{"id":178949,"date":"2025-07-03T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/178949\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:11:10","slug":"an-inside-look-at-the-ou-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/178949\/","title":{"rendered":"An inside look at the OU quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first part of a three-part series featuring new Oklahoma starting quarterback John Mateer. Parts II and III will be released prior to the start of OU football\u2019s fall camp on July 31.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Mateer will never forget his first start for Little Elm High School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mateer was just a freshman when former Little Elm coach Kendrick Brown told him he\u2019d be starting the fifth game of the 2018 season against Centennial High School at Toyota Stadium, which is home to Major League Soccer\u2019s FC Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was scared as shit,\u201d Mateer told SoonerScoop.com in an one-on-one interview at the Manning Passing Academy in June. \u201cI was really scared. And it was in FC Dallas\u2019 stadium. Like, the big one. With real grass and huge stands. I was like, \u2018Oh my God, what am I doing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the first part of a three-part series featuring new Oklahoma starting quarterback John Mateer. Parts II&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,15521,1787,1102],"class_list":{"0":"post-178949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-john-mateer-22-little-elm","10":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","11":"tag-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114790890702160153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}