OL J.B. Shugarts (official thread)

[woofermazing]

The bye week can not come soon enough for us.

 

[cbrian815]

Gotta wonder if he was hurting us more than helping us in the Wiscondin game?

Hall is out for this season. His backup is a true freshman. I don`t see any viable option other than Browning or Miller. I can`t imagine they would have done better. Watt brought his game of the year mojo.....not sure anyone in the Big 10 was going to slow him down. I did notice that the tackles from Iowa did a good job on him. Go Bucks

 

[cjmik_75]

Gotta wonder if he was hurting us more than helping us in the Wiscondin game?

If he's injured then no doubt it hurts the team. If he's hurting, well you'd be hard pressed not to find a football hurting this time of year. Suck it up and play or play better but if you're hurting so much that your play is a detriment to the team. Well, I would think that's your answer.

Hall is out for this season. His backup is a true freshman. I don`t see any viable option other than Browning or Miller. I can`t imagine they would have done better. Watt brought his game of the year mojo.....not sure anyone in the Big 10 was going to slow him down. I did notice that the tackles from Iowa did a good job on him. Go Bucks

Same thing. No excuses just play ball or get out of the way for the next guy to help the team. Just my 2 cents.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

If he's injured then no doubt it hurts the team. If he's hurting, well you'd be hard pressed not to find a football hurting this time of year. Suck it up and play or play better but if you're hurting so much that your play is a detriment to the team. Well, I would think that's your answer.

I don't think Shugarts is using his injury as an excuse for his play, so your "Suck it up and play or play better" is borderline-bashing. In fact, his being out there while injured speaks of his commitment...

 

[Taosman]

The kid is a warrior and I have no doubt he is hurting big time. Thank goodness for the freshman, Norwell being good. We'll be OK at RT the rest of the season.

 

[cjmik_75]

Sorry didn't mean for it to come off like bashing whatsoever.

My point is if your injury is keeping you from getting better. Then that injury is also keeping the team from getting better. I know first hand how hard it is to play football with injuries and it sucks! More than anything you want to help your team and when you're the best option at your position and you're hurt or hurting it sucks!!! You suck it up and put the work in to get ready for gameday and sometimes that's just not enough. I'm not bashing and if it comes off like that I'm truly sorry.

 

[GomerBucks]

I hope JB can get his body and his mind right. He has been doing better this season about his false starts. Sometimes, however, I can see where a guy who is known as a "jumper" can get beat off the snap when he is too focused on NOT jumping.

He is a good kid and I have spent some time with him. As far as mindsets go, JB is a tough kid.

 

[Tlangs]

I hope JB can get his body and his mind right. He has been doing better this season about his false starts. Sometimes, however, I can see where a guy who is known as a "jumper" can get beat off the snap when he is too focused on NOT jumping.

He is a good kid and I have spent some time with him. As far as mindsets go, JB is a tough kid.

Half of his false starts last year were BS. He was getting off 'on time' with the ball. I rewound my DVR last year and watch several of them and they were not false starts.

 

[Meyer]

I don't think Shugarts is using his injury as an excuse for his play, so your "Suck it up and play or play better" is borderline-bashing. In fact, his being out there while injured speaks of his commitment...

I took it as he wasn't specifically talking about Shugarts but just to any player in general, but it is Shugarts thread so I can understand why it would be taken that way.

 

[Buckskin86]

Feet have Kept Shugarts from Being Himself in 2010
By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS ? It is a tough task for any offensive tackle to face a double act like J.J. Watt and Ryan Kerrigan on back-to-back weekends.

For Ohio State right tackle J.B. Shugarts, it might have been a lot more manageable with two good feet.

?It?s tough when you have to redirect and plant on it a lot and get out quick,? the junior out of Klein, Tex. said after the game.

?In the run game it wasn?t really that bad moving forward, the pass game was a lot harder with it.?

Shugarts battled with Kerrigan and the Purdue defensive line for most of the first half Saturday, losing some battles and winning others. He came out of the game late in the first half once the pain in his feet was too much to bear. Freshman Andrew Norwell played the rest of the game at right tackle.

?I just wanted to go out there and give 110 percent as long as I could go,? said Shugarts, who was wearing a protective boot on his right foot after Ohio State?s 49-0 win over the Boilermakers.

?When it was time to pull up I just had to make that decision.?

http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2010/Minnesota/shugartsfeet.htm

 

[Buckskin86]

Foot injury shortens Shugarts' playing time
Friday, October 29, 2010
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

An offensive lineman with a sore foot is like a semi truck with a nail in a tire - eventually, they have to pull over. And you don't want to be stuck behind either one.

So it goes for J.B. Shugarts, Ohio State's starting right tackle. Since the end of last season, he has fought an apparently chronic condition in his right foot, which causes him first to hobble, then leave games early.

He describes it vaguely, as a "minor injury" and something that is "in my toe and the top part of my foot."

It brings to mind the injury suffered by running back Chris "Beanie" Wells two years ago, which coach Jim Tressel usually described as "a foot thing."

In Shugarts' case, Tressel once referred to it as "inflammation," but other times he simply shrugs and says, "He's got bad feet."

That can be a problem for running backs and quarterbacks, obviously, if they're ineffective. Shugarts has been mostly self-policing, coming out of the game when the pain is too much to bear. Last week against Purdue, he left earlier than ever - with 9:10 to go in the second quarter.

"It's tough when you have to redirect and plant on it a lot," Shugarts said. "In the run game, it's really not that bad, moving forward. It was just hard in the passing game."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...y-shortens-shugarts-playing-time.html?sid=101

 

[Ryan36_1]

A.) I thought J.B.'s hair was only until they lost again?

B.) Glad to see the foot is strong enough that he is in a 28 pt. game almost until the 4th quarter in a week going into the bye.

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State tackle J.B. Shugarts says feet feel good, which is good news for the offensive line
Published: Sunday, April 10, 2011
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer

Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer
Foot problems have limited J.B. Shugarts' playing time at Ohio State, but the right tackle says his feet feel great after an off-season of rehab.

Columbus -- With everything else Ohio State has to worry about during the first five games of the season, there isn't much room for concern about J.B. Shugarts' feet. The senior right tackle was forced to the sidelines after halftime of two games in the middle of last season, but he said after Saturday's scrimmage that those foot problems are behind him.

Good thing, because if the Buckeyes have to replace four offensive linemen during September -- Shugarts as well as suspended left tackle Mike Adams and graduated guards Bryant Browning and Justin Boren -- they'll be cutting things very close.

"I'll be fine," said Shugarts, who said he spent the off-season rehabbing his feet and getting new shoe inserts to help take the pressure off his feet. "They haven't bothered me at all this spring or this winter."

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2011/04/post_44.html

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14_CooPvhsk"]YouTube - J.B. Shugarts Interviewed[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Shugarts' foot feels fine

Last season, a chronically sore right foot forced Shugarts to the sideline for extended periods of several games.

The bright side of the situation was that it gave Norwell some valuable playing time as a freshman, but it's not something Shugarts wants to repeat this fall, in his senior season.

"My foot is doing great," he said last Saturday. "I had a great winter rehab. I got some new orthotics for my shoes and really put a lot of extra time and effort into (it). I've been fine all spring. (The foot) hasn't messed me up at all."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...inemen-trying-to-fill-many-holes.html?sid=101

 

[BB73]

Ozone

Healthy Shugarts Aiming to Prove Worth
By Brandon Castel COLUMBUS, Ohio - J.B. Shugarts felt betrayed.

As the rest of his teammates sprinted for the tunnel at Ohio Stadium, Shugarts hobbled awkwardly off the field.

He had felt this pain before, but after two years of battling foot injuries, Ohio State?s right tackle was growing discouraged with his constant struggle to stay on the field despite agonizing pain in his feet.

"I was always giving everything I've got; I was always giving 100 percent," Shugarts said Tuesday.

"At times it was frustrating, but that's part of the game. You have to deal with it. Every football player knows playing through injuries and when you?re hurt. It was tough but I got through it."

Football players also know that there is a difference between playing hurt and playing injured. Despite long hours in the weight room and late nights of conditioning, Shugarts felt his body had betrayed him.

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