QB/WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

[GoodLifeSean]

I'll be interested to see 'by the numbers' from the ozone. There were many times where Terrelle did not throw the ball and settled for a short run instead. Many of those 15 carries for 20 yds came on passing downs.

Agreed, but I'd love to see Terrelle's numbers once he learns it's ok to throw it away and not take a huge loss trying to make a big play. I appreciate his refusual to give up on a play but sometimes it is for the best to just toss it.

 

[jwinslow]

Agreed, but I'd love to see Terrelle's numbers once he learns it's ok to throw it away and not take a huge loss trying to make a big play. I appreciate his refusual to give up on a play but sometimes it is for the best to just toss it.

agreed, some of those short runs did not make it back to the LOS.

What a wonderful problem to have, erring on this side of the spectrum :cheers:

 

[osugrad21]

Agreed, but I'd love to see Terrelle's numbers once he learns it's ok to throw it away and not take a huge loss trying to make a big play. I appreciate his refusual to give up on a play but sometimes it is for the best to just toss it.

...and when there is a Flex TE like Travis Beckum available to make the playaction game even nastier.

Jake Stoneburner will have a huge impact next season.

 

[Taosman]

The WRers didn't have a great game last night and provide help. Robo was all but invisible. That shoulder must be a mess. Hartline dropped several passes. And Small screwed up a sure TD catch by first running out of bounds and then flat dropping a well thrown ball. Posey and Sanz were factors. Maybe Small and Robo need to share more time with Posey and Sanz?

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

It represented a groan for not that again, but fine, let's go down that road.

Well, if we are moaning about a 68% completion rate, I thought I could demonstrate the fallacy of your argument better if I brought up a couple of dropped passes that would have brought the completion rate to 80%. We certainly have a tough audience.

Have you watched the play again at all, or do we need a link to it?

Actually if you have a link, that'd be great.

Krenzel's passing over the course of a game was rarely good. He managed the game, and was very clutch, but that's a low barometer.

So you are saying that Krenzel is not a good comparison, but somehow there are six QBs in the Big 12 who are better than Pryor?

I'll be interested to see 'by the numbers' from the ozone. There were many times where Terrelle did not throw the ball and settled for a short run instead. Many of those 15 carries for 20 yds came on passing downs.

Well many of those runs, including the game winner, were designed runs. And the four sacks certainly wiped off a large part of that.

 

[akronbuck]

The WRers didn't have a great game last night and provide help. Robo was all but invisible. That shoulder must be a mess. Hartline dropped several passes. And Small screwed up a sure TD catch by first running out of bounds and then flat dropping a well thrown ball. Posey and Sanz were factors. Maybe Small and Robo need to share more time with Posey and Sanz?

bingo. every game they average a few drops and this is :osu: :(

 

[morbitzerker]

"Tressel, when he talks to me, I don't know. I just look up to the guy. When he told me 'big drive' I just didn't want to let him down."

This came from an article on theozone.net. I love it, TP is 6'6" but how tall is JT? I can't seem to find it. TP just "looks up to the guy." That's great.

 

[jwinslow]

TB, I moved the continuing discussion here...

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

TB, I moved the continuing discussion here...

Looks like I beat you to it...

 

[Buck Kid 66]

Man TP looks wise beyond his years. The big issue is he needs to work on getting rid of the ball and not taking the sack. Will proably have to live with that till he gets more games under his belt. Just afraid its going to hurt us in a future game. Glad he's a buckeye though. It could be worse we could be Michigan fans.:osu:

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Didn't realize this was your private thread.

Apparently you failed to notice, or more likely flat out ignore, the fact I was quoting powerlifter's reply to my earlier post.

Back to Pryor...this kid is going to be far above any of our wildest expectations.

 

[osugrad21]

CPD

Memories of Pryor from the Wisconsin win

by Bill Livingston Plain Dealer Columnist Sunday October 05, 2008, 5:28 PM



Since this got lost in the last-minute dramatics and the deadline struggle to comment on Terrelle Pryor's traveling salvation show Saturday night, I figure better late than never, huh?
I have two dominant impressions of Ohio State's 20-17 thriller, and they both involve the 80-yard drive Pryor, the freshman wunderkind, led to win the game with 68 seconds left.

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[osugrad21]

Link

Greatness awaits Buckeyes' Pryor

By Tom Kubat ? [email protected] ? October 6, 2008
Count Joe Tiller among those who is impressed with Ohio State's wonder boy. Or should that be man among boys?
Unlike Beano Cook, who once predicted multiple Heismans for former Notre Dame quarterback Ron Powlus, I'm not going to go that far with regards to the Buckeyes' Terrelle Pryor.
But, I will venture to say, barring injury, he'll win at least one.
"The quarterback is an exceptional talent, certainly," Tiller said. "He's going to be a phenomenal player down the road. I'm really impressed with him."
Pryor, as they say, has it all. He's big, fast, agile, with a strong arm and, according the Ohio State coaches, a deep desire to be great.
Tiller joked that his neck and shoulders were sore just from watching on television as Pryor led the Buckeyes on two fourth-quarter scoring drives, including running 11 yards for the winning TD with 1:08 to play in Ohio State's 20-17 victory Saturday at Wisconsin.
"A very physical game, both teams," he said.
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[osugrad21]

Blade

Buckeyes saved the last dance for Pryor
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
Jim Tressel will never be accused of being the 2008 version of Don Cornelius. All the current Ohio State coach and the former host of Soul Train have in common is that they both wear wire-rimmed glasses. But late on Saturday evening, Tressel found himself standing in front of a bunch of kids who were dancing their hearts out, a position where Cornelius made a pretty decent living for himself as the host of the popular dance show. Late Saturday, instead of being distracted or intimidated by a stadium full of 80,000 fans at Wisconsin doing their traditional dancing to "Jump Around" at the start of the fourth quarter in a tense, tied game, the relaxed Buckeyes just danced along. Locked in a 10-10 slugfest at the time, Ohio State maintained its cool and went on to win the crucial Big Ten game 20-17 by retaking the lead twice in the final period. The Buckeyes mounted the winning drive in that highly-charged atmosphere and scored with just over a minute left in the game. Ohio State senior linebacker James Laurinaitis said the Buckeyes expected to be in a wire-to- wire sumo match with the Badgers, but that the spontaneous dance on the sideline between quarters showed him that his team was relaxed and enjoying the moment.
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[osugrad21]

Zanesville

All's quiet in Madison, thanks to Pryor

Jon Spencer ? Gannett News Service ? October 6, 2008

Ohio State fans will fondly remember Saturday as the day the music died (again), along with one of college football's longest winning streaks and Wisconsin's dreams of a Big Ten championship.

They'll remember how the Buckeyes actually lived up to preseason hype, winning a tough game on the road in front of a nation anticipating another prime-time flop.
Most of all, they'll recall witnessing the birth of a quarterback.
With field position and the clock working against him, and the hallowed walls of a pulsating Camp Randall Stadium caving in around him, true freshman Terrelle Pryor made Wisconsin's defense disappear.
You know, like the school's disgraced marching band.
Pryor sucked the air of invincibility right out of Camp Randall, where the Badgers had won 16 in a row, by marching (pun intended) the Buckeyes 80 yards to a game-winning touchdown in the final 6:31.
Ohio State 20, Wisconsin 17. No strains of "On, Wisconsin" to interfere. Just the crashing of cymbals and blaring of trumpets to announce Pryor's arrival as a big game hero.
"As we said all along with Terrelle, every snap he gets, he learns from," coach Jim Tressel said. "He was under duress. They were going to make him do things with lots of people in his face. Did he come of age? I don't know if anybody's come of age. But he's improving."
Craig Krenzel's coming-of-age moment six years ago came in West Lafayette, where his 37-yard touchdown pass to Michael Jenkins on fourth-and-one lifted the Buckeyes past Purdue 10-6 and kept them on course to a national championship.
For Troy Smith, it came three years ago in Ann Arbor, where he accounted for 337 yards total offense and rallied the Buckeyes to a 25-21 victory over Michigan for a share of the Big Ten championship.

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