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Random Rose Bowl Thoughts
CuntWaffle
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Was going to put this with my TLDR season though post but it would have been overkill but here are some footnotes after having a GOOD night's sleep:
- Defense can't get a pass rush in big games which siginificantly hurts every other aspect of it, especially the secondary. The pass rush is the Browning of the defense right now. Can handle P12 competition but can't do shit against quality teams. Until something changes, upper tier QBs are going to keep eating this defense alive.
- Still don't really know what to think about Rapp. Last night I was pretty pissed because everything looks extremely fishy. Personally I still think he had a slight injury and didn't want to hurt his draft stock but I will wait to hear something more definitive. It is perfectly fine for people to be upset about it right now, especially for people who attended the game. You take time off and spend a decent amount of money to go watch your team win and one of your most important players goes "nah im good".
- None of the big time defensive playmakers stepped up to make that momentum changing strip or interception yesterday which was really disappointing.
- Why did it take us 3 fucking quarters before we remembered Hunter Bryant was on the team? Out of all the aspects of our offense that pissed me the fuck off last night, that got me the most heated. If you are going to throw the ball 25 times in the first half like a fucking idiot, then 10 of those attempts should be to the Beast. There isn't another coach in the country right now that misuses his big time playmakers like Petersen and that shit needs to stop.
- Ty Jones has something going on between the ears right now. Hoping that next year he can erase the big time dropped balls and come in and be that big time red zone threat we need.
- Fuller and Baccelia should not be the go to guys on this offense. I don't think they are bad players but they are never going to scare any team. Really hoping Jones, Osbourne, Bynum, and Spiker can step up next year and start to take over the role as the go to, because we all know we won't throw to Bryant unless it is the Apple Cup or until it is the 4th quarter.
- The Strausser Effect was full go last night. Trey is a shadow of his former self right now, I am hoping with 6 months to recover he can come back and be 80-85% of what he use to be. The rest of the O Line is just not good against upper to elite talent like OSU has. OSU doesn't even have that great of a defense and we made them look like the Steel Curtain for 4 quarters.
- Defense can't get a pass rush in big games which siginificantly hurts every other aspect of it, especially the secondary. The pass rush is the Browning of the defense right now. Can handle P12 competition but can't do shit against quality teams. Until something changes, upper tier QBs are going to keep eating this defense alive.
- Still don't really know what to think about Rapp. Last night I was pretty pissed because everything looks extremely fishy. Personally I still think he had a slight injury and didn't want to hurt his draft stock but I will wait to hear something more definitive. It is perfectly fine for people to be upset about it right now, especially for people who attended the game. You take time off and spend a decent amount of money to go watch your team win and one of your most important players goes "nah im good".
- None of the big time defensive playmakers stepped up to make that momentum changing strip or interception yesterday which was really disappointing.
- Why did it take us 3 fucking quarters before we remembered Hunter Bryant was on the team? Out of all the aspects of our offense that pissed me the fuck off last night, that got me the most heated. If you are going to throw the ball 25 times in the first half like a fucking idiot, then 10 of those attempts should be to the Beast. There isn't another coach in the country right now that misuses his big time playmakers like Petersen and that shit needs to stop.
- Ty Jones has something going on between the ears right now. Hoping that next year he can erase the big time dropped balls and come in and be that big time red zone threat we need.
- Fuller and Baccelia should not be the go to guys on this offense. I don't think they are bad players but they are never going to scare any team. Really hoping Jones, Osbourne, Bynum, and Spiker can step up next year and start to take over the role as the go to, because we all know we won't throw to Bryant unless it is the Apple Cup or until it is the 4th quarter.
- The Strausser Effect was full go last night. Trey is a shadow of his former self right now, I am hoping with 6 months to recover he can come back and be 80-85% of what he use to be. The rest of the O Line is just not good against upper to elite talent like OSU has. OSU doesn't even have that great of a defense and we made them look like the Steel Curtain for 4 quarters.
Comments
On Bryant...I remember seeing him wide open on one specific occasion in the first half but Browning can't see the middle of the field when he is panicking and backpedaling. Also, similar to my point on Gaskin I would guess that OSU's original defensive gameplan focused on Bryant since he was the only really threatening receiver.