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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
We are a much better team than we showed yesterday.
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We are? I'm not so sure...the only improvement I saw on Saturday was the offensive line, and I can only say that because they have played so poorly in the past. Zwick simply looked terrible. So did Ross. Pittman was at least picking up 3 yards a carry, but even Santonio dropped a couple passes that hit him in the hands. I would say that Tressel was out-coached, but the damn team couldn't execute anything, so that's tough to call. Our defense was exposed, and it all goes back to an issue I brought up immediately following the Marshall game - our defensive line. Do we even have one? Those front four guys need to get some pressure on the QB. I don't remember one sack, and very few QB pressures. I'm sad to say that I don't think this Buckeye team is nearly as good as I thought it was. We got smacked around the gridiron by a bad football team. The score was much closer than it should have been. It's one thing to lose a game because of turnovers or offensive mistakes, but we just flat out couldn't execute against their defense. Yes, Northwestern's defense. We didn't hand them the game, they won it. I don't care if we were flat or not, we still should have beaten a pathetic B10 bottom-dweller. I hope we can turn this around, and when I look at our team, I don't understand it. The talent surely seems to be there, but Saturday says otherwise. I'm not saying this is a horrible team, but from what we've seen this year, I don't think it's a top ten team. I hope I'm wrong.