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

[JimsSweaterVest]

Sure wasn't a long trip between "Bench him!" and "Trust him with an open playbook!"

But he is just an athlete, so put him at wide receiver.

 

[RugbyBuck]

Well done. Well fcuking done. Period.

 

[Buckeyefrankmp]

Deep balls.

If you looked at the replay on the second pass you'd see that it wasn't an over throw. People assume that because it was beyond Posey the ball was overthrown.

Posey made a cut to get inside the defender on the play. When he made his cut he was thrown off stride and lost a step or two. If Posey makes his transition smoothly the ball is perfectly on target and we have a 28-10 final.

The fact that the ball is beyond the receiver doesn't mean it's an over thrown ball. Sometimes it means something happened in the route to throw the timing of the play off slightly. This was the case on the second deep ball yesterday.

Even though the balls were throw beyond the receivers, I like the throws. The throws looked like they were on a line. They did not look like jump balls with the receivers slowing down and waiting for the ball. The passes are much improved from last year and even from the start of this year. Good job Terrelle and the coaching staff.

 

[Cincinnatibuck]

I would of liked to see Posey go Terry Glenn on that second deep pass.

 

[gracelhink]

Even though the balls were throw beyond the receivers, I like the throws. The throws looked like they were on a line. They did not look like jump balls with the receivers slowing down and waiting for the ball. The passes are much improved from last year and even from the start of this year. Good job Terrelle and the coaching staff.

Agreed! To quote Chris Spielman, "if your long, you're never wrong."

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State football: Pryor won with head, feet down the stretch
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The irony wasn't lost on Terrelle Pryor.

On Nov. 21 when the Ohio State sophomore quarterback gained his second straight win over Michigan, his role was not as the big-play passer but primarily as the facilitator. As in running or handing off to running backs Brandon Saine and Daniel Herron.

If he'd signed with Michigan rather than Ohio State in March 2008, that's what he would have been doing a lot of in the Wolverines' shotgun zone-read option offense.

"Handoffs," Pryor said. "It's crazy."

Instead, the zone-read option is an offense that OSU either evolved into or disintegrated to this season while dealing with ever-changing starters on the line, young receivers, running back ailments and a still-learning Pryor.

Not that Pryor had any qualms about running it. It's what he did a lot of in high school in Jeannette, Pa.

"I was always good at running it. I was always good at reading it," Pryor said. And against Michigan, "It just happened to be a play they couldn't stop so we just kept on doing that."

It was a matter of going with the flow, coach Jim Tressel said.

"I don't know that we necessarily want to make that our lead," the coach said. "We'd rather power run and pass probably, make that our lead, but we also want you to have to stop that. But he's very good at it."

Left unsaid by Pryor was that he still has a desire to do much more as a college quarterback. It's one of the reasons he picked Ohio State over Michigan. Though he finished this regular season with 1,828 passing yards and 707 rushing yards, he wants to develop more as a passer, a man who can be effective as both a thrower and a runner.

Yet as this season headed into the three-game stretch at Penn State, Iowa and at Michigan that would decide whether the Buckeyes would earn a fifth straight Big Ten title, it's obvious Tressel and his staff circled the wagons around Pryor.

Ohio State football: Pryor won with head, feet down the stretch | BuckeyeXtra

 

[Taosman]

I'd love to see TP go to one of the Passing Camps in the off season. I'm guessing he could get a loan to pay for that. He has a lot of work to do, yet.

 

[CentralMOBuck]

There is a guy that I work with who tells me every second he can that he thinks Mizzou's quarterback Blane Gabbert is every bit as fast as TP. He threw out the stats for the KU game, yes that awesome defense at KU. He also forget to remember that other teams probably devote a large part of their defensive game planning into containing TP(still not easy to do).

He also thinks Missouri is on the rise and will one day be on the level of the elite programs(Texas, Oklahoma, USC, tOSU, Florida, etc) today. I wish we could play Mizzou again in a home and away series and beat the crap out of them.

 

[OregonBuckeye]

There is a guy that I work with who tells me every second he can that he thinks Mizzou's quarterback Blane Gabbert is every bit as fast as TP. He threw out the stats for the KU game, yes that awesome defense at KU. He also forget to remember that other teams probably devote a large part of their defensive game planning into containing TP(still not easy to do).

Be a friend and set up an intervention for his drug abuse.

 

[chillinvillian]

Quote:
Originally Posted by CentralMOBuck
There is a guy that I work with who tells me every second he can that he thinks Mizzou's quarterback Blane Gabbert is every bit as fast as TP. He threw out the stats for the KU game, yes that awesome defense at KU. He also forget to remember that other teams probably devote a large part of their defensive game planning into containing TP(still not easy to do).

Be a friend and set up an intervention for his drug abuse.

I kow how you feel I live out here in BIG XII country and here this shit all the time. It was worse when KU went to the Orange bowl. I heard last year how TX was going to whip our asses hang half a hundie on us blah blah blah blah. Some TX fans I know was texting me freaking during the game because we came back! Any ways done rattleing on!

 

[Buckin Crazy]

I just cant wait for a game where Pryor is ALLOWED and ABLE to leave everything out on the field. We haven't seen either yet in his career, but we have seen the potential

To be honest I have only seen 2 games in recent years where our Qb has been allowed to leave everything on the field, That was against Notre Dame and Michigan in 06. Pryor has the potential to go Off like very few players can and when that day comes no one can beat us.

 

[jwinslow]

To be honest I have only seen 2 games in recent years where our Qb has been allowed to leave everything on the field, That was against Notre Dame and Michigan in 06

OSU was aggressive with Troy virtually the entire year in 06. They were too aggressive with him against Florida.

 

[Gatorubet]

OSU was aggressive with Troy virtually the entire year in 06. They were too aggressive with him against Florida.

How so? I thought his mobility was underutilized in that game. Harvey and Moss had early success pressuring Troy in the pocket. But even though they kept blowing around the corners, I don't remember too many roll-outs or QB draws being called. And maybe my memory is faulty, but I recollect thinking that leaving him in the pocket all night was great for us.

Seeing how well Beaver State moved the ball against the quack defense, I think Tress will use TP's legs more than he has most of the season.

TP is gonna put up some BIG rushing yards in this game.

 

[morbitzerker]

But you gotta OPEN THE PLAYBOOK!!!1!!

 

[Merih]

How so? I thought his mobility was underutilized in that game. Harvey and Moss had early success pressuring Troy in the pocket. But even though they kept blowing around the corners, I don't remember too many roll-outs or QB draws being called. And maybe my memory is faulty, but I recollect thinking that leaving him in the pocket all night was great for us.

Seeing how well Beaver State moved the ball against the quack defense, I think Tress will use TP's legs more than he has most of the season.

TP is gonna put up some BIG rushing yards in this game.

It was more that there were so many pass plays. There was a drive (following the one where we scored a rushing TD) that we could have slowed down some of UF's momentum by continuing to run the ball.

We here felt that we were too aggresive with Troy in making him throw every down.