There are a lot of college football games on Saturdays! To expect someone to watch all of them and provide in-depth, insightful analysis would be crazy bones. Moreover, to expect someone to sit down and commit to watching one game, while Greg Paulus is out there hugging on the refs and Northern Iowa is trying to break the record for consecutive field goals blocked is dumb. Plus, I am nursing a broken collarbone while also being a licensed and practicing physician, meaning I must spend a lot of time rehabbing and performing routine biopsy procedures.
So instead, let’s look to next week’s game with some commentary of the Ohio State/Navy game based on half-watching the game amid channel flips, a few defining plays which I have extrapolated to the whole game, and what the media tells me to think.
-I’m not sure who this Terrelle Pryor fellow is, but I would be surprised if he were a highly touted high school phenom who waited months after signing day to announce where he would go to school while everyone cared. 200 all-purpose yards with 2 TDs is not bad, but I am not amazed! For the most part, he just went out and conventional-quarterbacked, not quarterback-of-the-futured, making things like this, well, par for the course in Columbus. Also, espn.com has a great feature called “Projected Stats,” in which they essentially take the current stats and multiply them by 12. Looks like a fun year for Buckeyes fans, considering that TP will throw 12 picks (3x last year), and get sacked NEVER.
-Wouldn’t it be funny if instead of calling saying the Ohio State O-Line, we said the Ohio State Blow-Line? Because they were not very good, is why! Navy was getting a lot of touches on Pryor, and, while he didn’t get sacked, he was doing a lot more scrambling than you write in the game plan for your scrambling quarterback. If the Blow-Line stays as holy as Tim Tebow next week, Everson Griffen, Galippo, and co. will go to town.
-So you can make the argument that Navy is a good team, running an interesting offense. Fine. You can also argue that Ohio State will get up for a big game against SC. Also fine. But can we at least TALK about the fact that OSU eked out this game because Navy decided to run the worst 2-point conversion play in the history of football, and Ricky Dobbs somehow assumed he could pass the ball through TWO free defenders and into the hands of his receiver who was COVERED. Navy basically was given the opportunity to tie the game, considered the outcomes, and then decided it would not be worth the ensuing hype and expectations to attempt a win. The Midshippeople (PC!) are as much responsible for the Buckpeople winning this game (analysis OF THE YEAR!) than an actual competent, performing OSU team.
Okay. I apologize for all of that. I’ll try to watch games better (I won’t) next week.
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