Game Thread tOSU at Illinois, Oct 15th, 3:30 ET, ABC/EPSN

[utgrad73]

Eddie George was right - run the football and then run some more. I hope he called Fickel and bitched him out for last week and previous. We have the backs, run the ball. Miller's passes may be more successful when they are unexpected. At least this year.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Eddie George was right - run the football and then run some more. I hope he called Fuckel and bitched him out for last week and previous. We have the backs, run the ball. Miller's passes may be more successful when they are unexpected. At least this year.

There's an unfortunate typo!

 

[cbrian815]

Eddie George was right - run the football and then run some more. I hope he called [censored]el and bitched him out for last week and previous. We have the backs, run the ball. Miller's passes may be more successful when they are unexpected. At least this year.

I dont think anyone is going to be ready when you have zero completions in the 4th quarter. 228 total yards, 108th ranked in total offense and a qb that isnt progressing. The Roby interception won the game, not the powerful offense. The defense turned them over 3 times. This was not Wisky running the ball down Illinois`s throat. We get Wisky soon enough and I have very little faith that our offense will do much against them. I will take a win anyway I can get it but to think our powerful offense won the game is ridiculous....imho. Go Bucks

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

We have to run right at them and not abandon the run at any time in this game. The offensive brain trust should be able to figure that out. :tongue2:

woah

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I dont think anyone is going to be ready when you have zero completions in the 4th quarter. 228 total yards, 108th ranked in total offense and a qb that isnt progressing.

Say what? Miller was having a solid game at Nebraska before getting hurt, and was held back passing-wise at Illinois solely because of the windy conditions.

 

[Tlangs]

I was at the game and have been at every game in Champaign since 2000. That field is a wind tunnel in good conditions. It was crazy windy Saturday. We were tossing the ball around in the parking lot before the game and the wind would move the ball by yards....not feet. The way Miller floats up wobblers, I couldn't be happier that we only threw the ball five times.

 

[utgrad73]

There's an unfortunate typo!

i is next to the u and not that infortunate. I try not to use the f-bomb "onlune".

 

[Gatorubet]

i is next to the u and not that infortunate. I try not to use the f-bomb "onlune".

As long as you're not ban whoning.

 

[TooTall]

As long as you're not ban whoning.

 

[Muck]

Say what? Miller was having a solid game at Nebraska before getting hurt, and was held back passing-wise at Illinois solely because of the windy conditions.

It's the XBOX generation...if he isn't throwing for 300 yards by game two he's a failure.

 

[Taosman]

Buckeye fan "Winning takes care of (mostly) everything!"
Run, play field position and solid defense with solid special teams.
It's cold and windy, now and the teams that run the best will win.
Don't fans know this?
Sure, it's boring as hell but the alternative is not going to get you a win in the Big Ten this time of year. (Illinois, looking at you)
We are now in a great position to control our own destiny.
Who would have thought that after the Nebraska game?
Everything is possible!

 

[Buckeye86]

I don't have the stats handy, but while it looked like they couldn't stop the run, didn't we get two touchdowns on extremely short fields? That isn't them not stopping the run as much as it was the defense setting up "easy" scores. If they really couldn't stop the run and we didn't pass because the run was so effective, we would have had a touchdown on an average to long drive. We are pumping up the effectiveness of the run here too much, methinks.

I do agree with sticking with the run. I just don't think it was as dominating as people seem to be making it out to be.

The Buckeyes kicked a field goal on a 10 play 45 yard scoring drive, scored a touchdown on a 1 play 12 yard scoring drive, and scored a touchdown on a 3 play 22 yard scoring drive.

I couldn't agree more that people are letting the defense putting the offense in good field position inflate their opinion regarding how effective the run game was on Saturday.

It's the XBOX generation...if he isn't throwing for 300 yards by game two he's a failure.

I for one am not blaming Braxton. I never have. The called passes were all unbelievably predictable and slow developing against Illinois just like they have been all year.

That failure is on the coaching.

We are not talking about passing for 300 yards, we are talking about the coaching staff putting the QB and the passing game in a position to succeed, which they have utterly failed to do this entire season.

So it was windy? How about some short passes in the flats rather than 7 step drops on third and long with play action draw fakes thrown in to prevent the QBs from looking down field for a few seconds?

It really isn't asking much, once again not of the QB, but of the coaches to call plays that make sense. Pretending like people are upset by a lack of 300 yards passing is missing the point entirely, seemingly on purpose to avoid the issue at hand.

 

[buckeyebri]

Buckeye fan "Winning takes care of (mostly) everything!"
Run, play field position and solid defense with solid special teams.
It's cold and windy, now and the teams that run the best will win.
Don't fans know this?
Sure, it's boring as hell but the alternative is not going to get you a win in the Big Ten this time of year. (Illinois, looking at you)
We are now in a great position to control our own destiny.
Who would have thought that after the Nebraska game?
Everything is possible!

 

[jwinslow]

EDSBS

 

[Gatorubet]

Ball I talked to last week said he hasn't slept in days. Keeps having dreams of being flung into all sorts of shit - cameramen, soft pretzel vendors, even a police horse. That's no way to live.