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LB Joe Burger (Official Thread)

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Greyshirts also cannot practice with the team.

Redshirts are implied automatically at the end of the season. If you didn't take the field, you didn't use any eligibility that year. Everybody gets five years to play four.
 
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Dryden;2363875; said:
Greyshirts also cannot practice with the team.

Redshirts are implied automatically at the end of the season. If you didn't take the field, you didn't use any eligibility that year. Everybody gets five years to play four.
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Which is strange because Joe's profile says that he didn't see the field last year http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/joe_burger_807764.html yet he was not given a redshirt as far as I can tell.
 
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My guess is that guys are probably pressing, making a lot of mental mistakes b/c of fatigue. I'm sure it's as much mentally exhausting as physical for these new guys coming in. I could see them hitting a wall w/ the combo of the two. A lot tougher in my opinion to break the rotation as a freshman on this defense than a guy trying to get some touches on offense.

If you are explosive, they will design a few plays for you on offense. "Don't get tackled. Now go play"....lol

If you don't know the calls and know where you are supposed to be on defense, you can't play.
 
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In high school most of these guys dominated the people they were across from every time, even in practice. That kind of thing keeps you from expending 100% every play, even in two-a-days.

This happens the opposite way for most at big schools, let alone The Ohio State University. That takes a lot out of a kid, even the really smart ones like Mike Mitchell. They'll be fine just have to adjust.

Meanwhile, excellent news for Joe Burger! :oh:
 
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Josh Perry was getting most of the love regarding Mariotti's strength program, however:

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OHIO STATE SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK JOE BURGER EARNS TOP RECOGNITION FOR THWARTING INDIANA FAKE PUNT ATTEMPT

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It's not often the Columbus media gets a chance to speak with the special teams player of the week under Urban Meyer — especially when that player is a walk-on.

"We try not to refer to him as a walk-on in that way because they're not. Him, Craig Fada, there's no difference between those guys and anybody else," co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Luke Fickell said Monday. "That's the beautiful thing."

The guy Fickell referred to is Joe Burger, a junior from Cincinnati LaSalle High School who along with his roommate Fada have made an impact on Ohio State's special teams often in 2015.

Burger's latest act, the halting of a fake punt ran by Indiana in Ohio State's 34-27 victory Saturday, earned him special teams player of the week honors from his head coach.

"The black shirt, who is the player of the game on special teams, was Joe Burger, obviously stopped a fake punt for us and a very important guy on punt block and KOR," Meyer said Monday.

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Burger hardly ever makes press clippings, but did Saturday when he denied the Hoosiers a first down on 4th-and-1 from their own 11-yard line. At the time the Buckeyes trailed 10-3, and Burger's stop put Ohio State's offense in stellar field position for its next drive. The Buckeyes kicked a field goal.

"Actually going through film, (special teams) coach (Kerry) Coombs was going through the different looks and different fake opportunities that they had and one of them was that exact look that they showed on Saturday," Burger said Monday. "When the play happened, it was almost like, 'Is this real? Are they showing that exact look?' Having that familiarity and practice with it, was one of the reasons we were able to stop that play."

Indiana head coach Kevin Wilson attributed the ugly error to a miscommunication between his staff and his punter, Erich Toth.

"We had something up, and unfortunately the way we done it, we had the ability to go a couple directions and we kind of practiced it in a direction where all of a sudden we got a look and we called it to go the other way and unfortunately it didn't get communicated," Wilson said after the game. "Basically, Erich just busted, just busted on the right, and we blocked — it was kind of set up and he just made a mistake."

It looked bad, but Burger did his job and capitalized on Toth's blunder.

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Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...r-earns-top-recognition-for-thwarting-indiana
 
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