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

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Pryor's message: Quarterback Terrelle Pryor had been made available for midweek interviews on three Wednesdays this season, but this Wednesday wasn't one of them. Pryor did interact with several fans on his Twitter account, @TPeezy2, this week, referencing several critical messages from what Pryor referred to as "haters."

"Thanks for all your words but I don't need any sympathy. The Bucks are back. Haters I love you," Pryor wrote.

Previously, just hours after the Wisconsin loss, Pryor also asked the haters if they ever held a football, then wrote "Love you true buck fans. I promise I won't let you down again. Mark that down too!!" This week he referenced messages on his haircut, his spiritual life and someone who is supposedly naming their baby after Pryor.

Quarterbacks coach Nick Siciliano said he doesn't check Pryor's Twitter account, then, wondering why it was brought up, asked what Pryor wrote recently.

"He's really tried to embrace everybody and do right on everything," Siciliano said. "I'm very proud of him for that, because it's been part of the growth process and he's handled things very well. For a guy who has been in his position, he could have handled everything the wrong way. I'm not saying he's always handled things correctly, but he's handled things very well. I'm very proud of the fact his maturity is rising."
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/10/expect_more_changes_on_ohio_st.html
 
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TP is one of 16 semi-finalists for the Davey O'Brien Award. The only Buckeye to have won this award is Troy Smith in 2006.

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Pryor Named Davey O'Brien Award Semifinalist

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State junior quarterback Terrelle Pryor is one of 16 semifinalists for the 2010 Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, which takes into consideration quarterback skills, academics, character, leadership and sportsmanship.

Pryor leads a Buckeye offense that is averaging a Big Ten-best 40.8 points per game and is one of six active FBS quarterbacks with at least 1,000 career rushing yards and 5,000 passing yards. He leads all Big Ten quarterbacks with 18 touchdown passes and ranks 11th in the nation in passer efficiency with a 162.8 rating. Pryor has completed 66 percent of his passes for 1,775 yards and has thrown at least one touchdown pass in all but one game. He also has rushed for 408 yards and three touchdowns, which include three 100-yard rushing performances.

The Jeannette, Pa., native had his best all-around game against No. 12 Miami (FL) in September when he threw for 233 yards and a score and rushed for a career-high 113 yards and another score in the 36-24 win. In the win over Ohio, Pryor set a school-record with 16 consecutive completions against the Bobcats, the second most in Big Ten history.

Pryor would go on to set another school record the very next game against Eastern Michigan by accounting for six touchdowns in a single game: four passing, one rushing and one receiving.

Against Indiana Oct. 9, Pryor threw for a career-high 334 yards and three touchdowns and is coming off a 270-yard, three touchdown passing performance in the win against Purdue in just three quarters of play - a game in which the Buckeyes racked up 415 total yards in the opening half.

Pryor joins three other Big Ten quarterbacks on the list: Michigan State's Kirk Cousins, Michigan's Denard Robinson and Iowa's Ricky Stanzi.

2010 Davey O'Brien Semifinalists
Matt Barkley So USC Pac-10
Kirk Cousins JR Michigan State Big Ten
Andy Dalton SR TCU MWC
Blaine Gabbert JR Missouri Big 12
Robert Griffin III SO Baylor Big 12
Landry Jones SO Oklahoma Big 12
Colin Kaepernick SR Nevada WAC
Andrew Luck JR Stanford Pac-10
Ryan Mallett JR Arkansas SEC
Taylor Martinez FR Nebraska Big 12
Kellen Moore JR Boise State WAC
Cam Newton JR Auburn SEC
Terrelle Pryor JR Ohio State Big Ten
Denard Robinson SO Michigan Big Ten
Ricky Stanzi SR Iowa Big Ten
Darron Thomas SO Oregon Pac-10

Fans may now help determine which three quarterbacks will advance as finalists by voting as often as once daily at www.VoteOBrien.org. Fan voting will close at noon (CT) on Nov. 21.

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I'm surprised this topic didn't get picked out of yesterday's press conference yet.

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REPORTER: You guys do different things on offense, but at this point in Terrelle's career, what is it that you think he likes best or does best or have you had a day where you said, Terrelle Pryor, you're calling all the plays today, what do you think he would lean toward?

COACH TRESSEL: He's starting to call a few more of them now. He came to us at one point in him game and said, here's the way they're playing this, we've got to throw this and all of a sudden he hits a 19-yard dig route, he had it cold. And all of a sudden he came back and called the next play and I've got, man, we've got all you other guys up there, what do I need you for? But understanding is greater. Are we to point yet where we say, hey, we're just going to give him a formation and you're going to take over? Probably not there yet. Will we ever get there? We'll see. We study things in the pass game by protection because that's what it's all about and which things do you do best in protection and in fact we're right now in the midst of a pretty intense study of ourselves by protection, by quarterback in this case, although we were teasing Terrelle that if you take Big Ten stats original, Terrelle's fourth in the league in passing efficiency and Bauserman's first. So we've had fun with that all week, believe me. Right now, as we look at our various protections, which ones are we executing better, numbers sometimes lie, so the first thing you do is you get the numbers, and then you go back and look at the film and say, did we execute this because of protection, because of the actual design or in spite of the fact, you know, he dodged three people and jumped up in the air and threw a pass and that type of thing, but you know right now, I think the fact that he's been under center a little bit more and done a little more throwing from under center than he did early in his career, I think he's becoming more comfortable in that and that's something we want him to. I think he's comfortable with the five-man protections where he's got to do more Q throws and all that and I think he's also comfortable with the seven-man protections where he knows if they green dog someone, he's going to be protected or if someone has poor technique and they beat us around the corner. So I think comfort level is coming along in all those things. And I think I said on the Big Ten call, someone asked me about Terrelle and where you really have an appreciation of his growth is when you're getting ready for a team, we're getting ready for Minnesota, so you watch him last year against Minnesota and you've been watching him every day now, he's like a different guy. Now, that slant throw that he misfired and was picked, he couldn't sleep for two days, but he knew exactly what he did. Two years ago, you might have that same issue, and you don't even -- you had no idea why because we were just trying to get the ball out of our hand, that type of thing. But we'll just keep grinding away at that. And I don't even remember the question.

REPORTER: What does he do best?

COACH TRESSEL: Okay. How about that the Ken?

REPORTER: That's pretty good. We liked it.

COACH TRESSEL: All right. We've got -- I'm sorry.

REPORTER: He also looks comfortable out on the edge a couple times Saturday.

COACH TRESSEL: Oh, yeah.

REPORTER: Do you see him as an ultimate threat when he gets out there?

COACH TRESSEL: That's one more threat. There's no question. To me, wherever he is, he's a threat. For instance if you watch the Northwestern, Minnesota game, the key to that game is when they decided they really had to play man under, so forth, that quarterback went running like crazy because there was no one assigned to him. Terrelle can do that when he's in the pocket, he can step you and go to really be a threat. But when he's out on the edge, now you're a zone defender and you've got to decide, do I have to stay back here under this receiver or who's going to tackle him. We have to pressure from a lot of different places. The thing I never want to get caught in is, we only launch from one point because if you only launch from one point, you know, that -- what did Macarthur say, he said if they know where we are, they'll blow us up and the same thing true for quarterback.
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TP talks about calling some plays, including the long pass to Sanzo this week after a pump fake.

But his 'play calls' sound more like suggestions, rather than calling them himself in the huddle, or using audibles at the line.

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I'd love to see more pump fakes incorporated into the passing game.
 
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Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor growing in Buckeyes' offense, but admits curiosity about a spread attack
Published: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- What would Terrelle Pryor do if he was in charge of the Ohio State offense?

Saturday night at Minnesota will be the 32nd game since Pryor took over as the starting quarterback. Obviously, the junior's responsibility and knowledge of the offense has grown over time. That offense varies from month to month and game to game, as OSU coach Jim Tressel constantly adjusts to opposing defenses and what he senses are the strengths of his personnel.

Last Saturday against Purdue, for instance, the Buckeyes were under center a little bit more than they had been, using an I formation rushing attack to get the offense going. Tressel has seen Pryor improve in that staple of the OSU plan.

"I think the fact that he's been under center a little bit more and done a little more throwing from under center than he did early in his career, I think he's becoming more comfortable in that and that's something we want him to do," Tressel said.

Against the Golden Gophers, maybe the Buckeyes will get back to, for instance, the shotgun a bit more. At least, in his world, that's what Pryor would lean toward if he assumed the title of offensive coordinator.

"Obviously, I'm going to have different views," Pryor said with a smile. "I'd probably put some small guys in the backfield, like [Dan Herron] and Jordan [Hall] and Jaamal [Berry] and get in the shotgun and spread the field and make the defense make some plays, because there's only a couple guys in the box and there's not a lot of people who can tackle Boom or Jordan or Jaamal Berry within a space, and run some zone reads and stuff like that.

"But that's not what we do. We do that a little bit, but our game plan is to attack what we see. There's a lot of things we do that I like and every week our coaches have very good game plans, but I feel comfortable with everything."
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/10/ohio_states_terrelle_pryor_gro.html
 
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I think TP is really coming along. I don't think we can overstate how important the Rose Bowl was to his mental game.

There may have been more things he could have done against Wisconsin that might have helped us to win that game. But no way would you say he lost us that game.

It was special teams, D line, O line, in that order.

Whereas last year you could make the case that he was 75% of the blame for the Purdue loss.

Every game is important, including Minnesota this weekend, but the Iowa game will really be important in trying to judge how far along he is, and just how good he is.

I'm not worried about the Oline either, but I sure hope the D line plays angry like they did last week.

One last comment --- TP, please be very very careful these next few games. Love that you are getting better at handling the press, but please don't give any of our opponents any bulletin board material.

Go Bucks!
 
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Pryor is 6'5.36" IIRC. Ken Gordon or som eone from the dispatch reported a typo during his frosh camp which labeled him as 6'3.56".

You can see Pryor slouching a bit, look at the number 2.
 
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If he's not at least 6'4" or 6'5", then I think we should think about moving him to wide out. In my humble opinion, no one shorter than 6'4" can make it as a quality FBS quarterback. Right, Troy?

Who gives a rat's ass how tall he is??? He's having a kick ass year and progressing very well as a true passer.
 
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Keep this in mind the next time a talking head criticizes TP's performance.

Ohio State records that quarterback Terrelle Pryor is approaching:

? Most games with 200 yards total offense: Pryor is tied with Troy Smith at 19.
? Most rushing career yards among quarterbacks: Pryor has 1,873, trailing only Cornelius Greene (2,066).
? Most total yards in a career: Pryor has 7,275, trailing only Art Schlichter (8,850).
? Best passing efficiency in a season: Pryor's is 165.2, putting him ahead of Bob Hoying (163.4 in 1995).
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...s-bye-week-to-sharpen-his-skills.html?sid=101
 
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