You threw the ball 33 times. Only game you threw the ball more was against Oregon. But keep saying it was the 'play calling'.
This is just dumb though. They brought him in on 3rd and 3. The whole world knew he was running that football. This is not some QB scramble or double reverse that worked.
It is the same every year since Ohio started losing to Michigan. He called it a fluke when Ohio brought the house every play to stop the run the one year and JJ McCarthy threw for almost 300 yards in the 1st half against them.
Yeah - that's it. Just like tagging me after McCord had a bad game -- the same McCord who finished 10th in the Heisman. I missed where Will Howard finished? One carried a team on his back to a 9-3 record. The other took the most talented roster in all of college football and slid in with a 10-2 record.
Sounds good. I feel better knowing you won't lose any sleep for the next couple decades.
I never said anything to the contrary. I pointed out that your YPC stat was pretty skewed because of one run. It was a well executed play by them for sure, but it did skew things quite a bit. We largely shut down their RBs and Orji got one long run in. Just that simple.
Howard started the game 6/8 for 61 yards before getting his bell rung, he definitely didn't look the same after that. Either way, though, look at our two scoring drives - 4 run plays in total while Howard moved them down the field through the air. This should have been the pace all day, but they decided we need to run up the gut nearly two dozen times breaking up any rhythm the offense had. Then of course, our kicker is perhaps the worst in CFB.You threw the ball 33 times. Only game you threw the ball more was against Oregon. But keep saying it was the 'play calling'.
Did I mention on those 33 throws -- you only have 175 yards and 2 interceptions?
It is so entertaining watching you come up with new excuses after each loss.
Your DTs ate us up when we ran up the gut, that's obvious. That's the point. When you lose the best center in the nation along with a first round LT which causes you to move the other lineman around to other spots, logic would say don't waste 1/3 of your plays on runs straight up the gut against two first round DTs. We didn't do that against other more physical teams like Iowa, Penn State, or Indiana but we did it against michigan. Again, this is my entire point. When we let Howard lead the offense with the run game being more of a supplement, we moved the ball well. When we let the run game lead (particularly up the gut on first down, which we did a maddening number of times), we lost any sort of rhythm and were basically starting each set of downs on second and long.
13 pts. The D did well.
Lets also not forget that on that 27 yard run by Mullings in the 4th, they got away with not one but two blatant holds on JTT and Sawyer that would have turned that into a 3rd and 16 at their own 46 instead of 1st down at our 17. Then again, we literally didn't get a single holding call on opposing OLs in conference play all year so no surprise.
