GO Bucks

[YoloinOhio]

I think scUM is going to try to run a lot of screens. They have only 8 passing TDs on the season. They haven’t thrown a TD to a WR since Week 2. Their OL isn’t good. O’Korn has a 1-5 TD to INT ratio. They will need to use a horizontal passing attack to try to keep tOSU DL from pinning its ears back, if they can’t run effectively. 

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Wolverines have dominated Ohio St so far

[FLXbillsmafia]

Not a fan of either team, but it sure looks like the Big Ten refs are protecting Ohio State's playoff interests.

 

I won't list them all, but they missed an egregious block in the back in the first half, and marked O'Korn short of a first down at the end of the 1st half, when he clearly reached the ball over the line to gain.

 

Now they just missed another clear defensive holding, where the Michigan player had his jersey grabbed.

[PromoTheRobot]

Since when is defensive holding not an automatic first down?

Edited November 25, 2017 by PromoTheRobot

[JohnC]

On ‎11‎/‎4‎/‎2017 at 8:46 PM, Commonsense said:

Bama is going down tonight, hope that soothes some wounds! 

If that happens one person whose serious wounds won't be healed is NYC Bill. 

[YoloinOhio]

JT hurt... OSU gonna lose this one. Harbaugh gets his first. The rivalry lives.

 

Edited November 25, 2017 by YoloinOhio

[DriveFor1Outta5]

23 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

JT hurt... OSU gonna lose this one. Harbaugh gets his first. The rivalry lives.

 

Ha. Never underestimate John O’Korn.

[YoloinOhio]

5 minutes ago, DriveFor1Outta5 said:

Ha. Never underestimate John O’Korn.

I just came here to post that. Rivalry still massively fun,  but very one-sided. O’Korn is  trash.

[YoloinOhio]

 

As an OSU fan going back to the 90s, a quarterback going 4-0, a head coach going 6-0 and the Buckeyes winning 15 of 17 against Michigan still seems pretty unfathomable.

[26CornerBlitz]

 

[row_33]

That poor kid who dropped the INT right in his hands when it was 14-0 and let tOSU back in the game....

 

 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

6 hours ago, BUFFALOBART said:

 

 

Not sure what this means?

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4 minutes ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:

 

Not sure what this means?

[Buffalo Barbarian]

7 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

I see

[26CornerBlitz]

 

[YoloinOhio]

Anyone see Jeff Gilooly around Ann Arbor?

 

 

[Willyville Guy]

Another intense and thrilling rivalry win.  The "cameraman" situation is just bizarre and I don't know what to say about it.  Haskins was so clutch: splitting the defense on the crazy Mack play, and putting the ball perfectly on the hips of his receivers in stride on the crossing patterns we've been hearing so much about since Kevin Wilson arrived.  Seeing Haskins and Dobbins in the backfield for the comeback made me, and I'm sure many others, wonder "what if" in a year when the Bucks probably won't make the playoff. 

 

The combination of O'Korn and Harbaugh was just hilarious down the stretch.  I will never understand what Harbaugh was thinking letting that QB throw deep when they miraculously got the ball back after an untimely high snap by the Bucks on third down during what should have been the dagger drive.  It was the most critical possession of the season and needed to be handled super carefully -- and Harbaugh decided to just SEND IT?  Incredible.

 

Okudah caught my eye on special teams.  He looked NFL fast as a gunner but also undisciplined on a bad penalty.  He's an intriguing talent. 

 

The bottom line for me: two years in a row UM started strong and grew weaker as the game developed, while OSU started slow and finished strong (thanks, Coach Mick).   That dynamic is deeply satisfying.  I was a student at OSU during the 90's and watched UM crush my dreams as a young man time and time again.  My feeling was that it would take a solid decade of Buckeye dominance to make up for how miserable that team up north made me.  I think we're getting close to redemption...but the Wolverines do not quite yet have my permission to die 

 

As for the CFP, my view is that the 2017 Buckeyes blew their chances at Iowa.  At this point, I'd be happy with a B1G championship and the Orange Bowl against Miami.  But... I'm not sure they beat Bucky this weekend.

 

Separately, WTF is going on with Tennessee and Schiano?  I was driving back to Chicago from Buffalo all day, and heard in fits and spurts that the Vols had surprisingly hired Schiano, and then the fans and state politicians (?!) went nuts because of the PSU connection, and then the university withdrew from a signed Memorandum of Understanding?  And now he wants compensation for the broken MOU?  Crazy - but hopefully he sticks with Ohio State.  I remember this being an issue when the Buckeyes hired him.  It was taken seriously and cleared by the school, so I'm going with that conclusion unless I learn something solid to the contrary.

 

Go Bucks!

 

 

Edited November 27, 2017 by Willyville Guy

[YoloinOhio]

5 minutes ago, Willyville Guy said:

Another intense and thrilling rivalry win.  The "cameraman" situation is just bizarre and I don't know what to say about it.  Haskins was so clutch: splitting the defense on the crazy Mack play, and putting the ball perfectly on the hips of his receivers in stride on the crossing patterns we've been hearing so much about since Kevin Wilson arrived.  Seeing Haskins and Dobbins in the backfield for the comeback made me, and I'm sure many others, wonder "what if" in a year when the Bucks probably won't make the playoff. 

 

The combination of O'Korn and Harbaugh was just hilarious down the stretch.  I will never understand what Harbaugh was thinking letting that QB throw deep when they miraculously got the ball back after an untimely high snap by the Bucks on third down during what should have been the dagger drive.  It was the most critical possession of the season and needed to be handled super carefully -- and Harbaugh decided to just SEND IT?  Incredible.

 

Okudah caught my eye on special teams.  He looked NFL fast as a gunner but also undisciplined on a bad penalty.  He's an intriguing talent. 

 

The bottom line for me: two years in a row UM started strong and grew weaker as the game developed, while OSU started slow and finished strong (thanks, Coach Mick).   That dynamic is deeply satisfying.  I was a student at OSU during the 90's and watched UM crush my dreams as a young man time and time again.  My feeling was that it would take a solid decade of Buckeye dominance to make up for how miserable that team up north made me.  I think we're getting close to redemption...but the Wolverines do not quite yet have my permission to die 

 

As for the CFP, my view is that the 2017 Buckeyes blew their chances at Iowa.  At this point, I'd be happy with a B1G championship and the Orange Bowl against Miami.  But... I'm not sure they beat Bucky this weekend.

 

Separately, WTF is going on with Tennessee and Schiano?  I was driving back to Chicago from Buffalo all day, and heard in fits and spurts that the Vols had surprisingly hired Schiano, and then the fans and state politicians (?!) went nuts because of the PSU connection, and then the university withdrew from a signed Memorandum of Understanding?  And now he wants compensation for the broken MOU?  Crazy - but hopefully he sticks with Ohio State.  I remember this being an issue when the Buckeyes hired him.  It was taken seriously and cleared by the school, so I'm going with that conclusion unless I learn something solid to the contrary.

 

Go Bucks!

 

 

The Schiano/PSU thing came up last summer, after he was hired by Osu. The court docs were unsealed from a deposition that McQueary gave back in 2015. This sums it up pretty well

so the rumor is UT still has to pay him (I heard 20 mill??) for backing out of the MOA. Personally I’m not a fan of him as DC here but it has nothing to do with his character. He may be a good HC again i just thought he underachieved with the talent that we have. Anyway, UT fans don’t want him as coach because they are delusional and think they can do better, and are using this as the reason. 

[YoloinOhio]

I still can’t get over Austin Mack’s catch on 3rd and long. Vintage 2004 Anthony Gonzalez in The Game.

[Willyville Guy]

1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:

I still can’t get over Austin Mack’s catch on 3rd and long. Vintage 2004 Anthony Gonzalez in The Game.

 

Yep.  Mack is looking more and more like the second coming of Anthony Gonzalez.

[YoloinOhio]

 

[Willyville Guy]

As this week goes on and I imagine Urban once again in a tight game calling JT runs to the left and right, I'm beginning to believe that OSU can easily lose to Bucky and all of the playoff talk will be for naught.  I cannot understand--after all the losses, all the pain, all the "mandates"--why he went back to that against Michigan instead of just giving the ball to his tailbacks.  It leaves me struggling to find optimism, but I guess that's just part of being a fan of this team.

[YoloinOhio]

Once Haskins went in, it forced him to use a real offense. Like giving the call to the freaking 5 Star RBs. Throwing the ball downfield and trusting the 5 Star WRs to make a play. The qB runs are a huge crutch for him. That goes back to Braxton. When they play better and better teams they do not work as well. Neither do bubble screens once you face teams with similar speed. Haskins has mobility but he’s not going to call his own number as much as JT. And he’s a bigger threat in the passing game which will force the defense to back off and I think Weber and Dobbins would eat. I want JT to do well but I don’t think he’s the best choice in this game. Urban leans on him way too much. 

[Willyville Guy]

But he saw what happened when he fed Braxton instead of Hyde in the 2013 B1G championship.

 

He saw what happened when he fed JT instead of Zeke in 2015.

 

He saw what happened when he insisted on the JT runs down the stretch and into the playoff last year.

 

He saw the Oklahoma game this year.

 

He knows as well as anyone that the book on JT is to cover the RB on the RPO and force the QB to keep it.

 

And after all that... even after he said he recognized the problem of having JT getting more carries than his RBs and issued a mandate to his coaches to fix it, there it was again against Michigan.  Barrett left the game in the third quarter yet still ended up with as many carries as Dobbins and more than Weber.  I don't understand why Urban calls that offense his "safety blanket" when it has a horrible track record in big games.  

 

Maybe it will work this time against Wisconsin--I truly hope it does if that's what he's going to do--but the thought of Barrett slamming into Bucky's D line all game gives me anxiety pains.

 

Is there any chance he starts Haskins and tries to catch lightning in a bottle like he did in 2014? I think it's highly unlikely.

[YoloinOhio]

So today we learn that JT had surgery on his knee on Sunday, and is now cleared to play on Saturday. How could he possibly be close to 100%? I know it wasn’t “major” surgery but how much could he really practice this week? And the amount of times he runs during the game... I’m skeptical 

 

how many designed qb draws will urban run with our qb 6 days removed from  knee surgery? 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2017 by YoloinOhio

[Willyville Guy]

Urban sounds like he's riding with JT no matter what (shocker).  My guess is that JT will start the game on a short leash, and the coaches will just see how it goes.

[YoloinOhio]

He is going to run that kid into the ground if it kills him  

[Willyville Guy]

Watching Haskins on the zone read against Michigan was kind of comical.  Even when the read plainly called for a QB keeper, Haskins was all "nope."  He is there to throw the ball (and occasionally run) -- not get destroyed by Urban's offense the way Braxton and Barrett were.

[YoloinOhio]

I don’t even know why he bothers recruiting pro style QBs. Or why one would come here. But I know Wilson will know what to do with Haskins...

[YoloinOhio]

On 12/1/2017 at 4:24 PM, YoloinOhio said:

He is going to run that kid into the ground if it kills him  

Yes I’m quoting myself. 6 days removed from knee surgery = a season high of 19 carries. 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

Wisconsin!

[YoloinOhio]

OSU vs USC in Cotton Bowl Dec. 29th at 8:30 pm.

 

 

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Penn St vs Washington in Playstation Fiesta Bowl Dec 30th at 4PM

[Willyville Guy]

OSU owes USC an ass whopping.  Hope this is it.

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

Hahaha

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

Trevon Grimes transferring to Florida ... not surprised since his family is there and he’s had some issues, but he’s actually from Miami. I think Urban is greasing the wheels with some kids due to his relationship with Mullen.

 

Opens up a scholly!

[Willyville Guy]

Gameday!  Not sure which Buckeye team will show up tonight; hopefully it's the Urban Meyer death machine instead of the version that spots opponents points on special teams and turnovers before even giving itself a chance to right the ship.

 

As I mentioned above, OSU owes USC a beatdown.  The Trojans are one of only two teams I can think of (the other being Clemson) that owns significant bragging rights over the Bucks.  This is a great opportunity to settle some long-standing family business.

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

A good showing is incredibly important. I have no idea which team to expect. I would say that the big game squad will be there, and the Bucks typically play well in bowl games - but they have failed us before. Though, I don’t see usc as being quite the team that Clemson was last year. They do have some nfl talent though. Gotta stop Darnold and Jones the RB.

[Willyville Guy]

Big line move to Bucks -10 this afternoon.  Weird to see that type of move on gameday absent an injury or something similar. 

[row_33]

Everyone feel like playing tonight for tOSU?