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QB Justin Fields (2019-20 B1G Off POY, 2020 Silver Football, 2019 B1G CCG MVP, Pittsburgh Steelers)

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https://www.pff.com/news/college-football-highest-graded-offenses-entering-week-6

College Football: Highest-graded offenses entering Week 6

4. OHIO STATE BUCKEYES
Gone is Dwayne Haskins and J.T. Barrett and in is a new-found offense in Columbus, led by head coach Ryan Day and QB Justin Fields. Demonstrating a downfield passing ability that we didn’t get to see during his 173 snaps at Georgia a season ago, Fields has been dominant throwing the ball down the field and unlike the aforementioned Crimson Tide, is doing the majority of his damage through the air and not after the catch. In fact, as a team, OSU has had 76.3% of their passing yards come through the air, the top figure among qualified offenses in the country.
 
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Still needs to continue to make quicker decisions with getting rid of the ball if he doesn’t see anything. Those fumbles can be costly on the road. Admit the INT was a beautiful cerebral play by the DB.

Positively speaking, he makes some fantastic throws; he made some excellent decisions to run and gain huge amounts of yards in the blink of an eye. Dude is just wildly dangerous and smart with the ball.
 
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If a kid at Fields experience level made the progress he made tonight in the entire game, I'd be excited about it.

He did it from Q1 to Q2

I am not prone to hype but he just keeps demonstrating accelerated growth to go with the unquestionable physical tools.

It might be time to stop saying he's going to become a monster and recognize that he very well may be that already.

The offense just wrecked a very good Sparty D
 
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MGMT said:
Still needs to continue to make quicker decisions with getting rid of the ball if he doesn’t see anything. Those fumbles can be costly on the road. Admit the INT was a beautiful cerebral play by the DB.

Positively speaking, he makes some fantastic throws; he made some excellent decisions to run and gain huge amounts of yards in the blink of an eye. Dude is just wildly dangerous and smart with the ball.
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He threw 2 absolute ducks as of a deepball today butbesides that and missing the wide open tight end in the 1st once he settled down in the 2nd he looked great. Plus he was much more willing to pull it down and use his legs today
 
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FOOTBALL: FIELDS' RUNNING ABILITIES HELP OPEN UP OHIO STATE OFFENSE AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE

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After three three-and-outs and three points in four drives for the Ohio State offense, sophomore quarterback Justin Fields broke out his worst-kept secret weapon — his legs.

The Georgia transfer picked up 61 yards and a touchdown on the ground and extended a handful of crucial passing plays to open up the Buckeye offense in its 34-10 win over Michigan State Saturday.

“Those were big yards,” head coach Ryan Day said. “The impact he can have is huge, as you can see. That kept us going when it was tough sledding in there.”

After Ohio State gained 16 yards in the opening quarter, with zero on the ground and Fields contributing negative yardage to that total, it wasn’t a rushing play that brought his rushing ability to the table.

Fields faked a handoff and rolled right on what looked to be a read option keeper, but instead flicked the ball downfield to wide-open junior wide receiver Binjimen Victor after sucking in a few Spartan defensive backs with eyes in the backfield.

Victor polished off a 60-yard score to extend Ohio State’s lead to 10-0.

“We knew they were gonna be biting on the run,” redshirt senior wide receiver K.J. Hill said. “So we got [Victor] to spring free.”

Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2019/10/...up-ohio-state-offense-against-michigan-state/
 
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Absolutely love his play and progression... with one exception: holding the ball, running around behind the pocket, and taking sacks. I know where it comes from and I really appreciate that he wants to be pass-first and work through progressions and that his athletic ability gives him the luxury of hanging in longer than less gifted athletes, BUT there are times when it's better to throw it away or get north-south and pick up some yards. Three or four yards is ok and certainly better than a sack losing yards. Every run doesn't have to be a touchdown or even a first down.
 
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He threw 2 absolute ducks as of a deepball today butbesides that and missing the wide open tight end in the 1st once he settled down in the 2nd he looked great. Plus he was much more willing to pull it down and use his legs today
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You guys keep saying he missed the TE on that throw. Am I the only one who thinks that he was directing Luke and Luke didn't get it? I think it could be a miscommunication, but a bad throw.
 
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Vs Michigan St:

0/6 on passes that traveled 20+ yards
0/5 and an INT under pressure
17/20 for 206 yards and a TD with a clean pocket

Needs better deep ball accuracy and the OL needs to protect better on designed deep shots. In fairness, he’s been with this unit 10 months and has flashed the ability to drop 40 yard passes in a bucket, he’s just not consistent against good corners.

Luckily the loss of chunk pass plays is offset by his legs, which opens holes for JK and Teague.

He’s JT with better intermediate accuracy and not living off fly sweeps. Part of that is having a stronger arm and being able to hit stick routes from the opposite hash, which was a throw JT just couldn’t make.
 
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