After leading Kansas State to a huge win on Saturday, Adrian Martinez deserves to take a bow. But the whole Wildcats squad deserves praise, writes TheRealMasonV:
deserve to take one too. One week after the 2022 season started to look grim, the Wildcats are 1-0 in Big 12 play and for the third time in four tries, and the second consecutive time in Norman, they beat Oklahoma. Early in the week, Klieman said that he, Klein and Martinez had a meeting. That was simplified to three words, “cut it loose.” By the end of Saturday night, it certainly looked like Adrian Martinez listened.
Martinez has fully bought into everything going on inside K-State football. After the game, Martinez spoke to FOX’s Allison Williams and said, “I am really proud to be a Wildcat, I think our culture is special. The stuff we are building here is different and we come and play with an edge every game.”
Martinez went on to say it was the most fun he had playing football in a long time. He was also candid and self-reflective of his play from the week prior, admitting that he “left some heart out on the table last Saturday and it hurt, and I didn’t do my teammate’s justice.” That is what happened, Martinez threw for 234 yards and had conviction in his decisions. A few balls that got tipped or maybe could have ended up in the defense’s hands, but Martinez wasn’t worried about it. Then you have the gutsy 148-yard rushing night with four touchdowns, the same amounthighlights the belief that the teammates of Martinez had in him, Vaughn also had his back.