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Taosman;1797027; said:
He's still in the learning phase and tends to play tentative. The talent is there.
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Is it? Just curious as to why you believe he is a high level football talent? He's a very good athlete, but what exactly have you seen that leads you to believe he's an Ohio St. caliber safety? I wouldn't be surprised if Barnett and Bryant are the safety combo next year.
 
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Buckeyecty4;1797037; said:
Is it? Just curious as to why you believe he is a high level football talent? He's a very good athlete, but what exactly have you seen that leads you to believe he's an Ohio St. caliber safety? I wouldn't be surprised if Barnett and Bryant are the safety combo next year.
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Pretty simple really; he is starting at safety. He was the #1 through camp before being equal and then eventually phased out by Barnett.

If we wrote off guys for a bad or tentative performance in their first real away game against a negative atmosphere, we would have missed out on some of the best players to ever don the jersey.
 
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OSU notebook: Safety savors first pick
Johnson says he saw right through Purdue play call in making an interception
Sunday, October 24, 2010
By Ken Gordon, Tim May and Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Getting his first career interception made Ohio State safety Orhian Johnson feel good yesterday, but why he got it made him feel even better.

Interceptions can be fluky, after all, such as a ball batted into the air. Or they can result simply from being the closest defender when a quarterback makes a mistake.

But when Johnson picked off Purdue's Rob Henry late in the second quarter of Ohio State's 49-0 win, it was validating to Johnson, a sophomore making his sixth career start. He made the play for the right reason - he anticipated the pass and broke on it.

"It felt right," said Johnson, a sophomore. "I was reading my keys. I saw the ball coming, and I just went after it."

Admittedly, he had struggled since being thrust into the starting lineup in week three, replacing C.J. Barnett, who suffered a season-ending knee injury. Before yesterday, Johnson had broken up one pass and forced a fumble. Coaches called his play "solid" but said he needed to start making plays.

Johnson said he has been pressing, and that play relaxed him.

"He has struggled at times," safety Jermale Hines said. "So that was a big play for him, for his confidence."
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2010/10/24/safety-savors-first-pick.html?sid=101
 
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Johnson feeling more comfortable at safety
Thursday, November 18, 2010
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

It was just an assisted tackle in the box score, but for a converted quarterback who once had Heisman dreams, it was a big deal.

Last week against Penn State, on fourth-and-1 late in the first half, Ohio State safety Jermale Hines was desperately clutching a handful of running back Silas Redd's jersey.

Fellow safety Orhian Johnson rushed up and delivered the knockout blow, stopping Redd for no gain. It might have been the turning point for Ohio State, which came back from a 14-3 deficit to win 38-14. Johnson finished with a career-high five solo tackles and tied his career high with eight stops overall.

"Orhian is coming along very well - his tackling is much better from when he first started," Hines said. "He wasn't tackling that well."

That's a problem for a safety. Defensive backs who aren't good enough to consistently play man-to-man coverage get turned into safeties. As recently as Oct. 30 at Minnesota, Johnson was struggling in coverage, hesitant and slow to get over and provide help at times.

At the least, then, safeties are expected to hit.

"The bye week was good for him," safeties coach Paul Haynes said. "I challenged him during that bye week that he's got to continue to get better. People who have come out to practice, they have noticed him, because he's doing the little things right - planting and driving, doing those things to get himself better, so he's on the right track."
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...eling-more-comfortable-at-safety.html?sid=101
 
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Super smart football people will tell me how full of junk I am and it is a team game and everyone needs to step up...In my opinion if this young man brings it and plays well the Bucks win, if we does not fill in the gaps on run plays and gets lost on the deep ball.... Arkansas wins...

That is my bold potentially full of Mark May prediction....

Note... depending on the bowl changes made this could be true for any saftey back there.
 
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CoosMeister;1849701; said:
Ohrian Johnson played a great football game. When the other corners and safeties went down, OJ stepped up. I can't say how excited I am for him! Tons of hard work paid off in the fourth quarter. :oh:
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He was solid - never got burned deep in the middle, and was able to provide run support.

The 4th quarter might have been a little less stressful if he'd been able to hold onto that one potential interception, though. :biggrin:

:io:
 
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rakyzP48zkI"]YouTube - ‪Orhian Johnson Interview - 7/6/11 (Part 1)‬‏[/ame]

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