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WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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From the Wisconsin game thread:

I'd like to go back and watch Pryor get hot on the field...was it me or did he gesture to the coaches to call a deep ball?

I think he's tired of the underneath stuff, and he got his call on that throw....
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and from Ray Small:

Not that Pryor was content with what happened last week, especially as Wisconsin sold out to stop the run, leaving opportunities for the Buckeyes to make some big plays down the field.

"It was pretty tough on him," receiver Ray Small said. "He wanted to go deep every play. He was hollering at the coaches, 'Let's go deep! Let's go deep!'

"Terrelle, he's an emotional guy."
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Terrelle definately got pissed at the playcalling against Wisconsin. After an 8 yard button hook from Duron Carter towards the end of the first half, you can visbly see him motion and shout for a deep ball against Wisconsin. I actually think that is encouraging...
 
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billmac91;1568607; said:
Terrelle definately got pissed at the playcalling against Wisconsin. After an 8 yard button hook from Duron Carter towards the end of the first half, you can visbly see him motion and shout for a deep ball against Wisconsin. I actually think that is encouraging...
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Patience young grasshopper, you must first learn to throw the quick slant before you throw the bomb. :biggrin:

Love the attitude from Terrelle. You'll never hear him call out anyone but himself in the press. Great leader for such a young fella.
 
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billmac91 said:
From the Wisconsin game thread:



and from Ray Small:



Terrelle definately got pissed at the playcalling against Wisconsin. After an 8 yard button hook from Duron Carter towards the end of the first half, you can visbly see him motion and shout for a deep ball against Wisconsin. I actually think that is encouraging...
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Saw that too.

And I agree with him. I'd much rather let Terrelle throw deep. It relaxes him. It relaxes the D. And I think he's better at deep balls than short stuff, too many people around the ball, small windows, just not sure Terrelle is comfortable with them. The 5 yard routes on 3rd and 8 are pretty frustrating too.

I'm not trying to just say "YEAH 60 YD bombs!11!" but I really would like to see a more vertical passing game. Terrelle wants to make the big play, let's see what he can do.
 
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Agreed. That short passing game isn't there when teams are putting 8 and 9 in the box. That's because they are not calling run blitzes against us. Normally when you hear "loading the box" that means run blitz in addition to the numbers advantage, which opens the short/int passing game. Teams are loading the box on us and sitting in short zone. That's why we always see those 3-4 yards that TP could pick up if we wanted to. They can quickly converge on a run, short/intermediate passes are always going to be in traffic, with little chance of YAC. The only way to out of that is to spread the D and throw deep a few times.

-z
 
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MuckFich06;1568609; said:
Patience young grasshopper, you must first learn to throw the quick slant before you throw the bomb. :biggrin:

Love the attitude from Terrelle. You'll never hear him call out anyone but himself in the press. Great leader for such a young fella.
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yeah, but when there are 8 or 9 guys within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage that slant gets pretty tricky. it is shocking to me that if he sees a wide open deep ball because of where the defense is lined up he is not allowed to audible to it. the middle of the field was wide open all day long last week. i was wondering why he wasn't changing to it, then i read the quote that pryor isn't allowed to change the plays. that is pretty stupid IMO.
 
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Terrelle Pryor hasn't met high expectations: Bill Livingston
By Bill Livingston
October 16, 2009
Bill Livingston

By now, I thought Terrelle Pryor would show signs of pushing Troy Smith and Joe Germaine as the best quarterbacks I have seen in my 25 years around Ohio State football. Hasn't happened. Not even close.

Instead, the most ballyhooed quarterback in Buckeyes history is becoming another Craig Krenzel, a game manager, a guy who doesn't lose the game and lets the defense and special teams win it. Actually, since Krenzel was the quarterback for the white-knuckled national championship season of 2002, he has a card that trumps anything Pryor can play.

Pryor was better last season, when he was thrown in as a true freshman, when he started from the fourth game until Todd Boeckman took the opening snap in the Fiesta Bowl. He threw for 12 touchdowns against four interceptions with a 60.6 percent completion rate last year. This year, his stats show nine TD passes and six picks, 56.3 percent completions.

Nobody is really putting up big stats among the preseason Heisman Trophy hopefuls. Pryor had the chance to leap-frog the more established names and play like the (clearly premature) Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year he was forecast to be before the season began. He says he is correcting footwork problems that have skewed his aim. Perhaps that is why a breakout game hasn't happened. Not even close.

Sweeping judgments from the recent Wisconsin game are tough to make because the Badgers played keep-away with their ground game. But when the game was still tight, Pryor threw a telegraphed pass, on which he locked onto his receiver. The Badgers dropped it, or it would have been a pick-six interception.

Pryor's only shining moment came when he led a beat-the-clock drive at the end of the first half. That was a Germaine staple, and Smith, who won the Heisman, was good at it, too. Even then, there was an asterisk. The drive began with Pryor making one of those hully-gully plays that you can't diagram, reversing field and running 27 yards from his own 12 on third-and-15. It was a huge play. But, when he gets into the open field, if he really runs a 4.33 40-yard dash, when does he hit a home run? When does he unleash the warp-speed burst Vince Young had? Hasn't happened, although he has been close.
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Terrelle Pryor hasn't met high expectations: Bill Livingston | Bill Livingston: Plain Dealer Sports Columnist's Blog - cleveland.com - - cleveland.com
 
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Buckskin86;1568740; said:
Terrelle Pryor hasn't met high expectations: Bill Livingston | Bill Livingston: Plain Dealer Sports Columnist's Blog - cleveland.com - - cleveland.com
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:shake: I guess it has become a prerequisite to be a complete douchebag when writing sports for the PD. He is trying to compare Pryor to Germain and Smith, yet fails to recognize that both Smith and Germain had a couple years more in the program than Pryor has to date to become those great QBs.
Why does the PD hate Ohio State so much now? I just don't get it.
 
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Onebuckfan;1568717; said:
I'll be satisfied when TP cures cancer and brings peace to the middle east!!
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ESPN will downplay it. After all, TP plays in the crappy Big 10. Tebow's 150 yards passing and 34 rushing yards in the SEC is much more impressive than curing cancer in a slow conference.
 
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ESPN Douchenozzles said:
Look, I'm not saying the fact that Terrelle Pryor cured Lymphoma and constructed a universally palatable two state solution isn't a major achievement. I'm just saying that we're still dealing with unrest in the Caucasus region, Islamofascism in Persia, and the general decline of the dollar as the international standard trade currency. If Pryor wants to play with the big boys, he's going to have to show me something impressive. The SEC is littered with guys as good or better than Pryor. Take Tebow, for example. He puts in 700 hours of volunteer work per week; that's right, he invented a time machine so that he could work more hours for charity than even exist in the established timeline. In fact, Tebow has plans to use his spring break to travel back in time to kill Hitler, stop the JFK assassination, and cheer up Poe by letting him know how famous he becomes after his death. Even the much maligned Jonathan Crompton just published a major paper establishing a simple method by which we can divide by zero - a paper that he wrote on a short plane trip to the Arctic to help refreeze the glaciers with his new global warming fighting machine. Pryor has got the talent, but when is he going to step up?
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They make a compelling argument.
 
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MuckFich06;1568609; said:
Patience young grasshopper, you must first learn to throw the quick slant before you throw the bomb. :biggrin:

Love the attitude from Terrelle. You'll never hear him call out anyone but himself in the press. Great leader for such a young fella.
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I disagree entirely. I'm disappointed by the attitude. He's fired up, but it's TP that's struggling. I don't think his "fire" is positive at all.

Meanwhile, I think it's fair to question if it's "IF" rather than "WHEN" with TP.
 
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