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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
THE TWO APPRENTICES. Justin Fields and Trevor Lawrence were two of the highest-rated quarterback prospects ever coming out of high school, and just happened to be in the same recruiting class, live less than 20 miles from one another and share the same private quarterbacks coach, Ron Veal.
Their rise as prospects began in north Georgia communities, separated by only 20 miles, where they were influenced by the same private quarterbacks coach.
“He’s helped me for a long time,” Fields said. “I would definitely give him a lot of credit from where my quarterback skills come from.”
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At times, he still trains Fields. Like when Fields returned to north Georgia this past May and sought to improve his footwork at the encouragement of Day.
Fields went through about a half-dozen sessions with Veal.
“If you need me, I’m here, like a resource, like a library,” Veal said. “If you need something, let’s see if we can work it out and get it right. That’s my philosophy."
It's wild that Lawrence and Fields spent their entire high school careers 20 miles apart and were compared endlessly throughout the recruiting process, and yet the first time they ever actually meet on the field is 1,800 miles away in Arizona.
Regardless, that is one hell of a track record for Veal, even if it is 100 percent by chance. And he apparently comes Ryan Day approved, which I always wonder about with these private quarterback trainers.
Here's hoping he helped prepare Fields just a litttttttttle bit better.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Holy Shit!!! That's Braxton Miller!!!
BRAXTON MAKING MOVES. It looks like Braxton Miller is hopping into the television commercial game, and in totally unsurprising news, he managed to do his first ad without saying a damn thing.
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...hio-states-hoops-walk-ons-and-fields-baseball
Re: he managed to do his first ad without saying a damn thing
Well, he is (sort of) singing along....
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Don Muenz
Kill the blow. Let the devil sort them out.
Doctor Frankenfootballstein, please make us a quarterback with....
the moves of Braxton
the leadership and courage of J.T.
the power arm and running of Cardale
the reads and accuracy of Haskins................
Might that just be Justin Fields?
the moves of Braxton
the leadership and courage of J.T.
the power arm and running of Cardale
the reads and accuracy of Haskins................
Might that just be Justin Fields?
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TampaBuckeyes
Assistant Coach
I don't think the game will be close in the 4th. Not sure who the winner is, but one defense is going to get tired and the other is going to get stronger.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ryan Day Wants Underdog Buckeyes to Believe They Can Win
For the first time in 16 games as a head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Ryan Day is an underdog.
Clemson is favored by two points over OSU as the two teams prepare for the College Football Playoff semifinal in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday.
The Tigers are defending national champions and come into this game having won 28 games in a row.
Twenty-five of those games have been won by two touchdowns or more.
Even though Ohio State comes into the Fiesta Bowl as the No. 2 seed and Clemson the No. 3 seed in the CFP semis, it is the Tigers who are the overwhelming favorites according to those on the outside looking in.
The Buckeyes have seen the doubters and heard the dismissive warble regarding their chances against the mighty Clemson Tigers.
Of course, Ohio State has played quite well this season and there is no need for them to take a back set to anybody.
And yet here they are, getting set to face their toughest foe of the season and being expected by many to lose.
Despite a rough first half against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, the Buckeyes might still be pretty decent.
“The first thing is you have to believe, you have to believe that you belong as national champs. Then you go from there,” Buckeye head coach Ryan Day said.
Ohio State currently leads the nation in scoring at 48.7 points per game, and is tied for second in scoring defense at 12.5 point per game allowed. They are also fifth in total offense and second in total defense, so maybe this thought that Day is carrying around about the Buckeyes being able to win this thing isn’t so preposterous.
“Our preparation doesn’t need to change in terms of what we’ve done to this point,” he said. “We don’t need guys to do extraordinary things. We need them to continue what they’re doing.”
Day knows the talent is there. He has seen it every day in practice and 13 times on the field on Saturdays this season. But he also knows that it is going to take the Buckeyes’ very best effort to get the win.
A slow start would be a bad idea. Turnovers would be a killer. Penalties to keep drives alive cannot happen.
But more than anything else, you can’t hold anything back.
“The most important thing, at any cost, whatever it takes to win, you do,” he said. “Everybody has to be willing to do whatever it takes. Selfishness can’t be in the way at this point. It has to be everybody onboard doing everything they can to win every play. You talk about every yard mattering, every first down mattering, every series mattering, that’s going to be the case here.”
Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/12/ryan-day-wants-underdog-buckeyes-believe-can-win/
‘You want to be in rare air, here we go’
Survive and Adapt
Upon Ohio State’s arrival in the desert on Sunday, Buckeye head coach Ryan Day talked about the issues that this current bowl timeline provides and how it compresses the time between the conference championship game and the College Football Playoff Semifinals.
Being that this was his first playoff appearance, he didn’t really have anything to go on in terms of difference.
That is not the case for Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney, whose Tigers have been in the playoffs each of the last five seasons.
“I just tried to rely on past experience, but it was very different,” Swinney said. “It was actually something I put a lot of thought into really last May. I do a calendar every year, kind of a 13-month calendar, July through the next August. And I always plan – I just plan like we’re going to win it all. And then if we don’t get there, we’ll adjust. But I just kind of plan that way.
“And so I actually had to think a lot about it. In fact, I questioned Mike Dooley, my operations guy, when we were first going through the calendar. I’m like, Wait a minute, this can’t be right. I was into December and this was last May. I was going, This isn’t right, but he was right. I argued with him a little while. He was right; I was wrong. We really lost a week this year. It was a strange deal because the championship games were a week later. So it’s very compressed.
“In past years, we have been able to play the championship game, and basically give our players off a week and a half. And then we would start bowl prep and have another week and a half in town before we would break for Christmas.
“So just different. Lost a week, but it’s been great.”
Remember the Past
One of those five playoff appearances for Clemson came in 2016 against Ohio State. The Tigers came away with a 31-0 win, which ended up being the impetus for Urban Meyer hiring Ryan Day.
While Day isn’t interested in visiting that current storyline, he does intend to talk about the past OSU teams who got close, only to come up just short of their ultimate goal
He knows — and so does the team — how hard it was to get to this point, and things aren’t about to get any easier.
“We haven’t talked about that part of it because we hadn’t been to this point yet,” Day said last week. “We didn’t want to get ourselves too far ahead. That is going to be part of the message, though, that if you want to be known as one of the best of all time, be up there with the national champs, you want to be in rare air, here we go, this is the push right here.
“Yeah, that will be part of the message. Not that it really matters with our day-to-day operation. We’re not going to be trying harder or anything else like that. We just got to do a great job of focusing day in, day out, maximizing each day as we can so we’re prepared on the 28th.”
Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/12/buckeye-football-notebook-want-rare-air-go/
For the first time in 16 games as a head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Ryan Day is an underdog.
Clemson is favored by two points over OSU as the two teams prepare for the College Football Playoff semifinal in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday.
The Tigers are defending national champions and come into this game having won 28 games in a row.
Twenty-five of those games have been won by two touchdowns or more.
Even though Ohio State comes into the Fiesta Bowl as the No. 2 seed and Clemson the No. 3 seed in the CFP semis, it is the Tigers who are the overwhelming favorites according to those on the outside looking in.
The Buckeyes have seen the doubters and heard the dismissive warble regarding their chances against the mighty Clemson Tigers.
Of course, Ohio State has played quite well this season and there is no need for them to take a back set to anybody.
And yet here they are, getting set to face their toughest foe of the season and being expected by many to lose.
Despite a rough first half against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, the Buckeyes might still be pretty decent.
“The first thing is you have to believe, you have to believe that you belong as national champs. Then you go from there,” Buckeye head coach Ryan Day said.
Ohio State currently leads the nation in scoring at 48.7 points per game, and is tied for second in scoring defense at 12.5 point per game allowed. They are also fifth in total offense and second in total defense, so maybe this thought that Day is carrying around about the Buckeyes being able to win this thing isn’t so preposterous.
“Our preparation doesn’t need to change in terms of what we’ve done to this point,” he said. “We don’t need guys to do extraordinary things. We need them to continue what they’re doing.”
Day knows the talent is there. He has seen it every day in practice and 13 times on the field on Saturdays this season. But he also knows that it is going to take the Buckeyes’ very best effort to get the win.
A slow start would be a bad idea. Turnovers would be a killer. Penalties to keep drives alive cannot happen.
But more than anything else, you can’t hold anything back.
“The most important thing, at any cost, whatever it takes to win, you do,” he said. “Everybody has to be willing to do whatever it takes. Selfishness can’t be in the way at this point. It has to be everybody onboard doing everything they can to win every play. You talk about every yard mattering, every first down mattering, every series mattering, that’s going to be the case here.”
Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/12/ryan-day-wants-underdog-buckeyes-believe-can-win/
‘You want to be in rare air, here we go’
Survive and Adapt
Upon Ohio State’s arrival in the desert on Sunday, Buckeye head coach Ryan Day talked about the issues that this current bowl timeline provides and how it compresses the time between the conference championship game and the College Football Playoff Semifinals.
Being that this was his first playoff appearance, he didn’t really have anything to go on in terms of difference.
That is not the case for Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney, whose Tigers have been in the playoffs each of the last five seasons.
“I just tried to rely on past experience, but it was very different,” Swinney said. “It was actually something I put a lot of thought into really last May. I do a calendar every year, kind of a 13-month calendar, July through the next August. And I always plan – I just plan like we’re going to win it all. And then if we don’t get there, we’ll adjust. But I just kind of plan that way.
“And so I actually had to think a lot about it. In fact, I questioned Mike Dooley, my operations guy, when we were first going through the calendar. I’m like, Wait a minute, this can’t be right. I was into December and this was last May. I was going, This isn’t right, but he was right. I argued with him a little while. He was right; I was wrong. We really lost a week this year. It was a strange deal because the championship games were a week later. So it’s very compressed.
“In past years, we have been able to play the championship game, and basically give our players off a week and a half. And then we would start bowl prep and have another week and a half in town before we would break for Christmas.
“So just different. Lost a week, but it’s been great.”
Remember the Past
One of those five playoff appearances for Clemson came in 2016 against Ohio State. The Tigers came away with a 31-0 win, which ended up being the impetus for Urban Meyer hiring Ryan Day.
While Day isn’t interested in visiting that current storyline, he does intend to talk about the past OSU teams who got close, only to come up just short of their ultimate goal
He knows — and so does the team — how hard it was to get to this point, and things aren’t about to get any easier.
“We haven’t talked about that part of it because we hadn’t been to this point yet,” Day said last week. “We didn’t want to get ourselves too far ahead. That is going to be part of the message, though, that if you want to be known as one of the best of all time, be up there with the national champs, you want to be in rare air, here we go, this is the push right here.
“Yeah, that will be part of the message. Not that it really matters with our day-to-day operation. We’re not going to be trying harder or anything else like that. We just got to do a great job of focusing day in, day out, maximizing each day as we can so we’re prepared on the 28th.”
Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/12/buckeye-football-notebook-want-rare-air-go/
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Systems_id
Head Coach
The closer we get to this game, the more confident I get. Really think the Buckeyes make a statement this Saturday. Not sure why I'm feeling this way.
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Telekinesis
Easily Amused by the Bitterly Disappointed
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
Hope we all get fat and happy and then watch the Bucks deliver a colossal curb-stomping to Clemson.
Hope we all get fat and happy and then watch the Bucks deliver a colossal curb-stomping to Clemson.
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