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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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#10Troy Smith said:
What the situation where he led us to the nat. Champs?
If you mean accept money and stuff from a booster, that is incredibly stupid because he isn't Maurice Clarett. He is his own person.
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I'm sorry.. What?
 
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UTMNC said:
For all the accolades being showered on Chris Wells,(I'll admit rightly so), might his blocking skills, or rather lack there of, prevent him from getting more carries early in the season, particularly the Texas game where the UT defense is sure to use a variety of blitz packages in order to pressure T. Smith. For someone like Wells who was not asked to perfect his blocking technique in H.S., this could be a problem and a big concern early on.
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I think you'll see CWells get a lot of carries down in the red zone. OSU had trouble punching it in last year. Wells can move the pile.
 
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Dryden said:
We've got a backfield with Pittman, Wells, and Wells, plus a pretty good scrambler in Troy, two returning FBs with experience, and what may be the biggest, best O-Line since Eddie was running behind Orlando Pace.

And we score a one-yard TD by throwing a fade to Ginn? :slappy:

If JT ever actually called that play, he'd get an A+ for creativity.
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Tressel called fades to Jenkins on the goal line...
 
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Dryden said:
Penton, Patterson and Pitcock are exclusively DTs, and all three are three-time varsity lettermen. I don't know that the rotation favored any specific player on a given side in 2005, as the line could routinely switch between the 4-3 and 3-4, though much of that flexibility was attributable to Bobby Carpenter, who could line up as a DE in the 3-4, similar to the way Vrabel is used with the Patriots.
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Patterson sometimes lines up for a snap or two at DE early on.



Dryden said:
The 4-3/3-4 option should still be in play in 2006 with Marcus Freeman taking over Carp's role at SLB.
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Freeman's at the Will. Laurinitis is at the Sam.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
Tressel called fades to Jenkins on the goal line...
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No shit. :roll1:

Jenkins was 4-inches taller and 35-lbs heavier as a Buckeye than Ginn. The teams Jenkins was on had J Wells for one year, Clarett for half of the next, and Ross for one. The team Ginn will be on will have T Smith, Pittman, Wells and Wells all in the backfield.

The fade made sense when Jenkins was here. It doesn't make sense to use Ginn's talent (speed) to sprint a maximum of 10-yards for a fade route, especially when there are are at least three legit options in the backfield (all at the same time) to carry the ball 1-yard. Heck, TG-II at QB for the direct snap makes more sense than having him run a fade route.

Hall or Frost on a fade route? Sure. Ginn? No way. Anyway, I think you missed the point of my post. If this 2006 team has to resort to throwing fades to one of their shortest receivers to score a TD from the 1-yard line, they're screwed.
 
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#10Troy Smith said:
What the situation where he led us to the nat. Champs?
If you mean accept money and stuff from a booster, that is incredibly stupid because he isn't Maurice Clarett. He is his own person.
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I think he means the situation where an otherwise regular kid with remarkable athletic ability was overdosed with a sudden rush of accolades and national attention. ESPN interviews, a hundred thousand on their feet chanting his name, and whatnot. There's nothing stupid about noting that that kind of obsequious back-patting can turn a kid. Not every kid, of course, but it happens.
 
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