What happens when you play with little intensity and your play calling leaves much to be desired?
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Elliott also said after the game that he’s turning pro after this season, which was expected anyway. Elliott spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the hospital with a 103-degree fever, but was able to practice on Thursday. I couldn’t walk, it was so painful.
“I’m disappointed in the play calling”, Elliott told reporters following the game. The team still has at least two more games, including a game against their biggest rivals, the University of MI. As a Heisman finalist this year, he has managed to get over 100 rushing yards in each and every game so far this season along with 16 touchdowns, until Saturday.
But that wasn’t what had him fired up, either.
Ohio State plays at MI next week. When he was asked about his role in the game, he said that he felt he should have had more touches, and seemed to blame the loss on the coaching staff. Elliott stated, “I don’t know what they were seeing”. “I remember hearing, ‘They just don’t have the personnel, ‘ and I’m thinking, ‘Wait a minute, they have great personnel.’ They always have great personnel”, he said.
What he was unhappy with was how he was used in the game.
The Spartans’ victory thrusts them back in the national title race, something that appeared a distant dream after they lost at Nebraska on a bad call on November 7.
“Mike & Mike” co-host Mike Greenberg said the Spartans’ upset at Ohio State is “the single best win any team has had this season”. We’ll have some momentum, we’ll call some plays that work, and then we kind of try to get away from it, try to get cute and run some other stuff…. If the senior quarterback had been in the game, the Spartans would have surely scored more than seven second half points and wouldn’t have been one-dimensional, offensively.
But the Wolverines are now favored to win this game in Ann Arbor. That hurts so bad. Honestly, I’m more anxious about his leg infection from last week. My grandpa was here from overseas. And he came to see me.
Head coach Urban Meyer will likely address the comments behind closed doors, so Elliott’s playing time probably won’t be limited. “Yeah, yeah. I think so”, Harbaugh said.
The defense played better than the offense but was deficient in three major areas. Regardless, I’m not going to listen to the whole interview. “One of the most selfless players I’ve ever coached and been around”.
Meyer said he will be more involved in decision-making this week that is normally handled by offensive coordinator Ed Warinner and quarterbacks coach Tim Beck.
“He was fine. That was earlier in the week and he practiced Thursday. It’s just said and done and we haven’t really talked about it at all”. “We gotta get better“. After leaving the stadium, Jones tweeted a picture of him entering the stadium, and wrote, “Last time walking down the steps and into the Shoe, wish the results were different tho”.
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“Finally, I just want Buckeye Nation to know I am sorry for all controversy and unrest I caused in the past couple of days”.
