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Could Ohio State beat the Oakland Raiders?

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Could Ohio State beat the Raiders?

  • Yes, they're that bad

    Votes: 12 19.0%

  • No, you can't compare

    Votes: 51 81.0%
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Add me to the "no chance" group.

Who's going to cover Moss? Who's going to get any kind of pass rush? Who's going to block Sapp? etc., etc...

There is no way a college team would compete. Athletically, we may compete at only one or two positions on the field (i;e Ginn may be faster than the guy covering him), but a pro's experience would beat our player nine out of ten plays. The rest of the positions, we would be athletically out matched by pros who have been living the full time life of an athlete, instead of the part time athletic life that a college player lives...Men against boys...No Chance...
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF;639410; said:
Not that I think it would happen this way now days....

In 1934 the NFL Champion Chicago Bears played the first ever college All-Star team to a scoreless tie.
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I heard that some NFL team from that era lost to a college All-Star team.

Differences, besides the fact that 1934 is very different from 2006, is that it was the college all-star team, not just one team. Also, the pro team(s) may not have been playing for anything. What do they care? And the college teams are the huge underdog. What do they have to lose?

Take the best college teams ever. Pick any team. How many of those players ended up in the NFL? And how many of those players ended up playing? And of those players, how many were starters? And for how long? NFL teams (even the Raiders) are made up of players who were absolute studs in college. Or, in the case of guys who didn't do much in college and became diamonds in the rough, could you imagine what they would do, single-handedly, on a college football team?

No college team in the past 20+ years (you old-timers will have to be the ones to extend that time-frame) could compete with any NFL team in the same period.
 
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if they did play, i know ohio state would have the fastest player on the field....id like to see him match up with Griffin

id also like to see Gholston goin up against Robert gallery...

but when it all comes down to it, Oakland would run the ball all over this team, and Aaron Brooks, or whoever is behind center would pick apart the secondary....

Malcolm Jenkins is great...but he couldnt hold Randy Moss's jock.....yet
 
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I'm not gonna lie, any NFL team would kill tOSU in a game.



With that being said, how do you think the 2002 NC team, reassembled with the players as they are today, could compete with a Oakland? Or in other words, if you got together all the guys from the team now in about 4 years, do you think they could compete with an NFL team after a few more years to grow and develop?
 
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ScarletBlood31 said:
I'm not gonna lie, any NFL team would kill tOSU in a game.



With that being said, how do you think the 2002 NC team, reassembled with the players as they are today, could compete with a Oakland? Or in other words, if you got together all the guys from the team now in about 4 years, do you think they could compete with an NFL team after a few more years to grow and develop?
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No...not deep enough.
 
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Another point is that our passing game would be NIL. NFL corners would jam the hell out of Teddy on the line of scrimmage, he's just too small. He'd have to be in motion every time to get past the 5-yard contact zone. The only receiver I could see consistantly getting into the secondary without being slowed/jammed is Roy Hall because of his size, but NFL corners are too fast for him to even get open, and there's probably 15-20 NFL LB's that could run with him

Also, the game is won and lost in the trenches, there's no way our OL could pass or run block, and the DL gets no pressure all day.
 
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