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

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SCBuck13;1480632; said:
I was at the OSU coaches golf outing today and just about every football coach was there. At the end Coach Tressel gave a speech, and among other things, talked about the recent conditioning that the team just completed. He talked about 40 times that were recently timed and Tres said that Pryor ran the fastest on the team, a 4.33.

That's some serious speed for a QB.
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No way. I'm not doubting you, but have you seen TP in person? I just don't believe a guy that big can run that fast. :lol:
 
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zincfinger;1480908; said:
If he was timed at below a 4.3, it almost certainly was not. A legit 4.4 is still damned fast, and if Pryor truly ran an electronically started and timed 4.33....well, that's pretty damn close to unbelievable.
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Tressel never did mention if it was electronic, but I think it was, just because Coach Tressel said that only 5 players broke 4.5, and I think if it were hand timed, there would be a couple more guys under 4.5.
 
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SCBuck13;1480934; said:
...Tressel said that only 5 players broke 4.5, and I think if it were hand timed, there would be a couple more guys under 4.5.
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That seems reasonable; either that, or the coaches were hand-timing but trying very hard to avoid "generous" stop-watch operation. Either way, if Pryor truly runs the 40 in that range, at his age and size, he's farther to the right on the bell curve than I thought, and I already thought he was pretty far out on the margin.
 
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When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.(No, not JT)

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One thing about Pryor last year though as a runner...he never seemed to be running "full speed" just kind of gliding and cutting and buying time to make a throw/move.

The one thing I hope he SIGNIFICANTLY improves on this year is delivering the blow with the ball in his hands. Too many times I saw him ease up right before impact and anyone who has played football knows you're more likely to get hurt that way than if you lower your shoulder and run through someone that you absolutely cannot avoid. Just seemed tentative at times when it came time to get hit.
 
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Magua;1481078; said:
One thing about Pryor last year though as a runner...he never seemed to be running "full speed" just kind of gliding and cutting and buying time to make a throw/move.

The one thing I hope he SIGNIFICANTLY improves on this year is delivering the blow with the ball in his hands. Too many times I saw him ease up right before impact and anyone who has played football knows you're more likely to get hurt that way than if you lower your shoulder and run through someone that you absolutely cannot avoid. Just seemed tentative at times when it came time to get hit.
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I wonder if part of that comes from JT. I remember a play during TS's heisman season when he went downfield and threw a block after handing off the block. I remember JT gave him a very visual dressing down. While pulling up is not a comparision to throwing a block downfield, IMO Pryor is trying not to get hurt, according to JT's instructions.
 
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Magua;1481078; said:
The one thing I hope he SIGNIFICANTLY improves on this year is delivering the blow with the ball in his hands. Too many times I saw him ease up right before impact and anyone who has played football knows you're more likely to get hurt that way than if you lower your shoulder and run through someone that you absolutely cannot avoid. Just seemed tentative at times when it came time to get hit.
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Most of that was early in the year like against Minnesota. He became a more aggressive runner as the season wore on. I would like to see him look to cut back more though. He seemed content taking what was there and that was the biggest reason for the lack of really big runs, IMO. The downside is it increases the risk of injury.
 
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ant80;1481079; said:
I wonder if part of that comes from JT. I remember a play during TS's heisman season when he went downfield and threw a block after handing off the block. I remember JT gave him a very visual dressing down. While pulling up is not a comparision to throwing a block downfield, IMO Pryor is trying not to get hurt, according to JT's instructions.
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Big difference between throwing a block downfield as a starting QB, and trying not to get hurt when being tackled. In all my experiences playing football, if you played to not get hurt...you got hurt. but if you went at it 100% full speed with no hesitation or tentativeness than you were the one hurting people.

letting up and taking an easy hit is when you roll up an ankle/knee/leg or just get blown up by someone that's flying to the ball with bad intentions.
 
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OregonBuckeye;1481080; said:
Most of that was early in the year like against Minnesota. He became a more aggressive runner as the season wore on. I would like to see him look to cut back more though. He seemed content taking what was there and that was the biggest reason for the lack of really big runs, IMO. The downside is it increases the risk of injury.
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Wasn't Minnesota the game where he just destroyed some guy going out of bounds to finish a run? Does anyone remember the play I'm talking about?
 
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