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2023 Season: Are You Ready For Some Football?



Besides Youngstown State being a FCS team; generally the most improvement is from week 1 to week 2. I'm really optimistic on significant offensive improvement for the Youngstown State game.

I was going to mention this very same thing. I think we could see a 20-24 250yds and 3 TD kind of day for McCord and Devin get 10-15 passes as well. I want a shutout from our Defense and no big plays given up, that's 20yds or more. Improvement on both lines of scrimmage and then the same thing the following week and we'll be ready for the Irish. I'm not nearly as knee-jerk as some folks but they are entitled to their opinions just as I am so here we are.
 
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Give me your concern level with the team units after 2 games. And yes it's early, you got something else to talk about on a message board?

QB - we good. Kyle is QB1

RB - need more Chip but Trey looked better today

WR/TE - We good

OL - Very concerned

DL - Concerned

LB - we good

DB- I think we are getting better

K/P - decent

Coaching - concerned
 
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ONLY THREE PLAYS ALLOWED OVER 30 YARDS

RUSHING YARDS PER CARRY STUMBLING AT 5.1 PER TRY BUT...

OPPONENTS AVERAGING JUST 149 PASS YARDS PER GAME

OFFENSE LEANING HEAVILY ON PASS BUT YARDS PER PLAY DOWN

ISO: EXPLOSIVE OFFENSIVE PLAYS

 
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Who was Ohio State’s MVP from the first month of the season?

The default answer for this type of question is always going to be the quarterback, and I do think that Kyle McCord has proven himself to have what it takes to be an incredible leader, but, for me, I don’t think that he’s at MVP status just yet. He might be by the end of the season, but he’s not there yet, in my opinion.

So, where do you go from here? Personally, I would go to the other side of the ball. And while Tyleik Williams, Tommy Eichenberg, and Lathan Ransom are all having really good seasons leading their respective units, to me the answer is clearly Denzel Burke.

After everything he went through last year — between injuries, poor play, critical backlash — to do the work to get healthy, to continue to work on his craft, and to focus on the future is really impressive. All of that effort has proven to be invaluable for the Buckeyes and helped to turn their defense into one of the stoutest units in all of college football. Obviously, they will be tested far more as the season progresses — including this weekend against Maryland — but for now, I don’t know how you can’t just be ecstatic about the progress of the defense, and especially the cornerbacks.

Who was Ohio State's MVP from the first month of the season?​

  • Denzel Burke
  • Tommy Eichenberg
  • Emeka Egbuka
  • TreVeyon Henderson
  • Kyle McCord
  • Lathan Ransom
  • Cade Stover
  • Tyleik Williams
Just sayin': I'd vote for Kyle McCord.
 
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Who was Ohio State’s MVP from the first month of the season?

The default answer for this type of question is always going to be the quarterback, and I do think that Kyle McCord has proven himself to have what it takes to be an incredible leader, but, for me, I don’t think that he’s at MVP status just yet. He might be by the end of the season, but he’s not there yet, in my opinion.

So, where do you go from here? Personally, I would go to the other side of the ball. And while Tyleik Williams, Tommy Eichenberg, and Lathan Ransom are all having really good seasons leading their respective units, to me the answer is clearly Denzel Burke.

After everything he went through last year — between injuries, poor play, critical backlash — to do the work to get healthy, to continue to work on his craft, and to focus on the future is really impressive. All of that effort has proven to be invaluable for the Buckeyes and helped to turn their defense into one of the stoutest units in all of college football. Obviously, they will be tested far more as the season progresses — including this weekend against Maryland — but for now, I don’t know how you can’t just be ecstatic about the progress of the defense, and especially the cornerbacks.

Who was Ohio State's MVP from the first month of the season?​

  • Denzel Burke
  • Tommy Eichenberg
  • Emeka Egbuka
  • TreVeyon Henderson
  • Kyle McCord
  • Lathan Ransom
  • Cade Stover
  • Tyleik Williams
Just sayin': I'd vote for Kyle McCord.
Burke. Everyone on that list has played amazingly, but Burke is the one we needed the most to perform and he has.
 
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Kyle McCord's final pass as an Ohio State Buckeye was caught by a Michigan Wolverine.

It was his 406th and final passing attempt for his now-former team. A little over a week later McCord abruptly entered the transfer portal, converting that interception into the cruel exclamation point a three-year journey toward becoming the first starting Ohio State quarterback in a dozen years who didn't scare anyone.

Nothing, including rivalry dominance, lasts forever - so the streak of Heisman candidates/offensive players of the year/Silver Football winners under center was bound to end. McCord - let's type this into existence - becomes what should be a blip in a decades-long progression of 1st round picks coming out of Columbus.

Being a serviceable quarterback in what's become a QB factory is a crime McCord could commit on nearly any other campus without absorbing charges. Statistically he was 1998 Joe Germaine, which in the contextual scheme of college football made him 25 years too late. College football was a whole different sport in its first millennium.

MCCORD'S NEXT COLLEGE PASS WILL BE INTENDED FOR A SYRACUSE TEAMMATE WHO WOULD NOT BE A CANDIDATE FOR OHIO STATE'S 85-MAN ROSTER.

McCord lost his place in the Ryan Day QB lineage in the margins, which is unfortunately how Day’s teams tend to lose their biggest football trials. His first throw against Michigan was an exceptionally-schemed 3rd down play designed to gut the Wolverines.

And it nearly did, except McCord's ball placement was low and behind Emeka Egbuka, who was unable to corral it in the seam. Maybe if Egbuka hadn't missed time nursing injuries he would have still had the rhythm and connectivity with his quarterback that was on display at Notre Dame. Perhaps the whole game looks different if that one forgotten sequence - it doesn't show up in any of the highlight packages - goes McCord's way.

Unfortunately, he was three years into the system and 11 games into the season. An Ohio State quarterback has to make that throw, and if we learned anything about McCord in 2023 it's that he often needs a half of missing those throws to start making them.

thank god for bourbon

1997: An even worse GIF than the one above.
His second pass was a checkdown to TreVeyon Henderson and his third was a screen to Xavier Johnson. McCord's head coach, position coach and play caller (these are all the same person, which is an entirely different issue) knew their third-year five-star QB needs safe completions to accelerate his slow starts and shaky confidence.

McCord's fourth pass is what you quickly scrolled past to reach these words. A tepid attempt - that’s being nice, it was negligent - at selling an RPO while laser-locked onto his high school teammate before throwing the most interceptable ball seen in this game since the two Stanley Jackson gift-wrapped while ceding the margin of victory, the Heisman and the Rose Bowl to Michigan with Germaine stuck on Ohio State's sideline.

McCord threw a ball that could not be thrown under any circumstance, especially after telegraphing his intentions to 110,615 people and both teams. Sure, Marv could have made more of an attempt to put some concealer on McCord's latest blemish. His position group was leaned on all year for this task, especially over the first 30 minutes each Saturday.

 
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