Smith is on pace for 8 sacks this season.With Anthony Gonzalez on a bye this week, Ted Ginn a bust (but also on a bye) and Santonio Holmes facing off against the NFL's best defense, it was a bad week for offensive Buckeye NFLer's.
However, the defensive side of the Buckeyes stepped up and staged a battle for 11W NFLer of the week. Chris Gamble recorded 7 tackles to help Carolina pull off a victory and keep pace with Tampa Bay for first place in the NFC South. Ashton Youboty and Donte Whitner combined for 8 tackles and a sack in a victory over St. Louis, to help improve Buffalo to 4-0.
Shawn Springs helped Washington improve to 3-1 by holding Terrel Owens to 7 catches for 71 yards and The Gun Show quadrupled his season total with 4 tackles in a 56-35 home win against Arizona. But the biggest defensive performance was turned in by Will "Summertime" Smith, earning him this week's prestigious award.
Smith was credited with only 2 tackles, but his sack and forced fumble on 49er's QB J.T. O'Sullivan early in the second quarter kick started New Orleans en route to their 31-17 victory. With the Saints trailing 3-0, Smith broke loose for the sack and forced fumble, resulting in a Jonathan Vilma recovery. Six plays later, Westerville South's Lance Moore caught his first of two touchdowns on the day, putting N.O. up for good.
Smith's agent A voice in my head released the following statement on behalf of Smith:
"It is an honor to win this 11W award. I thought I was overlooked a couple of times last year and this is a huge pride factor amongst the Buckeye NFLer's, but I was also happy our team got the victory."
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Smith, Anderson, Peterson, and Scott.
A D-Line like that would make a world of difference in a year like this.
Santonio Holmes was pretty decent with 3 receptions and a TD last might.
Yea, Santonio started to make me a little nervous after his TD catch, I thought I may have to start my post over.
BrotherBuck, that is a good point. When was the last season OSU had an intimidating front four? There have been a couple of good players the last few years, but not an entire unit that strikes fear into opponents. Although, I think the 2008 version still has a chance. I really liked Gibson and Williams coming off the edge and Lil' Ironhead will get better.
I feel like our defensive tackles are too tall. Worthington and Heyward are both 6'6". The prototypical run stuffer in the middle is about Glen Dorsey's height, around 6'1" or so. As it is now, our Defensive tackles are tallers than a lot of offensive linemen they face off against, and I think that has a lot to do with them getting lifted up off the line and not getting any penetration into the backfield.
Santonio finally came through with some fantasy points for me.
The '06 D-Line was good with Pitcock, Kudla, Patterson, and Gholston; but it was nothing close to that '02 line.
Pitcock is one of my all time favorites. I was sorry to see him leave the game.
Now you've got me confused, Brotherbuck.
Kudla didn't play in 2006, he had already graduated. And while Gholston played in '06, he was not a starter, at least not at the beginning of the year.
The listed starters were Lawrence Wilson, Pitcock, Patterson, and Jay Richardson. I remember Joel Penton getting a lot of playing time too.
Is anyone else surprised to see Ginn's lack of success so far? I didn't expect him to be a TO or a Moss, but thought he'd at least have a couple of bombs under his belt by now.
Ginn walked into one of the worst possible situations in Miami. He may yet arrive, but the clock's ticking.
I'm in the camp that Mendenhall is a bust for my Steelers. I'm just not at all sold on him.
(Kudla was a Steelers signing coming out of Ohio State. I had high hopes for him, but it didn't work out. Too bad.)
Unrelated question - have they announced whether the OSU-Wisconsin game is on ABC or ESPN2 yet?
If you live in the Midwest, you should get the game on ABC. Waiting on the page to be updated, but it'll be reflected here eventually:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/...
Layne Kiffin is availible now.... Just saying.
Oh and Al Davis is officially bat-shit crazy. Working for him must be like working for Kim Jong Il or Pol Pot. The NFL should take that franchise away from him because he is a black eye on the league.
Lane Kiffin was fired by the Raiders. We should hire him as Offensive Coordinator!
I have been all for hiring Kiffen, but the more and more I think about it; What would that mean for us?
Someone knows more about this than I do, but isn't JT in control of all play calling for the O on Saturdays? We would get a great coach and another great recruiter, but would play calling change at all?
Somebody get Lane Kiffin a Corvette.
Wait, I heard that somewhere before.
I mixed my years together. I had flashes of Kudla pulling down Lawrence Maroney and was thinking it was '06.
I mentioned Gholston based on what he turned into. He came on a bit at the end of '06 too. I remember him closthlining some dude in '06.
We simply haven't had a line anywhere close to that '02 bunch.
True True, he destroyed the Iowa running back with that clothesline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...