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2012 Offensive Line ( O-Line ) Discussion

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lvbuckeye;2224940; said:
rushing stats:

Ohio State: 204
M*ch*g*n State: 34.

'nough said. GREAT job by the big guys up front. only thing that kept this game from being a blowout was the 3 turnovers.
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I believe all three turnovers was inside their 35 yd line and one around the 25 yd. line. That's at least 9 additional pts. We should have won anywhere from 10 to 22 pts. had it not been for the turnovers. But, give the Spartan's credit, they forced the turnovers, with the exception of when Braxton hyper-extended his knee.

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From the outside looking in from a fan of a conference rival whom you are hosting this weekend, I'm thinking your O-line is just fine. I'm also thinking they will shove our D-line off the LOS with relative ease this weekend.

With Ed Warriner coming in you can look forward to fielding awesome O-lines for the foreseeable future.
 
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I wonder if the OL will grade out to be a champion this week. After a few stellar performances the past couple of games, there were numerous hurries on Braxton, who I thought wasn't at his best in this game during the time he was playing. Need a better performance against PSU next week.
 
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ant80;2239515; said:
I wonder if the OL will grade out to be a champion this week. After a few stellar performances the past couple of games, there were numerous hurries on Braxton, who I thought wasn't at his best in this game during the time he was playing. Need a better performance against PSU next week.
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While I think our OL should rise to the challenge, Purdue has a very good DL for sure.
 
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Band of Brothers

Garrett Goebel sees the Ohio State offensive line up close every day in practice, so he has sense of their togetherness.

But the defensive tackle chuckled when he recalled that on game day a couple of weeks ago, as the team waited to leave The Blackwell hotel for the walk to the ?skull session? and stadium, he saw the five ? left tackle Jack Mewhort, left guard Marcus Hall, center Corey Linsley, right guard Andrew Norwell and right tackle Reid Fragel ? sitting together.

?It?s pretty funny, they?re sitting there, all five of them next to each other, in their order of where (they line up),? Goebel said.

That was a little odd, but it?s not strange to see the five together.
?All of us, besides Norwell, were in the same recruiting class, but we just adopted him as being in our class,? Hall said. ?We?re just all one.?

It started four years ago, he said, when he, Mewhort, Linsley and Fragel, then a tight end, were on the scout team offense.

?We all had to go against, like, Cam Heyward, Doug Worthington, those type of guys,? Hall said. ?So we?ve been fighting through stuff since we were young. And Norwell (a third-year player), he got right along with us as soon as he got here.?

As might be expected, when they get together away from the football facility, there?s often food involved.

?Monday is our off day, so we?ll just go to Roosters and get some wings, man, and watch Monday Night Football or something, nothing too crazy,? Hall said. ?We
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2012/11/09/offensive-line-is-band-of-brothers.html
 
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Posted: Thursday November 15, 2012
Pete Thamel>INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Leaner, more disciplined offensive line helps drive Buckeyes' success

At Urban Meyer's first team meeting as Ohio State's coach in January, five offensive linemen didn't show up. At the second meeting, two arrived late. "He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we were like, 'Oh jeez, here we go,'" said Ohio State strength coach Mickey Marotti, Meyer's longtime assistant.

So began the transformation of Ohio State football to fit Meyer's outsized personality, and no group epitomizes that change more than the offensive line. A unit that ranked No. 118 nationally in sacks allowed last year has developed into what Meyer now calls the team's identity.

"They were unmotivated guys," Meyer said. "Obviously, they weren't disciplined. They're our most productive group right now. They're completely different human beings."

The big problem, surprisingly, was that the Buckeyes' offensive line was too big. Meyer and Marotti both used the words "fat" and "sloppy" to describe the physical state of the linemen, part of which stemmed from Ohio State's smashmouth offensive scheme under Jim Tressel. But to play in a drastically higher-tempo spread offense, Meyer needed his linemen leaner, quicker and more disciplined. Along the way, he worked to transform the group's attitude as well.

"The way that they approach their whole world is completely different," Meyer said. "They're energy givers now. They sapped every ounce of energy we had back in January and February. They were overweight, sloppy guys."

Much as he's done with the entire team, Meyer's overhaul with the line has been as much mental as it's been physical. He instilled everything from 4:45 a.m. workouts to an emphasis on healthy eating to a maniacal commitment to strength training. The food has improved, as fridges filled with Gatorade line the complex and a full-time nutritionist works exclusively with football players. Bagels, protein bars and fruit are available in abundance. Last year, players say snacks were scarce; water came from the fountain and the Gatorade machine in the locker room always seemed to be broken.

Quarterback Braxton Miller laughed when recalling the dried-out chicken at the team's training table last year: "We'd be like, 'Man, let's go to Chipotle instead.'"

Former Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter trains in Columbus during the offseason. He said the biggest difference from the Tressel regime comes from Meyer's emphasis on hard work in the weight room.

"There's a high level of accountability on a daily basis to maintain weight and a proper diet and proper nutrition," Carpenter said. "That's something I'd never seen before at the college level."

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Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...meyer-offensive-line/index.html#ixzz2CLpDzveO
 
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Buckskin86;2256418; said:
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...meyer-offensive-line/index.html#ixzz2CLpDzveO
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Two things from that article:

1. It's disappointing to hear how "bad" things were last year and presumably in years before that. Not that it's new news, but it'd be fun to see what some of Tressel's teams had been like if the o-line had been in different hands.

2. The salaries in CFB are insane. I understand that's a whole conversation/thread, and the free market drives it, but for a S&C guy to be making as much/more than Doctors and Surgeons is crazy. Not complaining... just something that jumped out at me.
 
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rock454;2256462; said:
1. It's disappointing to hear how "bad" things were last year and presumably in years before that. Not that it's new news, but it'd be fun to see what some of Tressel's teams had been like if the o-line had been in different hands.
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If we had this year's OL and Ginn didn't get hurt in the end zone, I dare say we just may have beaten Florida in Glendale...
 
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rock454;2256462; said:
Two things from that article:

1. It's disappointing to hear how "bad" things were last year and presumably in years before that. Not that it's new news, but it'd be fun to see what some of Tressel's teams had been like if the o-line had been in different hands.

2. The salaries in CFB are insane. I understand that's a whole conversation/thread, and the free market drives it, but for a S&C guy to be making as much/more than Doctors and Surgeons is crazy. Not complaining... just something that jumped out at me.
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  1. Of course things were "bad"...their coach was gone, and all they had to look forward to was the punishment of sanctions.
  2. The good news is that the O-line is in different hands, and the results speak for themselves. Salaries? Simple...you get what you pay for.
:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:
 
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