| 2004 Football Season Capsule The main threads from each of the 2004 season games. Should be interesting to go back and revisit in years to come. |
11-08-2004, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27
is this game going to be on ESPN or ESPN+?
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IIRC it's the 3:30PM EST game on ESPN.
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11-08-2004, 01:49 PM
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I think our last two games and our success in them rest on our improvement mainly and not the other teams. If the confidence continues to grow as the confidence in Troy's playbook management, calls at the line of scrimmage, et al continues, we should stand a good chance of eating steak this Jan.
The surge in play of Youboty, Rehring, Ginn, Hawk....well, it seems the gellin' has started at just the right time of year- NOVEMBER!! 
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11-08-2004, 11:51 PM
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Good point on possibility of a tired D against Orton. As with NW, Orton is going to spread Bucks, pass 60% or more and run to try and keep our D confused. He's gonna plunk us to death mixed with deep passes. He is excellent at rolling out to extend his look at receivers. This is going to play hard on our D. If our O doesn't sustain fairly decent drives...and this year's history says that's difficult, then Purdue will control ball in the upper 30 minutes, compared to Buck's mid-20's. Translation: A giant 2nd half challenge for our Defense, imo.
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11-08-2004, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by SanClementeBuck
Good point on possibility of a tired D against Orton. As with NW, Orton is going to spread Bucks, pass 60% or more and run to try and keep our D confused. He's gonna plunk us to death mixed with deep passes. He is excellent at rolling out to extend his look at receivers. This is going to play hard on our D. If our O doesn't sustain fairly decent drives...and this year's history says that's difficult, then Purdue will control ball in the upper 30 minutes, compared to Buck's mid-20's. Translation: A giant 2nd half challenge for our Defense, imo.
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What if Orton doesn't play? And if he does play, what if he's not 100%? |
11-09-2004, 01:44 AM
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Orton would probably hurt Purdue more than it would help them so I wouldn't put money on Purdue/Orton if Orton is playing. Kirsh might be the better option for them, but I don't really care who plays for them because they're both pretty good.
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11-09-2004, 02:37 AM
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I pray for five great, long, bone crushing, time consuming, Offensive drives that take the spirit out of the Purdue defense. Finish them off by scoring
(some FG's but mainly TD's). The one thing I have missed this year is those good long offensive drives that build confidence for the offense.
And if BK27 says we win by 50 j/k BK27
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11-09-2004, 02:50 AM
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Purdue played a soft schedule early. It made Orton look like a star. He's not a star. He's the same guy we beat last year. We aren't the same defense though. Everyone got on the Orton train because he was one of the only returning QBs in the Big 10. Well...he is good, but he isn't God. And now he's not even 100%. So to me, this looks a lot like 2003 and 2002 and 2001. We beat Purdue in a close game. We seem to have Purdue's number since Brees. One thing that I like is the fact that Purdue has lost all their big home games. I think their defense is overrated. We should be able to stop the run. Our secondary needs some picks. If we secure the ball and can at least keep our defense off the field for good chunks of time, we are going to win. I just hope we don't get a lot of 3 and outs and hurt our defense.
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11-10-2004, 10:55 AM
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I hope JT and Team are thinkin more about Purdue than we are these days......  
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11-10-2004, 11:14 PM
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The news is saying Orton is 50/50 for the game saturday. Either way Purdues' offense is going to try to spread OSU's defense and tire them out. If OSU can disrupt those short timing routes they'll be ok. Their running game is ok but I am not worried about that. I just hope OSU's offense can finally put some good drives together and get a balanced running/passing game together and eat up alot of the clock.
Does anyone know that status of Pittman and Donte Witner for this game??
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11-11-2004, 02:25 PM
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