia. Those things help a little bit, but execution is still the most important thing in this game.”

Mestemaker Tells SportsCenter He’s Getting Noticed at Chick-fil-A

Drew Mestemaker was on SportsCenter on Tuesday night, where he broke down everything from his Boone Pickens Stadium leap to making the move with Morris to Stillwater.

The funniest moment from his six-minute interview came when Mestemaker was asked what life in Stillwater is like as the OSU quarterback.

“It’s pretty awesome, I will say, especially after this week,” Mestemaker said. “Last week, I really didn’t wanna go out that much because I didn’t know how much people would wanna see me, but after this week, I was driving through the Chick-fil-A drive-through earlier and got recognized, so it’s been pretty awesome.”

Practice Last Week ‘Was Bloody’

Morris was on The Triple Option with Urban Meyer and Rob Stone.

Meyer was interested in how the Cowboys went from losing to Tulsa one week to beating Oregon the next.

“We went back old school, and I take some of the responsibility of this as well, as the leader of this program,” Morris said. “My personality, I have little-man syndrome, everybody knows it. I’ve had a chip on my shoulder my whole entire life. And I kinda bought into studying how NFL teams practice. Everybody talks about how Curt Cignetti has these short practices.

“So, we have the indoor or whatever — we went straight old school. We had inside run. We went outside the whole entire time, on the turf. I mean, it was bloody. Our scout teams were as geared up as they’ve ever been. We went more good-on-good than what we’ve done. I mean, they were two-hour, hard-nosed practices on Tuesday and Wednesday.”

Mestemaker Details UNT Come-Up on Heisman Hopefuls

With this being the Cowboys’ first time through such a media lineup under Eric Morris, OSU fans are likely familiar with quite a bit of the stories being told.

But on The Heisman Hopefuls podcast, Mestemaker provided a bit more detail than I had ever heard in terms of how he went from being so far down on the depth chart when he first got to North Texas to quickly climbing the ranks.

“It was kinda like routes on air, I guess,” Mestemaker said. “You just gotta have a lot of arms for that drill, so luckily I got to do that drill and felt like I was making the most of it. And then I get sprinkled in some 7-on-7 reps and have to make the most on that. There was one day that one of our quarterbacks was sick, so then I got a chance in 7-on-7 then. So, it was just kind of like any time I got my chance, I knew I had to make the most of it.

“(The air raid) was a whole new thing I had to learn. They’d send out the practice script the night before, so I’d draw up every play on that practice script on my own in my little notebook and just try to engrain it into my brain as fast as I could.”

Morris Breaks Down the Mestemaker Leap with Jim Rome

Morris was on the Jim Rome Show, where he broke down the play everyone is talking about: Drew Mestemaker going airborne to give the Pokes the lead.

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“This is Dart, H Short Find — is the play that we called right here,” Morris said. “Has a read. He’s starting on the vertical to the right, right there and moving to the crosser. So, our left tackle gets a late jump. Now, we handled these ends, who are really good ends, for the majority of the game, really good. He got a jump on the ball, early pressure, Drew felt it, stepped up in the pocket and Drew’s a great athlete, not only does he have a good arm.

“So, this is one of his plays, like we get onto Drew if he take unnecessary hits. This is what I would call a necessary hit, and this is why all his teammates went crazy in the team meeting when we played this because they want a quarterback who will sacrifice his body, leap from the 3.5, 4-yard line get hit by two people to win a game against a Top 10 opponent in a home opener. Like, this is what it’s all about. Drew would do this 100 out of 100 times.”

Rome would go on to make note of Morris’ experience around NFL quarterbacks and asked Morris if Mestemaker also has an NFL ceiling.

“A thousand percent, yes,” Morris said. “Someone’s gonna look really smart when they take him. Great competitor. Like I said earlier, his spatial awareness is phenomenal, and he’s just gonna get better. I think that was his 15th start that he’s made in his whole entire life, so if you just think about that and how fast he’s grown, I think the sky is the limit for him.”