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QB J.T. Barrett (B1G FOY, All American, Silver Football Award, 3x B1G QBOY, National Champion)

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NFBuck said:
IIRC, the clapping was to mitigate crowd noise. Maybe not needed yesterday? Or, could just be a comfort thing.
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I think it has more to do with the inexperienced OL.

The clapping was a signal to the center who then made the call for protection and snap count I think. Maybe Boren and the new OL aren't ready for that?

Not sure if I am remembering correctly.
 
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RugbyBuck said:
Fcuking crazy good, under the circumstances. We can't understand the pressure that kid was under and his performance was outstanding given the metric I read over and over this week: just be you, don't try to be Braxton, facilitate and distribute, etc. The one time it looked to me like he tried to do to much he wound up throwing the pick. It happened relatively early and like Urban said, it didn't seem to rattle him and he didn't do it again. This kid is a player. Mentally strong. I'll take him in East Lansing in November. O-muthafcuking-H!
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H-muthafcuking-O!!

GO BUCKS!!!!!
 
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maximumblitz said:
Agreed, an awesome performance. Greatly exceeded expectations, except possibly for expectations on BP. He is a keeper. I mean I have watched plenty of games where the performance from QB left me in despair.

Just counting the number of deep passes overthrown in the last decade is enough to drive anyone crazy.
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Exactly. Let's be fair. BP expectations aside, there's probably 90+ D1 coaches would love to trade their QB situation for ours right now. The kid did great coming out of the gate. There's things that we'd all change about his game, but dollars to donuts his list is bigger than any of ours... and that's what is going to make him a long term winner for us.

Congrats young man, hell of a start. Keep on keep'n on!
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Exactly. Let's be fair. BP expectations aside, there's probably 90+ D1 coaches would love to trade their QB situation for ours right now. The kid did great coming out of the gate. There's things that we'd all change about his game, but dollars to donuts his list is bigger than any of ours... and that's what is going to make him a long term winner for us.

Congrats young man, hell of a start. Keep on keep'n on!
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I can think of one in Wisconsin who would probably be willing to offer up a testicle if he could have JT
 
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lvbuckeye said:
man, you grade pretty harshly. Braxton had 80% completions and 225 yards passing ONCE in three years.
so freaking what if most of JT's yards came on screens and play action. he got the ball where it needed to go.
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I may grade more harshly than others, but you really can't compare JT's game to Braxton's. Against Navy, Braxton would probably have had not only 200+ yards passing but 100+ rushing and our RB's would have had a ton more rushing yards due to the threat of Braxton keeping it. He's just a different animal. And really, I'm saying absolutely nothing negative against JT. A B grade your first game in nearly 2 years and first as a collegiate athlete as a redshirt freshman is fan-freaking-tastic. But that doesn't mean it was an A. If his performance was an A, then what would you grade Kenny Hill's performance? Is there a letter in the alphabet that comes before A? Because it would be whatever that is. Maybe even 2 letters in front of it.

Edit: and I refer you to Urban's comments in the post game. He also gave JT a B. There's nothing wrong with a B. I think we all got them in our lives at one point in time, and getting a B as a redshirt freshman is like getting a B as a freshman or sophomore taking a senior level course. Great.
 
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muffler dragon said:
Would've loved for him to have audibled out of that stupid-ass sweep inside the 10. Or at least, not pitch it when he saw it was dead to rites.

On a more serious note, I would say that I agree with you whole-heartedly.
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Honestly, that's the only play that made me miss Braxton. I feel with Braxton, that would have been a TD. Beyond that, I'm still glad he's our starter.
 
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RugbyBuck said:
There was also the receiver screen to the right side early that should've been a pick six. That wasn't him trying to do too much. It's just an unnecessarily risky play. I hope we fix that. I saw it in his spring game film and it worried me.
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I disagree. I saw him throw behind the receiver EXACTLY because of the defender. Next play it was the same play on the other side and he threw it ahead of the receiver so he could get some speed on the run. That speaks volumes on his decision making when he commits to a play.
 
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I don't think there is any question J.T. is a more accurate passer than Braxton, his mechanics are very solid...how many off balance throws did you see? I can think of the one INT on the run (of course I was watching on a delayed stream so that might not have helped...)

He's an athletic kid and I think he trusts his legs more than I expected for a young guy coming off an ACL tear. But one thing he is not is an option QB...dual threat doesn't always correlate to an option QB. I just hope Herman can hone in on what he's comfortable and successful at and doesn't try to put some play calls in that don't fit his skill set.

Very happy and confident with this first showing; we'll see in the long run but at this point I'm in the mind set that if we lose this year (hopefully not...) that I don't think it'll be because of this young man.
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
I may grade more harshly than others, but you really can't compare JT's game to Braxton's. Against Navy, Braxton would probably have had not only 200+ yards passing but 100+ rushing and our RB's would have had a ton more rushing yards due to the threat of Braxton keeping it. He's just a different animal. And really, I'm saying absolutely nothing negative against JT. A B grade your first game in nearly 2 years and first as a collegiate athlete as a redshirt freshman is fan-freaking-tastic. But that doesn't mean it was an A. If his performance was an A, then what would you grade Kenny Hill's performance? Is there a letter in the alphabet that comes before A? Because it would be whatever that is. Maybe even 2 letters in front of it.

Edit: and I refer you to Urban's comments in the post game. He also gave JT a B. There's nothing wrong with a B. I think we all got them in our lives at one point in time, and getting a B as a redshirt freshman is like getting a B as a freshman or sophomore taking a senior level course. Great.
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Brax would've ran wild (and two stints of cramps to boot) this game but declaring he would've thrown for 200+ is not a given. Braxton never has had many games with 200+ yards, he's had a few but I already feel JT can do some things passing wise that Braxton maybe can't

There's no disputing though that this game is ugly if Braxton was in running around.
 
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I think the best comparison would be JT2 versus Pryor against Navy in 2009. Although it was Pryor's second year starting, JT2 did much better than Pryor.

JT2 rushed for
- more yards (50 versus 31)
- at a higher yards per carry (5.6 versus 5.0)

JT2 passed for:
- more yards (226 versus 174)
- more yards per pass (19 versus 12)
- more touchdowns (2 versus 1)
- had double the ratio of TDs to interceptions (2 versus 1)


http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/stats/football/2009/01navy.htm
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...30/0830-ohio-state-navy/ohio-state-stats.html
 
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