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

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footballfanatic said:
I think I'm damning him with faint praise, but he seems more like a medium-level threat. Troy Smith and Ginn are the ones that make you hold your breath when they have the ball. Of course, Pittman could have a breakout year, but do you expect Wells to come in and wrest the postion away this year?
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Does he have the talent to? Yes.
Will he? No.

Tressel loves his upperclassmen, and I don't think has shown any frustration over the current state of the running game to resort to changing any of his strategies right now. We don't need a "great" back to get Ws, just a "very good" one who can pull their own weight, and most importantly under Tressel, pass protect.

Wells has the upside to be a truly "great" back, but I don't think there's the urge or need to throw him out there like Clarett in 2002. There are several capable RBs in the wings already.
 
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footballfanatic said:
I think I'm damning him with faint praise, but he seems more like a medium-level threat. Troy Smith and Ginn are the ones that make you hold your breath when they have the ball. Of course, Pittman could have a breakout year, but do you expect Wells to come in and wrest the postion away this year?
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Pittman had a breakout year last year, it's just the media failed to recognize it. I consider going from less than 400 yards his freshman year to 1,300+ his sophomore year a breakout year. I hope Texas also thinks he's a medium-level threat because they'll be in for a surprise. Wells isn't taking the starting position away from Pittman unless Pitt gets injured, that's it.
 
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bukIpower said:
Buckeye513- What game did you watch on Jan. 2?? What I saw was shut down defense for 3 quarters, and a defense that went into prevent for the 4th quarter. The ND recievers had absolutly no effect on the outcome of the game. If tosu would've blown that game and ND came back and won it would've been our game plan in the 4th quarter that would allow them to do so. I remember we held them to what I think it was 4 or 6 straight 3 and outs. We shut down the run, sacked and hurried the QB so bad that it was a blow out for 3 quarters. The Recievers simply got their yards when we played an extreamly deep zone trying not to give up points quickly. For further proof look at our offense's production the first 3 quarters and look at the last quarter? If you wouldn't of seen the first 3 quarters and only saw the last quarter you'd figure we had the worst offense in the big ten. It was soley time possession Tressel was worried about. He knew that as long as we made them drive the field every single time they wouldn't beat us. Pittman got lucky in the 4th quarter on a perfectly executed time killing stretch play. If not for Pittmans' TD the blowout score as shown 35-21 would've been a blow out score of 28-21 because the score didn't indicate how badly we DOMINATED ND.
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I don't see what our offensive production, ball possession, the pressure we put on Brady Quinn, our 4th quarter game plan, and the rest of your irrelevent bullshit has to do with the production of their receivers, besides, you know, nothing. Look at the numbers that I posted. 20 catches for 237 yards doesn't qualify as being "shut down", especially seeing as how the 3 receivers average 14 catches for 231 yards.

Btw, "shut down the run"? What game did you watched on January 2nd? Walker went 16 for 90 (5.6 YPC) and 3 TDs. Shut down the run? Not really.
 
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I don't see what their size has to do with anything, other than their best two WR's happen to be tall. The diminuitive Shelton was just as (if not more) consistent as Samardzija. The minny game saw size come into play... not the fiesta bowl.
 
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jwinslow said:
I don't see what their size has to do with anything, other than their best two WR's happen to be tall. The diminuitive Shelton was just as (if not more) consistent as Samardzija. The minny game saw size come into play... not the fiesta bowl.
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think prescott burgess v winfield... and when i say think, its more like nightmere
 
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jwinslow said:
buckeyerob, xray does not speak for everyone. I'm still waiting for an example of where OSU stacked the box with 8-9 guys (never mind that our secondary will be fairly green in Austin).
:rofl: I suppose that puts a new twist on who will have to forfeit due to heat
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How much OSu football have you watched? I know that I have seen Mike Doss and Nickey creeping in to the box REPEATEDLY throughout there careers.
 
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NFBuck said:
Peppering any argument with a players * ranking is as flawed as you can get. Let's not forget a certain LB that just wrapped up one of the most distinguished careers at tOSU was a 3* recruit. Just saying...
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And Hawk wasnt the same guy in game 2 that he was in his senior season either! Take the comment in the CONTEXT it was communicated for pete sake!!
 
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1998 would be the closest we came to that. Richard Walton was a junior or senior but had only seen time in mop up duty. Major Applewhite was a RS FR, and got the starting job after the UCLA game. Major went on to have a very good year, but I realize that was a classic case of being the exception and not the rule.
 
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How Many Touchdowns did Notre Dame have 513?????? As far as I'm concerned as long as we hold them to NO touchdowns through the air we did our job. You can throw all the numbers you want out there man but the fact the matter is we played PREVENT DEFENSE the last quarter. If you know what prevent is then you'll know its very very soft coverage. Primarily to avoid big plays and keep everything in front of them which they did. The secondary did what was asked that game. I can see if you were to complain about the coaching scheme cuz I wasn't thrilled about our prevent in the 2nd half, but the players did as told.
 
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footballfanatic said:
I think I'm damning him with faint praise, but he seems more like a medium-level threat. Troy Smith and Ginn are the ones that make you hold your breath when they have the ball. Of course, Pittman could have a breakout year, but do you expect Wells to come in and wrest the postion away this year?
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I don't think of Pittman as a RB that will make plays happen by himself. Rather, when the blocks are there and the line does their job, Pittman will make his move and it will hurt you...badly. While #25 does not make the eye-popping plays that Smith or Ginn could, he silently bleeds defenses with consecutive 1st down conversions and so forth.

On a personality level, I think Pittman has garnered a lot of support and appreciation from our fanbase because he doesn't seem like a flash-and-dash superstar. He's only the third sophmore in tOSU history to get over 1000 yards in a season, and all because of hard work and determination.

Chris Wells is in no way going to usurp Pittman's starting position (especially after Antonio put up 1,331 yards last season). But IMO the combination of the two will be particularly effective. Needless to say, its a nice problem to have (which is why the only thing we've been arguing about as of late is our uniform :wink2:).
 
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