The Mighty Morphin one and his friend are on notice| Kickoff: | 12:00PM ET |
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| Previews: | 11W, OHD, WWAHT, BC, Let's Go Rockets |
| Favorite: | OSU (-21) |
| Television: | CBS, ESPN+ ESPN360 |
| Radio: | OSU Football Affiliates |
| Weather: | Cool, Yet Awesome |
Wounds licked, the Buckeyes are back at it today against a potentially dangerous Toledo squad. The good news for the good guys is that the Rockets' strength will be going head-to-head with the Buckeyes' strength and we'll take Rolle, Larimore, Gibson and Co. every time.
The flip side is that Toledo's defense has been absolutely horrid in two games this year, so now's as good as any time for the Ohio State offense to get rolling and we have a feeling that it will. You hope that Pryor doesn't try to put too much on his shoulders -- force too much early, but once he takes that first snap and the game is a little bit slower than it was last Saturday night it should be like a new dimension opened up for him. That's not to say that his reads will suddenly be there, but we should notice a performance bump for the simple reason that the opposing 11 won't be packed with five-stars.
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Comments
WOW, I wake up, open 11dub, and am not disappointed. Mighty Morphin Sex Toys?!?!?! LMAO
*sigh* This game is gonna cost me $20 to watch at home. Or $30 for babysitter and $30 for food/drink to watch at the sports bar.
What is this espn360 affiliate ISP nonsense? They are charging ISPs for access? That's a business plan I hope dies a quick death. I'd rather pay myself. Morons.
I'm in the same boat as you. The 360 ISP thing is not cool. It's exactly what the net neutrality debate is about.
i have att uverse and its on ABC, what about you guys? (in new albany)
PPV ESPN game plan down in South Florida... Called yesterday and paid my $24.95 for the daily access pass...... Pizza, soads, kids and Buckeyes at noon.
Simple solution, move back to OHIO! just kidding, GO BUCKS!
We had to change our regular sports bar to a different one last minute because of the ESECPN monopoly. The new bar is a good one too tho, so not a huge deal, but still an inconvenience......
360 works for me, have you tried to see if it's on justin tv or anything?
ESPN360 is kind of weak, but I'm on Comcast and they just signed a deal for it on 8/1, so I'll get to take the game in beautiful 480x272.
Aaron Corp looks like a tool
Hey I've got DishNetwork, I'm down in Portsmouth. Any idea what channel the game is on? I'll cry and have an emotional breakdown if i don't get to see the coked up hedgehog
yeah, i'm on comcast too, so that's what i watch it on.
mirrorlake and Dan, try http://streamingan.net/
it's under 18:00 CET. I haven't tried it since i doubt it's streaming yet, but it's worth a try.
ESPN on ABC
A buddy of mine is at the stadium and he said they are serving beer there. Is it because its an NFL stadium? Damn I wish I was there!
It's not an issue of net nuetrality. The issue withthat is ISP's making websites pay for access to thier customers. This is the other way around, the website is making the ISP pay, and not letting anyone watch.
This sucks for them, because I would have paid to watch it. Instead I'm giving Justin.tv a chance. And nobody gets any money.
Tried to do that, but the woman @ TWC said they didn't offer it. It wasn't an option on her menu.
Go Blue!
Portsmouth, VA? or Ohio?
ASS
Yes, an off campus facility.
Not working where I am...any other suggestions?
anyone recommend justin.tv?
channelsurfing.net?
not sure, i don't see it on justin tv. sorry
http://www.justin.tv/wooter_in_a2
Thanks fellas.
alright, time to sit on the 7 pt lead!
Nik, did it work? On commercial now...
Pryor's footwork is awful
LOL
Eh, looks like he stepped into that bomb.
Go watch it again
a qb sneak for gain of 1!! where was that last week
a QB sneak! Holy Crap!!
That was better
How can this not be in HD
Damn false start penalties!!!
Best throw he has made as a Buckeye
Still staring down his receivers.
I heart Dane.
yeah, i noticed that, hopefully it was just a one time thing
why is dane the holder for field goals? Doesn't seem right, haha
Kenny Guiton sighting.
1 thing at at time
donnie evege sighting!
Nice D on that one
bizarrely, espn 360 has a regional blackout in Boston...
Yep. Allah willing, he'll be staring guys to open up other receivers by this time next year. He better be at least -- Jacory Harris is the real deal.
Anyone else surprised with the strides Chekwa has made?
they blacked out something here in chicago last week, i think the michigan st game
Great, his brother coaching Toledo. He'll button it up after the 1st qtr
We could make a drinking game with false starts and delays of game.
What the hell was that?
Good as a punt, I suppose
You want to see the fourth quarter, don't you?
Not sure yet.
awesome, it works! thanks!
not sure, i'm watching on 360, haha
so much for the vaunted toledo offense, huh?
Pass happy quarter over. We now run run pass.
It was f*cking ugly is what it was. I knew it was gonna be a pick the second it left his hands.
If it gets us some respectable rushing numbers, I won't complain.
OSU with the ball and this idiot announcer says "Ohio State showing blitz". Two drives ago they mistook Saine for Boom. There's been no less than 5 of those stupid comments so far and it's the first quarter. Have these guys ever announced a game before? Or seen one?
It's Toledo.
Hope their parents are watching. They are getting lots of face time.
ESPN should have called Tampa Buckeye.
Yes, it is, but we haven't been able to run consistently on anyone.
T.O. for slow play calling. Take a drink.
Not a bad throw for a wide receiver
Posey's got some awesome hands.
Hey, a short yardage touchdown!
Wisky is beating Wofford
That's 7 consecutive games with a TD for Boom.
damn, you said it before they showed it to me on 360, haha
Ohio State is having a very nice game. Terrelle has had a few bad passes but the line is doing well and the receivers are putting on a nice show. On Defense, the team is just insane. The line is getting after the quarterback every down and Toledo can't do anything on the ground of through the air.
It's sad that Wisky has gotten to the point where that's relatively surprising news.
I'm loving our D this year, we may have lost some people, but they are showing the kind of aggression we haven't seen in a while.
I think this linebacking corps, even with Spitler, is faster than last year's
I agree.
These commentators are terrible... "Outstanding special teams play, while he was being held by so-and-so of Toledo." So the Toledo guy was holding another Toledo guy? What?
Off-topic: Remember that Aquinas-Upper Arlington game, where Aquinas came into C-bus and ripped stuff up on "one of our best teams"?
Upper Arlington lost to my alma mater, Thomas Worthington, last night. TWHS is the Indiana of its conference. UA is just terrible this year. That Aquinas game meant even less than we thought it did.
the outstanding play was by the toledo guy, it was poor wording, but still grammatically correct technically
Shugarts is definitely taking the place of Cordle in more ways than one, isn't he?
We had a little thread going a few comments up. My favorite was Ohio State showing blitz on offense.
You had to jinx it, didn't you. (Take a shot.)
how many false starts is that now?
what's the over/under on false starts against OSU this game?
Man, Pryor wanted to throw a pick there but thought better of it.
eleventy billion
Who was he looking to dump it to???
3 so far. Before kickoff I would've said 6.5
The problem was that he identified the holdER as a Toledo guy, rather than the holdEE.
I suppose he meant "...play, while he was being held, by..." but he failed to be clear about it
Announcer has used "lowering the boom" way too many times.
If you are going to constantly use it for Boom, you can't use it multiple times for hits on defense. But really, that phrase shouldn't be used at all.
Boom = good, but Saine>Boom?
Man Saine might just beat Boom to a 100 yard game. Who would've seen that coming?
Saine runs tenatively, seems like it takes him a few yards to decide he's going to run and not jog. Just blow through a hole and stop thinking about it.
lol @ Toledo pushing us around at the goal line... sigh.
ugh, no delay of games yet, but getting way too close for comfort
Gah. The inability to get a push in key situations continues to haunt us.
"There's the exclusive, premium athleticism by ....."
Wow these announces are JV for sure.
Damn. And I was really hoping to escape the 1st half without a FG attempt inside the red zone.
Yeah Thomas Worthington! I went to Linworth/TWHS! And I can vouch for TWHS having a terrible football team.
To quote my wife...."Pathetic"
Turnover here would be nice. That goal line stand was embarrassing.
Anyone else throw up in their mouth?
Nope. Shouldn't we be used to this by now?
Unimpressive by JT & TP. Wasted drive with some plays that kept it alive.
Disgusting sequence of events. These guys miss Beanie, and Terrelle needs a shrink.
A loss is better than no games.....which is what my school has. Very sad.
Saine and Herron would score if we got some sort of a push. I hope, anyway.
He needs to learn how to play wide receiver because that is what he is.
hehe. EVERYONE knows where the ball is going on 1st and goal.
Homan looked like he had on concrete shoes, should've had an INT.
How about those missed tackles on the play after?
LOL.......keeping it away from Small. They should hope he tries to return it.
I love it. Practicing the two minute offense. I expected run, run, run, half.
Posey was wide open.
It's getting sloppy. It seems like every game there's a point where the Buckeyes look like they're having no fun at all.
I'm done
also, OMFG super sweet richrod jesus is getting a game from Eastern Michigan. reports of lazarus sightings in Ann Arbor greatly exaggerated?
you kidding me? amateur athletes make mistakes and you are done. hope you don't have children
Our WRs can't get any YAC because they basically have to dive after every one of Pryor's wild passes even though they're wide open.
Great point. If they do get a chance for YAC, they usually take it to the house.
First half thoughts:
- D-line is McRidiculous. Last week was no fluke
- I'm happy that there are only two or three genuinely good pass rushes in the Big Ten
- Downfield blocking from Sanzenbacher: meh
- Downfield catching from Sanzenbacher: Yay!
- Posey definitely coming along
- Chekwa is holding his own against Williams, which I didn’t expect him to
- Bringing nasty amounts of pressure with just four, sometimes three down linemen.
When he follows through it's too hard and low. When he throws off his foot its soft and high.
We're all Eastern Michigan students today.
Nightmares are dreams that have gone sour
he's trying too hard to prove he can throw the ball.
LOL.
1st half observations:
Sanzenbacher is our best, most reliable receiver (in my opinion, but Posey and Carter are also very good options) In 2010-2011 we are going to be ridiculously good at the WR position.
Everybody has the chance to look studly vs. Toledo.
I was embarrassed by the clusterf*** o-line play on those two running plays inside the 5 yard line on the next to last drive to end the first half.
2nd play of the second half, too.
lets go in the 2nd half.
I like Pryor with 61 yards rushing, but he is still trying to prove he is a passer, sometimes you have to just take off!!! The defense is back baby. Finally after three years off the Silver Bullets are here...
Oh, and A. Russell sucks, he is awful. He's become a head case...
what happened to thoma?
Came down with the flu sometime this week.
He had a pretty terrible missed tackle earlier.
Yep, and he's late on the ball, late on the reads. He's never had any hands.
What happened on the first drive of the second half? I came back after conducting some business in my "office" and saw us punting at 14:14.
False Starts FTW!
False start # 4. Take a shot.
Right side of the line: tweedledee and....
O-line isn't as aggressive right now...
THANK YOU!!!! EVERYTIME, JUST DO THAT!!!
That's what I'm talking about Pryor. No tentativeness.
H1N1 variety or is the Athletic Department silly enough not to get its money makers a flu shot?
I'm as encouraged by the progress in the passing game as I am discouraged by the running game - outside of Pryor - treading water.
Give me another sneak!
Here comes Boom between the tackles.
Oh. My. God.
Was that a quarterback keeper?
Thank you Tressel!
Ray Ray's got a completion!
You're a bit behind. Hit "Go Live" if you're watching online (during a commercial).
don't worry. we still lost to USC bc that isn't an effective play from the 1/2 yd line with a 240 lbs QB.
Can Colorado look studly vs Toledo How about michigan? Im impressed with the d. Pryor needs to make his mind up quicker to run if its there. Other then the one red zone trip good job so far.
we will still be able to see Deepak Chopra and his deep thoughts at every commercial break?
Gophers - YAY!
Boilers - oh no!
It sucks not having it on my bigscreen, I hate this espn360 crap. Didn't feel like driving 45 minutes to Sacto to see the alumni gamewatch next to the Governator's house.
Is that what you're getting? I'm getting that damn Roethlisberger ad 6 times in a row.
Good to see Small see some action - bet he has a bunch of friends and relatives watching. Meanwhile, Minnie is hanging in against Cal. Minnie's not bad his year.
this week its rotating. the first two weeks was all deepak all the time.
i imagine i will start to tick when i see Ben by the end of today.
Pass intended for Chekwa broken up by Williams for the 2nd time today.
brother, get thee to Best Buy and pick up a cable to run the video from the computer to the TV. its not a perfect picture, but it is of pretty high quality.
Chekwa is having a strong game.
Saine makes some bonehead decisions, doesn't he?
He just has no moves.
No. 5. Drink up
JB LOLgarts
Dear lord.
Yikes, second pick on Pryor.
Sigh.
Coleman may kill someone this year.
Here comes some Dave.
It's the source, not the display bud. Picked up a 24" widescreen from newegg.com. The game's just sent with a low bitrate and resolution, a lot of aliasing and compression issues. Plus I get to see Big Ben Rothlesburger in a shoe store sidestepping tacklers about 4 times in a row.
Go Gophers!
What the hell was that?
Terrelle is going to be responsible for 80 percent of coronaries in the state of Ohio for the next three months.
We'll have to make a new word. How about bumblingclusterbuck...right.
I'm on board. How about BCB for short?
Was not a fan of that flying "school-boy" tackle on Pryor a few plays back. No late hit call?
Cosign.
I thought the same thing, but up 31-0, we're not going to get too many of those. Especially when you consider the defender probably hurt himself hitting Pryor.
Agreed, though I'm not a fan of TP, or any other quarterback getting hit needlessly. I'm not too confident on seeing JB behind Brewster either.
Whoa. Luck.
Knee down?
you make your own luck sam.
Second.
What a break. LOL, why did the Toledo receiver stop 2 yards from the goal line?
It seems Coleman is the only guy who wraps 'em up and is always going for the strip.
Hall sighting. 2 points.
Yeah! TP didn't try and throw and ugly pass under pressure!
Just once I'd like to see him throw it away. Just once.
He's "shifty" in the hole.
Small - a career high 2 rec game.
It's fun to watch (a few plays ago & 2 earlier scrambles) how TP only has to run at 1/2 speed to stay away from rushers who're going 110%. I just wish he'd end those scrambles with better decisions.
Jordan Hall looks like a young Antonio Pittman behind Herron's Mo Hall and Saine's Lydell Ross. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
Hall looking surprisingly good.
Didn't mean to post that all the way up there, but again: Jordan Hall looks like a young Antonio Pittman behind Herron’s Mo Hall and Saine’s Lydell Ross. I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
RUNNING BACK CONTROVERSY!!!
/kidding
I am really liking Hall's running. Competition for Boom?
Hall has more moves that Pitt ever had (and I am a Pitt fan).
Agree. I thought Saine was the second coming of Mo Wells personally.
So have we already passed the number of attempts made to TE's made last season?
do we ever run play-action out of the I?