Hoping they come out and throttle the Golden Flush. If they come out completely flat making a bunch of mental mistakes that's a bad sign.

calibuck said:

Thought the announcers opined that Day was POed about the time clock not starting as quickly as should have.

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The opines of those two brain dead howler monkeys isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss

He was definitely good enough and played pretty well in the first half.

I have no clue what to think of the 2nd half yes it was bad but it seemed like the whole team just was asleep and not with it for the 2nd half. Obviously this is a big problem but it's a lot deeper than just "Sayin didn't execute"

The Browns feel like some kind of sick Nazi experiment

OregonBuckeye said:

I guess I'm in the minority, but on the whole I thought he did well. Not perfect, but good enough to win. Some unfortunate drops and erratic pass protection hampered him, but he's still taken a step forward from last year with using the legs a bit more.

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I don't think you're in the minority at all really. As you said, he wasn't perfect but it was good enough to win the game. There were other breakdowns that contributed far more to the fiasco.

calibuck said:

Applaud TE Roberts for finding an open area, and moving to it. Sayin's throw, across the body and 24+ yard across the field, was utterly on point. Plus, thought he mighta put a tad too much mustard on several passes, but it's his call to make.

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A football field is 53 1/3 yards across. That throw was closer to about 45 yards when you account for the width and depth of the throw.

Doesn't make a lot of sense though.... Lost to #4 on the road, you'd think we'd just swap spots. Not that any of this matters before December.

OregonBuckeye said:

I guess I'm in the minority, but on the whole I thought he did well. Not perfect, but good enough to win. Some unfortunate drops and erratic pass protection hampered him, but he's still taken a step forward from last year with using the legs a bit more.

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I agree. I think I was more encouraged by him specifically than most might be. He didn’t look rattled like he did against U and IU. I didn’t see that “holy fuck” body language while he was in the pocket, but it was there and I just didn’t notice because I was a little blasted

Whether the team and coaches can collectively recover psychologically is a different conversation in another thread, but he absolutely played well enough for us to win that game which is all you can ask given the opponent.

Rub-n-Tug takes a sack on 4th and 4.

Mike80 said:

poor bastard never had a chance

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Anybody that takes that job deserves anything that comes to them.

Applaud TE Roberts for finding an open area, and moving to it. Sayin's throw, across the body and 24+ yard across the field, was utterly on point. Plus, thought he mighta put a tad too much mustard on several passes, but it's his call to make.

Texas is now #1, tOSU fell to #6 in both polls. FWIW, that’s just how far I thought the drop would be.

Thought the announcers opined that Day was POed about the time clock not starting as quickly as should have.

“Tire World” “Todd, Charlie Donovan with the Cleveland Browns. How would you like to coach the Browns this year?” “Gee, I don’t know…” “What do you mean you don’t know. This is your chance to coach in the NFL!” “Let me get back to you, will ya Charlie? I got a guy on the other line asking about some whitewalls.”

And it should affect our acquisition of non-kicker talent. If I have talent and am in the portal or am a 5star HS player and can get paid anywhere, I want to win. I don’t want to bust my ass and have kickers and coaches repeatedly shitting the bed.

NFBuck said:

I put the chances of Monken getting a second season right around 3.3%

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poor bastard never had a chance

I put the chances of Monken getting a second season right around 3.3%

He's a bigga boy...

Certainly a legitimate question. If so, then these QBs would matriculate to the Mid-American conferences of the world. And their training would be second rate as well. Now, might get some game time earlier, but daily learning by some of these bigger schools, who have better coaches (more of them as well), and more competitive competition to go against, might actually pay bigger dividends. HS coaches are not so great, (exceptions exist certainly), but generally not. So learning opportunities exist at the upper levels. Probably a NIL package might be bigger with the bigger schools, else the kids, if not deemed to be able to play at that level, would probably a preferred walk-on.

Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:

Except he’s 2 years removed from a national title.

I think your observation is probably accurate in many regards but can’t overlook that Day did actually get over the hump, perhaps in spite of his own Franklin-esque tendencies, but he still got it done.

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This is where I am on the Cooper/Franklin analogy….Day has his scalp on the wall.

You have to take that into consideration. I was one of his biggest critics because I didn’t think he could ever win it with the pattern he still shows.

Well thankfully I was wrong on that so I give him his due. He can go a long time from here as long as he keeps The Game in order.

If the buckeyes took the lane kiffin approach of signing nfl players and raided
The browns roster they’d probably end up being an 8-4 team

That would have been the 3rd delay of game had they not called a time out. Hot. Garbage.

8 penalties already.

lvbuckeye said:

I'm cheering for the Buckeyes. Of course that natty run was amazing. It took a freaking player revolt for it to happen.

What is the offensive identity of this team?

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They moved the ball pretty well in the 1st half just couldn't finish enough. The interior OL is strong and they are going to have a lot of success running inside. Pass protection was not the worst but not great either, that needs to keep getting better. I think a lot of people were expecting a Miami game style OL breakdown.

I think the 2nd half lack of execution was largely the result of a complacency and a cruise control attitude being installed by the coaches in the locker room at the half. They didn't even attempt to make an adjustment to a criminal level.

Monken knows this team is trash. Kick a FG just to not get shut out. He knows the offense can’t do shit. Go for it there you giant pussy. You’re down 31. Show some heart.