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QB Dwayne Haskins Jr. (All B1G, B1G OPOY, Silver Football, Rose Bowl MVP, R.I.P.)

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ShowMeBuck said:
Dude is a 20-1 in Vegas to win the Heisman? I’d be tempted to put a C Note on that.
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I was looking at it, but the fact that Tate Martell is guarteed playing time, made me back off. I think it's a good value bet, but knowing Tate has specific packages, and could vulture some TD's near the goal-line, would make me back off a tad bit.

My Heisman darkhorse with great odds is Deondre Francois. Named starter, in a very QB friendly offense, under Taggart in 1st year.
 
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CAN DWAYNE HASKINS THRIVE IN THE POCKET, AND NOT ON THE RUN, IN URBAN MEYER'S OFFENSE?

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Over the course of his 17-year head coaching career, Urban Meyer's most effective attacks featured dual-threat quarterbacks. On Saturday, when Ohio State hosts Oregon State to kick off the 2018 season, Dwayne Haskins will start his quest to break that mold.

The redshirt sophomore is set up with just about everything a quarterback could want in an offense. Ohio State returns its top six receivers from last season, a 4- and 5-star rotation at tight end, an enormous offensive line that averages 312 pounds and what could be college football's most dangerous one-two punch at running back.

Something Haskins lacks, however, is what made quarterbacks like Tim Tebow, Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett so successful under Meyer — the speed and natural running ability to complement the offense as a legitimate and consistent threat on the ground. Haskins is more Cardale Jones than any of these three, and as the fifth-ranked pro-style quarterback in the 2016 recruiting class, Meyer and Co. knew they were hedging their future offense on a run-only-if-necessary quarterback.

That's not to say Haskins is completely incapable of hurting a defense with his legs. With Ohio State trailing 20-14 against Michigan last November, in the first this-means-something action of his collegiate career, he ripped off a 22-yard scramble that set the Buckeyes up at the Wolverines' goal line.



One play later, J.K. Dobbins punched in the go-ahead touchdown and the Buckeyes never looked back.

While Haskins has the ability to break a run or two, it's not something the staff can rely on as heavily as they have since Meyer took over in 2012.

Over the last six seasons, Ohio State's starting quarterbacks have averaged 14.6 carries per game. That number is inflated slightly by Miller's 2012 campaign, when he ran the ball 227 times in 12 games, and during Barrett's 2016 season, when he toted it 205 times in 13 games.

That workload was strategic, of course. The numbers advantage of adding a quarterback to the the ground attack is something Meyer has used in almost every year of his head coaching career. The notable exceptions were at Florida in 2010, when the immobile John Brantley orchestrated a nine-touchdown, 10-interception campaign that netted the Gators a forgettable 8-5 season. The other came when the keys were turned over to Jones in '15, a move that lasted precisely seven games before Ohio State turned things back over to Barrett.

So how can Haskins rewrite the narrative? Fortunately for him and the Buckeyes, he's set up better than any of his pass-first predecessors.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/coll...et-and-not-on-the-run-in-urban-meyers-offense
 
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billmac91 said:
I was looking at it, but the fact that Tate Martell is guarteed playing time, made me back off. I think it's a good value bet, but knowing Tate has specific packages, and could vulture some TD's near the goal-line, would make me back off a tad bit.

My Heisman darkhorse with great odds is Deondre Francois. Named starter, in a very QB friendly offense, under Taggart in 1st year.
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FSU won’t be a Conference let alone National Title contender which is usually required.

I just look at it like “would I win a bet like that better than 1 out of 20 times?”

Considering his own talent and the weapons around him and playing on a NC caliber team I think 20-1 is a damn compelling value.

With all the weapons around him he could really light up the stats.
 
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DWAYNE HASKINS THROWS FOR THREE TOUCHDOWNS DURING THE FIRST HALF OF HIS FIRST START AS A BUCKEYE

Dwayne Haskins came out firing in his first start.

The new Buckeye signal caller tossed three first-half touchdowns, completing 14-of-18 passes for 164 yards before the intermission. Haskins completed his first eight passes and 11 of his first 12.



The offense as a whole was unstoppable. The Buckeyes put up 42 points and 314 yards in just one half of football, and converted 7 of 8 third downs.

This Buckeye offense is going to be fun.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...he-first-half-of-his-first-start-as-a-buckeye


DWAYNE HASKINS' FIRST START LIVES UP TO THE HYPE AS OHIO STATE OFFENSE SCORES 10 TOUCHDOWNS IN SEASON OPENER

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For the past eight months, and for some dating all the way back to last year, Ohio State football fans have been clamoring to see Dwayne Haskins start at quarterback.

In his first career start for the Buckeyes against Oregon State on Saturday, Haskins showed why.

Haskins completed 22 of 30 passing attempts for 313 yards and five touchdowns – both the highest totals ever for an Ohio State quarterback making his first start – and led the Buckeyes to touchdowns on each of his first seven drives, and on eight drives total, in their 77-31 season-opening win over Oregon State on Saturday.

For people who don’t follow Ohio State closely, that might have come as a surprise, considering that he had only played one half of meaningful snaps – in leading the Buckeyes to a comeback win at Michigan last season – before Saturday.

It didn’t come as a surprise to Haskins, however, who answered without hesitation what he would have said if someone had told him that he would be the first Ohio State quarterback to throw for more than 300 yards and five touchdowns in his first start.

"I’d probably have told them they’d be right,” Haskins said.

Haskins said he wasn’t nervous going into Saturday’s game, and his confidence showed in his play. The Buckeyes’ new quarterback made several big downfield throws – highlighted by a 75-yard connection with Terry McLaurin on the first play of the second half – and very few mistakes, with the exception of an interception in the third quarter, when he was hit while throwing and sailed a ball over Johnnie Dixon into the hands of Oregon State safety Shawn Wilson.

“The first thing that really stood out was the interception,” Haskins said when asked if there was anything he wanted to do better on Saturday. “Should have thrown it away, got hit by the tackle while throwing the ball. But otherwise than that, it was a great job by the offense today. I’m really proud of everybody.”

Acting head coach Ryan Day, who is also the Buckeyes’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, was pleased with how Haskins played. While he acknowledged that he would give Haskins a hard time about the interception, he had also said earlier this week that he expected Haskins to make some mistakes because it was his first start.

“We laughed about it afterwards,” Day said. “He knows I'm going to be all over him for that third-down throw down in the red zone. But, yeah, I thought it was a good start. We'll look at the film, see what happens. Sometimes you have a vision what it was like on the field. Then you look at it, go from there. But I thought it was a good start for him.”

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...offense-scores-10-touchdowns-in-season-opener
 
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