I have tons of thoughts about todays OSU game and instead of updating my status a million times on FaceBook, I'll just put them down here.
Ohio State has NO playmakers on offense. This is a fact. We are very young at the receiver position. 3 years ago, our O was supposed to look like this:
QB1 Pryor
WR1 Posey
WR2 Duron Carter
WR3 Corey Brown
RB1 Herron
RB2 Hall
TE1 Stoneburner
2 of those players were in uniform tonight. TWO!!!!! Tonight's number WR was a HS QB at Marion Franklin. When we signed him, I knew he would eventually be moved to WR, and figured he would at best be a fringe special teams player. And tonight, he was running WR1 routes. So we have no playmakers on offense. It'll be different in 3 weeks, when we have both Posey and Herron back. They will atleast cause a threat that the defense will have to account for.
Next thought; seriously Bauserman, I mean seriously? You can not make me believe that play after play there was not a single guy open. It's not possible. I would love to watch this game from the blimp view to see what was going on in the secondary. Not sure if adjustments could be made or even were made, but I just have a hard time believing that over and over again the best option was to cover up the ball or throw it into the 3rd row.
As for the coaching. I'm not killing them over this loss. Again, we just aren't very good on offense. I would have liked to have seen them do some different things to get guys in space. You know the easiest way to do that.... SCREEN PLAYS!!! I'm not really sure what adjustments could have been made, Miami wasn't blitzing all that often. Maybe we should have just done the Peyton Hillis and ran it every single play.
Defense...your amazing. Without such a quality game from our D, this easily could have been a 40 point game. Our D-Line is incredible and our top guy Nathan Williams is still out. But let's be honest. THIS IS OHIO STATE.... we will NEVER be bad on Defense.
I'm also not crying over Miami's final TD. You see this all the time when games are basically over. 4th down, the ahead team normally goes for it to try to hold onto the ball. The FG is almost looked like you're rubbing it in. Believe me, we've been in this situation before and we've done it to our opponents. Our job is to STOP them and we didn't do that. And who cares that we're taking the timeouts back to Columbus with us....THE GAME WAS OVER. What were we gonna do? Get the ball, throw 3 incomplete passes and go home?
Finally, give Braxton the reins. I know Bauserman has "done his time." But who cares? This will be Braxton's team for the next 2-3 years. Let him learn under pressure. We're not fighting for a Nat'l title this, but we very well could be next year and the year after. I rather have a QB ready to go to battle after having a full season to learn at game speed.
And sadly, I anticiapte that we will drop out of the top 25 come Monday. Ending our 103 week run in the poll (longest active streak). We won't be gone long, but be ready to be unranked for the first time in a long long time.
Don't cry over the loss Buckeye Nation. We knew when the Tat-5 got suspended that we would have a hard hard time winning this game. Don't be afraid to admit that our offense sucks. Wouldn't it be nice to know that if we wouldn't have ran him out of town that TP would be coming back in 3 weeks? :)
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