exhawg said:

He did what he needed to do to stay in the conversation. I was in the Never Shedeur camp the first couple days of the draft, but I'll love to eat crow if he is everything the talking heads said he was when they were pumping him up before the draft. Nothing would fix this team faster than a starting QB with a 5th-round contract for the next 4 years. That was step 1. Step 2 is Pickett and Gabriel looking like dog crap in preseason game two.

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I don’t think Pickett is going to be healthy enough for any of the preseason from what they were saying last night. So it’s really Gabriel he has to get past to back up Flacco I think. That job seems to be sitting there for the taking at this point.

Will the Buckeyes have to learn German and Spanish for "Switch"? BB always signs scorers, and hope to develop defenders along the way....

billmac91 said:

Solid night for Shedeur….happy for him. Played well while being surrounded by mostly UDFA talent.

Kid navigates pocket well…..gets accessible at times but, in general, he really feels pressure well.

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He did what he needed to do to stay in the conversation. I was in the Never Shedeur camp the first couple days of the draft, but I'll love to eat crow if he is everything the talking heads said he was when they were pumping him up before the draft. Nothing would fix this team faster than a starting QB with a 5th-round contract for the next 4 years. That was step 1. Step 2 is Pickett and Gabriel looking like dog crap in preseason game two.

Bucklion said:

Credit where it’s due, Shedoobie hasn’t done stupid things with the ball. He has to stop the circle button Michael Vick bullshit that killed 2 drives tonight, but otherwise it’s been pretty decent running of the offense. It’s not enough to start week 1 like the Screamin As will be demanding, but it hasn’t been bad

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Pretty much showed his strengths and weaknesses as I’ve been seeing them for a while. He’s like a skinny Justin Fields with a quicker processor for making reads, and better touch, but without the high end athleticism needed to get away with some of the Michael Vick circle crap that they both do. I think his biggest issue is that if he can’t fix the hero problem, he’s going to get killed out there.

calibuck said:

Say what you will about Herbstreit, he went out of his way to be impartial, even though we all know he bleeds scarlet & gray. He did well enough to be promoted to the lead color/analyst of college football. Butts seems to be following the same route, being impartial in front of the camera (unlike the other Xichigan puke on ESPN Gameday).

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Yes, he went out of his way to paint himself as impartial

And that has included taking completely undeserved shots at his alma mater that were red meat to the ignorant.

The only certainties in this world are that the sun rises in the east, death and taxes, and that tOSU will provide magnificent official visits to recruits. The WOW factor is always high, and a recruit always reports that tOSU has set the bar at a high level. Maybe that's a timing effect, and after a day or two the recruit's feet are back on the ground, but seems to always work out that way. Heck, just seeing the quality of athlete getting hands-on teaching from a heckuva stable of coachs should be plenty, but the facilities, tradition, etc is second to none.

Do believe the graduated level of compensation is the way to go. Maybe $200k as frosh, $300k as soph, $500k as junior, and $600,000 as senior. Assuming that player hits/does what is expected. Maybe in two-deep as soph, maybe spot starter as junior, and starter as senior. Just throwing stuff out there. $1,000,000 for an untried 18 year old is completely absurd from the jump. This is kinda SWAG (scientific wild ass guess), and not to be confused with reality. However on my planet, this is the way to go.

Say what you will about Herbstreit, he went out of his way to be impartial, even though we all know he bleeds scarlet & gray. He did well enough to be promoted to the lead color/analyst of college football. Butts seems to be following the same route, being impartial in front of the camera (unlike the other Xichigan puke on ESPN Gameday).

My God, if I'm the new administration, I would want to just rip the band-aid off and get it over with...blame it all on Ono (who it seems pretty much everyone other than Sharonna was sick of by the end) and get on with running the university. That they're not doing this is just further proof that they are the football factory, not us...that they have the obsessed and dysfunctional football culture, not us..

Official thread of Annie needs to be considered

colobuck79 said:

Maybe she’s the one with brain damage. Huh? Huh?

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It turned her into a lesbian.

Tomorrow. Get it right

Tanner said:

I saw something funny on twitter the other day where they said I dont understand why it doesn't matter to hitters if they strike out but every pitcher's priority is to strike out hitters

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It’s the concept of BaBip. Batting average on balls in play.

There is an element of luck once a ball goes fair (flares fall in, weak grounders you can’t get to etc etc)

Pitchers eliminate that element of luck with a K. Hitters know that it exists so they should try to make contact but the amount of that luck is so small, you can’t make a living on it. This the idea that you are going to make outs and some of them will be K’s, as long as you do enough damage when you don’t make an out the type of out doesn’t really matter.

The Reds fucking problem (among many) is that they don’t t have enough power to compensate for all the swing and miss in their lineup.

Striking out near 30% of the time and only having warning track power when you don’t miss is a bad combination.

Take every one of these needle dick motherfuckers but Elly out back of the stadium and shoot them for all I care. They are worthless as ball players.

cincibuck said:

I guess hoping the story will break on Saturday is pretty much a waste of time and energy. But, hey...

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Well yeah but for sure next Monday

or Friday. Definitely Friday

I guess hoping the story will break on Saturday is pretty much a waste of time and energy. But, hey...

I saw something funny on twitter the other day where they said I dont understand why it doesn't matter to hitters if they strike out but every pitcher's priority is to strike out hitters

Love the intensity but dude has to think about his body some with his past durability. Shake that dude off and then avoid that last finish.

That said I love seeing play like that. Hopefully he can have good health!