Terrell Pryor my ass!

by StoopsMyAss on Jan 6, 2009 9:48 AM CST Comment 17 comments

Color me not impressed. Great athlete? Sure. Great QB? Not even close. Serviceable QB? Maybe, with a lot of work.

I can't wait to play them next year. He is so freaking vulnerable. Just stay in your rushing lanes, keep your hands up (he plays like a 5' 10" QB!) and wait for the sloppy passes.

Boeckman should have gotten way more snaps last night. And if he would have, The Ohio State walks away with the win. Pryor is nothing more than a change of pace, Wildcat type QB -- at best. He has a better future as a wide out in my opinion.

Very unimpressed. Those receivers were wasted on Pryor.

So the Big 10 embarassment is complete. Thanks Ohio State for showing how to squander good talent. Thanks Minnesota for throwing in the towel. Thanks jNorthwestern for finding a way to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. Thanks Michigan State for blowing into a million pieces everytime you even thought a touchdown was in sight. Thanks Wisconsin for being the most overrated team in years.

Kirk, if you are reading, this is your lucky year my friend. This conference is in disarray and I don't see anybody that overly concerns me for 2009. We'll have our hands full with Penn St. but they can be had, and everyone else is there for the taking. Particularly OSU.

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I LOVE that we play aOSU in November.

by Bucketochicken on Jan 6, 2009 9:59 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

And that we play Meat-chicken on Homecoming

by Duez I say on Jan 6, 2009 10:20 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

But

I wish we were playing Purdue. And we have to wait until 2011 to get revenge on the illini

by Duez I say on Jan 6, 2009 10:21 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Pryor

is a freak athlete, but who taught him to throw? The one screen that Wells caught and ran for about 30 was a joke. He poofed it up in the air like he had chicken arms. If sweatervest played Boeckman on 50% of the downs last night and ran max-protect they would have been much better off (although Bellanca may tell me I’m full of shit – he’d be right, too).

Anyway, someone tell OPS to run a live thread Thursday night for FL-ZeroU. I’ve got nothing better to do while watching that game than read and write snarky comments.

by txhawkeye on Jan 6, 2009 10:32 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Good idea on a VNC live thread

How the hell was OSU not in a better defensive formation on that last touchdown? WTF

by Duez I say on Jan 6, 2009 11:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

re: thursday night...

Thanks to the scheduling geniuses at ESPN2, there’s actually a Hawkeye basketball game Thursday night — we play the Yellow Rodents in Carver. The game starts at 6pm, so there won’t be a whole lot of overlap with the football game (especially since that game probably won’t really kickoff until 7:30 or so), but still probably some overlap.

by RossWB on Jan 6, 2009 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Um, guys?

He’s a true freshman. I’m rather terrified of him, especially in November when he’s nearly doubled his starts from now.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Adam Jacobi on Jan 6, 2009 11:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I will second that...

His footwork was sickenly bad at times and he made some freshman mistakes. However, while I am certainly no quarterback’s coach, it seemed this was biggest problem with his throws and something I would guess that can be fixed. He clearly has the arm strength to toss the ‘skin whereever he damn well pleases. And it seemed to me that his recognition wasn’t horrible for a true freshman, as he often saw the open guy, but just didn’t make a good throw. You give him another year to learn the system and finetune his mechanics, and I think this guy will have the potential to do things Juice probably can only imagine. Moreover, can you honestly have good thoughts about any Iowa DB trying to tackle him whenever he got to the second level.

by three and out the kok story on Jan 6, 2009 12:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not a believer

He had an almost great offensive line this year, a great set of receivers (by Big 10 standards anyway), a first round NFL running back and he still played poorly against good teams and okay against bad teams. If they ran a spread offense or some sort of hybrid offense that expected him to run as much as pass, with slots and movement and so forth, well, maybe, maybe I would be concerned. But, they are trying to make him like Vince Young in his first year in the pros- adrop back passer who thinks of the run as escape. As you can see with VY, once the defenses quit chasing, he became ordinary. Same will be true here. This kid is wildly inaccurate, I did not see one strong throw from him. In fact they brought in Boekman for all the long passes. He shot puts the damn ball. As we learned with JC, one summer at a QB camp, regardless of the prestige, cannot change those kinds of bad throwing habits.

Will he win some games with his feet? Sure. Will he lose some games with his arm? Absolutely. I like our chances. I think he makes a good offense, extraordinarily average. Just don’t chase him. Thankfully, Norm doesn’t chase.

"When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know." Bill Parcells

by StoopsMyAss on Jan 6, 2009 12:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

My memory of him forever will be

that of him crying on the sidelines an hour after the PSU game ended.

heh heh

by indyhawk on Jan 6, 2009 5:26 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'm not ready to dismiss Pryor....

He wasn’t amazing, but he wasn’t godawful. Especially for a freshman. He had a better QB rating than Stanzi this year, if you believe in that sort of thing. I certainly don’t. I think that next year Iowa will chew him up, swallow him and shit him into a small aluminum bucket……….but still. What were we talking about?

Right. The lasting memory I have of that game has to be the touchdown Texas scored with 16 seconds left. It looked like OSU blitzed 11 on that play, maybe even 12.

Listen, I fucking hate it when teams play prevent defense when they get a lead, but there has to be a happy medium between that and what the Buckeyes were running.

16 seconds on the clock, up by 4.

OSU defense runs “blitz 11 nearside fail,” exemplified here:

Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon....

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Jan 6, 2009 9:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I have no idea if that picture is upside down.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Adam Jacobi on Jan 6, 2009 10:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The camera never lies

Check out the article associated with the picture. It’s so damn funny.

Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon....

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Jan 6, 2009 10:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You beat me to it - I was just about to post this in the FanShots...

Hahaha you can see his butt.

by Bucketochicken on Jan 7, 2009 8:09 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'd really laugh at this

except now it will get cued into my nightmare rotation. Let’s see, it’s 10 degrees, I’m hanging upside down, and my weiner’s showing in all its tiny glory. I’m not sure how they’ll determine damages when the lawsuit is inevitably filed. How much is shrinkage worth?

by txhawkeye on Jan 7, 2009 9:28 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs