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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
I think that the few injuries we’ve seen on the OL since Urban has been here, that’s been a pretty fair statement for most years.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
MICHAEL JORDAN GETTING COMFORTABLE IN NEW ROLE AS OHIO STATE'S CENTER
Michael Jordan didn’t know until this summer that he could end up being Ohio State’s new starting center this season.
Throughout spring practices, Ohio State’s plan was to keep Jordan at left guard – the position at which he started every game for the past two seasons – as Brady Taylor, Josh Myers and Matthew Burrell competed to replace Billy Price at center.
But after neither Taylor nor Myers was able to seize a stronghold on the job, and Burrell transferred out of the program to Sam Houston State, while Malcolm Pridgeon emerged as another strong candidate to start at left guard, Ohio State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa approached Jordan about the possibility of moving to the middle of the line.
Meeting with the media on Wednesday for the first time since making the move to center, Jordan said Studrawa left the decision up to him. Jordan agreed to make the move, though, because he felt it was the best interest of his team.
“He wasn’t going to force me to do it, so it was my choice, and I ultimately chose to play center,” Jordan said. “Just the fact that we can have the five best guys out there at all times.”
With only a few months between finding out he would move to center and Saturday’s season opener against Oregon State, Jordan had to adjust quickly – and it certainly was a significant adjustment – to playing a new position that comes with the added responsibility of snapping the ball and directing the rest of the offensive line.
Playing center is also more challenging, Jordan said, because it requires the offensive lineman to be ready to block even quicker.
“It’s much faster, because the guy’s right in front of you,” Jordan said. “You have a little bit more space to come off the ball at left guard, and even more space at left tackle – or right guard or right tackle – so the guy’s right there and you really have to be quick.”
The transition wasn’t as hard as it could have been, however, because of the way Ohio State coaches its offensive linemen to be prepared to play positions other than their own.
“If you’re playing offensive line at Ohio State, your job is to know all five positions,” said Jordan, who is in his junior year.
Jordan certainly has big footsteps to follow, as he’s the third straight Ohio State starting center to move into that role after previously starting at guard, and each of the previous two – Price last year, and Pat Elflein in 2016 – went on to win the Rimington Trophy as college football’s best center.
He says that motivates him to try to be one of college football’s best centers himself.
“It motivates me every day to make sure my snaps are good, and make sure that I’m doing my assignments, and make sure I’m organizing the O-line, and make sure that I have everything right,” Jordan said.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...comfortable-in-new-role-as-ohio-states-center
Michael Jordan didn’t know until this summer that he could end up being Ohio State’s new starting center this season.
Throughout spring practices, Ohio State’s plan was to keep Jordan at left guard – the position at which he started every game for the past two seasons – as Brady Taylor, Josh Myers and Matthew Burrell competed to replace Billy Price at center.
But after neither Taylor nor Myers was able to seize a stronghold on the job, and Burrell transferred out of the program to Sam Houston State, while Malcolm Pridgeon emerged as another strong candidate to start at left guard, Ohio State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa approached Jordan about the possibility of moving to the middle of the line.
Meeting with the media on Wednesday for the first time since making the move to center, Jordan said Studrawa left the decision up to him. Jordan agreed to make the move, though, because he felt it was the best interest of his team.
“He wasn’t going to force me to do it, so it was my choice, and I ultimately chose to play center,” Jordan said. “Just the fact that we can have the five best guys out there at all times.”
With only a few months between finding out he would move to center and Saturday’s season opener against Oregon State, Jordan had to adjust quickly – and it certainly was a significant adjustment – to playing a new position that comes with the added responsibility of snapping the ball and directing the rest of the offensive line.
Playing center is also more challenging, Jordan said, because it requires the offensive lineman to be ready to block even quicker.
“It’s much faster, because the guy’s right in front of you,” Jordan said. “You have a little bit more space to come off the ball at left guard, and even more space at left tackle – or right guard or right tackle – so the guy’s right there and you really have to be quick.”
The transition wasn’t as hard as it could have been, however, because of the way Ohio State coaches its offensive linemen to be prepared to play positions other than their own.
“If you’re playing offensive line at Ohio State, your job is to know all five positions,” said Jordan, who is in his junior year.
Jordan certainly has big footsteps to follow, as he’s the third straight Ohio State starting center to move into that role after previously starting at guard, and each of the previous two – Price last year, and Pat Elflein in 2016 – went on to win the Rimington Trophy as college football’s best center.
He says that motivates him to try to be one of college football’s best centers himself.
“It motivates me every day to make sure my snaps are good, and make sure that I’m doing my assignments, and make sure I’m organizing the O-line, and make sure that I have everything right,” Jordan said.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...comfortable-in-new-role-as-ohio-states-center
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Michael Jordan is not willing to accept mediocrity at center
The third-year starter’s hard work in practice paid off against Tulane.
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“He came up to me every day after practice, because I got on him a little bit. We chart every snap, and he was very accurate this whole week.”
-Urban Meyer, via Doug Lesmerises, Cleveland.com
For the third-straight season, Ohio State’s starting center is a newly-converted guard. The experiment has worked with exceptional results in the previous two iterations, with Pat Elflein and Billy Price both winning the Rimington Award as the nation’s best center.
The start of this season didn’t have quite the same fireworks, as Michael Jordan took over the role. Jordan, a true junior, is a third-year starter for the Buckeyes, and previously played at the guard position on lines with both Elflein and Price. His move to center was met with some difficulty, and he carried the burden with the rest of the line of adjusting to a new quarterback in Dwayne Haskins.
Those problems manifested themselves in what has been the closest of Ohio State’s four games so far this season: When the Buckeyes traveled to Arlington, Texas to face TCU. Jordan’s snaps seemed to be uncomfortably low, causing problems for Haskins as he worked to rally his offense. While Haskins was able to handle the issue for the most part, roughly a quarter of Jordan’s offensive snaps were off-target, putting pressure on the young quarterback to work harder than he needed to against what has been the toughest defense he’d faced up to that point as a starter.
Those low snaps, obviously, would be a concern as the Buckeyes prepare for Penn State this week— that is, if the snaps continued to actually be a problem. Against Tulane Saturday, Jordan didn’t seem to have any issues with snaps, a far cry from his performance a week before.
According to Urban Meyer, the issue was a point of emphasis at practice all week leading up to the Buckeyes’ final non-conference matchup. It was, apparently, an issue which was resolved in just a week of more deliberate snaps.
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...white-out-dwayne-haskins-tate-martell-heisman
The third-year starter’s hard work in practice paid off against Tulane.
“He came up to me every day after practice, because I got on him a little bit. We chart every snap, and he was very accurate this whole week.”
-Urban Meyer, via Doug Lesmerises, Cleveland.com
For the third-straight season, Ohio State’s starting center is a newly-converted guard. The experiment has worked with exceptional results in the previous two iterations, with Pat Elflein and Billy Price both winning the Rimington Award as the nation’s best center.
The start of this season didn’t have quite the same fireworks, as Michael Jordan took over the role. Jordan, a true junior, is a third-year starter for the Buckeyes, and previously played at the guard position on lines with both Elflein and Price. His move to center was met with some difficulty, and he carried the burden with the rest of the line of adjusting to a new quarterback in Dwayne Haskins.
Those problems manifested themselves in what has been the closest of Ohio State’s four games so far this season: When the Buckeyes traveled to Arlington, Texas to face TCU. Jordan’s snaps seemed to be uncomfortably low, causing problems for Haskins as he worked to rally his offense. While Haskins was able to handle the issue for the most part, roughly a quarter of Jordan’s offensive snaps were off-target, putting pressure on the young quarterback to work harder than he needed to against what has been the toughest defense he’d faced up to that point as a starter.
Those low snaps, obviously, would be a concern as the Buckeyes prepare for Penn State this week— that is, if the snaps continued to actually be a problem. Against Tulane Saturday, Jordan didn’t seem to have any issues with snaps, a far cry from his performance a week before.
According to Urban Meyer, the issue was a point of emphasis at practice all week leading up to the Buckeyes’ final non-conference matchup. It was, apparently, an issue which was resolved in just a week of more deliberate snaps.
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...white-out-dwayne-haskins-tate-martell-heisman
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bigdog3300
The G.O.A.T.
Bump for MJ
PFF had a bit that he's only allowed 2 hurries in 231 pass plays, and only 1 penalty in 431 snaps.
Continuing the tradition.
PFF had a bit that he's only allowed 2 hurries in 231 pass plays, and only 1 penalty in 431 snaps.
Continuing the tradition.
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ShowMeBuck
You know what? Chicken butt.
Good call. Could have been a really bad situation at C and then all of a sudden it was a non issue.
Honestly I kinda forgot how worried I was about it coming into this season. And that’s the biggest compliment a guy can get.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
SKULL SESSION: OHIO STATE DUMPS CINCINNATI, EDDIE GEORGE THINKS THERE'S DYSFUNCTION AT OHIO STATE, AND ISAIAH PRYOR'S TACKLING
CAN THE REAL MICHAEL JORDAN PLEASE STAND UP? Ohio State center Michael Jordan is not the only athlete with that name, sharing it with an extremely popular minor league baseball player from the mid-nineties.
That's caused some slight confusion at times.
From Aaron McCann of MLive.com:
We've heard the story about Jim Harbaugh picking up his cell phone in 2015 to find Michael Jordan on the other end.
As the Michigan football coach told it at the time, his phone cut out and he had to get clarification as to it was. Now, more than three years later, Harbaugh is telling the whole story.
He thought it was a football recruit.
"There was another player we were recruiting at the time named Michael Jordan, who was an offensive lineman," Harbaugh said Tuesday on "The Dan Patrick Show." "He plays for Ohio State now. But yes, at the time we were recruiting Michael Jordan and there was of course Michael Jordan.
"I was like, 'Which Michael Jordan is this?'"
You'd expect having that name to play in his advantage at least once in his life, but Jordan could only think of a time when it actually cost him.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...tion-playoff-prediction-isaiah-pryor-tackling
CAN THE REAL MICHAEL JORDAN PLEASE STAND UP? Ohio State center Michael Jordan is not the only athlete with that name, sharing it with an extremely popular minor league baseball player from the mid-nineties.
That's caused some slight confusion at times.
From Aaron McCann of MLive.com:
We've heard the story about Jim Harbaugh picking up his cell phone in 2015 to find Michael Jordan on the other end.
As the Michigan football coach told it at the time, his phone cut out and he had to get clarification as to it was. Now, more than three years later, Harbaugh is telling the whole story.
He thought it was a football recruit.
"There was another player we were recruiting at the time named Michael Jordan, who was an offensive lineman," Harbaugh said Tuesday on "The Dan Patrick Show." "He plays for Ohio State now. But yes, at the time we were recruiting Michael Jordan and there was of course Michael Jordan.
"I was like, 'Which Michael Jordan is this?'"
You'd expect having that name to play in his advantage at least once in his life, but Jordan could only think of a time when it actually cost him.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...tion-playoff-prediction-isaiah-pryor-tackling
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osubartender23
Purple Nurple King
This guy needs moved back to guard ASAP. 11 games in and his shotgun snaps are still mediocre at best. Very good guard, average center in my opinion.
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