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Summer Practice 2009

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Quickie report from practice
By Mr. Ed on 13:20:28 08/11/09

Looks like fall camp picked up where spring left off. Andrew Miller and Mike Adams alternating at left tackle with the ones. Looks like Amos at a corner but does not have the spot nailed down.

At linebacker, in the base defense, it was Rolle in the middle with Spitler and Homan outside. Spitler and Homan stayed on the field with the ones in the nickel package.

Second team linebackers were Sabino, Kline and Sweat.

Nathan Williams working with the ones at defensive end. Rest of the first team Dline included Worthingtonm, Heyward and Gibson.
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O-Zone: Quickie report from practice
 
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-- I thought it was surprising, but Tressel made it sound like the only real competition for starting jobs on the offensive line is at left tackle, between Andy Miller and Mike Adams. Those two are alternating with the first team right now.

The four who appear fairly set are Justin Boren at LG, Mike Brewster at C, Bryant Browning at RG and Jim Cordle at RT.

Personally, I thought J.B. Shugarts would be more solidly in the mix right now.

-- QB Ross Oltorik will not play this fall. He's on a baseball scholarship, and has decided to focus on that sport. OSU has four QBs in camp: Terrelle Pryor, Joe Bauserman, freshman Kenny Guiton and walk-on freshman Justin Siems.

PRACTICE OBSERVATIONS:

-- Freshman OT Marcus Hall certainly seems to carry his weight well. He's listed as 6-5, 300 in the spring media guide and is working as the third-string RT.

-- I gave you the starting OL, here's the second team, left to right: Adams (today), Connor Smith, Andrew Moses, Evan Blankenship and Shugarts. The third team was Sam Longo, Jack Mewhort, Scott Sika, Cory Linsley and Hall.

-- WR DeVier Posey sat out some drills with an apparently minor injury. When he was out -- and with Small also absent -- the top three receivers were Dane Sanzenbacher, Taurian Washington and Lamaar Thomas.

-- Even though he was third-string, freshman WR Duron Carter stood out. He made a nice, pluck-out-of-the-air catch while running a crossing route.

-- Devon Torrence and Andre Amos continue to rotate as first-team CBs opposite Chimdi Chekwa.

-- When the team had three LBs on the field, they were Austin Spitler, Ross Homan and Brian Rolle. When they went to nickel, I most often saw Spitler and Homan out there, but I may have missed some reps where the looks were different.

-- Speaking of LBs, I thought it notable that freshman Storm Klein was running with the second team. In spring, he was third-team. He was joined on the second team by Etienne Sabino and Andrew Sweat. Freshman Dorian Bell was third string.

-- Freshman Corey Brown was a third-team CB.

-- Safety Jermale Hines seemed to be on the field a lot more, although always as a fifth DB.

-- Ohrian Johnson intercepted a tipped ball from Bauserman. Cameron Heyward blocked a field-goal attempt by Aaron Pettrey.

-- In team drills, the first play was a swing pass from Pryor to Brandon Saine out of the backfield. It was too far in front of Saine.

-- DE Nathan Williams looked very good. On some nickel downs, he and Thaddeus Gibson were the starting ends, with Heyward and Doug Worthington inside.

-- Yes, the offensive line uses blocking sleds. Every practice I've attended, they spend a few minutes pounding on them, working on firing out as a unit and "punching" defenders. The line has underperformed in recent years, but sled use has nothing to do with that.
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Moeller out for year; offensive line nearly set? (Blogging the Buckeyes)
 
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The speed ones are a lot less ugly than the previous revolution helmets. At least they aren't wearing the moon-sized ones that UM and others employ. Even their linemen look like caricatures.

New revolution speed:

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Oversized, ugly revolution helmets:

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But nothing can touch these moonsized helmets:

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Taylor Lewan is 6'7", yet even he looks tiny in that helmet.
I hate those. I miss the days when it was only the classic dome helmets.
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For awhile, the underclassmen would seemingly graduate into classic riddell helmets. No longer :(
 
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