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tOSU vs Missouri, Goodyear Cotton Bowl, Friday Dec. 29, 8 ET on ESPN

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BuckeyesGunn said:
Everybody knows the trenches are where games are won or lost. That O-line has got to be addressed.
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For sure, but as has been pointed out repeatedly, Day’s play calling is stale. Punch him in the mouth and take him out of his rythmn and he folds like a cheap whore. He’s got all the weapons he needs to win big, he just can’t figure out how to use them and progress the offense.
 
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Steve19 said:
This game has turned the smouldering embers under Day’s chair into an open flame. It may not look out here yet, but the way this team folded on offense is going to force him to make changes he does not want to make. This game is perhaps the most embarrassing performance in a bowl game that I can remember.
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Cooper’s no show against Air Force is the only one I can compare it to.
 
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cincibuck said:
Time to admit that the half-wit in Ann Arbor figured this out long before we did.
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Not so much. Because we've seen what happens when we match equal or greater trench play with the better skill position players and QB's. 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019...

The Bucks were beaten up front badly in 2021. 2022 wasn't too terrible, they just didn't execute and let the game get away from them. Of course there's the specter of the sign-stealing hanging over the heads of those days as well. Then the compounded issues of Dline recruiting (lack of) and proper rotational minutes and sparing your starters throughout the regular season doomed them in the 2nd half of The Game 2023 (that and Tommy + Steele struggling with their run fits). Not a farcry from what happened against Mizzou. Though just about any defense I can think of the past 20 years likely wouldn't have won us that game last night.

There is not, and rarely ever is, any singular issue when a team is ailing. There is a priority list of issues that need to be handled as such. The man to do that is at the tippy top. If that priority list of issues is not corrected in a timely manner, or at minimum shows improvement (like the defense the last two seasons) then he will be shown the door, as any coach should be.

edit: Another thing about the Oline. The reshuffling at center hurts the entire unit. Ask any one, anyone at all who has ever played on the Oline or even on the front 7 on defense - you build your line from the inside out. You could have pro-bowl level players across the front; if your center position is a problem, your entire Oline has a problem and will absolutely look disproportionately worse in action than what the talent level might be simply because of that.
 
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