Tressel Not Concerned with Pryor Struggles
Wideout DeVier Posey came close to hauling in the lone offensive touchdown for the Buckeyes on a perfectly placed deep ball from Pryor but could not pull it down in the end zone between corner Donnie Evege and safety Orhian Johnson.
With the defense hounding him all morning, Pryor finished the game just 5-of-16 passing, unofficially, for 45 yards. Part of that was the cold weather, part of it was dropped passes and bad protection, but a big portion of it was just bad passing by the junior signal caller who was wearing a black no-contact jersey.
It?s become abundantly clear that Pryor hates wearing the black jersey, and seems to struggle when he is confined to being a pocket passer at the mercy of his offensive tackles. For that reason, Tressel doesn?t expect to get an accurate reading on Pryor?s progress from this type of setting.
?You don?t. That?s going to be the reality that a quarterback, mobile or not, if you don?t let him play the game you?re not going to have a real evaluation so you evaluate the things you can,? Tressel said.
In fact, Tressel is taking a similar approach when it comes to evaluating the performance of the entire offense from Saturday?s jersey scrimmage.
?Until you get into a game where everything is game-like instead of some things being game-like you just evaluate things play by play,? he said.
