The Sooners redeemed themselves with a nice beatdown of FSU, but this weekend they have a trap game against Air Force. Everything OU does well on defense is negated by the AF triple option offense. As an AF veteran, I have torn loyalties here.
So yo do not follow college football? At all? So you were trolling to comment on The U?
"trolling". I see you learned your word of the day. What is it today on Sesame Street?
OK I will take an ugly W over a gorgeous L any day...but this was really ugly. Thoughts...
1. I'll start with the positive. Great running day for Terrell. It's funny, he doesn't have breakaway speed and he also cuts back into pressure once in a while, but he has the ability to quickly accelerate to top speed without making it look like he's doing so. Very deceptive. He is the the biggest and strongest QB in the game. You add that speed is a very dangerous QB indeed!
6. Unfortunately the pre-Rose Bowl Terrell showed up in this game. Sweet holy moly he looked bad in the pocket way too often. Jumpy feet, bad decisions, forced throws. Ugh. It seemed like half of his passes either went right through a Miami DB's hands, or just missed them by a quarter of an inch. Not good. He still has alot to learn as far as being a prototypical "pocket passer". He is an improved QB BUT until he gets better as a pocket passer...there will be a day when a team shuts down the run and they will have to depend on them just throwing. Unless of course Jim Tressell opens up the playbook.....
7. The 'bad' Jim Tressel was back live as well. The Vest goes into panic mode too. Up 12 with ten minutes left, Miami has the ball, and you go to prevent defense? Keep everything in front of you? Letting Jacoby Harris eat up yardage with easy ten yard completionds down the field, making sure not to let anybody behing the DB's...even though nobody had gotten behind the DB's all day when OSU was playing 'normal' defense? Did you really want Miami to score, as long as they take five minutes off the clock doing it? Is that really the plan? Well, that plan stinks, Jim. What I don't understand is, IF he does this all the time...why is it considered panic mode...? That just means that is and will always be the way he coaches. Nothing wrong with it when you are loaded like Ohio State is, but it is what it is.
8. Fortunately Miami is not good enough to score even when OSU was trying to let them score. Not impressed with Harris at all. I know his receivers didn't help him much, but he doesn't seem to have the tools to compete at this level. Perhaps he'll prove me wrong and if he does good for him, but this was not Florida B&O he was playing like he was last week, he actually had to do something this week...and he didn't. AT WHAT level are you talking about? He can compete at this level, but he had the dropsies by WRs and and some running the wrong routes. THIS TEAM was not as good as a whole as Ohio State was. On a different day, he might have played better....Saturday, it was all about Ohio State playing well...capitolizing on opportunities and playing mistake free football.
9. Funny, the score could have been 36-10 without the abomination of the OSU coverage teams, (and even worse if Ohio State had punched it in at the end before Tressel called for a knee), but it was still a bad game for the Buckeyes.
OK, Special Teams is part of the games JUST LIKE INTs, fumbles and sacks. So, you cannot sit here and say "IF the special teams played better......" because I can easily comeback and state "IF the WRs ran the proper routes and not dropped balls....." and so on and so forth. BUT, I will use YOUR logic, take away ALL the returns and ALL the INTs....this game might be a 13-6 game.
10. Hate for Miami? Au contraire...I love those guys! They come into your stadium and absolutely hand you a game...what's not to love?
I will be a more gracious loser and state....when are you guys coming down to OUR stadium? The U has no issues going to Ohio State and play.
Sandra
I've heard their special teams are really young this year. In order to include everyone and get more of the roster experience, Tressel filled the special teams with rookies. I'd imagine he'll get more seasoned vets back on S/T from here on out...
Nice win for Ohio State.
It's also funny how people say how much better field position Ohio State had than Miami. Two Miami drives began IN THE OHIO STATE END ZONE!
Sandra
Yes....and again, the average start of the Ohio State offense was midfield....your point is?
A win is a win but there wasn't much nice about it! If they play like that against Iowa and Wisconsin the outcome will not be so favorable.
To me it felt like a loss.
Sandra
...that twice Miami had the best field position possible! Beats midfield by a mile...or about 50 yards anyway.
Sandra
Take them as they come. Whether is was a great win or a "ugly" win.... A win is a win. PERIOD. IF they play where the Buckeyes make no mistakes, as in turnovers, they are the type of team that can win those games. Elite teams can and will do that. For as much as folks bitch about how conservative Tressell runs his offense....it is, by the most part, MISTAKE FREE football.
Paterno has had conservative game calling for YEARS. :up
twice in one side compared to starting midfield all of the game....which one would YOU take?
I'll take the touchdowns, thank you very much. Especially when you have a shaky Terrell Pryor at QB, with drives constantly stalling at the Miami 7 yard line.
Sandra
I see...so when the defense can stop them....it is a "stalled" offense but when the opposing QB throws a INT....it is great defense? I gotcha!
Of course, that's exactly what I said. You can always count on coming to this forum to find someone putting words in your mouth.
I never said the OSU defense was great for intercepting passes, in fact I said Harris and the Miami receivers handed OSU the game. I know it's confusing.
Sandra
Back to the bottom line after our regularly scheduled interruption.
Ohio State in general, and Terrell Pryor in particular, must play MUCH better if they hope to be able to compete with the better teams the rest of the way. They will not be able to play that poorly and still have the other team literally hand them the game.
Sandra