exhawg said:

It did seem the Iowa front was moving on some of them. I didn't rewatch it, but I feel like they might have been doing something to mess with the silent snap count. As a former OL I feel like we need a snap count system like the QB's have for plays, where you can get a countdown or beeps in your helmet to let you know when the ball snaps.

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thats the exact feeling i got as well

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brodybuck21 said:

siereveld had 2 himself!

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It did seem the Iowa front was moving on some of them. I didn't rewatch it, but I feel like they might have been doing something to mess with the silent snap count. As a former OL I feel like we need a snap count system like the QB's have for plays, where you can get a countdown or beeps in your helmet to let you know when the ball snaps.

BigWoof31 said:

The best programs with the best coaches saw what they saw and didn't engage (or only minimally engaged).
For the life of me - I don't understand why the young man is struggling as much as he is.

Is it:

1). Wildly overhyped coming out of HS. Another classic 5 star miss, like Dylan Riaola.

2). Thrown into the fire entirely too soon. The speed of CFB, the checkdowns and plays and pressure....he needed to sit for a year and learn and develop.

3). The coaches hired to develop him have no idea how to handle something like Underwood. Also note the following:

One visit to OSU (unofficial)
One visit to Bama (unofficial)
One visit to USC (unofficial)
No visits to Georgia
No visit to ND
No visit to Oregon
No visit to Texas

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Re: Five-star quarterback Bryce Underwood officially flipped his commitment from LSU to the Michigan Wolverines on November 21, 2024, before enrolling in January 2025.

Just sayin': So are you saying that LSU isn't one the best programs and didn't have one of the best coaches?

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BB73 said:

The false starts were disappointing since they didn’t have that problem at Texas and DKR was very loud for that game.

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siereveld had 2 himself!

This Week in Our Dumb, Beautiful Sport: Bryce Underwood's Expensive Lesson and Alabama's Arrival​

College football has reached October.

Apparently nobody bothered to tell the sport that we're supposed to have a better idea of who's good by now.
Northwestern celebrated the opening of its nearly $900 million stadium by running Penn State out of the building. Minnesota beat Michigan.
Missouri took a Florida team that had just dismantled Ole Miss and returned the favor. And Alabama, led by a quarterback I was admittedly hesitant to fully buy into a couple of weeks ago, is starting to look terrifying.
Meanwhile, Rutgers managed to have too many players on the field on consecutive plays, and Colorado needed a timeout to address having too few.

It was just another week in our dumb, beautiful sport.

Bryce Underwood might change college football's financial landscape, just not how we expected​

Let's play a game.
Think of the 10 best players in college football. Now think of the 10 highest-paid players in college football.

There's probably a decent amount of overlap. Jeremiah Smith, Dante Moore, Trinidad Chambliss, Darian Mensah and Drew Mestemaker are all names that wouldn't surprise me on either list.

Now, let's expand the exercise to the 40 or 50 best quarterbacks among the 68 Power Four programs.
I'm genuinely not sure Michigan signal-caller Bryce Underwood makes that list.

That's a pretty remarkable statement to make about a player who entered college as the undisputed No. 1 overall recruit in his class, particularly when you consider the reported eight-figure NIL commitment associated with bringing him to Ann Arbor.

Underwood was supposed to change the college football landscape. And I actually think he might.
Just not in the way anyone expected.

Michigan's 20-14 loss to Minnesota was another miserable afternoon for the sophomore, who completed 10 of 21 passes for 101 yards and two interceptions. The Wolverines managed just 180 total yards against a Minnesota team that, while respectable, isn't exactly the '85 Chicago Bears.
And this isn't simply a case of Underwood having one bad Saturday. His struggles have become a recurring theme, and Michigan is fortunate its record isn't worse.

But what exactly is Kyle Whittingham supposed to do?

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buckeyeintn said:

4. He's a jackass with the brain of a squirrel.

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Just sayin': That's an outright blatant lie; as well as being offensive to squirrels.



The squirrels are much smarter than that.

brodybuck21 said:

playoff baseball!!

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Fucking Castllinis. Sell the goddamn team, Bob. 31 years without winning a playoff series.

NJ-Buckeye said:

Julian Edelman II

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Yeah, I think he will be a draft day steal

Julian Edelman II

Captain Buckeye said:

So the standard is the best college football player to ever play for Ohio State outside of maybe Orlando Pace and Archie.

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I’d put one more Buckeye in that category. Now I realize that most of you never saw Chic Harley play in person, so …

Fungo Squiggly said:

Pulling these numbers over from the offense thread. His play in the last 2 minutes of each first half has been nearly flawless.

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Julian’s numbers the last 2 years have been amazing. He’s one of the most accurate QBs not only in OSU history, but all of college football. He should be garnering more heisman attention, but Smith has stolen the show and will continue to do so for the remainder of the year. Not Julian’s fault his WR1 is one of the best in the history of cfb, and unfairly he will always get the counter-argument of “what if he didn’t have Smith?”

Julian to CHJ, Brock, and McCuin next year will go crazy. I’m hoping if he returns it doesn’t deflect future QB recruits like Brady Edmunds in the age of ‘early start-or-transfer’.

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Finally? It’s the fourth game of his rookie season.

exhawg said:

Obviously, they need to work on the OL dealing with a loud stadium, but at least they learned that against Iowa. I like that they've got Sayin to take the first down with his feet rather than always looking to throw it. Any threat of QB run will do nothing but help everyone else in short yardage.

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The false starts were disappointing since they didn’t have that problem at Texas and DKR was very loud for that game.

Zurp said:

I say this as someone who does not manage people or salaries or anything fun like that:
I think a coach should play the players who are going to win them games. If that means you sit 12M, then you sit 12M in favor of another player.

But, what do I know?

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Sunk cost fallacy...

brodybuck21 said:

imagine that. shocked

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brodybuck21 said:

isnt getting alot of run currently but I believe both his catches were on 3rd down and both resulted in 1st downs??

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Inniss definitely has skill and is a hell of an athlete, He’s a reliable, team-first, mature kid. Unfortunately he’s been engulfed by the “OMG did you see that 1-handed catch?!!!” first-round drafts around him: Emeka, Carnell, Marv, Jeremiah.

He’s a solid receiver that would otherwise be WR1 at most other places and I believe it will show at the combine.