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OC Arthur Smith (Official Thread)

BuckeyeNation27
pnuts34 said:
Yet those 2 helped a team win the division and make the playoffs.
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See.....this is what I mean when I say stats lie. The Steelers sucked this year. But you can hide that with sentences like this. That division was pure garbage. At one point LATE in the season, it was possible that the winner of the division could have a losing record. But they still would've been able to claim a division win and a playoff birth. Making the playoffs as a division winner was not because of Arthur Smith.
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OC Arthur Smith (Official Thread)

pnuts34
Per 11w poster:
I won’t do a position by position breakdown but the Steelers lacked high-level talent at QB, WR2, especially WR3, and RB.

Caveats: a) Warren is talented but probably best suited as a team’s RB2 in today’s committee-focused NFL. b). Gainwell had a very good season. He is a reason to be excited for the Smith hire. That being said, he was RB3 and RB4 in Philly even before Barkley. c) DK is talented but no one has accused him of being a good route runner, leader, etc. and he needs a side kick to achieve high-level production. Teams took him away for long stretches because of these factors.

Steelers were bad offensively and I give Tomlin credit for eeking out a few wins he shouldn’t have. Bad offensively IMO due to talent and so the playcalling leaned safe to maximize wins of scoreboard.
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https://www.spotrac.com/news/_/id/2950/2025-nfl-offensive-spending#:~:text=Table_title: Average: $57M Table_content: header: | |,QB: $7,455,366 | TOTAL OFFENSE: $189,057,859 |
And to provide another point, he’s being judged on the same metric as coaches who have tens of millions more being spent on their offense. Seattle is a massive outlier (I know someone would mention them) as their best offensive players are all on rookie contracts. The only serious weapon Pit had was DK, and an old Rodger’s who earned far less than any elite QB. Out of the bottom 10 salaries for offense, 5 made the playoffs. And the Steelers were the only team with veterans at skill positions. Everyone else is heavy on rookie offensive talent. Pittsburgh in turn though had one of the most expensive defenses in the NFL. Tomlin gave the defense ingredients to make surf and turf and the offense ingredients to make hamburger helper.
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People to Punch, Pet Peeves, and General Vexations (mega-merge)

Bucklion
3074326 said:
This is a late gripe

I was on 70 in the fall, driving in my lane and going the speed limit. Dude in front of me slams on the brakes because he missed his exit. I got rear-ended. Dude drove off into the sunset like he didn't even know what happened. But I know he did.. he ended up passing the exit. I'll see you in hell motherfucker
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Fucker did that to me too, asshat slammed brakes on because reasons and I got blasted from behind. Wasn’t the guy behind me fault either, but we got fucked for our troubles. AssHolds in front just drove away.
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OC Arthur Smith (Official Thread)

BuckeyeNation27
Captain Buckeye said:
What’s worse.

Having excuses for when he didn’t do well?

Or ignoring his offenses when they were good?

Can’t do both man. You can’t say “you’re making excuses!” And then say “well the stats aren’t telling the story”

It’s probably somewhere in the middle. When Arthur has good players he does well it seems. When he doesn’t have good players he doesn’t do well. Here at OSU he’s going to have the best players so I bet he’ll do great.
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I'm still not willing to accept he's had good offenses. Definitely not since he took the Atlanta job.
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2026 tOSU Offense Discussion

pnuts34
OHSportsFan said:
If I’m being a bit harsh/fair to the dissecting the 2025 Buckeye offense - I think the season looks a lot different if they simply had a QB that could see and throw in the middle of the field.

I don’t know if it’s height, vision, design, training wheels, processing speed, coaching safe, or nerves, but Sayin had inexcusable misses - primarily to Inniss but that one to Klare on the Miami 2nd quarter drive will haunt me. Those open throws make the OL look slightly better.

I don’t think Sayin was quite good enough - which is fine, he was a freshman. But that late in the year, I was expecting more advancement. Again, being a bit harsh but you get high expectations at OSU. Those misses throughout the year and the last 2 games can’t happen.

Kid has zero problems with arm talent (velocity, touch, accuracy) but he has to make the leap in commanding the whole field. Very confident Day will help him and we’re staring down greatness.

(Pause this at :10 and try not to punch the nearest drywall)
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This and a veteran OL should make an elite offense again (Arthur Smith or not lol).
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Yeah, I tried not to punch a wall. But I also remembered that in the first half of that game, Miami’s DL was playing lights out and I’m sure he heard footsteps after 2 seconds.
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People to Punch, Pet Peeves, and General Vexations (mega-merge)

DubCoffman62
3074326 said:
This is a late gripe

I was on 70 in the fall, driving in my lane and going the speed limit. Dude in front of me slams on the brakes because he missed his exit. I got rear-ended. Dude drove off into the sunset like he didn't even know what happened. But I know he did.. he ended up passing the exit. I'll see you in hell motherfucker
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I once got bumped hard enough to bend my back bumper by a kid that was merging into the left turn lane. The light was red and I was that truck right where the left turn lane merges left and it was a tight fit. I know that he knew that he hit me but his arrow turned green at exactly the right moment and he got away. It wasn't major damage but it hit hard enoguh that he had to know that he'd hit me.
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How's the weather?

Jaxbuck
NJ-Buckeye said:
Screwed
Cleared the first 10 inches
The next 2 inches of snow are now covered in solid ice..
can't chisel into it... seems impervious to salt
and first day projected to be over 40 is mid Feb
WTF

Update
Just spent 6 hours chiseling out
Great job if I must say so
Had to.. because whatever it looks like right now is what it will look like till March
Ain't no thawing in sight
And the bastard weather dude that just said another storm could come next Saturday
should rot
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I had a weed burner/flame thrower going

We be fucked this winter.
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