The sad thing is that I think we played our best. Our best just isn't that great. This was like a greatest hits of 2023 OSU problems:
- When the OL fails, it fails HARD.
- McCord craps himself under pressure.
- Defense limits big plays but can't get off the field.
- Other team busts out every trick in their book while Ryan Day calls a scared, weak game.
- Linebackers are slow in coverage and bite on any kind of playaction because of it.
- DEs can't generate any sort of pressure without breaking contain.
- Special teams is a disaster.
I don't know what the problem is. I don't know if it's the players or Day being passive, Larry Johnson losing a step, Parker Fleming's extra chromosome. I don't know. But something has to be changed here.
I lean toward just letting Day go. I don't give a shit if you have confidence in your pressers or when you get off the bus or when you walk onto the field if you're going to call a game like a pussy either way.