He threw a *ton* of picks at Wake Forest, but mostly due to the talent around him. He never had a running game and was very regularly playing from behind at Wake Forest. That meant being forced to throw the ball constantly into tight windows in obvious passing situations. He also had fairly porous OLines too, so he was regularly pressured. If you can slow down the run game and put pressure on him, he can absolutely become a turnover machine because his arm talent isn’t good enough to constantly fit balls into tight windows (hence being a 6th year college player instead of in the NFL already). But he can also be wildly efficient if he’s not pressured and teams are forced to sell out to stop the run.
We’re pretty solid on the interior, DTs and LBs. We haven’t been getting a ton of sacks, but decent pressure.
Notre Dame’s Alt could be the first LT chosen in the NFL draft. Kind of like an audition for this matchup.
I was pretty shocked to drive past a billboard for Rax today that featured Reid Carrico of all players holding a sandwich with his name in big letters on the billboard
Is Rax back dukey? That would be big news. They had one in Centerville. The Arby's roast beef reign will end soon. Sorry Duke
No need to apologize. The In Laws sold all of their stores, cashed out, and retired in December of 2021. We got all the Arby's bucks we need.
I’ve gotta say, I did not have “Josh Proctor - very productive Ohio State starting safety” on my bingo card for this year.
Gave up a sack to Watt (no shame there) and had an unfortunately timed false start, but overall did well in his first start. More than I can say for most of the starters on the OL last night.
From OSU’s press release: Since 1996, this is the fifth consecutive time Ohio State and ND have been ranked top-10 when playing each other. Ryan Day is 16-1 in road games. Marcus Freeman is the fifth former player to act as head coach against Ohio State. The list is Freeman 0-1, Fickell 0-1, Glen Mason 1-7, Gary Moeller 3-3-1, and Bo Pelini 1-3. Ohio State has yet to give up a second half point in 2023. Ohio State has won 40 straight games when we go +2 or better on turnovers.
Definitely get a sense that Tyleik Williams has stepped up. He had his best game last week, but you also see the coaches and players mentioning him. Before we played Indiana, Donovan Jackson was asked what he was looking forward to in the game and his answer was not having to block Williams.
Jonathan Cooper had himself a great game: 8 Tackles, 2 Sacks, 1 TFL, 1 QB Hit He's up for a new contract after this season and has played himself into a potentially nice new deal with the Broncos after falling to the 7th round of the draft a few years ago. Love to see it for a great person like him.
I see someone has been on 23. That’s been up for the past 2 years I think. There is still a Rax in Ironton where he’s from.
Both Sawyer and JTT played 48 snaps against WKU, highest of the year. That’s basically how JTT and Harrison finished 2022 over the last six games. Tyleik is staying in the rotation on third downs. He had 50 snaps while Hall and Hamilton had 34/31. We win this game if this DL comes to play.
I didn’t watch the game, but it looks like Chase Young played his first game of the year and had 1.5 sacks on Sunday. Is he at full health now after missing the last two years? Not sure I have seen a more dominant pass rusher at OSU than his stretch of October games in 2019. You literally thought it would be a strip sack every time Wisconsin dropped back to pass.
He looked as good as he has as a pro. Seemed to mostly cut out his habit of wide speed rushes that do nothing but open up enormous holes Cooper had a 3rd sack too negated by a penalty
Stroud’s 30/47 384 2 TD 0 int day was the second most yards by a QB 21 or younger since 1970. Matt Stafford threw for 422 in 2009. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38436108/nfl-week-2-rookie-qb-tracker-young-stroud-richardson
He's doing some really nice things on a dog shit team. Really wish the Browns would have passed on the sex predator and used the picks on Stroud instead.
We gotta pay just to get some guys to take an OV? Yeesh, how the times have changed. I’m all for the players getting money, but some stuff seems out of control.
Hope he lands on a practice squad if he did in fact impress this preseason, i honestly haven't heard him mentioned much since he got drafted
We now have exactly one player from our 2021 or 2022 defenses who was drafted and remains on a 2023 roster.
Love the old Eddie George and Terry Glenn clips...Ginn and Zeke, as well, of course. And sharing this viewing option for the crew here, too, since the Instagram reel doesn't embed
I'm out of town this week and took an early morning conference call from the hotel and the second I sat down at the desk the AC unit kicked on and it wouldn't turn off despite the fact I pressed every button on the unit and flipped the thermostat off. I wanted it off because I figured it would annoy everyone on the call, not to mention, it was going to start feeling cold really quick. Unit was still running as of a few minutes ago and it's a little warm in here so I figured I'd try and turn it down. The unit immediately shut off and I'm sweating Thanks for listening