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RugbyBuck
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One thing that I hope continues from the spring game is Kyle’s willingness to pull the ball down and run for the chains. That would’ve helped last year and we’ll need it this year. Get the first down, get settled, and get back on schedule. We won’t have the luxury of just throwing it away and getting back to the line at 2nd or 3rd and long.
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Gunlife
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This is why it might be best to go with Brown.....
If (God Forbid) the Bucks lose a few early I would consider going with the new freshman. Lincoln Kienholz He's just so physically talented. Similar to Fields. Looking back Fields really covered up a bunch of dumb shit Day had been doing, and I think your going to find Strouds magic arm covered up even more. Remember when Pryor had to come in for Tod.....if not for tattoos that experience get a natty.
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I absolutely agree on this one...while McCord is my front runner, there are going to be moments in the season where fans panic. Hell, we all know PJ and Dawand were not replaceable, that alone is concerning even if we might find some viable solutions to not take a major downgrade. But we're going to get our doors blitzed off and I am worried we don't have a solution there.
Sneaky tough games is a great way to put it. I was in Minneapolis for the Thursday night game a couple years ago and we pulled away, but mark that one up as a Pat Benetar game because we got hit with their best shot. Really good example how what seems like an easy conference win can turn south (I am NOT bringing up Iowa or Purdue, sticking with the one we actually did win). I think McCord is a great QB though, just hope we can protect him.
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Kienholz isn't in the same class as Fields as far as athleticism! The next most athletic QB I've ever seen at OSU was Pryor, and those 2 are ahead pretty much anyone else with their combo of speed and strength. If at any point in the season OSU has to go to Kienholz to start, then OSU would be lucky to finish in the top 5 in the B1G east. In no way do the nice HS highlights that Kienholz had make me think that he's ready for elite B1G football play. He played in ND, and I don't think even went to many camps. He's going to need time, and there's nothing wrong with that.
McCord is good, really good! Every time a new starter comes up in CFB, fans would rather see a freshman who had a nice star ranking. Not realizing that this is still a frosh, and many aren't ready, even the best in HS. I call this the "shiny new toy theory". For example, fans actually fixed their mouths to say that Stroud should've been benched after the Oregon loss in favor of Quinn Ewers. That was an insane opinion to me, it's hard enough to play as a true frosh, and even harder at the QB position. McCord will be fine once he's able to work with a healthy stable of skill position players, and no one has seen him play with them as a whole yet. OSU fans saw McCord play with the following players as his "starters" in the Spring game:
RB- Chip Trayanum
WR- X Johnson, Tate, Harrison(slot for a few series), Grayes
Not exactly a roster that Day would trot against any level of competition in conference. McCord is more than capable of running for a few yards in the open field, just like Stroud eventually showed. As long as he can keep the defense honest, he'll see success
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I was in Minny for that game as well. Ibrahim doesn’t go down and that might be a different game.
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Ibrahim was cookin' in that game! I think that was the 1st glimpse we all saw that Coombs was in over his head
But I digress
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I was met up with a couple BP'ers, had a great time and awesome environment, but you're right...I hate that Ibrahim got injured but he was going Biacabutika on us (not bothering to look up the right spelling on that guy) and we might have taken an L if not for that injury.
But to not detail the topic of the thread on my account, I brought up the Minny game because OSU fans were calling for CJ to get benched for McCord. Classic dumb fan stuff, but this time around McCord has a higher hill to climb with the OL he has been dealt. I think a realistic goal is survive the first half of the year, keep improving, and then accelerate.
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Gunlife
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Don't have to be respectful, it's just a horrible take.
McCord has been in this system to long to struggle that much. I will concede that he didn't have the stud WRs, but he didn't look like he had an arm anywhere near as strong as Strouds and his legs didnt impress. So if Brown can run better, maybe he should start.
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True that running won't be his first choice, but I'm not that concerned about his legs. Are you aware that in the Spring Game they were playing by rules that at soon as the QB was so much as touched by a defender the play was dead? I rewatched the game yesterday and there were several times McCord would have picked up good yardage running but the play was blown dead simply because a defender happened to touch him.
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