Defensive heroes Kurt Coleman and Brian Rolle both collected team awards this week for stellar performances against Navy.
Safety Kurt Coleman was the Buckeyes’ defensive player of the week, with an interception, a forced fumble and nine tackles. Dan Herron, who rushed for 72 yards and a score, was the offensive player of the week. Nate Oliver, with two key tackles, was the player of the week on the special units.
Scout team champions were: Offense: Zach Boren, K.C. Christian, Bo DeLande, Joe Gantz, James Georgiades, Chris Malone, Rocco Pentello, Ryan Schuck, Scott Sika, Spencer Smith; Defense: Tony Jackson; Special Units: Joe Gantz. The “Attack Force” award went to linebacker Brian Rolle; Justin Boren won the Jim Parker offensive lineman of the week award. The Jack Tatum Big Hit of the week went to Nate Oliver.
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It's interesting to see all the Buckeyes getting cut in the NFL. Sucks, but its interesting.
I think it's a pretty strong refutation for all of the articles we see saying Tressel puts about the same number of guys in the NFL as Cooper did.
Read Ken Gordon's breakdown. He literally analyzed the game piece by piece.
http://blog.dispatch.com/bucke...
Even from my own analysis, I do not have much to complain about. I am glad we got the W, but we faced a REAL team and had the usual first game jitters. One thing for this whole team, as young as it is, is Beanie's statement to Pryor before the last OSU TD drive at Wisconsin last year.
"You are now stepping into manhood." -Beanie Wells to Pryor before he took the field.
Go Bucks!!!
Good article, I thought it interesting to hear they ran the infamous 4th and 2 again to perfection and helped seal the win.
Wonder why we don't check in extra o-linemen to block on short ydg, instead of fullbacks and d-line.
Our running play always seem to take too long to develop, Id like to see more down hill, quick attack type plays.
What a thorough, accurate and fair breakdown. Great stuff.
and @iball, your point about running plays taking too long to develop, you're right. USC I'm sure has already seen that on film and will game plan to devour at the line. It could get ugly Saturday if there isn't great improvement in that area. They say a team makes its largest improvement between Week 1 and Week 2. We'll see about that.
Did Sabino get much playing time at LB? Homan, Rolle, and Sabino will need to play big sat. night.
After I cooled off for a couple days...I've decided I'm going to the game. I have faith in our team. How is section 14c about 12 rows up?
Sounds like you will have a great view of the action tampa.
QB Todd Boeckman cut from Jacksonville
DT Nader Abdallah cut from Baltimore
OT Alex Boone cut from San Francisco
LB Marcus Freeman cut from Chicago
LB Matt Wilhelm cut from Eagles
P A.J. Trapasso cut from Tennessee
RB Antonio Pittman cut from St. Louis
A few of these cuts were just situational. Freeman never really got a fair shake out in Chicago after they signed Pisa Tinoisamoa. Trapasso was signed to a team that already had a pro bowl caliber punter (he signed with the Jets I think). And Pittman never got a fair chance at winning the backup spot for the Rams. I would've kept Pittman over Darby, but that's just them. Wilhelm is a head scratcher though.
Yeah I'm really starting to wonder about this.
*Trapasso was cut by the Titans, picked up on waivers on Saturday by the Jets and cut again over the weekend. Tough breaks.
Anyone know when or where Nate Oliver made his Jack Tatum hit? I'm thinking it would be on a kickoff and no one caught it on camera.
Over hyped teams have over hyped players. The reason the bucks have their asses handed to them against top 10 opponents is the same reason former players are failing in the league. We'll see another over hyped team Saturday night...
Did TP get an award for best quote of the week? Really? "Everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you..."?
Mr. Owens, Mr. Ochocinco, meet Mr. Pryor - if he doesn't turn into the next Mo Clarett or Ray Isaac, he'll be providing the mindless quotes when you're gone... You should be very proud, bucks.
^^tarded
A dumb move by Pryor, for sure, and an even worse sound-bite, but I just left the press conference an hour ago where Tressel implied he has no concerns over Pryor's character. Said he's basically the most compassionate guy on the team. He's young and just not polished. Take it easy with the Clarett comparison.
look at his name, the guy is just a hater that doesn't have anything better to do with his time...
Correction - "there's probably not a more compassionate human being in the world than Terrelle."
Take that, Dalai Lama! Your years of struggle for a free Tibet have been wasted. A 19-year-old kid who supports a football player who violently killed dogs is more compassionate than you.
Tressel was kidding, right?