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S/LB Tyler Moeller (official thread)

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Moeller Mending: Defensive back/linebacker Tyler Moeller has been fighting injuries for two years, some of them football related, some of them not. He is finally back on the field, but says he is just now starting to get back to full health.

"Every game I feel better," said Moeller.

"I think one of my biggest problems was during the summer I pulled my hamstring and didn't get to run a lot.

"That hamstring kind of went to my groin a little bit in camp and I didn't get a good chance to really get my feet under me, so every game I'm feeling better and I'm playing better."

Now that he is feeling better, Moeller is craving action, but opposing offenses are in a hurry to let him mix it up with them.

"I wish they would run my way and pass my way a little bit more, but I'm playing consistent and I'm happy," Moeller said.

"I'm not making the big plays that I want to make but I just need to be patient and I'll make those plays."
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http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2011/Indiana/postgame/noteandquotebook.html
 
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Tyler had some Q&A after Luke's presser today.

Official.site

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An interview with:
Tyler Moeller


Q. Which quarterback do you expect to see over at Purdue? Talk about the differences in the two.
Tyler Moeller: I definitely expect to see both quarterbacks out there. They're both good quarterbacks. They're both athletic, can run around and throw the ball.
I do foresee a duel threat quarterback system on Saturday.
Q. What did Wisconsin do against them or bother them last week?
Tyler Moeller: I got to see a little bit. I didn't watch the full game of that.
They do a good job of spreading the ball around, doing different things. It's a tough offense when you do have a quarterback, two quarterbacks, that can throw and run the ball at the same time, giving them an extra man, so to speak, to do things.
Q. Just wondering what you remember about playing there in 2009 and how much that game has been brought up this week.
Tyler Moeller: I don't really remember too much from that game just because I had a brain injury. I wasn't at the game. I don't really remember too much of that period of my life so it's hard to comment. Weak excuse, I apologize (smiling).
For me personally, I really don't look at past games and past experience. That's a different team. We're a different team. But I do know any team could beat any team and we have to do a good job of starting strong and finishing strong, too.
Q. Purdue has had very good fortune against you when they're playing over there. Is that something you have taken special note of this week?
Tyler Moeller: Not really. Those things are in the back of people's minds. But you can't really take into effect those things. It's a different team this year.
For me, like I said before, I get excited to play at stadiums and atmospheres like that. They have great crowds, they have great fans. I'm excited to go there. I'm excited to play there.
Q. Do you know what the standings are in the Leaders Division?
Tyler Moeller: I don't. I don't really pay attention to all that stuff. I pay attention to what we can control and winning this game.
Q. What's the next immediate goal for the team do you think then?
Tyler Moeller: For?
Q. What are you shooting to do?
Tyler Moeller: To win out.
Q. What would that get you?
Tyler Moeller: Hopefully things play out in our favor. But we'll see.
Q. As part of the defense, how much does it benefit you guys to be on a team that is predominantly run base? Does it benefit you being on the sidelines longer getting fresh or would you rather see the team pass a little more, too?
Tyler Moeller: It is a big benefit for the defense, you're talking about the offense being out there longer on the field. It is nice when we can get a break, catch our breath. It's tough on defense when you're out there a lot. You do get fatigued, tired.
Any time the offense is controlling the ball, really knocking time off the clock, we're playing good obviously. Players like myself who really haven't played that much, me with injury, just getting that experience under us, playing a couple games, getting our feet under us, I think that's the biggest thing.
Of course, that win was a huge win for us. To have that momentum, in football that's a huge thing. Having that momentum on our side for the last three games, I think that's a great feeling.
Q. You're nine games into the season. Do you feel like you have as a team a strong identity? If so, what is it?
Tyler Moeller: What is the identity? I don't know. We do have a strong identity. We're tough. Anything that comes our way I think we can handle. We dealt with so many things on the field, off the field this year. If something happens, I think guys are doing a great job of handling it, kind of just shrugging it off, handling it face up. That's the biggest thing about our team, we can handle adversity.
Q. With the way a lot of teams play offense in college football, putting up big numbers, is there an attitude sometimes as a defense you can't stop them every play but we'll force them into a big mistake, we'll force a turnover? I don't know if the attitude has changed at all that maybe you have to give up something, but you have to make them pay at some point.
Tyler Moeller: It is to a point. We do know that we have to make those big plays and get those turnovers and get that momentum to the offense, start them off on a short field so they can put points on the board.
Also, our defense, as the Silver Bullets, we strive at shutting them down. That was a big thing at the beginning of the season. Someone got a big play on us. We were like, What's happening? We're not used to it. We have gave up a little bit too many big plays than we wanted to.
But, yeah, our mentality is we want to stop them every play, get negative pass yards. That's tough to do, but that's our mentality.
Q. How do you think you've done as a defense in terms of getting turnovers?
Tyler Moeller: I don't think we've done a good job of it. Two big things on defense that we've been talking about is not giving up big plays, doing our job, work on stripping the ball and running to the ball. When that ball's on the ground, we need to do a good job of picking it up and creating that turnover.
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MaxBuck;2041780; said:
It was good to see this fine Buckeye play in his Senior Day finale. Unfortunate that he missed more tackles than, I think, the rest of his Buckeye career.
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He's missed tackles all season. The safety/star play this year has been very poor. Tyler has been fun to watch but like many of the seniors did not play extremely well in his final home game, nor the last three games.
 
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One last time
Moeller ending 6-year run with Buckeyes
BY MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

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Tyler Moeller will be on defense one more time for the Buckeyes when they face Florida. Because of injuries, he is the only player who was involved when the teams met in the 2006 BCS title game.
THEOZONE.NET/JIM DAVIDSON

JACKSONVILLE -- This isn't necessarily the Sunshine State for Tyler Moeller. A couple of the worst experiences of his life have been associated with that word -- Florida.

The first was a big psychological hit. Moeller was a member of the Ohio State football team as a freshman redshirt when the Buckeyes met Florida in Arizona in the 2006 BCS national championship game.

That 41-14 humbling is something Moeller would prefer to forget. But he's the final remaining eye witness, since the rest of the Buckeyes from that team have moved on.

"The only person [still here] on either team, I believe, is me," Moeller said as Ohio State worked out in advance of Monday's Gator Bowl meeting with Florida.

OSU shocked the Gators in that championship game when Ted Ginn, Jr., took the opening kickoff back 93 yards for a touchdown, but Florida dominated the rest of the way.

"I remember being really excited," Moeller said about the start to that game, "and then we got our butts whipped."

Moeller is still around for this second meeting with Florida because he is an unusual six-year player. One close call with death and one serious injury on the field have extended his stay with the Buckeyes.

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http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-State/2012/01/01/One-last-time.html
 
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...lls-foul-on-race-baiting-Ga?urn=ncaaf-wp12427


Trash talking is as old as football itself. A player baiting another player with a taunt or threat is usually par for the course during any game, especially a game between rivals or with championship significance.

So, it was no surprise that Monday's Gator Bowl between Florida and Ohio State — two teams that have loved Urban Meyer — had a little more vitriol than usual. What was surprising was the type of caustic comments being said.


Ohio State linebacker Tyler Moeller said Florida players hurled racial slurs at him throughout the game and that that sparked some of the chippiness during the 24-17 Florida win.


"They're classless. That's the way I'd put it," Moeller said, according to Marcus Hartman from Buckeye Sports Bulletin. "I've never seen more people swing at our players and call us racial slurs. I've never been called a 'cracker' more in my life than I have today. So I don't really have much respect for them in terms of that but they're a good team. They came out and outplayed us today."

I'll be the first to admit I've never heard a player complain about this in terms of reverse racism (which is still just racism) and really, you rarely hear about this type of thing at all on the collegiate level, though it probably exists. I'm sure there was a slew of unsavory things said on that football field, but who knew the "C-word" was still a racial slur that anyone used?


I'm not trying to make light of the situation, but I thought it went out of style after comedian Chris Rock ran the slur into the ground during his HBO special in 1999. The word is probably as relevant now as some of the words used in the infamous 1975 Saturday Night Live skit "Racist Word Association Interview" with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor.


I do wonder what other things he and other players were called and what they might have yelled back? I'm sure there was some profanity dropped that probably drew more anger — and some colorful rebuttal — than the "C-word."
Ohio State defensive back Travis Howard, who is from Miami, told Hartman that that kind of trash talk is common in the state of Florida.


It's interesting that in other leagues, especially soccer leagues where there are many different ethnicities on one field, this kind of stuff is severely punished. Unfortunately, this will probably go relatively unnoticed.


Moeller actually doesn't have the best luck in the state of Florida. In 2009 while vacationing with his family, Moeller was punched in a Florida bar and suffered a skull fracture and a serious brain injury. Doctors told him he'd never play football again, but he returned to the field a year later.
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you would think after so many years of oppression, they could come up with something better than "cracker" by now.
 
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Buckeye513;2079568; said:
What's "reverse" about randomly calling someone a cracker?
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That is just racism, not reverse racism. Reverse racism applies to the majority, but it is specific to positive discrimination--like favoring them for jobs without necessarily being racist toward minorities. Either way, racial slurs would offend most people regardless of their racial affiliation. It is incredibly disrespectful. Your level of offense to them is probably a reflection of the value you place on social respect.
 
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kn1f3party;2079587; said:
... racial slurs would offend most people regardless of their racial affiliation. It is incredibly disrespectful. Your level of offense to them is probably a reflection of the value you place on social respect.
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Hey, same to you! :lol:

Seriously, I think people who want to take offense at words are people who want to take offense at words. If you want to get [censored]ed off, be my guest, but I think being able to ignore meaningless crap like this will lead to a happier life. (The world probably would be a better place if we could all avoid using those words, but look at what Buckeye fans call Michigan fans and tell me we're really ready to go there.)

Back to Tyler: he's gone through way more than I'd wish on any young man. Best wishes for success whatever he chooses to do after he leaves campus. Terrific Buckeye!
 
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MaxBuck;2079593; said:
Seriously, I think people who want to take offense at words are people who want to take offense at words. If you want to get [censored]ed off, be my guest, but I think being able to ignore meaningless crap like this will lead to a happier life. (The world probably would be a better place if we could all avoid using those words, but look at what Buckeye fans call Michigan fans and tell me we're really ready to go there.)
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While I somewhat agree with what you're saying, I don't think it is 'meaningless crap.' Sometimes it is but sometimes it isn't. In his shoes, you likely would have been equally as upset with the racial slurs. All of us have different tolerance levels for bullshit from other people, but even the most tolerant person can be pushed over the edge if the disrespect is turned up enough. It is human nature. We want people to like us, respect us, and treat us decently. But it is circumstantial. This team had been through a lot of adversity, Moeller has as well. He is a minority on the football field in his position. When they were down, they were being kicked. I can understand why this would be offensive in this circumstance.

I'm happy he got to play his senior season after the time he spent away due to injuries. He was a gifted player and I wish him the best.
 
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