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This goes back to people taking this entirely too seriously in their lives. And when certain social media/Bucknuts contributors says this fanbase is "smart", I laugh.
No one on the internet, not even the dirt sheets, see every rep, see every film session, etc. Day may have said some things that people read wayyyyyy to much into, but in the end the coaches absolutely knew what was likely to happen during this game. Add in an uber-vanilla game plan and a first time starter behind a remade offensive line and you get what you got.
It's not going to happen overnight and, surprisingly, teams actually get better as the season progresses.
Acting like the season is lost or a 3 loss season is a virtual guarantee is the height of dumbfuckery and the exact reason why this fanbase is viewed as being super toxic.
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RugbyBuck
Our church has no bells.
I think my biggest and fundamental issue is that much of what we’ve seen through the spring/summer and now in the first game could’ve been already been addressed, at least as to QB, by actually having played them, or at least McCord, last season. If he’s gotten “meaningful snaps” like Brown was supposed to get Saturday, we’d already know what we have or don’t. Not playing them made no sense last year and makes even less now. That was purely a head coach decision and he’ll have to live with the consequences. Stroud was definitely going pro so there was no chance that either McCord or Brown would be the starter. I don’t see how you defend that. We shouldn’t have to be figuring out the QB and offense ahead of ND, but here we are.
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You reached pretty far for that one. You completely added your own context to it.
It means they see these guys everyday running the same offense. They chose to roll with one primarily over the other. What do you think us seeing it will do?
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Captain Buckeye
Legend
So one game and they’re totaling writing the OL off lol.
This OL will be fine it’s been one damn game. Our lowest scoring OL was Donnie Jackson. Bottom line is they need to play better and particularly our interior has to be what we think they are which is the backbone of the offense.
I’m honestly really comfortable with 4 of the 5. If we can get the left side of the line to perform we are fine.
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Now that I'm rethinking things I can't see how our passing game is not unstoppable by the middle of the season with the sheer amount of weapons and combinations we have to stress the defenses. The Oline getting better each week will be the key to everything as we already know but I think the formations and variety of play calling will help them with that as well. We're going to end up being really good even after all of the freaking out over Saturday.
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Said before the season that Simmons was the weak link on the line. That’s not good when it’s your QBs blind side. They were keeping guys in to assist there, which was anticipated.
If Frye can put this line together, I think it will be a testament to him as a coach. Oline recruiting has to get better, which ultimately is why Frye was brought in.
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scarletngray
Gold Pants
Btw, with all the talk about Simmons and false starts, he did not have a single one on Saturday. I can't remember any holding calls on the OL either though Stover got one. Kudos to Josh!
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Skull Session: Ohio State's Offense Needs to Improve Quickly, Marvin Harrison Jr.'s Injury Scare Gave JSN Flashbacks and Denzel Burke is Ohio State's "Buck of the Week"
Ohio State's offense must improve before the Notre Dame game, Marvin Harrison Jr.'s injury scare gave flashbacks to JSN last season and Denzel Burke is the "Buck of the Week."
McCord's future efforts – and the future performances of the Ohio State offense, for that matter – could directly correlate to the performance of the Buckeyes' offensive line. According to Pro Football Focus, the slobs had a bad, bad day on Saturday and allowed seven quarterback pressures to the Hoosiers' defense.
Just sayin': I would have expected that the 2 returning guys would have graded out the highest; well, that didn't happen.....
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