Week 7: Ohio State (6-0) at Wisconsin (5-1)

• LJ

  

  Cleveland Buck;522589 wrote:I really don't think the coaching is to blame for this debacle. I suppose they could have tried to run it a little more in the first half when Pryor looked overwhelmed out there and they could have tried to blitz the run more in the first half. That isn't why we lost though. We lost because the front four was just pitiful and because Terrelle Pryor couldn't do anything, run or pass, for 3 quarters of the game.

  
  Pryor didn't look overwhelmed, he looked annoyed with Posey who looked lackluster.
• believer

  

  LJ;522598 wrote:Pryor didn't look overwhelmed, he looked annoyed with Posey who looked lackluster.

  Rightfully so. Posey looked like shit.
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  Coach little game lives.
• centralbucksfan

  LJ;522598 wrote:Pryor didn't look overwhelmed, he looked annoyed with Posey who looked lackluster.

  
  I agree. I wanted to go through the screen and grab Posey. How many drops did he have? How many times did he go off his route? He was leary of going across the middle. He looked like a player who had piss running down his leg.
  Not sure where all this Pryor bashing is coming from. He had little to do with the outcome. Special teams and defense were the focus of this loss. And the play calling when we got inside the 5 was absolutely aweful. 3 running plays? OSU just flat out got outplayed. It wasn't Pryor or any one individual. The game was lost in the trenches, period.
• jordo212000

  

  Have a big respect for Cameron Heyward after this game.
  
  He was being interviewed after the game and gave all the credit to Wisconsin and said they deserved to win.
  
  What got me was when he was being pressed to put the blame on a certain area and refused and added "There is not going to be any finger pointing, but if you want to blame anybody it was my fault."
  
  That takes alot of balls for him to come out and say that and I hope he has a good rest of the year.

  
  That's what Jim Tressel coached teams do. It is a rare occasion that a team mate throws another under the bus, it's not balls, it's class.

  It didn't take a lot of balls, it was the truth. He and the other d-lineman are who everybody is pointing the finger at. They got dominated and Heyward and company was very quiet
• vball10set

  newarkcatholicfan;522610 wrote:Coach little game lives.

  as does newarkdouchebag
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Posey was awful, but there was more than one receiver running routes. Pryor doesn't deserve all of the blame, but he was terrible last night.
• believer

  

  Cleveland Buck;522725 wrote:Posey was awful, but there was more than one receiver running routes. Pryor doesn't deserve all of the blame, but he was terrible last night.

  
  
  I agree. How many times did the turf tackle Pryor last night? Does that go down in the stats book?
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Reasons why we lost:
  
  First and foremost, the Defensive Line. They couldn't get off blocks or hold their gaps. The Wisky Offensive Line manhandled them.
  
  2.) Where were OSU's LBs? I swear they were non-existent. Everyone wants to blame Chekwa and Torrence, but they were basically playing man covereage ALL night with ZERO over-the-top help since OSU had to bring their safeties up to prevent getting lambasted by the run all night.
  
  3) Tressel's decision to settle for a FG when down 0-21. You have 1st and goal from the 3 yard line and you can't punch it in? The playcalling should have been FOUR straight dives up the middle (split between Herron and Pryor). Why we were running off-tackle draws is beyond my comprehension. THREE FREAKING YARDS!. That right there was pretty much the nail in the coffin.
  
  4) Posey didn't have his head in the game tonight. He looked awful. Someone posed the question, "Did Pryor bang Posey's mom or something?" No joke. The drops were killing me.
  
  5) The decision to punt the ball on 4th and 10 down (I think) 10 pts at the time was tossing up the white flag. Wisky had shoved it down our throats all night long. How was it "suddenly going to be different?" You had to figure they were going to get 3, if not 7.
  
  6) The outstanding play of Watt. He was in beast-mode literally all night. The guy was unstoppable.
  
  
  
  
  I'm giving Wisconsin all the credit in the world. I said way back in the summer OSU would lose 1 regular season game this year, and everyone brushed it aside saying "Who's going to stop us?" I called it. Wisconsin. Why? (1) It's so hard to go undefeated thru the Big Ten (and SEC). (2) OSU has had waaaay too much success the past couple seasons; you just can expect a team to perennially be in a BCS bowl game, let alone the title game like OSU has been doing the past couple years. (3) I figured OSU would be #1 by the time they reached Wisconsin, and you knew that stadium was going to be amped. (4) Wisconsin's HUGE O-line and John Clay - if Bielema was smart at all, he would hand the ball to Clay 25x and let that BIG senior tailback just wear away at our defense - and that's exactly what he did. (5) Bielema was due. Wisconsin is too good of a program (and he had great players this year returning a senior powerhouse runningback in Clay, a monster on the defensive line with Watt, a clutch WR in Toon, and a senior-poised QB in Tolzien). Those, my friend, were all the mixings for an upset. It was so obvious to see it coming.
• LJ

  

  Cleveland Buck;522725 wrote:Posey was awful, but there was more than one receiver running routes. Pryor doesn't deserve all of the blame, but he was terrible last night.

  
  Yeah, but your top receiver playing like that can throw off the whole offense. It will kill the QB's momentum and the rest of the WR's as well. This coming from someone who played WR
• elbuckeye28

  Scarlet_Buckeye;522749 wrote:Reasons why we lost:
  
  
  
  2.) Where were OSU's LBs? I swear they were non-existent. Everyone wants to blame Chekwa and Torrence, but they were basically playing man covereage ALL night with ZERO over-the-top help since OSU had to bring their safeties up to prevent getting lambasted by the run all night.
  

  
  I think the main problem with the LBs was that poor play of the D-Line allowed the O-line to get the second level quite easy.
• vball10set

  kudos on an excellent post, scarlet--pretty much sums up the game...as I said earlier, I can't express how disappointed I was in our Dline- I didn't expect the lack of execution and passion they displayed last night--it was inexplicable
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  elbuckeye28;522768 wrote:I think the main problem with the LBs was that poor play of the D-Line allowed the O-line to get the second level quite easy.

  
  Hence why the D-line was reason #1
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  vball10set;522774 wrote:kudos on an excellent post, scarlet--pretty much sums up the game...as I said earlier, I can't express how disappointed I was in our Dline- I didn't expect the lack of execution and passion they displayed last night--it was inexplicable

  
  Thank you
• Goldenboy26

  

  I wonder if clay will come back next yr?
• vball10set

  Cleveland Buck;522725 wrote:Posey was awful, but there was more than one receiver running routes. Pryor doesn't deserve all of the blame, but he was terrible last night.

  I agree, but what is lost because of all the attention paid to Posey's poor play is the exceptional game that Sanzenbacher had--how many drives in the second half did he keep alive with great hands and an acrobatic catch? IMO, if he was three inches taller or of another ethnicity, he'd be a first round draft pick--he was awesome.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  vball10set;523124 wrote:I agree, but what is lost because of all the attention paid to Posey's poor play is the exceptional game that Sanzenbacher had--how many drives in the second half did he keep alive with great hands and an acrobatic catch? IMO, if he was three inches taller or of another ethnicity, he'd be a first round draft pick--he was awesome.

  
  I agree 110% with this comment. Sanz play was truly remarkable. He made insane catch after catch. This kid just flat out knows how to get open. It's a shame, I don't see him panning out at the next level, but then again I was also one of the "haters" when he first signed with OSU and said he would never see the field. Boy was I dead wrong. Here's to hoping I'm dead wrong again; I just don't see it though.
• dwccrew

  

  Iliketurtles;522313 wrote:For some reason I see Oregon, Boise State, and Auburn all being unbeaten and Auburn will get the shaft again.

  If Auburn goes unbeaten, there is no way they are left out of the title game. They'd have to beat Bama, LSU and win in the SEC title game.
  

  WebFire;522511 wrote:Well, I didn't quite believe in Wisconsin heading into this game. I guess I do now.

  Or just not believe in Ohio State. Seriously, I haven't seen Ohio State play that bad since USC 2008.
• OQB

  

  The D-line got man handled, and was one of the major reasons why the bucks lost.