With only two practices left in the spring, including the first Ohio State spring game at Cincinnati’s Paul Brown Stadium on Saturday, the competition continues at right tackle.Not that coach Urban Meyer considers that a good thing.
Asked after practice yesterday who the starter would be, Taylor Decker or Chase Farris, he didn’t mince words.
“I don’t know yet,” Meyer said. Further, “That’s real bothersome to me. That’s real bothersome to our coaches, too.”
For clarification, Meyer said, “Decker is a guy who is breaking the huddle with the (starters) right now, and he certainly has the ability to be the right tackle.”
But this deep into the spring, Meyer doesn’t have the vibe he would expect from an offensive line that has four starters returning from last season. Left tackle Jack Mewhort, left guard Andrew Norwell, center Corey Linsley and right guard Marcus Hall are seniors who improved from game to game in 2012.
“The offensive line kind of set a nice little standard last year — I felt we were the best offensive line in the Big Ten,” Meyer said. “And as of practice number (13), we’re not right now.”
Linsley has a sore foot, just as he had much of last season, so Meyer has made him watch a lot of practice while Jacoby Boren and Pat Elflein do most of the snapping.
“I pull out Jack Mewhort a little bit once in a while, so we don’t have the chemistry that that group had a year ago,” Meyer said.
