NORMAN — Bront Bird believes in the mental side of football.
Motivation. Positivity. Want-to.
That's why the former Texas Tech linebacker expects Oklahoma's defense to play much better throughout the rest of the season.
Bird doesn't know Mike Stoops or the Oklahoma defense, but he sure knows interim defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill.
“I think people underestimate the human mind and what it's capable of,” Bird said shortly after McNeill was elevated from coaching the Sooners' defensive tackles to call the defense for the rest of the year.
“To be able to get everybody collectively wanting to fight for each other is one of the most undervalued and one of the most underestimated things there ever is.