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footballfanatic said:
are hopelessly overrated.
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boy, you thought, thought, thought some more, and then came up with a real winner! You sure know how to talk some serious smack talk.

Now run back to your scout board, whine about how OSU's lbers are overrated, and we'll get busy finishing this season and having two 1st round LBers while you work to get one drafted.
 
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All I can say is that this was one WEIRD day of football. After the OSU game, then the scUM game and ND-USC game, I'm just plain stunned.

Can anyone explain to me what I just watched? lol

Great post, 8ch. This game proved to be the exception to nearly every football adage I know.
 
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I dont know about you guys, but I thought this was by far the most exciting weekend of college football I have seen in a while. Buckeyes win a hard fought game, Minni Wiscy close right to the end, State Penn vs scUM close to the end, USC-ND close to the end...god I love college football
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Yeah, this was one hell of a weekend. I hate that I actually had to root for scUM. nothing makes my skin crawl more than hoping for a shitweasel win, but it keeps us in the hunt. The ND-USCum game had me jumping, even though the ending left me unsatisfied. Great Saturday. Someone at work here wanted to put the TV on the NLCS, but with the Tribe out, baseball season is over:biggrin: . Lets go whoop some Hoosier ass! I'll be in Bloomington for my first live Buckeye game since '98. Lets go Bucks!
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I must say that yes that was one of the most sureal games I have ever been to. The block and the run back was just insane, and it really got the fans fired back up.

Speaking of the fans, I would have to say over all we might have some of the biggest jerks at times. One I hate when people boo our own players. Thump said to me during the game that MSU must love the fact that over half the stadium is booing their own players. A few qoutes from the people around us. " I just want this game to be over if we gave up 17 in the first half it's going to be a long second half". When Ted Ginn got tackled for a loss on the reverse. " How are you going to call that Tressel, everyone in the stadium knew you were going to call that" Despite the 19 tackles that Hawk had and the 40 overall by the 3 LB's, according to the guy behind Me they were not tackling at all. Overall I think today I heard some of the stupidest comments every today. Thump at one point said that he wished we would have had a tape recorder to tape it all.

Anyone else notice the use of the dry erase board when we were on offense? Smith would come to the sideline, and there would be a coach holding up a Large Dry Erase board with a Number on it and the rest of the offense would look over from the center of the field to see the number. I have never seen us do that before.

As for the bird, I was hoping he would fly up and knock down a drew stanton pass at one point :)

From where we were sitting Thump and I were asking why the hell stanton didn't spike the ball before the field goal. On the drive home I had the Radio on and found out why...wow...wonder how long that specal teams coach keeps his job.

And finally considering I was sick with a 102 temp, I really thought that the fever was getting to Me when I looked at the stats and then saw the score. Glad to see I was wrong and the Stats and score were right :)
 
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buckeyefool said:
From where we were sitting Thump and I were asking why the hell stanton didn't spike the ball before the field goal. On the drive home I had the Radio on and found out why...wow...wonder how long that specal teams coach keeps his job.
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If you haven't seen John L. Smith's halftime interview as he was leaving the field, it was quite entertaining. Jack Arute's walking alongside as Smith is yelling "The kids are playing their hearts out, and the coaches are screwing it up!!".

Now if I was the head coach in that situation, I would want the special teams coach to have the guys ready, but only have him give the go-ahead to rush the field if I give him a hand signal with 3 fingers up, or something like that. The head coach should be in charge of determining when the FG team goes out there. He definitely needs to have the procedures established. He was reaming the special teams coach, but I think John L. needs to take a long look in the mirror and re-think that one.
 
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a few more interesting things today.
1-6 on third down (16.7%)
12 first downs
as mentioned by my count 4 offensive players touched the ball
all four fumbled
we put the ball on the ground 6 times, plus a 7th when smith had his foot on the sideline.

i heard "tresselball" a ton today, and everyone was complaining about it. the reality is what we are seeing is not the tressel ball we saw in 02/03. the good defense great special teams and oppurtunistic offense.

on the passing game, basically we had 5 big plays and very little else. not that there is anything wrong with it but i believe these plays went for 57, 51, 47 and 45 yards.

in the second qtr we had 13 yards of offense.

the deffense played good but missed to many tackles. im sorry but the team tackling was poor. lbs had 19, 11, 10 tackles. WOW.

the deep in was there all day for stanton and msu's smith. he did a great job off reading the cover 2 and zone and exploiting it. stanton played a great game and showed good moxy all things considered.

does anyone else feel like our qb gets outplayed nearly every week?

trapasso had a very good game, even with the shanked punt. he still managed to average 44.5 yards per kick. and he netted a lot of yards too.
 
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Oh8ch said:
MEANINGFUL DISTINCTIONS


B-FREAKIN-ZAR

Mark this date down. You will never again see a game where the Home team runs 41 offensive plays to the visitors 87, fumbles 6 times and loses 4, gives up 456 yards Total Offense - and wins.

A game where you have less TOP than your opponent in every quarter and in each of the first three quarters hold the ball for less than 5 minutes.

A game where your opponent has 456 total yards and gets sacked 12 times (add those yards back into the total and MSU has 514 total yards).

You may never see a game where you have 386 yards without a single sustained drive. A game where your longest drive was six plays and your only visit to the red zone was when you started the drive in the red zone.

You may never see a game were the home team has 386 yards and precisely HALF came on only four plays.
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Great post! This shows exactly why I am so thankful for our stout defense. Michigna State is a perfect example...they played better in most aspects of the game, but gave up (2) big plays which resulted in 14 quick points.

I guess I will stop bitching about the 15 yard cushion that our DB's seem to give every play. :)
 
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Now if I was the head coach in that situation, I would want the special teams coach to have the guys ready, but only have him give the go-ahead to rush the field if I give him a hand signal with 3 fingers up, or something like that. The head coach should be in charge of determining when the FG team goes out there. He definitely needs to have the procedures established. He was reaming the special teams coach, but I think John L. needs to take a long look in the mirror and re-think that one.
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In his post game comments Lewis said they do precisely that. They call 'clock' when they want to spike the ball. They call 'fast field goal' when they want the FG unit out for a quick kick. The job of the special teams coach was to have that unit ready. The HC makes the call on when/if that unit takes the field. Lewis specifically said that he did not call for the FG unit.
 
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Oh8ch said:
In his post game comments Lewis said they do precisely that. They call 'clock' when they want to spike the ball. They call 'fast field goal' when they want the FG unit out for a quick kick. The job of the special teams coach was to have that unit ready. The HC makes the call on when/if that unit takes the field. Lewis specifically said that he did not call for the FG unit.
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In the Grand Rapids paper this morning it said someone yelled "Field Goal" on the sidelines and that is when all hell broke loose. I wonder if someone in the grassy knoll yelled it?

There were also complaints about Smith by the local media because he told the team they are out of the hunt for the B10 title. The press did not take too kindly to giving up on the season.
 
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Oh8ch said:
In his post game comments Lewis said they do precisely that. They call 'clock' when they want to spike the ball. They call 'fast field goal' when they want the FG unit out for a quick kick. The job of the special teams coach was to have that unit ready. The HC makes the call on when/if that unit takes the field. Lewis specifically said that he did not call for the FG unit.
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Thanks, Oh8ch. Sounds like anarchy among the players on the FG unit. Or maybe sabotage, as BinM suggests. :wink2:
 
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heh, I thought the same thing when John L. Smith talked about how "someone" yelled FG (they definitely wanted to spike it). He took the blame, but my money is on the ball boy that has to be on that sideline. If so, he deserves a free helmet filled with buckeyes :)
 
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