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QB CJ Stroud (All B1G, 2022 B1G QB of the Year, All-American, NFL OROY, Houston Texans)

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It's so cool watching how Stroud has grown over the course of the year. And the endzone cam REALLY helps understand just what CJ is seeing as well.



That frame if you pause @ 2:29 off ball action. CJ reads middle field closed post snap, see's the safety depth and goes to Ruckert's side. See's the corner break off so he's not getting deep 1/3 so the corner can't recover a post or deep over shot. Goes back to the middle and the safety has sat flat. Uncorks a dime all while stepping up and back into the pocket.

It's a combination of 2 things. GREAT QB play, but questionable DB play. It shouldn't be that easy and won't be that easy in the coming schedule. But to see a 1st year starter who had some shaky moments and wasn't entirely comfortable at first in that kind of traffic have the day he had yesterday...? Credit to Day and the rest of the offensive coaching staff.

You think CJ is good now? Just wait until next year.
 
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buckeyes_rock said:
Gotta admit, I was doubtful after week 2 that he could be special...happy to say I was wrong about that. This kid might not be Fields, but he has some serious special in him. Keep grinding young Buck!
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Given the nature of our defense and the emphasis on the running game in 2019 which, for lack of a better word "protected" JF and potentially slowed his development just a bit (peep QB accredited sacks from that season)
I'd venture that Stroud might actually be ahead of JF in terms of offensive command and distribution in respective comparison heading into the week of The Game.

HE might not have the legs, but CJ's eyes and arm appear to be every bit as good.
 
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I truly love how spoiled we are as Buckeye fans. These are the QBs who started and we all wanted benched at times(and how their legacies are now):
Terrelle Pryor- erratic passer, and solely an athlete playing QB(left us all wanting that last season from him but still won 2 GREAT bowl games and got better every year)
Braxton Miller- essentially see above(one of the greatest athletes to hold a football in a Buckeye uniform)
JT Barrett- couldn't throw the deep ball, and relied TOO much on his legs(has almost every OSU QB record and one of OSU's greatest leaders)
Cardale Jones- cannon arm, but after the 2014 NC, and the up and down start to 2015, many wanted Barrett in instead(left as a legend due to winning a title in 3gms, and a great ambassador for the program)
Dwayne Haskins- relied TOO much on his arm, and wasn't the most mature of players(broke almost all B1G and OSU single season QB records)
Justin Fields- had one of the worst 1st impressions in the Spring game 2019, and had an up and down beginning to 2019(left as one of the most accomplished QBs in OSU history)

There are few programs in the country who have had this amount of consistent talent at QB. Sure all have had varied levels of talent, and not all reached their highest level of success, but they all reached success, outside of the 1 anomaly loss with Braxton as a frosh, ALL beat scUM, and all won B1G titles and bowl games. Fields at this point has set the bar at an insane level and has the best combination of them all, but even he wasn't immune to fans wanting his head. It's not hyperbole to say that Stroud can even exceed him, and yet at the start of the year fans wanted him benched for McCord and Ewers...
 
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