tOSU at Wiscy, Sat, 10/28, 7:30pm ET, NBC

[buckeyeintn]

About ~80% of the posts aren't though.

That's more frustrating to me than the players playing the game. Maybe it's time to find something else to do during games, watching entitled and self-important fans (not talking about you personally) bitch and moan about shit they only have a tenuous understanding of has really made the former enjoyment of posting here during games fade away to basically nothing more than something to do during a game.

I learned a long time ago that I enjoy the games much more if I stay away from the game thread until the game is over, and then I just go to the latest posts instead of going to the beginning of the thread. Still see some idiotic posts but at least I see a lot fewer of them.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Would any other coach in America struggle like this with MHJr, Stover and Henderson?

Is a question I often find myself asking myself.

I just don't get it anymore. I'm exasperated and out of anything approaching an answer.

 

[ExpatAkronite]

If no one else does, as a fan of traditional Irish folk songs, I see what you did there

Thought you'd get that

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

Way Too Late Statistical Breakdown​

Words…words…words
Vegas has the line at -14.5 Buckeyes. They are figuring in location (Madison) and location on the schedule (post PSU). Otherwise, this one is not that close.
...especially if that running game turns the corner

I think the running game turned a corner

kudos to Ryan Day for stubbornly hammering at it until it started to work

Still a ways to go, but they’ve showed more improvement than I dared to hope for; now I actually believe that they can get where they need to go

Thank God that Ryan Day has already shown the ability to develop a quarterback, cuz… ya know…

 

[osuvictory1]

A win is a win. We need to improve to win the Big 10 and Natty.

D is still elite. We need to find ways to get better in the red zone and short yardage. The more this season go's on, I am thinking the window for improvement is smaller. So this is our team. We just have to root them on gifts and faults.

 

[Thump]

Would any other coach in America struggle like this with MHJr, Stover and Henderson?

Is a question I often find myself asking myself.

I just don't get it anymore. I'm exasperated and out of anything approaching an answer.

Ask Dabo?

Ask Deion?

Ask Lincoln?

Ask Venables?

Ask Sark?

Ask Saban?

Noticing a theme?

 

[Jake]

That's on the coaches. They have the talent.

It's NOT the OL. Ryan Day has forgotten 90% of everything he used to know about play calling since he became the head coach.

This is the same dude who orchestrated back-to-BACK 50+ performances against TTUN. And now it's a miracle when he beats freaking Wisconsin 24-10 when they don't have their starting QB or RB.

Last year's offensive tackles are starting in the NFL now, and I saw enough whiffs by the current bunch tonight to suggest they are not at that level, at least not yet. Also, the three QBs who preceded McCord were first round draft picks in the NFL. McCord is not at their level, but he doesn't suck either.

What you're seeing now is Day with a lesser OL and a lesser QB. He hasn't "forgotten" anything. He doesn't have the same talent he had before (also, those 50 burgers vs TTUN were before they started cheating), so adjust expectations accordingly. Or just rant like a banshee when you don't get the blowout you wanted. The choice is yours.

 

[BB73]

Would any other coach in America struggle like this with MHJr, Stover and Henderson?

Is a question I often find myself asking myself.

I just don't get it anymore. I'm exasperated and out of anything approaching an answer.

Jim Tressel?

 

[kujirakira]

Last week I called out a good handful of shitty posts (and one non shitty post accidentally). This week I'll take a different route. Shout out to the MVP (Most Valuable Poster) of the Wisconsin game thread: @Jake . Appropriately critical when it was called for, without being negative Nancy. Be more like Jake during game threads, guys.

@Mike80 , I 1000000% know where you're coming from. The hyper critiques get old, and they overshadow legit critiques.

Is this the part where we call you an elitist prick

 

[CMic]

This is what our offense looks like with a below average OL and a serviceable, but not spectacular, QB.

 

[lvbuckeye]

Not his fault.

He had no time to do anything.

Have you ever considered the possibility that Kyle has no time to do anything because of the structure and formation of the offense? When they line up in 21, they run it like 80% of the time. When they line up in 11, they pass it 80% of the time. They haven't called play-action in YEARS. They called the first Counter-Trey tonight for the first time that I can remember since Urban was still coaching.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

Jim Tressel?

This post makes me vaguely uncomfortable

as if there were repressed memories that are fighting like hell to bubble to the surface

im sure it’s just a coincidence

 

[Jaxbuck]

Ask Dabo?

Ask Deion?

Ask Lincoln?

Ask Venables?

Ask Sark?

Ask Saban?

Noticing a theme?

Saban with this team vs Day? It's an unknowable but it makes me wonder to say the least.

Jim Tressel?

Yeah but he'd do it on purpose.

 

[Jake]

Would any other coach in America struggle like this with MHJr, Stover and Henderson?

Is a question I often find myself asking myself.

I just don't get it anymore. I'm exasperated and out of anything approaching an answer.

Our last three QBs were first round draft picks. McCord is not. Two of last year's OTs are starting in the NFL. Our current OTs would not.

I hope this helps a little. QB and OL are kind of important. Day didn't just suddenly forget how to score points.

 

[dragurd]

Would any other coach in America struggle like this with MHJr, Stover and Henderson?

Is a question I often find myself asking myself.

I just don't get it anymore. I'm exasperated and out of anything approaching an answer.

Did you not watch Tim Beck offense