Going back to the second half of the Indiana game, I felt something terrible was wrong with Terrelle Pryor. First I might add something was wrong with Jim Tressel. With the game well under control, why did he leave Pryor in the game? It would have been a good time to give Bauserman some work. Instead Pryor makes a fool of himself, passing wildly to Posey two times low short passes and another wild pass to Sanzenbacher three yards over his head!!! He looked worse than a high school quarterback. That is obviously why the quarterbacks coach says that Pryors greatness right now is his ability to run. What a joke, he only does an average job of doing that.
During the Wisconsin game Pryor showed zero improvement, having only two drives of more than twelve yards and five times going three and out. Pryor made Wisconsin's pass rusher O'Brien Schofield appear freakishly athletic and tremendously effective.
Further speaking if anyone is interested, the Big Ten is lousy. The only bright spot is Ohio State's defense that ranks fairly well nationally. Also Place-kicker Aaron Pettrey leads the Big Ten is scoring averaging 8.7 points per game (this is an indicator of how bad the offense is in the Red Zone). Our punter Jon Thoma is currently tenth in the Big Ten.
Now Pryor is saying wait until we see the offense perform in the remaining six games. Well they have always had the potential, it is only very poor coaching and very poor execution that has held this bunch of great athletes back. I understand, the coaches have now settled on plays they feel will work for the Purdue game. They have worked and looked very well in practice. Can that effort carry over to improvement in the actual game. Purdue should be like a scrimmage game, since they are a very weak opponent. But do not believe it until we actually show that we do have an offense and our defense continues to shine.
I almost feel like the Illinois coach who benched Juice Williams for his lack of performance. If I was the coach I would have benched Pryor and gave Bauserman a chance, he could not do a worse job. Look at the Michigan coach who blasted his main quarterback Tate Forcier and humiliated him after some poor plays. He replaced him with Denard Robinson who looked great in a scoring drive and the next drive he threw an interception that caused Michigan to lose to Iowa. I do not approve of the Michigan coach's behavior. However, Illinois and Michigan do not have a PRIMA DONNA whom the coaches cannot criticize or try someone else out. When there was Troy Smith and Justin Zwick, at least if one did not do well they would put the other quarter back in. However, with Pryor, it is like he is our future and regardless of how badly he performs, we are not giving anyone else a chance. In my opinion, if Pryor does not perform in the next couple games and show signs that he is improving (albeit against very weak opponents), I do not know what to think about our beloved Ohio State football team.
Our Defense may be able to carry us to winning out our remaining games including a bowl game, but it would be very pleasing if we had a little offense also.
All of us Buckeye football fans will have to refresh our memories and go back to when Tressel won the whole Enchilada in 2002, Jan 2003 with quarterback Craig Krenzel running a sputtering offense, we had fantastic defense, sterling special teams play and a strong combination of good karma mixed with serendipity!!! Tressel's philosophy than was 1.No bad or sloppy decisions. 2. Don't lose the game on offense. 3. Control the clock. 4. Win with defense and special teams.
GO BUCKS!!! LETS WIN REGARDLESS OF HOW IT LOOKS, BEAT PURDUE AND CONTINUE WINNING!!! BUCKEYE BOB
Labels: Jim Tressel, Ohio State football, Terrelle Pryor