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If Jones leaves, who's next at QB?
Oklahoma quarterback will make NFL draft decision by Jan. 15, but Sooners have depth
Updated: January 5, 2012, 1:33 PM ET
By
Jake Trotter | SoonerNation
NORMAN, Okla. -- In the Insight Bowl postgame press conference, an Arizona writer asked Blake Bell what it felt like to "outdo" starter Landry Jones and win the MVP award. With Jones seated two seats to Bell's left.
"Landry is the one that gets me down there when I punch it in," the Belldozer coolly responded. "So I give most of the credit to him."
Crisis averted. But make no mistake -- there has been a potentially explosive situation at quarterback in Norman, one that would have blown up already were it not for the maturity of Jones, Bell and the oft forgotten Drew Allen.
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