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Originally Posted by muffler dragon
How do you know that having an offense that doesn't make mistakes, takes care of the ball, manages time, and punishes the opposing defense AREN'T cornerstones to the success of tOSU? Just because tOSU aren't blowing people out of the water week in and week out doesn't mean that there is a lack of attribution to the success. What IF the quarterbacks are doing EXACTLY what Tressel wants them to do? Does this mean that we are weak in that position? No. As a matter of fact, I revert to the old adage: the best offense is a great defense. It's all a matter of keeping the opposing team from scoring. Both our offense and our defense (typically) do equally well in that regard.
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The QBs ARE doing exactly what JT wants them to do (sans the obvious mistakes). So we agree on that. And I have already suggested that JTs style of offense does make the defense's job easier at times so you're not breaking any new ground there either. JTs "mistake free" management style is perhaps the reason why tOSU operates an offense which sometimes isn't "high powered", but on average, effective.
I've not suggested that we are "weak" offensively. But you'd need to have your head in the sand to think that defense hasn't, on average, been the strength of our program under JT. There's no need to get upset about it, it's simply the truth and I'm glad we have JT to lead us to the promise land so often, regardless of how we get there. I've beat this up enough and you've contributed little, so I'll leave the curiosity where it is.