PASADENA, Calif. — Jalen Hurts’ weekly press conference was slogging along Monday.
Questions were longer than answers. Answers were often cliché.
Long gone are the in-depth responses the Oklahoma quarterback gave when he arrived in Norman. His first press conference had an opening statement almost three minutes long. His entire time at the microphone earlier this week barely crawled over the six-minute mark.
As things were winding down, my buddy Berry Tramel attempted to liven up the proceedings.
“You’ve now got more incompletions than touchdown passes, seven to six,” he asked Hurts. “Can you get that back on the high side, that ratio?