2008 tOSU QB discussion (official thread)

[Taosman]

He made an All Big Ten team for cryin' out loud people!
He is a terrific QB! And will just get better. As will his receivers.
It is not logical at all to believe that any one of the other guys is his equal!

[bukIpower]

I was about to say the same thing... he did look damn good in the shotgun formation in 2006-2007 IMO. I'd like to see them mix it up though by putting Saine/Henton or Pryor in the shotgun formation and run the read option once in a while. I think the more formations/Personell packages we throw at a team the more dangerous beanie will be. I'd never say get away from the I formation, but I think we need to be more versatile as well. When teams are saying where's #80,#9,#4,#3,#12,#7, # 34, and #(pryor) it stops teams from saying "hey lets just stop that beanie wells kid". Beanie becomes that much more unstoppable when we throw more offensive weapons at a team, and it forces them to stop other people on our team.

Where I think we errored on offense this year was we depended too much on Beanie. I love beanie and I want him to run for 2000 next year, but I'd much rather see Beanie with good numbers in the 1200 range. Only for the sake of having other people involved in our offense. If we can get other defenses to worry about 2-3 other players on our offense teams can't key on Beanie. I think a freshman steps up next year and gives our offense a jolt of big play ability, who that is? We'll just have to find out.

getting back to the QB conversation. I'd love to see Boeckman/Henton both get playing time. 75% Boeckman, and 25% Henton. Not a lot o Henton but enough to make defenses sweat

[osugrad21]

You guys are missing the point...

In no way am I saying any of the questions in my post would come true...

I'm saying there are many factors to this discussion that keep it from being a simple answer such as "Boeckman can't do it..."

I'm addressing the kneejerk decisions and reminding people there is much more to this than what is being discussed.

[bukIpower]

Do you (Grad) see any type of qb rotation or like I said a 75/25 playing situation with Boeckman/Henton? I like both QB's and both bring differnt capabilities to our offense so thats why i say I'd like to see both of them. I'd like to see our offense attack from more than 1 angle next year. We'll always be a run first team (especially next year), but I'd like to see us stress all angles of the field next year much like LSU did with their offense.

[osugrad21]

Originally Posted by bukIpower

Do you (Grad) see any type of qb rotation or like I said a 75/25 playing situation with Boeckman/Henton? I like both QB's and both bring differnt capabilities to our offense so thats why i say I'd like to see both of them. I'd like to see our offense attack from more than 1 angle next year. We'll always be a run first team (especially next year), but I'd like to see us stress all angles of the field next year much like LSU did with their offense.

I think you can mark that one down...yes.

If Pryor comes to OSU, the only way he redshirts is by his own choice.

[bukIpower]

So if we do get Pryor (I think we do now, excuse me for my breif freak out 1 month ago) does anyone see Henton playing ahead of Pryor or is Pryor just that good and will he pass Henton after only a week or so of practice??

Even if we don't get Pryor we still have a QB who is still a change of pace guy in Henton. I think Henton can get the job done of running a more option/Spread offense. Pryor would be huge but I think either would get the job done equally as well. Pryor is just that much more of a running threat

[jimotis4heisman]

id like to see a little more skill/speed on the edge. it was pretty obvious that after a couple of drives lsu played man and put a safety over robo and asked somebody else to beat them...