REPORTER: You guys do different things on offense, but at this point in Terrelle's career, what is it that you think he likes best or does best or have you had a day where you said,
Terrelle Pryor, you're calling all the plays today, what do you think he would lean toward?
COACH TRESSEL: He's starting to call a few more of them now. He came to us at one point in him game and said, here's the way they're playing this, we've got to throw this and all of a sudden he hits a 19-yard dig route, he had it cold. And all of a sudden he came back and called the next play and I've got, man, we've got all you other guys up there, what do I need you for? But understanding is greater. Are we to point yet where we say, hey, we're just going to give him a formation and you're going to take over? Probably not there yet. Will we ever get there? We'll see. We study things in the pass game by protection because that's what it's all about and which things do you do best in protection and in fact we're right now in the midst of a pretty intense study of ourselves by protection, by quarterback in this case, although we were teasing Terrelle that if you take Big Ten stats original, Terrelle's fourth in the league in passing efficiency and Bauserman's first. So we've had fun with that all week, believe me. Right now, as we look at our various protections, which ones are we executing better, numbers sometimes lie, so the first thing you do is you get the numbers, and then you go back and look at the film and say, did we execute this because of protection, because of the actual design or in spite of the fact, you know, he dodged three people and jumped up in the air and threw a pass and that type of thing, but you know right now, I think the fact that he's been under center a little bit more and done a little more throwing from under center than he did early in his career, I think he's becoming more comfortable in that and that's something we want him to. I think he's comfortable with the five-man protections where he's got to do more Q throws and all that and I think he's also comfortable with the seven-man protections where he knows if they green dog someone, he's going to be protected or if someone has poor technique and they beat us around the corner. So I think comfort level is coming along in all those things. And I think I said on the Big Ten call, someone asked me about Terrelle and where you really have an appreciation of his growth is when you're getting ready for a team, we're getting ready for Minnesota, so you watch him last year against Minnesota and you've been watching him every day now, he's like a different guy. Now, that slant throw that he misfired and was picked, he couldn't sleep for two days, but he knew exactly what he did. Two years ago, you might have that same issue, and you don't even -- you had no idea why because we were just trying to get the ball out of our hand, that type of thing. But we'll just keep grinding away at that. And I don't even remember the question.
REPORTER: What does he do best?
COACH TRESSEL: Okay. How about that the Ken?
REPORTER: That's pretty good. We liked it.
COACH TRESSEL: All right. We've got -- I'm sorry.
REPORTER: He also looks comfortable out on the edge a couple times Saturday.
COACH TRESSEL: Oh, yeah.
REPORTER: Do you see him as an ultimate threat when he gets out there?
COACH TRESSEL: That's one more threat. There's no question. To me, wherever he is, he's a threat. For instance if you watch the Northwestern, Minnesota game, the key to that game is when they decided they really had to play man under, so forth, that quarterback went running like crazy because there was no one assigned to him. Terrelle can do that when he's in the pocket, he can step you and go to really be a threat. But when he's out on the edge, now you're a zone defender and you've got to decide, do I have to stay back here under this receiver or who's going to tackle him. We have to pressure from a lot of different places. The thing I never want to get caught in is, we only launch from one point because if you only launch from one point, you know, that -- what did Macarthur say, he said if they know where we are, they'll blow us up and the same thing true for quarterback.
