If your answer isn’t a resounding “HELL, YES”, then get back to your Penn State or Iowa blog where you belong. Here’s the stats, as we thought we needed…..
Jeff at The BBC
A minimum of 275 total yards for Pryor – Fail. He’d have gotten those yards, too. But fucking Ray Small kept making the field short. I hate that guy (sarcasm, Ray, sarcasm)
Wise decisions – Success! By the players AND the coaches. One mistake hurt us a bit, when Brewster decided to celebrate the blowout a bit early, it cost us 15 yards on the kickoff. One play later, though we picked off a Clark pass and all was right again.
Be calm – Success! The only people NOT calm were the ones in our Live Blog. There was no panic, no hurry-up to try something new. They had a game plan, and they stuck with it. I was a little pissy that we kept running it on first down over and over again, but you can’t argue with those results.
MaliBuckeye
Focus by the offensive line – Success! That OL was certainly focused once the ball was in play, and we are going to give them a pass for their one false start and the aforementioned Brewster conduct penalty.
Revenge of TP – Oh, hell yes it was a success! And to his credit, Pryor was a pillar of composure in victory (and you KNOW he wanted to get all up in their faces about it). Kudos to him for his on-field AND off-field decorum.
Curse of the 39 Yard Line – Close….very close. We were at the 38-yard line when Pryor launched a TD pass to Posey. Hell with it, we’re in a giving mood. Success!
Empty Zombie Seats – Success! They were they late and they left early. Bunny suits and kitty-cat sleeper jammies are hard to walk in, so give them slack for showing up late. Midway through the fourth quarter, you could hear the White Stripes chant loud and clear…but it was our fans doing it.
Darryl Clark, Sad Panda – Success! Oh, you KNOW his teammates were making sure he didn’t slouch on that bench. But we got images of his sadness on the field, and The BBC will be proud to present another video very soon showing just that….
Jim
No turnovers – Success! When Jim wrote this one, I thought “yeah, right”. But we pulled it off.
Establish the run – Success! SIX different players broke off runs of 10 or more yards for Ohio State. We were establishin’ it like a mothafucka.
No missed opportunities – Success! Two red zone trips, two scores, and one long FG converted by a backup. That is safe to say that we wasted nothing!
Dominating defensive line – 37 yards for Evan Royster. Nuff said.
Eric
Pryor throwing off his back foot fewer than three times – Success! We saw two at most. Pryor’s coming along nicely and he’s hitting stride in the tough stretch of the schedule. Me likey.
A positive turnover margin for the Bucks – Success! 1-0 is a victory for us! One turnover ended the game for us last year, and one turnover ended any hope for them this year.
At least three sacks on Daryll Clark – We only got two, but they both came early in each half. They were mood-setters, and we’re going to retroactively award a third sack to Tyson Gentry just so we can say….SUCCESS!
A very small minimum of zone defense calls – Yeah, fail. Graham Zug got a lot of catches because of that damned zone. Fix it now, guys, cause it’ll hurt at Michigan.
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