Game Thread Kent State at tOSU, Sept. 19th, 12pm ET, FOX

[Thump]

I’d give anything for a swensons where I live.

My view of the game. Defense is an unknown, they were generally unchallenged and if not for that int it’s a shut out. A few things to note is that we still couldn’t get after the QB, we aren’t playing Wilder still, but the LB rotation is getting figured out because I saw much more Pettijohn instead of Pierce. It seems that James is more willing to play the talent than Larry is. I’d like to see more of Perez at DT too but doubtful it’ll happen.

Offense where to begin. They quit playing about 4 drives into the game after getting up 3 scores. They scored touchdowns on 2 fourth down conversions, failed on two other fourth down conversions, played too many tight ends again, and could not break a run longer than 15 or so yards. You add that to some miscommunications throwing the ball and it was a less than inspiring game offensively.

As it stands I’m not going to expect fire works again in a TEMU (talent equated match up) until I see it happen. I don’t know if the offense has regressed but Julian just looks off.

To the point where I’m pretty sure if this continues he’ll be back next year.

I’m more confident in the defense by far than I am with the offense.

Isn’t Wilder nicked up per Coach?

 

[buckeyebri]

OuR Buckeyes have developed a team chemistry yet, a team cohesiveness.

Not having been able to see the game and reading through both threads it seems the team needs some time to jell. This makes sense given the nature of how many new faces we have. It may also be a new reality of the NIL era where your players don’t grow up in the system together and build that trust and confidence in the player next to them.

 

[BuckeyesGunn]

Cardale chimes in on Sayin. Wow. Imagine him seeing this: