What do you want to see on Saturday? Purdue

Jeff

• “You know what that makes you?  Lollygaggers” – Remember the opening kickoff from the Marshall game?  You hit a guy at the 15 and made him fumble.  Stop lollygagging on the returns and hit a guy, fer crying out loud!
• “This game’s fun, OK?  Fun, goddammit.  And don’t hold the ball so hard, OK?  It’s an egg.  Hold it like an egg” – Throughout most of the second quarter at Wisconsin, we were like the deer in the headlights and near panic.  Don’t be so tense.  Relax and have fun, you’ll score a lot more.
• “Write this down.  We gotta play it one day at a time.” – The players know it, but the fans sometimes don’t.  Being down in a game doesn’t mean we have to go hurry-up offense.  Each play is designed to score a TD, but that doesn’t mean it will.  If Brandon Saine gains four yards, it doesn’t mean he sucked on that play.  It means he got what he needed to that on average will make it impossible for the other team to stop us.  Hell, I’ll take four yards EVERY play, so shut the hell up and stop expecting Playstation-like scores on every down.
• “You get three ants together, they can’t do dick.  You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral”– Get the hidden message, guys?  Play like a team.
• “This is a simple game.  You throw the ball.  You hit the ball.  You catch the ball.” – I’m looking at all of you.  Do the basics right, and you’ll dominate Purdue.
  

(Yes, I know Bull Durham is a baseball movie.  Everything doesn’t have to be so damn deep, does it?)

Mali

• A win– The kind that “cleanses the pallet” and sets everything right in the universe.
• No hope– Along those lines, remember that Purdue has “alligator blood” and will keep hanging around if we let them. What say we don’t let them?
• Defensive excellence- It’s a freaking episode of “The Living Dead” in the secondary, and our front four didn’t look all that much better against the Badgers. However, Ohio State has the athletes to be able to play “base” defense well, and this is that opportunity whether we like it or not.
• Solid offensive line play– Last week, we made JJ Watt into a first day draft pick. This week, it’s Ryan Kerrigan.  Step up to the challenge…
• Running game- I still believe that the Buckeyes win at Wisconsin if they come out and try to establish the run, rather than getting all fancy schmancy.
• No injuries- Please?
• No false starts- Keep it up

Jay

Joe

• Bounce Back- Get that nasty taste out of their mouth, and put it on the team that beat us last year.
• Young Guys Stepping Up- Hall, Brown, Berry, Fields, Howard, Brown would be a start.
• Defense playing on the other side of the line- they weren’t last week, and it hurt.

Eric

• A win – We need to get back on the winning track, and Purdue is as good an opponent as any to do it against.
• Michigan State loss – as a current student of the school this is almost blasphemy.  However, I took a lot of guff from the coworkers after last Saturday.  Having them eat crow (even if I refuse to feed it to them) would be wonderful.
• The return of the potent OSU offense – it was sad to see it missing last week against Wisconsin.  I want to see it back against Purdue.